Postcolonialism after world literature : relation, equality, dissent

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Postcolonialism after world literature : relation, equality, dissent

by Lorna Burns

(New horizons in contemporary writing)

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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Bibliography: p. [236]-250

Includes index

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Postcolonial studies took shape in response to the nationalist and decolonization movements of the twentieth century. Today, a resurgent interest in world literature reflects an increased awareness of globalization. These twin projects are torn between a criticism that finds in the text the trace of capitalist modernity and one that accounts for the revolutionary potential of literature to challenge our global present. Postcolonialism After World Literature exposes what is at stake in this critical choice through a line of philosophical enquiry - Bruno Latour, Gilles Deleuze, and Jacques Ranciere - that poses an alternative to the materialist strand of world literary criticism pioneered by Pascale Casanova and Franco Moretti. Engaging with these theorists and others, Lorna Burns contests world-systems theory as the basis for thinking about contemporary postcolonial and world literatures, and proposes a renewed framework that promotes literature's capacity to provoke dissent; to imagine new forms of belonging and relation for both national and world citizens; and to stage the shared equality of all. Moving between theory and the novels of Roberto Bolano, J. M. Coetzee, Kamel Daoud, Dany Laferriere, Pauline Melville, Arundhati Roy and Kamila Shamsie, Postcolonialism After World Literature presents the case for rethinking world literature in light of the legacies of postcolonialism, and for reshaping postcolonial studies in an era of world literature. Lorna Burns is Lecturer in Postcolonial Literatures at the University of St Andrews, UK. She is the author of Contemporary Caribbean Writing and Deleuze (Bloomsbury, 2012).

目次

Introduction. Why World Literature Needs Postcolonial Theory 1. A World Empire of Letters: Theories of World Literature from Nation to World-System 2. Modernity in Relation: Rethinking the Sociology of World Literature 3. Globalizing Dissent: Active Resistance and the Politics of Relation in Postcolonial and World Literatures 4. Enacting Equality: Postcolonialism After World Literature Bibliography Index

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