In What Is a World? Pheng Cheah, a leading theorist of
cosmopolitanism, offers the first critical consideration of world
literature's cosmopolitan vocation. Addressing the failure of
recent theories of world literature to inquire about the meaning of
world, Cheah articulates a normative theory of literature's
world-making power by creatively synthesizing four philosophical
accounts of the world as a temporal process: idealism, Marxist
materialism, phenomenology, and deconstruction. Literature opens
worlds, he provocatively suggests, because it is a force of
receptivity. Cheah compellingly argues for postcolonial
literature's exemplarity as world literature through readings of
narrative fiction by Michelle Cliff, Amitav Ghosh, Nuruddin Farah,
Ninotchka Rosca, and Timothy Mo that show how these texts open up
new possibilities for remaking the world by negotiating with the
inhuman force that gives time and deploying alternative
temporalities to resist capitalist globalization.
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