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

Product details

• Authors: Rey Chow
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.04.2006
• EAN: 9780822337447
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3744-7
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Next Wave Provocations; Next Wave Provocations
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works