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Title: World Literature Decentered
Author : Ian Almond
Release Date : January 14, 2021
Genre: Literary Criticism,Books,Fiction & Literature,Politics & Current Events,Political Science,History,Latin America,
Pages : * pages
Size : 1582 KB

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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.