What Is a World?: On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature - Paperback
by Pheng Cheah
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9780822360926ISBN-10:822360926UPC:9780822360926Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Semiotics & TheorySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCWYJSQ7CT
What Is a World?: On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature
In What Is a World? Pheng Cheah, a leading theorist of cosmopolitanism, offers the first critical consideration of world literature's cosmopolitan vocation. Addressing the failure of recent theories of world literature to inquire about the meaning of world, Cheah articulates a normative theory of literature's world-making power by creatively synthesizing four philosophical accounts of the world...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9780822360926ISBN-10:822360926UPC:9780822360926Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Semiotics & TheorySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCWYJSQ7CT
Pheng Cheah is Professor of Rhetoric and Chair of the Center for Southeast Asia Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights and Spectral Nationality: Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation.
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