What Is a World?: On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature

by Pheng Cheah

Book Overview

In What Is a World? Pheng Cheah, a leading theorist of cosmopolitanism, offers the first critical consideration of world literature's cosmopolitan vocation. Addressing the failure of recent theories of world literature to inquire about the meaning of world , Cheah articulates a normative theory of literature's world-making power by creatively synthesizing four philosophical accounts of the world as a temporal process: idealism, Marxist materialism,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822360926
• ISBN13: 9780822360926
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"