Theory as World Literature (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Di Leo, Jeffrey R.

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Produktbeschreibung

The first collection to consider what it means for theory to be considered as a species of world literature - and vice versa.

What does it mean for theory to be considered as a species of not just literature but world literature? This volume offers a wide range of accounts of how the "worlding" of literature both problematizes the national categorizing of theory (e.g., French theory), and brings new meanings and challenges to the coming together of theory and literature. In sum, it presents theory as world literature as a viable alternative to more commonplace approaches to theory.

Under such an approach to theory, what it means to be an African, American, or Asian "theorist" - let alone a French, German, or Spanish one - in the new millennium is as complicated (or simple) as what means to be "African," "American," or "Asian." "Worlded" literature is not considered here as only the world literature of nations and nationalities. Rather, it is also the worlded literature of individuals crossing borders, mixing stories, and speaking in dialect. So too is it the worlded literature of the multinational corporate publishing industry wherein success in the global market is a major determinate of aesthetic and literary value.

Offering accounts of what it means to consider theory as world literature, the authors in this pioneering collection explore the ways in which we might regard theory as connected and reconnected through global literary networks of increasing complexity and precarity. By approaching theory from this perspective, Theory as World Literature demonstrates how and why theory is more worldly now than ever.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798765108680
• Artikelnr.: 72235210

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston-Victoria, USA. He is editor and founder of the critical theory journal symploke, editor-in-chief of American Book Review, and Executive Director of the Society for Critical Exchange and its Winter Theory Institute.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Theory as World Literature: An Introduction
Jeffrey R. Di Leo, University of Houston-Victoria, USA
Part 1. Indigeneity, Decoloniality, and Race
1. Destructive Writing and Ending the World
Claire Colebrook, Penn State University, USA
2. Archipelagic Thought as World Literature: Glissant, Wynter, and
Derrida's Genres of the World
Mina Karavanta, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
3. Countering Encounters: Theorizing the Scale of Globality
Peter Hitchcock, CUNY Graduate Center, USA
4. Critical Race Theory: Counter-storytelling as Worlding
Nicole Simek, Whitman College, USA
Part 2. Semiotics and Psychoanalysis
5. Umberto Eco and the World Literature of Semiotics
Jeffrey R. Di Leo, University of Houston-Victoria, USA
6. Kristeva's Semanalyse as World Literature: From Chora and Revolution to
Abjection and Revolt
Paul Allen Miller, University of South Carolina, USA
7. Psychoanalysis as World Literature
Zahi Zalloua, Whitman College, USA
Part III. Realisms, Aesthetics, and Politics
8. From the Magically Real to the Really Real: When Latin American
Literature Became World Theory
Sophia McClennen, Penn State University, USA
9. Approaches to Realism: A Few Global Test Cases
Margaret R. Higonnet, University of Connecticut, USA
10. Literature as a Global Theory
Alex Taek-Gwang Lee, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
11. Said's Worldliness
H. Aram Veeser, CUNY Graduate Center, USA
Part IV. Phenomenology, Philology, and Plasticity
12. Levinas and World Literature
Donald R. Wehrs, Auburn University, USA
13. World Philology and World Theory
Alexander Beecroft, University of South Carolina, USA
14. Plastic, World, Literature
Ranjan Ghosh, University of North Benjal, India
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index