World literature after empire: rethinking universality in the long cold war
Auteur :
Vanhove, Pieter
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9781032044569
Date de publication :
31 mai 2023
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
453 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.