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World Literature Decentered: Beyond the "West" Through Turkey, Mexico and Bengal

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What would world literature look like, if we stopped referring to the "West"? Starting with the provocative premise that the "'West' is ten percent of the planet", World Literature Decentered is the first book to decenter Eurocentric discourses of global literature and global history - not just by deconstructing or historicizing them, but by actively providing an alternative. Looking at a series of themes across three literatures , the book examines hotels, melancholy, orientalism, femicide and the ghost story in a series of literary traditions outside the "West". The non-West, the book argues, is no fringe group or token minority in need of attention - on the contrary, it constitutes the overwhelming majority of this world.

Pages: 254

Format: ebook

Publisher: Routledge

Release: July 13, 2021

ISBN: 1000407101

ISBN 13: 9781000407105

World Literature Decentered: Beyond the "West" Through Turkey, Mexico and Bengal

0/5 ( ratings)

What would world literature look like, if we stopped referring to the "West"? Starting with the provocative premise that the "'West' is ten percent of the planet", World Literature Decentered is the first book to decenter Eurocentric discourses of global literature and global history - not just by deconstructing or historicizing them, but by actively providing an alternative. Looking at a series of themes across three literatures , the book examines hotels, melancholy, orientalism, femicide and the ghost story in a series of literary traditions outside the "West". The non-West, the book argues, is no fringe group or token minority in need of attention - on the contrary, it constitutes the overwhelming majority of this world.

Pages: 254

Format: ebook

Publisher: Routledge

Release: July 13, 2021

ISBN: 1000407101

ISBN 13: 9781000407105

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