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The world and the postcolonial

Abstract:
The paper examines the increasing competition in the academic market between conventional terms like postcolonial and anglophone literature and their cognates, and the newly current term world literature. Even in postcolonial studies circles, world literature is increasingly taken to refer not only to ‘the best ever written’, as before, but to literature produced within and in response to a globalizing world. The paper explores the different valences of this shift, and the tensions and contradictions it has generated within the wider anglophone literary field.
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Published
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Peer reviewed

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10.1017/S106279871400012X

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
English Faculty
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Journal:
European Review More from this journal
Volume:
22
Issue:
02
Pages:
299-308
Publication date:
2014-05-01
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EISSN:
1474-0575
ISSN:
1062-7987


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2015-10-12
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