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World Literature Decentered: Beyond the “West” through Turkey, Mexico and Bengal: Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature

Autor Ian Almond
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mai 2023
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 – not just by deconstructing or historicizing them, but by actively providing an alternative. 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”. The non-West, the book argues, is no fringe group or token minority in need of attention – on the contrary, it constitutes the overwhelming majority of this world.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781032034553
ISBN-10: 1032034556
Pagini: 262
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate

Cuprins

Introduction. Circumventing the West.
Chapter One. The Ghost Story: Hayalet, Fantasma, Bhut
Chapter Two. The Hotel Narrative: Anayurt, Shahjahan, Isabel
Chapter Three. Femicide Narratives: Mujer, Mohila, Kadın
Chapter Four. Retelling Myth: Mito, Katha, Efsane
Chapter Five. Melancholy: Monomora, Melancolía, Hüzün
Chapter Six. The Orient: Şark, Prachi, Oriente
Conclusion. The Ten Percenters.

Notă biografică

Ian Almond is Professor of World Literature at Georgetown University in Qatar. He is the author of six books, most recently Two Faiths, One Banner (2009) and The Thought of Nirad C. Chaudhuri (2015), and over 50 articles in a variety of journals. He specializes in comparative world literature, with a tri-continental emphasis on Mexico, Bengal and Turkey. His work has been translated into 13 languages. He has lived and worked in the Middle East (Qatar and Turkey) for over 15 years.

Recenzii

"World Literature Decenteredis a vital, ambitious contribution to world-literary criticism that seeks to contribute to the radical democratization of ‘World Literature’ … its pliant readings … uncover how [World Literature is] both imprinted by and contributes to the larger patterns of imperialism and capitalist modernity." Sharae Deckard, Associate Professor in World Literature, University College Dublin

"World Literature Decenteredis an important and necessary corrective to the idea that World Literature is the province of the European, or the circulation of culture in the English and French Languages." Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Washington University in Saint Louis, USA

Descriere

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’.