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084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aElam, J. Daniel _eautore
245	1	0	_aWorld Literature for the Wretched of the Earth : _bAnticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics / _cJ. Daniel Elam.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bFordham University Press, _c[2020]
264		4	_c©2020
300			_a1 online resource (208 p.)
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505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tPreface -- _tIntroduction: Impossible Subjects -- _t1 Lala Har Dayal’s Imagination -- _t2 B. R. Ambedkar’s Sciences -- _t3 M. K. Gandhi’s Lost Debates -- _t4 Bhagat Singh’s Jail Notebook -- _tEpilogue: Stopping and Leaving -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tNotes -- _tBibliography -- _tIndex
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aWorld Literature for the Wretched of the Earth recovers a genealogy of anticolonial thought that advocated collective inexpertise, unknowing, and unrecognizability. Early-twentieth-century anticolonial thinkers endeavored to imagine a world emancipated from colonial rule, but it was a world they knew they would likely not live to see. Written in exile, in abjection, or in the face of death, anticolonial thought could not afford to base its politics on the hope of eventual success, mastery, or national sovereignty. J. Daniel Elam shows how anticolonial thinkers theorized inconsequential practices of egalitarianism in the service of an impossibility: a world without colonialism. Framed by a suggestive reading of the surprising affinities between Frantz Fanon’s political writings and Erich Auerbach’s philological project, World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth foregrounds anticolonial theories of reading and critique in the writing of Lala Har Dayal, B. R. Ambedkar, M. K. Gandhi, and Bhagat Singh. These anticolonial activists theorized reading not as a way to cultivate mastery and expertise but as a way, rather, to disavow mastery altogether. To become or remain an inexpert reader, divesting oneself of authorial claims, was to fundamentally challenge the logic of the British Empire and European fascism, which prized self-mastery, authority, and national sovereignty. Bringing together the histories of comparative literature and anticolonial thought, Elam demonstrates how these early-twentieth-century theories of reading force us to reconsider the commitments of humanistic critique and egalitarian politics in the still-colonial present.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)
650		0	_aAnti-imperialist movements.
650		0	_aComparative literature _xPolitical aspects.
650		0	_aPostcolonialism.
650		4	_aAsian Studies.
650		4	_aLiterary Studies.
650		4	_aPostcolonial Studies.
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory. _2bisacsh
653			_aB.R. Ambedkar.
653			_aBhagat Singh.
653			_aErich Auerbach.
653			_aFrantz Fanon.
653			_aLala Har Dayal.
653			_aM.K. Gandhi.
653			_aSouth Asia.
653			_aanticolonialism.
653			_acomparative literature.
653			_acritique.
653			_aphilology.
653			_apostcolonial theory.
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856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780823289820?locatt=mode:legacy
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823289820
856	4	2	_3Cover _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823289820/original
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