World Literature and the Politics of the Minority

Book Details:

• Author: Jihee Han

• Publisher: Rawat Publications

• Language: English

• Edition: Standard Edition

• ISBN: 9788131605769

• Pages: 212

• Cover: Hardcover

• Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches

About the Book:
World Literature and the Politics of the Minority is a thought-provoking collection of essays that redefines the landscape of world literature. The contributors challenge the West-centered, monochronic perspective of world literature and propose a new space where the polychronic literatures of 'minor' countries and peoples can be heard, liberated from the epistemological constraints of the West's Other.

This book reviews the concepts of majority and minority within the context of the global capitalist system, exploring the ethics of the new minority and providing fresh perspectives on literature from countries traditionally marginalized. The volume features the minority voices from the so-called major countries in world literature, such as India’s Dalit and tribal writing, China’s reception of William Shakespeare, and Japan’s literary engagement. At the same time, it highlights the often overlooked voices from Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and South Korea, exploring postcolonial conditions and literary activism.

Through these essays, the book invites readers to reconsider the notion of minority not as a fixed position but as a transmutable space of becoming, opening a dialogue about the role of a new digital generation of humanists and their challenge to the capitalist world economy system.

Table of Contents:

1. Minority Discourses in/and World Literature: Dalit and Tribal Writing / Jasbir Jain

2. Chinese Literature as World Literature / Wang Ning

3. Global Englishes, Literary Studies, and the Japanese Academy / Myles Chilton

4. Mutability of Home and Exile: The Oriental Dance / Marie-Therese Abdel-Messih

5. Diasporic Imagination and the Significance of Home in the Novels of Amitav Ghosh / Santosh Gupta

6. The Burden of History: Ko Un’s Poetry as a Political and Philosophical Act / Jihee Han

7. Literature of the Arabian Peninsula and Transcultural Literary Exchange in the Post-Oil Era / Saddik Gohar and Doris Hambuch

8. Ikezawa Natsuki as a Conscientious Witness to Japanese Society and History / Hajime Saito

9. Shakespeare in China: Past, Present, and Future / Liu Hao

About the Author:
Jihee Han is an Associate Professor of English at Gyeongsang National University, Republic of Korea. Her research interests span modern British and American poetry, modern Korean literature and culture, comparative world literature, and girls' studies. Currently, she is working on a cultural history of girlhood in Korea and compiling a handbook of modern Korean poets.