Colonialism, World Literature, and the Making of the Modern Culture of Letters
Colonialism, World Literature, and the Making of the Modern Culture ...
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This book offers an account of how the modern idea of the literary emerged, through the colonial archives. Situated at the cusp of postcolonialism and world literature, it offers a multilingual, multicultural, and comparative account of how literature became one of the most powerful cultural expressions of modernity.