Susan Bassnett: Introduction -- Harish Trivedi: Translation and world literature: the Indian context -- Charles Fosdick: World literature in French: monolingualism, Francophonie and the dynamics of translation -- Azucena Blanco: Translation studies for a world community of literature -- Paulo De Medeiros: Translation and cosmopolitanism -- Cesar Dominguez: Gualtiero Escoto: a writer across world-literatures -- Sherry Simon: German, translation and the world in Czernovitz -- Martin Gaspar: Minor translations and the world literature of the masses in Latin America -- Svetlana Page: Maxim Gorky and world literature: challenging the maxims -- Cecilia Alvstad: The proliferating paths of Jorge Luis Borges' work in translation and the resistance to an innovative trait -- Karin Littau: Two ages of world literature -- Stephanos Stephanides: Seeing the Mediterranean again (in and out of translation)