{"product_id":"the-work-of-world-literature-9783965580121","title":"The Work of World Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe contentious discourse around world literature tends to stress the 'world' in the phrase. This volume, in contrast, asks what it means to approach world literature by inflecting the question of the literary. Debates for, against, and around 'world literature' have brought renewed attention to the worldly aspects of the literary enterprise. Literature is studied with regard to its sociopolitical and cultural references, contexts and conditions of production, circulation, distribution, and translation. But what becomes of the literary when one speaks of world literature? Responding to Derek Attridge's theory of how literature 'works', the contributions in this volume explore in diverse ways and with attention to a variety of literary practices what it might mean to speak of 'the work of world literature'. The volume shows how attention to literariness complicates the ethical and political conundrums at the centre of debates about world literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this volume: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDerek Attridge on the work of translation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLorna Burns on world literature and postcolonialism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrancesco Giusti on gestural community\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Lewis Robinson on the world without literature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRashmi Varma on extractivism and indigeneity \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDirk Wiemann on a literary ethics of commitment\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJarad Zimbler on world literary criticism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith an afterword by Emil Apter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e ICI Berlin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/27\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783965580121\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.63d","brand":"Francesco Giusti","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39991737450677,"sku":"9783965580121","price":27.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_54298f5c-b6df-4734-8d3d-2d8cae0f4515.jpg?v=1620705148","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-work-of-world-literature-9783965580121","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}