Cheah Pheng Cheah

What Is a World? (eBook, PDF)

On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

In What Is a World? Pheng Cheah, a leading theorist of cosmopolitanism, offers the first critical consideration of world literature's cosmopolitan vocation. Addressing the failure of recent theories of world literature to inquire about the meaning of world, Cheah articulates a normative theory of literature's world-making power by creatively synthesizing four philosophical accounts of the world as a temporal process: idealism, Marxist materialism, phenomenology, and deconstruction. Literature opens worlds, he provocatively suggests, because it is a force of receptivity. Cheah compellingly argues for postcolonial literature's exemplarity as world literature through readings of narrative fiction by Michelle Cliff, Amitav Ghosh, Nuruddin Farah, Ninotchka Rosca, and Timothy Mo that show how these texts open up new possibilities for remaking the world by negotiating with the inhuman force that gives time and deploying alternative temporalities to resist capitalist globalization.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822374534
• Artikelnr.: 54672512

Autorenporträt

Pheng Cheah is Professor of Rhetoric and Chair of the Center for Southeast Asia Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights and Spectral Nationality: Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation.  

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction. Missed Encounters: Cosmopolitanism, World Literature, and
Postcoloniality  1
Part I. The World of World in Literature in Question
1. The New World Literature: Literary Studies Discovers Globalization  23
2. The World According to Hegel: Culture and Power in World History  46
3. The World as Market: The Materialist Inversion of Spiritualist Models of
the World 60
Part II. Worlding and Unworlding: Worldliness, Narrative, and "Literature"
in Phenomenology and Deconstruction
4. Worlding: The Phenomenological Concept of Worldliness and the Loss of
World in Modernity  95
5. The In-Between World: Anthropologizing the Force of Worlding  131
6. The Arriving World: The Inhuman Otherness of Time as Real Messianic
Hope  161
Part III. Of Other Worlds to Come
7. Postcolonial Openings: How Postcolonial Literature Becomes World
Literature  191
8. Projecting a Future World from the Memory of Precolonial Time  216
9. World Heritage Preservation and the Expropriation of Subaltern Worlds 
246
10. Resisting Humanitarianization  278
Epilogue. Without Conclusion: Stories without End(s)  310
Notes  333
Select Bibliography  369
Index  383