Forget English!: orientalisms and world literatures
"In recent years, the idea of world literature has become nearly hegemonic in the so-called First World or Global North. It now underlies a range of literary practices including literature festivals, prizes, and competitions, reviewing, editing and publishing, academic research and writing, tea...
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/ MUFTI, AAMIR [AUTHOR]
: 2015
TABLE OF CONTENTS / INHALTSVERZEICHNIS
PROLOGUE: THE UNIVERSAL LIBRARY OF WORLD LITERATURE
WHERE IN THE WORLD IS WORLD LITERATURE?
ORIENTALISM AND THE INSTITUTION OF INDIAN LITERATURE
GLOBAL ENGLISH AND ITS OTHERS
OUR PHILOLOGICAL HOME IS THE EARTH: WORLD LITERATURE FROM AUERBACH TO
SAID
EPILOGUE: FOR A RUTHLESS CRITICISM OF EVERYTHING EXISTING
DIESES SCHRIFTSTUECK WURDE MASCHINELL ERZEUGT.
HE IDEA OF WORLD LITERATURE has garnered
I much attention recently as a discipline that
promises to move humanistic study beyond
postcolonial theory and antiquated paradigms of
hiationar literary traditions. In Forget English!
Aamir Mufti scrutinizes the claims made on
behalf of world literature by its advocates. The
notion of a borderless, egalitarian global litera-
ture has obvious appeal, he notes, but behind it
lurks the continuing dominance of English as a
literary language and a cultural system of inter-
national reach.
The cultural logic of what Edward Said
identified as Orientalism continues to structure
world literature discourse, Mufti says—although
in updated ways that conceal the persistence of
the continental and civilizational inequalities
of the colonial past. From the beginning, world
literature has been an eminently Orientalist idea,
one made possible by the translation labors of
European Orientalist scholars and the canonizing
of Orientalist concepts of cultural difference.
World literature has always been a border
regime, an implicit set of regulations governing
the mobility of various national and local lit-
eratures across the world. Mufti explores how
English historically achieved its literary preemi-
nence, and he deepens our understanding of how
the hegemony of English affects non-European
languages—particularly those of India and South
Asia—as vessels of literary expression. At the
center of the very possibility of world literature
is the dominance of English, as both a literary
vernacular and the undisputed language of global
capitalism.
Titel: Forget English!
Autor: Mufti, Aamir Rashid
Jahr: 2016
Forget English! ORIENTALISMS AND WORLD LITERATURES Aamir R. Mufti III III Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England 2016
Contents Preface ix Prologue: The Universal Library of World Literature i 1 Where in the World Is World Literature? 56 2 Orientalism and the Institution of Indian Literature 99 3 Global English and Its Others 146 4 “Our Philological Home Is the Earth”: World Literature from Auerbach to Said 203 Epilogue: “For a Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing” 243 Notes 255 Acknowledgments 279 Index 285
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