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Forget English! : Orientalisms and World Literatures / Aamir R. Mufti.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (230 p.) : 1 halftoneContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674915404
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809 23
LOC classification:
  • PN98.P64 M84 2016
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Prologue: The Universal Library of World Literature -- 1. Where in the World Is World Literature? -- 2. Orientalism and the Institution of Indian Literature -- 3. Global English and Its Others -- 4. “Our Philological Home Is the Earth”: World Literature from Auerbach to Said -- Epilogue: “For a Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing” -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: World literature advocates have promised to move humanistic study beyond postcolonial theory and antiquated paradigms of national literary traditions. Aamir Mufti scrutinizes these claims and critiques the continuing dominance of English as both a literary language and the undisputed cultural system of global capitalism.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Prologue: The Universal Library of World Literature -- 1. Where in the World Is World Literature? -- 2. Orientalism and the Institution of Indian Literature -- 3. Global English and Its Others -- 4. “Our Philological Home Is the Earth”: World Literature from Auerbach to Said -- Epilogue: “For a Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing” -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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World literature advocates have promised to move humanistic study beyond postcolonial theory and antiquated paradigms of national literary traditions. Aamir Mufti scrutinizes these claims and critiques the continuing dominance of English as both a literary language and the undisputed cultural system of global capitalism.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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