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The World in a Grain of Sand - Postcolonial Literature and Radical Universalism (Paperback)
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The World in a Grain of Sand - Postcolonial Literature and Radical Universalism (Paperback)
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The World in a Grain of Sand offers a framework for reading
literature from the global South that goes against the grain of
dominant theories in cultural studies, especially, postcolonial
theory. It critiques the valorization of the local in cultural
theories typically accompanied by a rejection of universal
categories - viewed as Eurocentric projections. But the privileging
of the local usually amounts to an exercise in exoticization of the
South. The book argues that the rejection of Eurocentric theories
can be complemented by embracing another, richer and non-parochial
form of universalism. Through readings of texts from India, Sri
Lanka, Palestine and Egypt, the book shows that the fine grained
engagement with culture, the mapping of ordinary lives not just as
objects but subjects of their history, is embedded in much of
postcolonial literature in a radical universalism - one that is
rooted in local realities, but is able to unearth in them the
needs, conflicts and desires that stretch across cultures and time.
It is a universalism recognized by Marx and steeped in the spirit
of anti-colonialism, but hostile to any whiff of exoticism.
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