"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.
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