Theory as World Literature

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

AvJeffrey R. Di Leo,Jeffrey R. Di Leo,Thomas Oliver Beebee

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The first collection to consider what it means for theory to be considered as a species of world literature – and vice versa.What does it mean for theory to be considered as a species of not just literature but world literature? This volume offers a wide range of accounts of how the “worlding” of literature both problematizes the national categorizing of theory (e.g., French theory), and brings new meanings and challenges to the coming together of theory and literature. In sum, it presents theory as world literature as a viable alternative to more commonplace approaches to theory.Under such an approach to theory, what it means to be an African, American, or Asian “theorist” – let alone a French, German, or Spanish one – in the new millennium is as complicated (or simple) as what means to be “African,” “American,” or “Asian.” “Worlded” literature is not considered here as only the world literature of nations and nationalities. Rather, it is also the worlded literature of individuals crossing borders, mixing stories, and speaking in dialect. So too is it the worlded literature of the multinational corporate publishing industry wherein success in the global market is a major determinate of aesthetic and literary value.Offering accounts of what it means to consider theory as world literature, the authors in this pioneering collection explore the ways in which we might regard theory as connected and reconnected through global literary networks of increasing complexity and precarity. By approaching theory from this perspective, Theory as World Literature demonstrates how and why theory is more worldly now than ever.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-01-09
Mått156 x 232 x 22 mm
Vikt580 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieLiteratures as World Literature
Antal sidor296
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9798765108659

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List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsTheory as World Literature: An IntroductionJeffrey R. Di Leo, University of Houston-Victoria, USAPart 1. Indigeneity, Decoloniality, and Race1. Destructive Writing and Ending the WorldClaire Colebrook, Penn State University, USA2. Archipelagic Thought as World Literature: Glissant, Wynter, and Derrida’s Genres of the WorldMina Karavanta, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece3. Countering Encounters: Theorizing the Scale of GlobalityPeter Hitchcock, CUNY Graduate Center, USA4. Critical Race Theory: Counter-storytelling as WorldingNicole Simek, Whitman College, USAPart 2. Semiotics and Psychoanalysis5. Umberto Eco and the World Literature of SemioticsJeffrey R. Di Leo, University of Houston-Victoria, USA6. Kristeva’s Semanalyse as World Literature: From Chora and Revolution to Abjection and RevoltPaul Allen Miller, University of South Carolina, USA7. Psychoanalysis as World LiteratureZahi Zalloua, Whitman College, USAPart III. Realisms, Aesthetics, and Politics8. From the Magically Real to the Really Real: When Latin American Literature Became World TheorySophia McClennen, Penn State University, USA9. Approaches to Realism: A Few Global Test CasesMargaret R. Higonnet, University of Connecticut, USA10. Literature as a Global TheoryAlex Taek-Gwang Lee, Kyung Hee University, South Korea11. Said’s WorldlinessH. Aram Veeser, CUNY Graduate Center, USAPart IV. Phenomenology, Philology, and Plasticity12. Levinas and World LiteratureDonald R. Wehrs, Auburn University, USA13. World Philology and World TheoryAlexander Beecroft, University of South Carolina, USA14. Plastic, World, LiteratureRanjan Ghosh, University of North Benjal, IndiaBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex

This book is a brilliant tribute to an underacknowledged feature of theory, the fact that in the very awkwardness of its abstractions, it has served as an international vocabulary, empowering critics around the world to challenge the unconscious cognitive authority of the native speaker. Ambitious and never dutiful, this volume also makes a contribution in its own right to elucidating the mysteries of a worldliness, actual as well potential, beyond global capitalism.