World literature and the problem of postcolonialism : aesthetics and dissent
- This essay identifies in the materialist strand of world literature theory, especially Pascale Casanova and the Warwick Research Collective, a reliance upon a priori structures (the worldsystem) and prioritisation of the literary registration of inequality. By contrast, I contend, world-literary critics who wish to maintain the dissident spirit of postcolonialism ought to demonstrate a shared equality. By reference to the philosophies of Bruno Latour, Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Rancière, this essay sets out the case for an alternative to world-systems critique: one that maintains literature's potential for creating new forms of resistance, dissent, and, crucially, equality.
Author: | Lorna Burns |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-609404 |
URL: | https://press.ici-berlin.org/doi/10.37050/ci-19/burns_postcolonialism.pdf |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-19_03 |
ISBN: | 978-3-96558-013-8 |
ISBN: | 978-3-96558-022-0 |
ISSN: | 2627-731X |
Parent Title (English): | The work of world literature / ed. by Francesco Giusti and Benjamin Lewis Robinson ; Cultural Inquiry ; Vol. 19 |
Publisher: | ICI Press |
Place of publication: | Berlin |
Document Type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2021/05/04 |
Year of first Publication: | 2021 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2021/06/10 |
GND Keyword: | Weltliteratur; Postkolonialismus; Latour, Bruno; Rancière, Jacques; Gleichheit; Dissens; Widerstand |
Psyndex Keyword: | Casanova, Pascale; Dissent; Equality; Postcolonialism; Warwick Research Collective; World literature |
Page Number: | 18 |
First Page: | 58 |
Last Page: | 74 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 481513329 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik |
Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / ICI Berlin | |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 |