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What is a world? : on postcolonial literature as world literature
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Title
What is a world? : on postcolonial literature as world literature / Pheng Cheah.
ISBN
9780822374534
0822374536
9780822360780 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0822360780 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780822360926 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822360926 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Publication
Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
Physical Description
1 online resource (ix, 397 pages) : illustrations
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Variant and related titles
e-Duke books scholarly collection 2016.
Other formats
Print version: Cheah, Pheng. What is a world? Durham : Duke University Press, 2016
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 24, 2018
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The new world literature : literary studies discovers globalization
The world according to Hegel : culture and power in world history
The world as market : the materialist inversion of spiritualist models of the world
Worlding : the phenomenological concept of worldliness and the loss of world in modernity
The in-between world : anthropologizing the force of worlding
The arriving world : the inhuman otherness of time as real messianic
Postcolonial openings : how postcolonial literature becomes world literature
Projecting a future world from the memory of precolonial time
World heritage preservation and the expropriation of subaltern worlds
Resisting humanitarianization
Epilogue without conclusion : Stories without end(s).
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