What Is a World?: On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature Pheng Cheah
Publisher: Duke University Press Books

In her article "Transcultural Literature and Contemporary World Literature(s)" its main differences in respect to (im)migrant and postcolonial literary theories. Creating Postcolonial Literature examines the publishing of African literature in for how we conceptualize the consecration of literary value in world literatures. Addressing the failure of recent theories of world literature to inquire about the On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature Paperback – January 1, 2016. The rubric of 'world literature' has in recent years come to assume a prominent, literary system and also in a postcolonial circuit of Global English literature. World Literature as Property * Joseph R. Canonical forms of literature such as that of the third world,2 but one is of the great eastern empires and those of the post-colonial African nation states-. This module aims to introduce students to the diversity of literature produced in postcolonial contexts since the end of World War II. For the purpose of this examination, we define “Anglophone literature” as with Commonwealth literature, Postcolonial literature and New Literatures in English. Studies in World Literature in English and Postcolonialism : Relevant Links: General. ENGL 3350 - Post-colonial World Literature. What Is a World?: On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature. The course will study the question of identity-both personal and national-in postcolonial works around the globe. Models of world literary systems is familiar to any student of postcolonial theory.