Editor’s Forums Rob Wilson, Sandeep Banerjee, Frank Schulze-Engler, Zahi Zalloua, Ming Xie and Ranjan Ghosh* More than Global? A Roundtable Discussion https://doi.org/10.1515/ngs-2019-0008 On Thinking Literature Across Continents 1 To think that one can think [worlding] outside or without theory is a delusion. —Hayden White 2 Thinking Literature Across Continents activates a mode of collaborative thinking and (as Heidegger punned poetically) thanking “the world” we inhabit across entangled yet discrepant theorizations of the USA and India, Europe and Asia, inside and outside, between and across the theory-rich Yale and UC Irvine of J. Hillis Miller to the more situational and worldly—in Edward Said’s committed sense of this pedagogical ethos—English Department of India’s University of North Bengal that prolific transcultural and trans-lingual scholar Ranjan Ghosh calls home. 3 Facing the entangled fates and criss-crossed contexts of a liberal humanist globalization under attack in this our era of the “world -wide web,” these two Socratic theorists of *Corresponding author: Ranjan Ghosh, University of North Bengal, Siliguri, India, E-mail: weransum@yahoo.co.in Rob Wilson, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, USA, E-mail: rwilson@ucsc.edu Sandeep Banerjee, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, E-mail: sandeep.banerjee@mcgill.ca Frank Schulze-Engler, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, E-mail: schulze-engler@nelk.uni-frankfurt.de Zahi Zalloua, Whitman College, Walla Walla, USA, E-mail: zallouz@whitman.edu Ming Xie, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, E-mail: ming.xie@utoronto.ca 1 Written by Rob Wilson. 2 Hayden White as UC Santa Cruz History of Consciousness mentor in historical worlding is portrayed in Amy J. Elias, “The Many Voices of Hayden White,” Los Angeles Review of Books, April 22, 2018 online: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-voices-of-hayden-white. 3 Ghosh’s work by now comprises an interactive trans-materialist poetics of fluid world-making and rethinking: see Transcultural Poetics and the Concept of the Poet (London, New York: Routledge, 2017); Philosophy and Literature: A Continental Perspective ed. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018); Presence (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2013) co-edited with Ethan Kleinberg; and Trans(in)fusion: A Manifesto for Critical Thinking (New York: Routledge, forthcoming). New Global Stud 2019; aop Authenticated | rwilson@ucsc.edu author's copy Download Date | 4/6/19 6:22 PM