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Upon commencing Spring Quarter 2010 at UCLA, we have found ourselves enrolled in Comparative Literature 2DW:: Survey of Literature: Great Books from World at Large with Professor Mufti.

Course Description: Lecture, two hours; discussion, two hours. Study of major literary texts usually overlooked in courses that focus only on canon of Western literature, with emphasis on literary analysis and expository writing. Texts from at least three of following areas read in any given term: African, Caribbean, East Asian, Latin American, and Middle Eastern literature. [taken directly from registrar.ucla.edu]

We are introduced to the course by two texts: Franco Moretti, “Conjectures on World Literature” and Edward Said, “Secular Interpretation, the Geographical Element, and the Methodology of Imperialism.”

Now we are asked to answer the question:

What is “World Literature”?