Baidik Bhattacharya

Colonialism, World Literature, and the Making of the Modern Culture of Letters (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009422611
• Artikelnr.: 70911648

Autorenporträt

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.