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The World and the Postcolonial

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2014

Elleke Boehmer
Elleke Boehmer*
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University of Oxford, St Cross Building, Manor Road, Oxford OX1 3UQ, UK. E-mail: elleke.boehmer@ell.ox.ac.uk,
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Abstract

This article examines the increasing competition in the academic market between conventional terms such as postcolonial and anglophone literature and their cognates, and the newly current term world literature. Even in postcolonial studies circles, world literature is increasingly taken to refer not only to ‘the best ever written’, as before, but to literature produced within and in response to a globalizing world. The paper explores the different valences of this shift, and the tensions and contradictions it has generated within the wider anglophone literary field.

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Focus: Nihilism
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European Review , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , May 2014 , pp. 299 - 308
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Copyright © Academia Europaea 2014 

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