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What is a world? : on postcolonial literature as world literature / Pheng Cheah.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cheah, Pheng, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Postcolonialism.
- Literature and society.
- Literature and globalization.
- Literature, Modern--History and criticism.
- Literature, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (409 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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).
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822374534
- 0822374536
- OCLC:
- 910856271
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