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World Literature and the Postcolonial:
Ngugi’s Globalectics and Glissant’s Poetics Duncan McEachern Yoon Both grounded in historical fact, yet committed to a perpetual disaggregation and reconstruction, a postcolonial self-reflexivity cultivates a basic optimism in a world of ever-increasing interaction and exchange. If, “the postcolonial is the closest to that Goethian and Marxian conception of world literature,” then the poetics produced through the confluence languages and opacities allows us to imagine, however briefly, the world in its totality (Ngugi 49). Ngugi’s globalectics is based on such a poetics and, as Glissant states, “its absence or its negation would constitute a failing” (Glissant 154). As such, if the postcolonial is a way to understand the “world” in world literature, then the act of reading and translation becomes an ethic with ramifications that extend far beyond the cultural realm. Works Cited 1. Ngũgĩ, wa T. Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. Print. 2. Glissant, Édouard, and Betsy Wing. Poetics of Relation. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. Print. Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 |
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Essays in this Forum
Break out of the Prison House of Hierarchy!
by Mukoma Wa Ngugi A Globalectical Imagination by Ngugi wa Thiong'o World Literature and the Postcolonial: Ngugi's Globalectics and Glissant's Poetics by Duncan McEachern Yoon “You Are the Prisoner, the Discoverer, the Founder, the Liberator”: Contextualizing Decolonial Paths of Afro-Hispanic Literature in Latin America, Equatorial Guinea and Spain by Elisa Rizo Globalectics Beyond Postcoloniality by Carole Boyce Davies |