Literature and the Work of Universality.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duhan, Alice.

Contributor:

Helgesson, Stefan.

Kullberg, Christina.

Tenngart, Paul.

Series:

Beyond Universalism / Partager L'universel Series

Beyond Universalism / Partager L'universel Series ; v.5

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2024.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

How can universality be addressed after the necessary epistemic and ethical critique of Western universalism? Building on such concepts as materiality and reparation, narration and translation, the series Beyond Universalism | Partager l'universel seeks to understand how contemporary cultural and social practices are producing a new consciousness of universality - experiences, reflections, and agencies of a shared humanity.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction

The Fire This Time: Working with Universality

Part 1: Modes of Reading

The Singularity of Literary Production: Verma and Borges in London, 1976

Reading for Nobel and the Idea of the Universal

African Vernaculars and the Universal in Translation

Multiple Vernacularizations

Part 2: Aesthetic Universalizations

(Im)personal Style: James Baldwin, Joan Didion and the Inscription of the Universal

Surface Listening: American Accents, African Agendas

Circles of Change: Concrete Universality in the Aesthetics of Protest and Revolution

Erotics of Revolution: Mongane Serote and the Black Cosmological Archive

Part 3: The Human in and After Globalization

Peasant Modernism: World Literature and the Future of Agriculture

Post-global Aesthetics in Latin America: Beyond Universality?

Overcoming the Cosmopolitanism-Vernacularism Opposition in Latin America: Juan Rulfo and the Nordic Countries

Juan L. Ortiz and China

Fashioning Universality in Literature: Mohamed Mbougar Sarr's La plus secrète mémoire des hommes

Part 4: Planetary Universality

The Aesthetics of Global Realism: Scales, Models, Technology, Ecology

Pluviality and Drought in J. M. Coetzee's Life and Times of Michael K

Amitav Ghosh and Twenty-First-Century World Literature: Climate Change and the Collective Imaginary

Whose World? Whose World Literature? Looking for Climate Fiction in China

List of Contributors

Index.

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0

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ISBN:

9783111209159

3111209156

OCLC:

1450102513