World Literature and the Geographies of Resistance

 

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Online sinds
23 mei 2018
EAN
9781108428491
Taal
Engels
Bindwijze
Hardcover
Aantal pagina's
228 pagina's

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Omschrijving

This book proposes a new definition of world literature: an archive of democratic mechanisms external to state power. Accordingly, World Literature and the Geographies of Resistance takes shape as an exploration of nonstate space - territories of self-government that contest the vertical command structures of the state. Joel Nickels argues that literature devoted to these processes of spatial occuption can help us imagine democratic alternatives to state space and to the regime of legalized dispossession that goes under the name of globalization. Conceptualized in these terms, world literature can be viewed not as the corollary of 90s-era cosmopolitanism, but as a document of strategies for the militant reorganization of social space. This ambitious book addresses the work of Patrick Chamoiseau, Ousmane Sembene, Miguel Angel Asturias, Claude McKay, Arundhati Roy, T. S. Eliot and Melvin Tolson. It engages with theories of transnationality, diaspora and postcoloniality, as well as world literature.

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Artikelnummer
1130732
Online sinds
23 mei 2018
EAN
9781108428491

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Taal
Engels
Bindwijze
Hardcover
Aantal pagina's
228 pagina's

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Verschijningsdatum
juni 2018