Forget English! : Orientalisms and World Literatures /

World literature advocates have promised to move humanistic study beyond postcolonial theory and antiquated paradigms of national literary traditions. Aamir Mufti scrutinizes these claims and critiques the continuing dominance of English as both a literary language and the undisputed cultural system...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mufti, Aamir R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]
Temas:
English literature > History and criticism.
Literature and society.
Literature > History and criticism.
Oriental literature (English) > History and criticism.
Politics and literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Prologue: The Universal Library of World Literature
  • 1. Where in the World Is World Literature?
  • 2. Orientalism and the Institution of Indian Literature
  • 3. Global English and Its Others
  • 4. "Our Philological Home Is the Earth": World Literature from Auerbach to Said
  • Epilogue: "For a Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing"
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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