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Literature and the Work of Universality.

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How can universality be addressed after the necessary epistemic and ethical critique of Western universalism? Building on such concepts as materiality and reparation, narration and translation, the series Beyond Universalism | Partager l'universel seeks to understand how contemporary cultural a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Duhan, Alice
Other Authors: Helgesson, Stefan, Kullberg, Christina, Tenngart, Paul
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2024.
Series:Beyond Universalism / Partager L'universel Series.
Subjects:
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • The Fire This Time: Working with Universality
  • Part 1: Modes of Reading
  • The Singularity of Literary Production: Verma and Borges in London, 1976
  • Reading for Nobel and the Idea of the Universal
  • African Vernaculars and the Universal in Translation
  • Multiple Vernacularizations
  • Part 2: Aesthetic Universalizations
  • (Im)personal Style: James Baldwin, Joan Didion and the Inscription of the Universal
  • Surface Listening: American Accents, African Agendas
  • Circles of Change: Concrete Universality in the Aesthetics of Protest and Revolution
  • Erotics of Revolution: Mongane Serote and the Black Cosmological Archive
  • Part 3: The Human in and After Globalization
  • Peasant Modernism: World Literature and the Future of Agriculture
  • Post-global Aesthetics in Latin America: Beyond Universality?
  • Overcoming the Cosmopolitanism-Vernacularism Opposition in Latin America: Juan Rulfo and the Nordic Countries
  • Juan L. Ortiz and China
  • Fashioning Universality in Literature: Mohamed Mbougar Sarr's La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
  • Part 4: Planetary Universality
  • The Aesthetics of Global Realism: Scales, Models, Technology, Ecology
  • Pluviality and Drought in J. M. Coetzee's Life and Times of Michael K
  • Amitav Ghosh and Twenty-First-Century World Literature: Climate Change and the Collective Imaginary
  • Whose World? Whose World Literature? Looking for Climate Fiction in China
  • List of Contributors
  • Index