Workshop with Bhavya Tiwari: Tagore's Concept of World Literature: A Comparatist Geneology

In a talk he gave in 1907, five years before 
he won the Nobel Prize in Literature, 
Rabindranath Tagore famously said: “In Bangla 
I shall call it Visva Sahitya (World Literature).” 
What are the afterlives of this statement in the 
history of comparative literature? What role 
does translation play here? In what relation is 
Tagore’s concept of world literature to other 
comparatist genealogies? How did Tagore 
conceive of world literature in relation to 
his own work, for example The Home and 
the World?

Recommended reading: Tagore’s “Visva 
Sahitya” and the introduction to Bhavya 
Tiwari’s Beyond English: World Literature and 
India