What Is a World?: On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature

Author/Contributor(s):	Cheah, Pheng
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	01/01/2016
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

In What Is a World? Pheng Cheah draws on accounts of the world as a temporal process from Hegel, Marx, Heidegger, Arendt, and Derrida, and analyzes several postcolonial novels to articulate a normative theory of world literature's capacity to open up new possibilities for remaking the world.