Forget English!: Orientalisms and World Literatures
- Authors
- Aamir R. Mufti
- Publisher
- HarvardUP
- Tags
- literary criticism , general , political science , colonialism & post-colonialism
- Date
- 2016-02-16T21:11:40+00:00
- Size
- 0.88 MB
- Lang
- en
World literature advocates have promised to move humanistic study beyond postcolonial theory and antiquated paradigms of national literary traditions. Aamir Mufti scrutinizes these claims and critiques the continuing dominance of English as both a literary language and the undisputed cultural system of global capitalism.