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Synopsis The concept of world literature was mooted by the German writer and philosopher Goethe in the aftermath of the Napoleonic re-mapping of Europe. He had suggested that world literature could arise from the disruption of cultural continuities through terrible wars engaged upon by combative nations. Considered thus world literature could become the agent through which cultures come to terms with complex constructs of the self and the other. World literature could transcend national projections of selfhood and otherness and move into transnational spaces where also the old hierarchies of centre and margins, the empowered and powerless could be replaced by the open terrains of world discourse. The essays in the present volume have been written by European and Indian scholars and academics and are inclusive of as many linguistic groups as possible. The majority of the essays in this volume were presented at a conference organized by the department of English, University of Mumbai, in collaboration with the Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai, to mark the 250th Birth Anniversary of Johann Von Goethe, but some were specially commissioned. They have been organised under the heads of theme papers and postcolonial/post-imperial literatures. The latter category includes Anglophone, Francophone and Portuguese postcolonial/post-imperial literatures as well as exilic and post-war literatures in Germany. The collection opens with an exclusive, wide-ranging interview with the postcolonial theorist Homi K. Bhabha. In this interview Bhabha has expounded on postcoloniality, minorities and the notion of world literature. This comprehensive anthology will thus enable scholars and researchers in the area to access multilingual post-imperial and postcolonial literatures in a single space.