History Imperialism Critique New Essays in World Literature 1st Edition by Asher Ghaffar ISBN 9781138217508 1138217506

Part I Intellectual History

1 World Literature, the Geist, and the East, 1907–1942

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2 “Le Mot Du PoèTe, Le Mot Primitif”: Aimé CéSaire and Vico’s Civic Humanism

Reading Vico

Culture in the French Imperial Nation-State

Situating Aimé Césaire

Conclusion: Poetry and Knowledge

Notes

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3 Rabindranath Tagore’s Postcolonialism: A Vision Of Decolonization and a Modernist Idealism

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4 Voyages of the Self: Muslims as Anticolonial Subjects in Muhammad Iqbal’s Philosophy of History

Hegel, British Idealism, and Iqbal’s Concept of Self

Iqbal in Britain After the Second Boer War

Iqbal, Nietzsche, and the Russian Revolution

Muslim Modernity, Plebeian Poetics, and Orature

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Part II Literary History

5 Lu Xun’s Indigenous Modernity: Philology and Resistance in Old Tales Retold

Philologists for the Future

Peripheral Imperialisms

Conflicts Over Translation

Old Tales Retold, or how One Philologizes with a Hammer

Conclusion

Notes

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6 Circuits of Influence: Brodsky’s Platonov and the Ontology of Alienation

Two Platonovs

A Challenge

Victims of Language

The Turn

The Proletarian Writer in the House of Being

First Political Corollary: Fallen Nature

Second Political Corollary: Empty Transcendence

Lessons in Modernism

Notes

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7 Aesthetic Re-Imaginings of Mexican Sovereignty: Estridentismo’s Anti-Imperialist Avant-Garde

Anti-Imperialist Aesthetics

History as Farce: Panchito Chapopote

Avant-Garde Commitment: Horizonte

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Part III Poetic History

8 Vichian Language and the Irish Troubles: Brian Friel’s Translations

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9 the Heavens Look Down Upon Us: José Enrique Rodó and the Spirit of AméRica

Postcolonial America Poised for a New Form of Conquest

Rodó’s Remedies: Spirit

The State

A Call to Cosmopolitanize

Ariel in the Twenty-First Century

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10 Historicizing Language and Temporality in José MaríA Arguedas’ Deep Rivers

Representing Quechua Language as Stasis

El Patio Interior: Spatiality ‘Beyond the Pleasure Principle’

The Freudian Psyche

Against Universalizing Notions of Language and Psyche in Postcolonial Thought

The Zumbayllu: A Symbol of Harmony or Fragmentation?

The Zumbayllu as Mythic/Ritual Object

What Kind of Psyche, What Kind of Collective?

Conclusion

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11 ÜBermenschen and Untermenschen: Global Nietzsche and Postcolonial Fiction

Astrologers of Revolution

Revolution and Ressentiment

Black Power

Impersonating Nietzsche

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Afterword

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Acknowledgements

Index