World literature after empire : rethinking universality in the long Cold War /
This book makes the case that the idea of a "world" in the cultural and philosophical sense is not an exclusively Western phenomenon. During the Cold War a plethora of historical attempts were made to reinvent the notions of world literature, world art and philosophical universality from a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
[2022].
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| Series: | Routledge studies in comparative literature.
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| Summary: | This book makes the case that the idea of a "world" in the cultural and philosophical sense is not an exclusively Western phenomenon. During the Cold War a plethora of historical attempts were made to reinvent the notions of world literature, world art and philosophical universality from an anticolonial perspective. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 211 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-202) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780367655204 0367655209 9781032044569 103204456X |