Decolonisations of literature critical practice in Africa and Brazil after 1945.
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. This book sets out to understand how the meaning of 'literature' was transformed in the Global South in the post-1945 era. It looks at institutional contexts in South Africa (m...
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Liverpool
Liverpool University Press
2022, 2022
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| Series: | Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines Ser.
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The Worlding of 'Literature' in an Era of Decolonisation
- 1 Literature, Locality and Value in Apartheid South Africa
- 2 A Latin American Counterpoint: Antonio Candido and the São Paulo School of Criticism
- 3 Léopold Senghor's Performative Criticism
- 4 'Our Cultural Take-off into the World': The Cosmopolitan Vernacular Making of East African Literature
- Conclusion: Notes Towards (and Perhaps Against) a Decolonial Conceptual History of Literature
- Bibliography
- Index