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 articul...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cheah, Pheng (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Literature.
Litteratur > historia.
Litteratur och globalisering.
Litteratur och samhälle.
Postkolonialism.
Weltbürgertum > Motiv
Globalisierung
Postkoloniale Literatur
Postcolonialism.
Literature, Modern.
Literature and society.
Literature and globalization.
Society in literature.
postcolonialism.
Litterature et mondialisation.
Litterature et societe.
Postcolonialisme.
Literature, Modern > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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 hope
  • 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).

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