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ORIENTALISMS AND WORLD LITERATURES

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01 March, 2016

Aamir R Mufti

World literature has recently been posited as a discipline that will move humanistic study beyond both postcolonial theory and antiquated paradigms of national literary traditions. In this critical text, Aamir Mufti, a scholar of comparative literature, scrutinises the claims made on behalf of world literature, paying especially close attention to their implications for non-European languages. The notion of a borderless global literature has obvious appeal, he notes, but behind it lurks the continuing dominance of English as a literary language.

Harvard University Press, 304 pages, Rs 1,450