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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vanhove, Pieter (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, [2022].
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.