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A masterful writer working in many genres, Ngugi wa Thiong'o entered the East African literary scene in 1962 with the performance of his first major play, The Black Hermit, at the National Theatre in Uganda. In 1977 he was imprisoned after his most controversial work, Ngaahika N…
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 remaki…
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 articulates…
"This book presents a state-of-the-art overview of the relationship between globalization studies and literature and literary studies, and the bearing that they have on each other. It engages with the manner in which globalization is thematized in literary works, examines the re…
"This book presents a state-of-the-art overview of the relationship between globalization studies and literature and literary studies, and the bearing that they have on each other. It engages with the manner in which globalization is thematized in literary works, examines the re…
"Though science fiction is often thought of as a Western phenomenon, the genre has long had a foothold in countries as diverse as India and Mexico. These fourteen critical essays examine both the role of science fiction in the third world and the role of the third world in scien…
"The Deliverance of Others is a compelling reappraisal of the idea that narrative literature can expand readers' empathy. What happens if, amid the voluminous influx of otherness facilitated by globalization, we continue the tradition of valorizing literature for bringing the li…
The distinguished literary critic David Palumbo-Liu posits reading literature as an ethical act, a way of thinking through our relations to others in the age of globalization.
The Routledge companion to world literature
by Damrosch, David, Haen, Theo d', Kadir, Djelal
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Type: Book
In four key sections, this text explores the history of world literature, the disciplinary relationship of world literature to areas such as philology, translation, globalization, & diaspora studies, theoretical issues, including gender, politics & ethics, & offers a global pers…
The Routledge companion to world literature
by Damrosch, David, Haen, Theo d', Kadir, Djelal
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Type: Book
In four key sections, this text explores the history of world literature, the disciplinary relationship of world literature to areas such as philology, translation, globalization, & diaspora studies, theoretical issues, including gender, politics & ethics, & offers a global pers…
