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Postcolonial singularity and a world literature yet-to-come
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dc.contributor.author | Burns, Lorna Margaret | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-04-27T23:32:20Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-04-27T23:32:20Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-12 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Burns , L M 2015 , ' Postcolonial singularity and a world literature yet-to-come ' , Angelaki : Journal of the Theoretical Humanities , vol. 20 , no. 4 , pp. 243-259 . https://doi.org/10.1080/0969725X.2015.1096650 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0969-725X | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE: 151428466 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: 71920ac1-5d6f-41d9-8084-8fe3bf823685 | |
dc.identifier.other | Scopus: 84946839668 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-2142-8853/work/60631220 | |
dc.identifier.other | WOS: 000363653600005 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/10672 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article considers the challenge posed by Gayatri Spivak to rethink world literature along postcolonial lines as an ethical encounter with alterity. Read in this way, Spivak participates in a reframing of world literature that retains the critical gains made by postcolonial theory and suggests that the work of world literary analysis ought not necessarily be de/prescriptive (classifying and ordering) but might involve a contestation of the power relations that structure the world. In developing this argument, I draw on four further perspectives: Pascale Casanova's problematic assertion of literary singularity in The World Republic of Letters; Fredric Jameson's theorization of “third world literature” as counterpoint to Casanova's limiting understanding of national literature; Gilles Deleuze, who offers a way to rethink world literature in a process of becoming; and Édouard Glissant, whose work proposes a “relational” vision of difference that, like that of Spivak, demands an ethical, imaginative response to literature as literature. | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Angelaki : Journal of the Theoretical Humanities | en |
dc.rights | © 2014. Taylor & Francis. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Angelaki on 27/10/2015, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/0969725X.2015.1096650 | en |
dc.subject | World literature | en |
dc.subject | Gayatri Spivak | en |
dc.subject | Pascale Casanova | en |
dc.subject | Gilles Deleuze | en |
dc.subject | Fredric Jameson | en |
dc.subject | Édouard Glissant | en |
dc.subject | Singularity | en |
dc.subject | Minor literature | en |
dc.subject | PE English | en |
dc.subject | PR English literature | en |
dc.subject | BDC | en |
dc.subject | R2C | en |
dc.subject.lcc | PE | en |
dc.subject.lcc | PR | en |
dc.title | Postcolonial singularity and a world literature yet-to-come | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.description.version | Postprint | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of English | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1080/0969725X.2015.1096650 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.date.embargoedUntil | 2017-04-27 |
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