The world and the postcolonial
The paper examines the increasing competition in the academic market between conventional terms like <em>postcolonial</em> and <em>anglophone literature</em> and their cognates, and the newly current term <em>world literature</em>. Even in postcolonial studies ci...
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2014
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| description | The paper examines the increasing competition in the academic market between conventional terms like <em>postcolonial</em> and <em>anglophone literature</em> and their cognates, and the newly current term <em>world literature</em>. Even in postcolonial studies circles, world literature is increasingly taken to refer not only to ‘the best ever written’, as before, but to literature produced within and in response to a globalizing world. The paper explores the different valences of this shift, and the tensions and contradictions it has generated within the wider anglophone literary field. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:4a617115-4c74-444d-aec3-0e15e6f0c41c2022-03-26T15:37:07ZThe world and the postcolonialJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:4a617115-4c74-444d-aec3-0e15e6f0c41cSymplectic Elements at OxfordCambridge University Press2014Boehmer, EThe paper examines the increasing competition in the academic market between conventional terms like <em>postcolonial</em> and <em>anglophone literature</em> and their cognates, and the newly current term <em>world literature</em>. Even in postcolonial studies circles, world literature is increasingly taken to refer not only to ‘the best ever written’, as before, but to literature produced within and in response to a globalizing world. The paper explores the different valences of this shift, and the tensions and contradictions it has generated within the wider anglophone literary field. |
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