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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Main Author: Vanhove, Pieter (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, [2022].
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.
Physical Description:x, 211 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-202) and index.
ISBN:9780367655204
0367655209
9781032044569
103204456X