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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New York :
Routledge,
[2022].
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| Series: | Routledge studies in comparative literature.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- China and the restaging of Afro-Asian World literature
- Moravia's presidency of PEN international
- Translating anticolonial universality in Gramsci and Pasolini
- The singular universal in Sartre's Lumumba preface
- Malraux's imaginary museum of world art
- Huang Yong Ping's competing universalities
- Conclusion.