Mapping Minor/Small and World Literatures: Periphery and Center - Couverture rigide

 
9781666944662: Mapping Minor/Small and World Literatures: Periphery and Center
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ISBN 10 : 1666944661 ISBN 13 : 9781666944662
Editeur : Lexington Books, 2024

Synopsis

Mapping Minor/Small and World Literatures: Periphery and Center makes a declarative intervention in debates about world literature, redefining the boundaries between the center and periphery to rejuvenate long-established assumptions about significance and insignificance. In this book, African American literature (emerging from the often overlooked pink periphery, a cramped space of minor literature), works from the Faroe Islands, Basque literature, First Nation Canadian literature, Western narratives about peripheral China, Kurdish literature, the ultraminor literary space of Antigua, the 'favela' of Brazilian literature, as well as the hyperlocal narratives of Australian and New Zealand literature are all studied for their meaningful role within the world literary system. Additionally, working-class writing and the literary contributions of individuals on the margins of their own societies are given a voice, ensuring that the world literary space does not merely represent the perspectives of dominant elites. Unlike other descriptions of world literature, which have frequently allowed the grandeur and breadth of the global to overshadow the imperative for authentic literary biodiversity, this anthology, featuring contributions from diverse scholars representing various countries and backgrounds, actively deconstructs the structures of power and domination inherent in Western-European-centered world literature, minor literature, and small literature.

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À propos des auteurs

Yanli He teaches at Sichuan University, is affiliated with Brandeis University, and also serves as a Non-Resident Fellow of Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University.

Nicholas Birns teaches at New York University.

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Éditeur
Lexington Books
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1666944661
ISBN 13 
9781666944662
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
296
Éditeur
He Yanli, Birns Nicholas
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Personne responsable
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