A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year The idea of world
literature has garnered much attention recently as a discipline
that promises to move humanistic study beyond postcolonial theory
and antiquated paradigms of "national" literary traditions. In
Forget English! Aamir Mufti scrutinizes the claims made on behalf
of world literature by its advocates. The notion of a borderless,
egalitarian global literature has obvious appeal, he notes, but
behind it lurks the continuing dominance of English as a literary
language and a cultural system of international reach. "Mufti's
historical perspective and insightful analyses of India's
anglophone novel generate constant echoes with the realities of
anglophone writings in other cultures." -Eva Shan Chou, Times
Higher Education "Mufti's book is in one sense a quarrel with
Salman Rushdie's overly enthusiastic celebration of
English-language 'postcolonial' South Asian literature, but more
important, the book extends, qualifies, and enriches Edward Said's
work on Orientalism, demonstrating that despite its promise, world
literature does not eliminate the dominant role of the Anglophone
book market in shaping South Asian literature...Mufti's book is
both accessible and theoretically informed." -K. Toeloelyan, Choice
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