This book offers an account of how the modern idea of the literary emerged, through the colonial archives. Situated at the cusp of postcolonialism and world literature, it offers a multilingual, multicultural, and comparative account of how literature became one of the most powerful cultural expressions of modernity.
This book offers an account of how the modern idea of the literary emerged, through the colonial archives. Situated at the cusp of postcolonialism and world literature, it offers a multilingual, multicultural, and comparative account of how literature became one of the most powerful cultural expressions of modernity.
Baidik Bhattacharya is Associate Professor of English at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. He is the author of the much-acclaimed book Postcolonial Writing in the Era of World Literature: Texts, Territories, Globalizations (2018). His works have appeared in some of the leading journals of our times: Critical Inquiry, New Literary History, Boundary 2, Modern Philology, Interventions, Postcolonial Studies, among others.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface and acknowledgement Introduction: formations of the literary sovereign Part I. Epistemic Habits: 1. Ethnographic recension 2. Colonial untranslatables 3. Comparatism in the colony Part II. Aesthetic Conventions: 4. Impure aesthetics 5. Sanskrit on shagreen 6. National enframing Coda: Decolonization after world literature Notes Bibliography Index.
Preface and acknowledgement Introduction: formations of the literary sovereign Part I. Epistemic Habits: 1. Ethnographic recension 2. Colonial untranslatables 3. Comparatism in the colony Part II. Aesthetic Conventions: 4. Impure aesthetics 5. Sanskrit on shagreen 6. National enframing Coda: Decolonization after world literature Notes Bibliography Index.
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