Doyle Laura Doyle

Inter-imperiality (eBook, PDF)

Vying Empires, Gendered Labor, and the Literary Arts of Alliance

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Produktbeschreibung

In Inter-imperiality Laura Doyle theorizes the co-emergence of empires, institutions, language regimes, stratified economies, and literary cultures over the longue duree. Weaving together feminist, decolonial, and dialectical theory, she shows how inter-imperial competition has generated a systemic stratification of gendered, racialized labor, while literary and other arts have helped both to constitute and to challenge this world order. To study literature is therefore, Doyle argues, to attend to world-historical processes of imaginative and material co-formation as they have unfolded through successive eras of vying empires. It is also to understand oral, performed, and written literatures as power-transforming resources for the present and future. To make this case, Doyle analyzes imperial-economic processes across centuries and continents in tandem with inter-imperially entangled literatures, from A Thousand and One Nights to recent Caribbean fiction. Her trenchant interdisciplinary method reveals the structural centrality of imaginative literature in the politics and possibilities of earthly life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478012610
• Artikelnr.: 66282457

Autorenporträt

Laura Doyle is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and author of several books, including Freedom's Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640–1940, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Theoretical Introduction. Between States  1
Part I. Co-Constituted Worlds
1. Dialectics in the Longue Durée  35
2. Refusing Labor's (Re)production in The Thousand and One Nights  68
Part II. Convergence and Revolt
3. Remapping Orientalism among Eurasian Empires  95
4. Global Revolts and Gothic Interventions  121
5. Infrastructure, Activism, and Literary Dialectics in the Early Twentieth
Century  156
Part III. Persisting Temporalities
6. Rape, Revolution, and Queer Male Longing in Carpentier's The Kingdom of
This World  195
7. Inter-imperially Neocolonial: The Queer Returns of Writing in Powell's
The Pagoda  227
Conclusion. A River Between  251
Notes  255
Bibliography  331
Index