World Literature Decentered: Beyond the "West" through Turkey, Mexico and Bengal Contributor(s): Almond, Ian (Author) |
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ISBN: 0367683377 ISBN-13: 9780367683375 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $190.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2021 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century - Literary Criticism | Books & Reading - Political Science | Colonialism & Post-colonialism |
Dewey: 809 |
LCCN: 2021001585 |
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (1.15 lbs) 254 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |