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Decolonisations of Literature

Critical Practice in Africa and Brazil after 1945

By: Stefan Helgesson

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Decolonisations of Literature

Critical Practice in Africa and Brazil after 1945

By: Stefan Helgesson

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 (mainly Johannesburg), Brazil (São Paulo), Senegal (Dakar) and Kenya (Nairobi), and engages with critical writing in English, Portuguese and French. Critics studied in the book include Antonio Candido, Tim Couzens, Isabel Hofmeyr, Es’kia Mphahlele, Léopold Senghor, Taban Lo Liyong and Ngugi wa Thiong’o. By reading these intellectuals of the Global South as producers of theory and practice in their own right, the book attempts to demonstrate the contingency of what is her called the worlding of the concept of literature. ‘Decolonisation’ itself is seen as a contingent, non-linear process that unfolds in a recursive dialogue with the past. In a bid to offer a more grounded approach to world literature, a key objective of this study is therefore to investigate the accumulation of temporalities in institutional histories of critical practice. To reach this objective, it engages the method of conceptual history as developed by Reinhart Koselleck and David Scott, demonstrating how the concept of ‘literature’ is resemanticised in ways that dialectically both challenge and consolidate literature as a concept and practice in post-colonised societies.

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Liverpool University Press

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1802070656

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Transnationalism in Southern African Literature

Modernists, Realists, and the Inequality of Print Culture

By: Stefan Helgesson

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Transnationalism in Southern African Literature

Modernists, Realists, and the Inequality of Print Culture

By: Stefan Helgesson

Considering the growing interest in South African Literature at the moment, this study looks at both the Anglophone literature of South Africa and the lusophone literature of Angola and Mozambique. Stefan Helgesson suggests that the prevalence of ‘colonial’ languages such as English and Portuguese in ‘anticolonial’ or ‘postcolonial’ African Literature is primarily an effect of the print network. Helgesson aims to demystify the authority of English and Portuguese by stressing the materiality of the print medium and emphasising the strong transnational and transcontinental vectors of southern African literature after the Second World War.

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Routledge

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1134042523

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9781134042524

Literature and the World

By: Stefan Helgesson,Mads Rosendahl Thomsen

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Literature and the World

By: Stefan Helgesson,Mads Rosendahl Thomsen

Literature and the World presents a broad and multifaceted introduction to world literature and globalization. The book provides a brief background and history of the field followed by a wide spectrum of exemplary readings and case studies from around the world. Amongst other aspects of World Literature, the authors look at: New approaches to digital humanities and world literature Ecologies of world literature Rethinking geography in a globalized world Translation Race and political economy Offering state of the art debates on world literature, this volume is a superb introduction to the field. Its critically thoughtful approach makes this the ideal guide for anyone approaching World Literature.

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Routledge

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1351203657

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Rethinking Secular Time in Victorian England

By: Stefan Fisher-Høyrem

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Rethinking Secular Time in Victorian England

By: Stefan Fisher-Høyrem

This open access book draws on conceptual resources ranging from medieval scholasticism to postmodern theory to propose a new understanding of secular time and its mediation in nineteenth-century technological networks. Untethering the concept of secularity from questions of religion and belief, it offers an innovative rethinking of the history of secularisation that will appeal to students, scholars, and everyone interested in secularity, Victorian culture, the history of technology, and the temporalities of modernity. Stefan Fisher-Hyrem (PhD) is a historian and Senior Academic Librarian at the University of Agder, Norway.

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240

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Springer Nature

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3031092856

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9783031092855

Stories of Capitalism

Inside the Role of Financial Analysts

By: Stefan Leins

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Stories of Capitalism

Inside the Role of Financial Analysts

By: Stefan Leins

Meeting the predictors -- The problem with forecasting in economic theory -- Inside Swiss banking -- Among financial analysts -- Intrinsic value, market value, and the search for information -- The construction of an investment narrative -- The politics of circulating narratives -- Analysts as animators -- Why the economy needs narratives

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University of Chicago Press

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022652342X

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9780226523422

Literature and the World

By: Stefan Helgesson,Mads Rosendahl Thomsen

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By: Stefan Helgesson,Mads Rosendahl Thomsen

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Decolonisations of Literature

Decolonisations of Literature

Transnationalism in Southern African Literature

Transnationalism in Southern African Literature

Literature and the World

Literature and the World

Rethinking Secular Time in Victorian England

Rethinking Secular Time in Victorian England

Stories of Capitalism

Stories of Capitalism

Literature and the World

Literature and the World

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