UID:
almahu_9949863586802882
Umfang:
1 online resource (352 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783111209159
Serie:
Beyond Universalism / Partager L'universel Series ; v.5
Inhalt:
How can universality be addressed after the necessary epistemic and ethical critique of Western universalism? Building on such concepts as materiality and reparation, narration and translation, the series Beyond Universalism | Partager l'universel seeks to understand how contemporary cultural and social practices are producing a new consciousness of universality - experiences, reflections, and agencies of a shared humanity.
Anmerkung:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Fire This Time: Working with Universality -- Part 1: Modes of Reading -- The Singularity of Literary Production: Verma and Borges in London, 1976 -- Reading for Nobel and the Idea of the Universal -- African Vernaculars and the Universal in Translation -- Multiple Vernacularizations -- Part 2: Aesthetic Universalizations -- (Im)personal Style: James Baldwin, Joan Didion and the Inscription of the Universal -- Surface Listening: American Accents, African Agendas -- Circles of Change: Concrete Universality in the Aesthetics of Protest and Revolution -- Erotics of Revolution: Mongane Serote and the Black Cosmological Archive -- Part 3: The Human in and After Globalization -- Peasant Modernism: World Literature and the Future of Agriculture -- Post-global Aesthetics in Latin America: Beyond Universality? -- Overcoming the Cosmopolitanism-Vernacularism Opposition in Latin America: Juan Rulfo and the Nordic Countries -- Juan L. Ortiz and China -- Fashioning Universality in Literature: Mohamed Mbougar Sarr's La plus secrète mémoire des hommes -- Part 4: Planetary Universality -- The Aesthetics of Global Realism: Scales, Models, Technology, Ecology -- Pluviality and Drought in J. M. Coetzee's Life and Times of Michael K -- Amitav Ghosh and Twenty-First-Century World Literature: Climate Change and the Collective Imaginary -- Whose World? Whose World Literature? Looking for Climate Fiction in China -- List of Contributors -- Index.
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: Duhan, Alice Literature and the Work of Universality Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,c2024
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
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