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At the heart of this book is a spectral theory of world literature that draws on Edward Said, Aamir Mufti, Jacques Derrida and world-systems theory to assess how the field produces local literature as an other that haunts its universalising, assimilative imperative with the force of the uncanny.

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      Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
      Publication Date: 31/05/2022
      ISBN13: 9781474467049, 978-1474467049
      ISBN10: 1474467040
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      Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: from c 2000

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      At the heart of this book is a spectral theory of world literature that draws on Edward Said, Aamir Mufti, Jacques Derrida and world-systems theory to assess how the field produces local literature as an other that haunts its universalising, assimilative imperative with the force of the uncanny.

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