Colonialism, World Literature, and the Making of the Modern Culture - of Letter

List of contents

Preface and acknowledgement; Introduction: formations of the literary sovereign; Part I. Epistemic Habits: 1. Ethnographic recension; 2. Colonial untranslatables; 3. Comparatism in the colony; Part II. Aesthetic Conventions: 4. Impure aesthetics; 5. Sanskrit on shagreen; 6. National enframing; Coda: Decolonization after world literature; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Baidik Bhattacharya is Associate Professor of English at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. He is the author of the much-acclaimed book Postcolonial Writing in the Era of World Literature: Texts, Territories, Globalizations (2018). His works have appeared in some of the leading journals of our times: Critical Inquiry, New Literary History, Boundary 2, Modern Philology, Interventions, Postcolonial Studies, among others.

Product details

• Authors: Baidik Bhattacharya, Baidik (Centre for the Study of Deve Bhattacharya, Baidik (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies) Bhattacharya, Bhattacharya Baidik
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.02.2024
• EAN: 9781009422642
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0942264-2
• No. of pages: 302
• Series: Cambridge Studies in World Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Diaries, letters & journals, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Anthropology, Colonialism & imperialism, Philosophy: aesthetics, Literary studies: general, Colonialism and imperialism, Diaries, letters and journals