The Dialectic of Cosmopolitan Time - Hardcover
by Shaj Mathew
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197819043ISBN-10:197819044UPC:9780197819043Book Category:Literary Criticism, HistoryBook Subcategory:Semiotics & TheorySize:9.40 x 6.47 x 0.79 inchesWeight:0.9811Product ID:SCPTQR0ZAZ
The Dialectic of Cosmopolitan Time
It is generally understood that the modern colonial encounter warped the experience of time in the postcolonial world, rendering it a pale imitation of the European present. In The Dialectic of Cosmopolitan Time, Shaj Mathew offers a powerful challenge to this well-known narrative by assembling a cohesive dialectic: if the colonial encounter produced allochronism (the denial of coevalness with...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197819043ISBN-10:197819044UPC:9780197819043Book Category:Literary Criticism, HistoryBook Subcategory:Semiotics & TheorySize:9.40 x 6.47 x 0.79 inchesWeight:0.9811Product ID:SCPTQR0ZAZ
Shaj Mathew is Assistant Professor of English at Hunter College, City University of New York. He is a literary theorist working across Persian, Turkish, Spanish, and English. The Dialectic of Cosmopolitan Time is his first book. Canvassing literature, philosophy, and cinema, his scholarship appears in PMLA, MLQ, Modernism/modernity, Philosophy and Literature, the ACLA State of the Discipline...
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