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Combined and Uneven Development: Towards a New Theory of World-Literature (Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines LUP) by Sharae Deckard; Nicholas Lawrence; Neil Lazarus; Graeme Macdonald; Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee; Benita Parry; Stephen Shapiro is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The ambition of this book is to resituate the problem of 'world literature', considered as a revived category of theoretical enquiry, by pursuing the literary-cultural implications of the theory of combined and uneven development. This theory has a long pedigree in the social sciences, where it continues to stimulate debate. But its implications for cultural analysis have received less attention, even though the theory might be said to draw attention to a central -perhaps the central - arc or trajectory of modern(ist) production in literature and the other arts worldwide. It is in the conjuncture of combined and uneven development, on the one hand, and the recently interrogated and expanded categories of 'world literature' and 'modernism', on the other, that this book looks for its specific contours. In the two theoretical chapters that frame the book, the authors argue for a single, but radically uneven world-system; a singular modernity, combined and uneven; and a literature that variously registers this combined unevenness in both its form and content to reveal itself as, properly speaking, world-literature. In the four substantive chapters that then follow, the authors explore

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Author

Sharae Deckard; Nicholas Lawrence; Neil Lazarus; Graeme Macdonald; Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee; Benita Parry; Stephen Shapiro

Publisher

Liverpool University Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781781381892

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

History, Literary Fiction, Political Science

Rating

4.1 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14