World Literature Decentered

Beyond the "West" through Turkey, Mexico and Bengal
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-68337-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 538 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature

What would world literature look like, if we stopped referring to the “West”? Starting with the provocative premise that the “‘West’ is ten percent of the planet”, World Literature Decentered is the first book to decenter Eurocentric discourses of global literature and global history – not just by deconstructing or historicizing them, but by actively providing an alternative. Looking at a series of themes across three literatures (Mexico, Turkey and Bengal), the book examines hotels, melancholy, orientalism, femicide and the ghost story in a series of literary traditions outside the “West”. The non-West, the book argues, is no fringe group or token minority in need of attention – on the contrary, it constitutes the overwhelming majority of this world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Almond, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Indische & Dravidische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Circumventing the West.

Chapter One. The Ghost Story: Hayalet, Fantasma, Bhut

Chapter Two. The Hotel Narrative: Anayurt, Shahjahan, Isabel

Chapter Three. Femicide Narratives: Mujer, Mohila, Kadin

Chapter Four. Retelling Myth: Mito, Katha, Efsane

Chapter Five. Melancholy: Monomora, Melancolía, Hüzün

Chapter Six. The Orient: Sark, Prachi, Oriente

Conclusion. The Ten Percenters.

Über Autor(innen)

Ian Almond is Professor of World Literature at Georgetown University in Qatar. He is the author of six books, most recently Two Faiths, One Banner (2009) and The Thought of Nirad C. Chaudhuri (2015), and over 50 articles in a variety of journals. He specializes in comparative world literature, with a tri-continental emphasis on Mexico, Bengal and Turkey. His work has been translated into 13 languages. He has lived and worked in the Middle East (Qatar and Turkey) for over 15 years.