World Literature and Dissent 1st Edition by Lorna Burns 9781351357715 1351357719

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• ISBN 10: 1351357719
• ISBN 13: 9781351357715
• Author: Lorna Burns

World Literature and Dissent reconsiders the role of dissent in contemporary global literature. Bringing together scholars of world and postcolonial literatures, the contributors explore the aesthetics of resistance through concepts including the epistemology of ignorance, the rhetoric of innocence, the subversion of paying attention, and the radical potential of everydayness. Addressing a broad range of examples, from the Maghrebian humanist Ibn Khaldūn to India’s Facebook poets and examining writers such as Langston Hughes, Ben Okri, Sara Uribe, and Merle Collins, this highly relevant book reframes the field of world literature in relation to dissenting politics and aesthetic. It asks the urgent question: how critical practice might cultivate radical thought, further social justice, and value human expression?

Table contents:

PART I: Dissent (in theory)
1. Dissent in the reign of ignorance, or parsing the epistemology of empire
2. The problem of dissent
3. Paying attention: Philosophy as dissenting therapy for the information age
4. Rhetoric of innocence or literary dissent?: Franco Moretti, world-systems theory and the case of magical realism
5. Khaldunia: The literary politics of radical Arabic humanism
PART II: Dissident literatures
6. Everyday dissent: Colonised lifeworlds in twentieth-century poetry
7. Facebook poet: Poetic dissent and social media in contemporary India
8. Writing the necropolitical: Notes around the idea of Mexican anti-world literature
9. ‘Dreams of revolt’, the ‘revolt of nature’: World literature and the ecology of revolution
10. Negative enchantment

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