The World and the Postcolonial

This article examines the increasing competition in the academic market between conventional terms such as postcolonial and anglophone literature and their cognates, and the newly current term world literature. Even in postcolonial studies circles, world literature is increasingly taken to refer not...

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Published inEuropean review (Chichester, England) Vol. 22; no. 2; pp. 299 - 308
Main Author Boehmer, Elleke
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.05.2014
Subjects
Anglophones
Colonialism
European history
Focus: Nihilism
Literature
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Summary:This article examines the increasing competition in the academic market between conventional terms such as postcolonial and anglophone literature and their cognates, and the newly current term world literature. Even in postcolonial studies circles, world literature is increasingly taken to refer not only to ‘the best ever written’, as before, but to literature produced within and in response to a globalizing world. The paper explores the different valences of this shift, and the tensions and contradictions it has generated within the wider anglophone literary field.
ISSN:1062-7987
1474-0575
DOI:10.1017/S106279871400012X