Description
Product ID: | 9780823289806 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth |
Subtitle: | Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics |
Authors: | Author: J. Daniel Elam |
Page Count: | 208 |
Subjects: | Literary theory, Literary theory, Asian history, Colonialism and imperialism, Philosophy, History of ideas, Politics and government, Asian history, Colonialism & imperialism, Philosophy, History of ideas, Politics & government, Indian sub-continent |
Description: | Select Guide Rating This book foregrounds anticolonial theories of reading to reveal an alternative strain of anticolonialism committed not to the forms of authority that facilitate political recognition or national sovereignty, but rather to inexpertise and inconsequence, with the aim of replacing mastery with collective cultivation. |
Imprint Name: | Fordham University Press |
Publisher Name: | Fordham University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2020-12-01 |