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World Studies and Relational Comparison

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Shu-Mei Shih
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A new kind of world studies is emerging. This is a world studies 2.0, since some forms of world studies, such as world literature, world music, and world cinema, have existed for some years in the humanities. These categories have been more narrowly defined and refer to literature, music, and cinema from places other than the West—that is, “the rest,” as seen from the West. In this vein, world literature has sometimes been euphemistically called “literature of the world at large,” conjuring a chase, if only halfhearted, after a world that somehow slipped away: at large.

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Theories and Methodologies
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PMLA , Volume 130 , Issue 2 , March 2015 , pp. 430 - 438
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2015

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