What Is a World? : On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature /

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In What Is a World? Pheng Cheah, a leading theorist of cosmopolitanism, offers the first critical consideration of world literature's cosmopolitan vocation. Addressing the failure of recent theories of world literature to inquire about the meaning of world, Cheah articulates a normative theory...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cheah, Pheng (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2015]
Temas:
Literature and globalization.
Literature and society.
Literature, Modern > History and criticism.
Postcolonialism.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Missed Encounters
  • Part I. The World of World Literature in Question
  • Chapter 1. The New World Literature
  • Chapter 2. The World According to Hegel
  • Chapter 3. The World as Market
  • Part II. Worlding and Unworlding
  • Chapter 4. Worlding
  • Chapter 5. The In-Between World
  • Chapter 6. The Arriving World
  • Part III. Of Other Worlds to Come
  • Chapter 7. Postcolonial Openings
  • Chapter 8. Projecting a Future World from the Memory of Precolonial Time
  • Chapter 9. World Heritage Preservation and the Expropriation of Subaltern Worlds
  • Chapter 10. Resisting Humanitarianization
  • Epilogue. Without Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index

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