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
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TitlePostcolonial studies and world literature
AuthorsGraham, 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 GroupEnglish Language and Literature
PublisherTaylor & Francis (Routledge)
JournalJournal of Postcolonial Writing
ISSN1744-9855
Electronic1744-9863
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Print2012
Online23 Oct 2012
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Deposited28 May 2015
Output statusPublished
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Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 48, 2012 - Issue 5: Postcolonial Studies and World Literature

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