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Literature and the Work of Universality

Alice Duhan Stefan Helgesson Christina Kullberg Paul Tenngart

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  • 350 sidor
  • 2024
In an age of accelerating ecological crises, global inequalities and democratic fragility, it has become crucial to achieve renewed articulations of human commonality. With anchorage in critical theory as well as world literary studies, this volume approaches literature and modes of literary thinking as a key resource for such a task. "Universality" is understood here not as an established "universalism", but as a horizon towards which intellectual inquiry and literary practices orient themselves. In the field of world literature, there is by now a wide repertoire of epistemological resources through which claims to universality can be both questioned and reconfigured. If, at one end of the spectrum, world literature confronts us with the spectre of homogenisation and the commodification of difference under a regime of global capitalism, at another end renewed forms of philological, anthropological and ecological attentiveness to the particulars of languages and texts within the crucible of connected histories allow for defamiliarising perspectives both on received historical narratives and aesthetic practices. Vernacularity emerges here as a central point of reference for constructing the universal from within the particular, the idiomatic, and the experiences of social subordination or complicity.
  • Författare: Alice Duhan, Stefan Helgesson, Christina Kullberg, Paul Tenngart
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9783111208527
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 350
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2024-07-22
  • Förlag: De Gruyter