World Literature and the Geographies of Resistance by Joel Nickels
This book proposes a new definition of world literature: an archive of democratic mechanisms external to state power. Accordingly, World Literature and the Geographies of Resistance takes shape as an exploration of nonstate space - territories of self-government that contest the vertical command structures of the state. Joel Nickels argues that literature devoted to these processes of spatial occuption can help us imagine democratic alternatives to state space and to the regime of legalized dispossession that goes under the name of globalization. Conceptualized in these terms, world literature can be viewed not as the corollary of 90s-era cosmopolitanism, but as a document of strategies for the militant reorganization of social space. This ambitious book addresses the work of Patrick Chamoiseau, Ousmane Sembene, Miguel ngel Asturias, Claude McKay, Arundhati Roy, T. S. Eliot and Melvin Tolson. It engages with theories of transnationality, diaspora and postcoloniality, as well as world literature.
'The book constitutes a timely political intervention in its call for a new approach to world literature and culture, and serves to remind us that world literature, read in this new way, 'can help us visualize modes of life and forms of relations that pose alternatives to the regime of legalized dispossession that goes under the name of globalization'' Abdullah M. Dagamesh, Modern Language Review
Joel Nickels is the author of Poetry of the Possible: Spontaneity, Modernism, and the Multitude (2012).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781108428491 |
| ISBN 10 | 1108428495 |
| Title | World Literature and the Geographies of Resistance |
| Author | Joel Nickels |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2018-06-07 |
| Number of pages | 228 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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