World Literature Decentered - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook World Literature Decentered write by Ian Almond. This book was released on 2021-07-13. World Literature Decentered available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What would world literature look like, if we stopped referring to the “West”? Starting with the provocative premise that the “‘West’ is ten percent of the planet”, World Literature Decentered is the first book to decenter Eurocentric discourses of global literature and global history – not just by deconstructing or historicizing them, but by actively providing an alternative. Looking at a series of themes across three literatures (Mexico, Turkey and Bengal), the book examines hotels, melancholy, orientalism, femicide and the ghost story in a series of literary traditions outside the “West”. The non-West, the book argues, is no fringe group or token minority in need of attention – on the contrary, it constitutes the overwhelming majority of this world.
Decentering International Relations
Decentering International Relations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Decentering International Relations write by Doctor Meghana Nayak. This book was released on 2013-04-04. Decentering International Relations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Decentering International Relations seeks to actively confront, resist, and rewrite International Relations (IR), a heavily politicized field that is deeply centered in the North/West and privileges certain perspectives, pedagogies, and practices. Is it possible to break the chain of signifiers that always leads IR studies back to the US and its European allies? Through engagement with a variety of theories (ranging beyond the usual 'mainstream' versus 'critical/alternative' binary), and conversations with scholars, activists, and students, the authors invite the reader to participate in an accessible yet provocative experiment to decentre the North/West when we learn, study and do IR. In particular, they examine how the pressing issues of 'human rights', 'globalization', 'peace and security', and 'indigeneity' are simultaneously normative inventions meant to sustain particular power structures and sites for insurgent and subversive attempts to live IR at the margins. Selbin and Nayak have written a remarkable and provocative re-envisioning of a globally important subject.
Paul Decentered
Paul Decentered - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Paul Decentered write by Arminta M. Fox. This book was released on 2019-12-02. Paul Decentered available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book argues that the presence of women in the Christ communities of first-century Corinth changes how 2 Corinthians should be interpreted. Using a feminist approach to interpret the text, Arminta M. Fox presents readings that are ethically and historically viable. She examines how questions of community identity and leadership are situated within broader discourses of power in the Roman imperial and patriarchal contexts of the first-century Mediterranean world. By assuming the dialogical presence of strong and diverse women leaders in the community, Fox develops counter-readings to ones that assume Paul's singular authority.
Conrad's Decentered Fiction
Conrad's Decentered Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conrad's Decentered Fiction write by Johan Adam Warodell. This book was released on 2022-03-17. Conrad's Decentered Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Brings the vibrant details of Conrad's writing to the forefront for study and analyzes newly-discovered artworks, maps, and manuscript pages.
Against World Literature
Against World Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Against World Literature write by Emily Apter. This book was released on 2013-04-23. Against World Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability argues for a rethinking of comparative literature focusing on the problems that emerge when large-scale paradigms of literary studies ignore the politics of the “Untranslatable”—the realm of those words that are continually retranslated, mistranslated, transferred from language to language, or especially resistant to substitution. In the place of “World Literature”—a dominant paradigm in the humanities, one grounded in market-driven notions of readability and universal appeal—Apter proposes a plurality of “world literatures” oriented around philosophical concepts and geopolitical pressure points. The history and theory of the language that constructs World Literature is critically examined with a special focus on Weltliteratur, literary world systems, narrative ecosystems, language borders and checkpoints, theologies of translation, and planetary devolution in a book set to revolutionize the discipline of comparative literature.
