Baidik Bhattacharya (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies)

Gebundenes Buch

Colonialism, World Literature, and the Making of the Modern Culture of Letters

Beschreibung

This book offers an account of how the modern idea of the literary emerged, through the colonial archives. Situated at the cusp of postcolonialism and world literature, it offers a multilingual, multicultural, and comparative account of how literature became one of the most powerful cultural expressions of modernity.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in World Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 162mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781009422642
• ISBN-10: 1009422642
• Artikelnr.: 69521056