History, Imperialism, Critique: New Essays in World Literature

ISBN-13: 9781138217508 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 238 str.

Asher Ghaffar

Opis

This book examines the imprint of anti-imperialist thought upon European philosophy. It features an international group of both emerging and established scholars who directly respond to Timothy Brennan’s far-reaching call to rethink intellectual histories, literary histories, and the reading habits of postcolonialism in relation to anti-imperialist tradition of critique.

Spis treści

I: Intellectual History 1: World Literature, the Geist and the East, 1907–1942 2: "Le mot du poète, le mot primitif": Aimé Césaire and Vico’s Civic Humanism 3: Rabindranath Tagore’s Postcolonialism: A Vision of Decolonization and a Modernist Idealism 4: Voyages of the Self: Muslims as Anticolonial Subjects in Muhammad Iqbal’s Philosophy of History II: Literary History 5: Lu Xun’s Indigenous Modernity: Philology and Resistance in Old Tales Retold 6: Circuits of Influence: Brodsky’s Platonov and the Ontology of Alienation 7: Aesthetic Re-imaginings of Mexican Sovereignty: Estridentismo’s Anti-Imperialist Avant-garde III: Poetic History 8: Vichian Language and the Irish Troubles: Brian Friel’s Translations 9: The Heavens Look Down Upon Us: José Enrique Rodó and the Spirit of América 10: Historicizing Language and Temporality in Jose María Arguedas' Deep Rivers 11: Übermenschen and Untermenschen: Global Nietzsche and Postcolonial Fiction