What is a world? : on postcolonial literature as world literature /
In What Is a World? Pheng Cheah draws on accounts of the world as a temporal process from Hegel, Marx, Heidegger, Arendt, and Derrida, and analyzes several postcolonial novels to articulate a normative theory of world literature's capacity to open up new possibilities for remaking the world.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham ; London :
Duke University Press,
2016.
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Colección: | Online access with subscription: Duke University Press.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The new world literature : literary studies discovers globalization
- The world according to Hegel : culture and power in world history
- The world as market : the materialist inversion of spiritualist models of the world
- Worlding : the phenomenological concept of worldliness and the loss of world in modernity
- The in-between world : anthropologizing the force of worlding
- The arriving world : the inhuman otherness of time as real messianic
- Postcolonial openings : how postcolonial literature becomes world literature
- Projecting a future world from the memory of precolonial time
- World heritage preservation and the expropriation of subaltern worlds
- Resisting humanitarianization
- Epilogue without conclusion : Stories without end(s).