World Literature and Dissent

World Literature and Dissent reconsiders the role of dissent in contemporary global literature. Bringing together scholars of world and postcolonial literatures, the contributors　explore the aesthetics of resistance through concepts　including　the epistemology of ignorance, the rhetoric of innocence, the subversion of paying attention, and the radical potential of everydayness.　　

　

Addressing a broad range of examples, from the　Maghrebian　humanist Ibn Khaldūn to India's Facebook poets and examining writers such as Langston Hughes, Ben　Okri, Sara Uribe, and Merle Collins, this highly relevant book reframes the field of world literature in relation to dissenting politics and aesthetic.　 It asks the urgent question: 　how critical practice might　cultivate　radical thought, further social justice, and value human expression?

Author: Lorna Burns
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 08/22/2019
Pages: 194
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d
ISBN: 9781138561861

About the Author

Katie Muth teaches twentieth and twenty-first century literature at the University of St Andrews.

Lorna Burns is Lecturer in Postcolonial Literatures at the University of St Andrews.