World Literature Decentered - Beyond the "West" through Turkey, Mexico and Bengal (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature
Release date:	July 2021
First published:	2022
Authors:	Ian Almond
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	254
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-68337-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Development studies Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
LSN:	0-367-68337-7
Barcode:	9780367683375

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