Cheah What Is a World?

On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7453-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 408 Seiten

In What Is a World? Pheng Cheah draws on accounts of the world as a temporal process from Hegel, Marx, Heidegger, Arendt, and Derrida, and analyzes several postcolonial novels to articulate a normative theory of world literature's capacity to open up new possibilities for remaking the world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cheah, Pheng

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. Missed Encounters: Cosmopolitanism, World Literature, and Postcoloniality 1
Part I. The World of World in Literature in Question
1. The New World Literature: Literary Studies Discovers Globalization 23
2. The World According to Hegel: Culture and Power in World History 46
3. The World as Market: The Materialist Inversion of Spiritualist Models of the World 60
Part II. Worlding and Unworlding: Worldliness, Narrative, and "Literature" in Phenomenology and Deconstruction
4. Worlding: The Phenomenological Concept of Worldliness and the Loss of World in Modernity 95
5. The In-Between World: Anthropologizing the Force of Worlding 131
6. The Arriving World: The Inhuman Otherness of Time as Real Messianic Hope 161
Part III. Of Other Worlds to Come
7. Postcolonial Openings: How Postcolonial Literature Becomes World Literature 191
8. Projecting a Future World from the Memory of Precolonial Time 216
9. World Heritage Preservation and the Expropriation of Subaltern Worlds 246
10. Resisting Humanitarianization 278
Epilogue. Without Conclusion: Stories without End(s) 310
Notes 333
Select Bibliography 369
Index 383

Über Autor(innen)

Pheng Cheah is Professor of Rhetoric and Chair of the Center for Southeast Asia Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights and Spectral Nationality: Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation.