World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth : : Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics / / J. Daniel Elam.
World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth recovers a genealogy of anticolonial thought that advocated collective inexpertise, unknowing, and unrecognizability. Early-twentieth-century anticolonial thinkers endeavored to imagine a world emancipated from colonial rule, but it was a world they kne...
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