Postcolonial studies and world literature
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Graham, J., Deckard, S. and Niblett, M. 2012. Postcolonial studies and world literature. Journal of Postcolonial Writing. 48 (5), pp. 465-471. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2012.720803
Type | Article |
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Title | Postcolonial studies and world literature |
Authors | Graham, J., Deckard, S. and Niblett, M. |
Abstract | Over the last twenty years the idea of an ever more integrated ‘global village’ has become received wisdom. The impact on traditional academic disciplines in the humanities has been profound. In seeking to engage with the changes in the world system usually ranged under the banner of ‘globalization’, the fields of postcolonial, world and comparative literature have extended the scope of metropolitan literary studies. Yet all too often this has been to the detriment of inter- or multi-disciplinary research attentive to the structural inequalities underlying the production and reception of literary texts in what Franco Moretti (2000) has called the ‘world literary system’. This article counters the triumphalist discourse of globalization by seeking to recalibrate the field of world literature from a materialist postcolonial perspective. |
Research Group | English Language and Literature |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) |
Journal | Journal of Postcolonial Writing |
ISSN | 1744-9855 |
Electronic | 1744-9863 |
Publication dates | |
2012 | |
Online | 23 Oct 2012 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 28 May 2015 |
Output status | Published |
Additional information | Part of a Special issue: |
Web address (URL) | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17449855.2012.720803?journalCode=rjpw20 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2012.720803 |
Language | English |
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