TO STAUNCHLY “REMAIN A READER” AND BUILD UP A WORLD COMRADESHIP. Reflecting with Rabih Alameddine on World Literature
TO STAUNCHLY “REMAIN A READER” AND BUILD UP A WORLD COMRADESHIP. Reflecting with Rabih Alameddine on World Literature
Author(s): Lisa MarchiSubject(s): Psychology, Studies of Literature, Political Theory, Governance, Government/Political systems, International relations/trade, Culture and social structure , Theory of Communication, Social psychology and group interaction, Studies in violence and power, Inter-Ethnic Relations, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: world literature; intimacy; cosmopolitanism; decolonial praxis; anti-authoritarianism
Summary/Abstract: What is a classic? To what extent are books and book collections endangered goods? What is the role and meaning of literature and translation in times of hardship? In An Unnecessary Woman (2013), Rabih Alameddine addresses these questions, while also indirectly contesting traditional canonical practices based on rigid hierarchies and the logic of national and linguistic purity. Alameddine highlights the violence inscribed in the practices of book selection and canon formation. In doing so, he troubles perceived notions of the canon, the classics, and especially of world literature, offering an alternative conceptualization of this long-debated category as an intimate, cosmopolitan assemblage of worldly texts.
Journal: Review of International American Studies
- Issue Year: 15/2022
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 163-185
- Page Count: 23
- Language: English