What would world literature look like, if we stopped referring to the ?West?? Starting with the provocative premise that the ????±???West{u2019} is ten percent of the planet?, World Literature Decentered is the first book to decenter Eurocentric discourses of global literature a…
"Looking at a series of themes across three literatures (Mexico, Turkey and Bengal), the book examines hotels, melancholy, orientalism, femicide and the ghost story in a series of literary traditions outside the 'West'"--.
"Looking at a series of themes across three literatures (Mexico, Turkey and Bengal), the book examines hotels, melancholy, orientalism, femicide and the ghost story in a series of literary traditions outside the 'West'"--
What would world literature look like, if we stopped referring to the West? Starting with the provocative premise that the West' is ten percent of the planet, World Literature Decentered is the first book to decenter Eurocentric discourses of global literature and global history…
Introduction : accounting for the name -- Dar(se) cuenta : the logic of the secret -- Murder and symbol : feminicide's remains -- As if ... literature before the world -- Killing time : jet lag, or the anachronism of life -- Suspending sur/render : accounting for the other -- Po…
"Una novela cruda y desgarradora en la que el lector quedará envuelto, atrapado por las palabras y la atmósfera de terrible, aunque gozosa, fatalidad. Un grupo de niños encuentra un cadáver flotando en las aguas turbias de un canal de riego cercano a la ranchería de La Matosa. E…
Forgotten Futures, Colonized Pasts traces the existence of a now largely forgotten history of inter-American alliance-making, transnational community formation, and intercultural collaboration between Mexican and Anglo American elites. This communion between elites was often bas…
Forgotten Futures, Colonized Pasts traces the existence of a now largely forgotten history of inter-American alliance-making, transnational community formation, and intercultural collaboration between Mexican and Anglo American elites. This communion between elites was often bas…
