Description: Further DetailsTitle: What Is a World?Condition: NewSubtitle: On Postcolonial Literature as World LiteratureISBN-10: 0822360926EAN: 9780822360926ISBN: 9780822360926Publisher: Duke University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 01/01/2016Description: 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 a normative theory of literature’s world-making power by creatively synthesizing four philosophical accounts of the world as a temporal process: idealism, Marxist materialism, phenomenology, and deconstruction. Literature opens worlds, he provocatively suggests, because it is a force of receptivity. Cheah compellingly argues for postcolonial literature’s exemplarity as world literature through readings of narrative fiction by Michelle Cliff, Amitav Ghosh, Nuruddin Farah, Ninotchka Rosca, and Timothy Mo that show how these texts open up new possibilities for remaking the world by negotiating with the inhuman force that gives time and deploying alternative temporalities to resist capitalist globalization.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 567gAuthor: Pheng CheahGenre: Literary CriticismRelease Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: What Is a World?
Title: What Is a World?
Subtitle: On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature
ISBN-10: 0822360926
EAN: 9780822360926
ISBN: 9780822360926
Release Date: 01/01/2016
Release Year: 2016
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 408 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: What Is a World? : on Postcolonial Literature As World Literature
Publisher: Duke University Press
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2016
Subject: General, Modern / General, Semiotics & Theory, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 20 Oz
Author: Pheng Cheah
Item Length: 8.9 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Political Science
Item Width: 5.9 in
Format: Trade Paperback
