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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.
This book sets out to understand how the meaning of 'literature' was transformed in the Global South in the post-1945 era. It looks at institutional contexts in South Africa (mainly Johannesburg), Brazil (São Paulo), Senegal (Dakar) and Kenya (Nairobi), and engages with critical writing in English, Portuguese and French. Critics studied in the book include Antonio Candido, Tim Couzens, Isabel Hofmeyr, Es'kia Mphahlele, Léopold Senghor, Taban Lo Liyong and Ngugi wa Thiong'o. By reading these intellectuals of the Global South as producers of theory and practice in their own right, the book attempts to demonstrate the contingency of what is her called the worlding of the concept of literature. 'Decolonisation' itself is seen as a contingent, non-linear process that unfolds in a recursive dialogue with the past. In a bid to offer a more grounded approach to world literature, a key objective of this study is therefore to investigate the accumulation of temporalities in institutional histories of critical practice. To reach this objective, it engages the method of conceptual history as developed by Reinhart Koselleck and David Scott, demonstrating how the concept of 'literature' is resemanticised in ways that dialectically both challenge and consolidate literature as a concept and practice in post-colonised societies.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Worlding of 'Literature' in an Era of Decolonisation
Chapter 1
Literature, Locality and Value in Apartheid South Africa
Chapter 2
A Latin American Counterpoint: Antonio Candido and the São Paulo School of Literary Criticism
Chapter 3
Léopold Senghor's Performative Criticism
Chapter 4
'...Our Cultural Take-off into the World ...': The Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Making of East African Literature
Conclusion
Notes towards (and perhaps against) a Decolonial Conceptual History of Literature
Bibliography
