Age of the World Target - Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work

Informationen zum Autor Rey Chow Klappentext An exploration of the theoretical and political consequences of the post-Enlightenment "self" and of the concept of self-referentiality. Zusammenfassung A theoretical exploration of the connected roles of area studies! poststructuralist theory! and comparative literature in constructing the world as a target for U.S. imperialism Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface ix Introduction. European Theory in America 1 I. The Age of the World Target: Atomic Bombs, Alterity, Area Studies 25 II. The Interruption of Referentiality: or, Poststructuralism's Outside 45 III. The Old/New Question of Comparison in Literary Studies: A Post-European Perspective 71 Notes 93 Index 117

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Rey Chow
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 05.04.2006
• EAN: 9780822337447
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3744-7
• Seiten: 144
• Serien: Next Wave Provocations; Next Wave Provocations
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke