Book contents
- The Cambridge History of World Literature
- The Cambridge History of World Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Genealogies
- Part II Thinking the World
- Part III Transregional Worlding
- Part IV Cartographic Shifts
- Part V World Literature and Translation
- Part VI Poetics, Genre, Intermediality
- Part VII Scales, Polysystems, Canons
- Part VIII Modes of Reading and Circulation
- 40 Transregional Critique and the Challenge of Comparison: Between Latin America and China
- 41 Reading World Literature through the Postcolonial and Diasporic Lens
- 42 The Indian Republic, Reading Publics, and World Literary Catalogues
- 43 The Cultural Industry and Digital World Making
- Part IX The Worldly and the Planetary
- Index
- References
41 - Reading World Literature through the Postcolonial and Diasporic Lens
from Part VIII - Modes of Reading and Circulation
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Book contents
- The Cambridge History of World Literature
- The Cambridge History of World Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Genealogies
- Part II Thinking the World
- Part III Transregional Worlding
- Part IV Cartographic Shifts
- Part V World Literature and Translation
- Part VI Poetics, Genre, Intermediality
- Part VII Scales, Polysystems, Canons
- Part VIII Modes of Reading and Circulation
- 40 Transregional Critique and the Challenge of Comparison: Between Latin America and China
- 41 Reading World Literature through the Postcolonial and Diasporic Lens
- 42 The Indian Republic, Reading Publics, and World Literary Catalogues
- 43 The Cultural Industry and Digital World Making
- Part IX The Worldly and the Planetary
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter explores the relationship between postcolonialism, diaspora, and world literature. Taking as a starting premise the complex nature of Jorge Luis Borges’s the Library of Babel as a starting point, it traces the shift in critical orientations between Commonwealth Literature to Postcolonial Literature, and looks at the significance of diaspora literary studies in providing new metaphors by which to look to think about circulation both in the library and in the world of population movements more generally. It is suggested the library of the republic of letters is enriched by viewing it as exemplifying these two distinctive modes.
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