In Inter-imperiality Laura Doyle theorizes the co-emergence of empires, institutions, language regimes, stratified economies, and literary cultures over the longue durée. Weaving together feminist, decolonial, and dialectical theory, she shows how inter-imperial competition has generated a systemic...

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1. Verfasser:	Doyle, Laura Anne (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Durham Duke University Press 2020
Schlagworte:	LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory Critical theory Criticism Feminist theory Geopolitics Imperialism in literature Literature, Modern > 21st century > History and criticism Wettbewerb Imperialismus Globalisierung Literatur Gesellschaftskritik
Zusammenfassung:	In Inter-imperiality Laura Doyle theorizes the co-emergence of empires, institutions, language regimes, stratified economies, and literary cultures over the longue durée. Weaving together feminist, decolonial, and dialectical theory, she shows how inter-imperial competition has generated a systemic stratification of gendered, racialized labor, while literary and other arts have helped both to constitute and to challenge this world order. To study literature is therefore, Doyle argues, to attend to world-historical processes of imaginative and material co-formation as they have unfolded through successive eras of vying empires. It is also to understand oral, performed, and written literatures as power-transforming resources for the present and future. To make this case, Doyle analyzes imperial-economic processes across centuries and continents in tandem with inter-imperially entangled literatures, from A Thousand and One Nights to recent Caribbean fiction. Her trenchant interdisciplinary method reveals the structural centrality of imaginative literature in the politics and possibilities of earthly life
Beschreibung:	xi, 378 Seiten
ISBN:	9781478011095