Combined and Uneven Development: Towards a New Theory of World-Literature

by Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee, Stephen Shapiro, Nicholas Lawrence, et al.

Book Overview

The ambition of this book is to resituate the problem of 'world literature', considered as a revived category of theoretical enquiry, by pursuing the literary-cultural implications of the theory of combined and uneven development. This theory has a long pedigree in the social sciences, where it continues to stimulate debate. But its implications for cultural analysis have received less attention, even though the theory might be said to draw attention...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781381895
• ISBN13: 9781781381892
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 9.3"