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World literature after empire : rethinking universality in the long Cold War / Pieter Vanhove.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vanhove, Pieter, author.
- Series:
- Routledge studies in comparative literature.
- Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.
- Literature, Modern.
- Postcolonialism in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (223 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York ; London : Routledge, [2022]
- Summary:
- "This book makes the case that the idea of a "world" in the cultural and philosophical sense is not an exclusively Western phenomenon. During the Cold War a plethora of historical attempts were made to reinvent the notions of world literature, world art, and philosophical universality from an anticolonial perspective"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- China and the restaging of Afro-Asian World literature
- Moravia's presidency of PEN international
- Translating anticolonial universality in Gramsci and Pasolini
- The singular universal in Sartre's Lumumba preface
- Malraux's imaginary museum of world art
- Huang Yong Ping's competing universalities.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-00-312987-0
- 1-003-12987-0
- 1-000-41543-0
- 9781003129875
- OCLC:
- 1256260707
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