World Literature and the Problem of Postcolonialism

This essay identifies in the materialist strand of world literature theory, especially Pascale Casanova and Warwick Research Collective, a reliance upon priori structures (the world-system) prioritisation literary registration inequality. By contrast, I contend, world-literary critics who wish to maintain dissident spirit postcolonialism ought demonstrate shared equality. reference philosophies Bruno Latour, Gilles Deleuze Jacques Rancière, this sets out case for an alternative world-systems critique: one that maintains literature’s potential creating new forms resistance, dissent, and, crucially,