Overview
- Offers a sustained analysis of non-synchronism, an essential critical term for grasping world-literature’s politics of time
- Explores the interplay between world literature, politics, history, and theory in a range of contemporary texts
- Introduces the reader to critical tools for examining the experience of time in an era of global capitalism
Part of the book series: New Comparisons in World Literature (NCWL)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Non-synchronism
- World literature
- Contemporary Anglophone literature
- Non-contemporaneity
- Feudalism
- Capitalism
- Postcolonial politics
- Politics of time
- Meena Alexander
- Nampally Road
- Meena Kandasamy
- The Gipsy Goddess
- G. M. Vassanji
- The Gunny Sack
- Toyin Falola
- Counting the Tiger's Teeth
- Henrietta Rose- Innes
- Green Lion
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Reviews
“What is the relation between capital and literature, even more precisely between world literature and the capitalist world market? Joining a lively Marxist debate on the temporal structures of capitalism, Filippo Menozzi uses the notion of non-synchronism to tackle these questions. World literature becomes in this book a register of the heterogeneous constitution of capital’s time, which allows describing its regime of domination while at the same time shedding light on unexpected potentialities of liberation. This is a remarkable book, a must-read for scholars of literature and a challenging work for anyone interested in a critical understanding of capitalism.” (Professor Sandro Mezzadra, University of Bologna (Italy))
“In his superb book World Literature, Non-Synchronism, and the Politics of Time, Filippo Menozzi repositions the idea of non-synchronism in the materialist tradition beyond both teleology and relativism. Menozzi’s book is a crucial contribution to thecurrent discussions on time, globalization, post-colonial studies, and world literature. Menozzi brilliantly shows not only how non-synchronism characterizes the unevenness of the social whole in capitalist globalization but also how it can constitute a new way of thinking emancipatory politics.” (Professor Massimiliano Tomba, University of California Santa Cruz, USA)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Filippo Menozzi (PhD, Kent) is Lecturer in postcolonial and world literature at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. He is the author of Postcolonial Custodianship: Cultural and Literary Inheritance (2014), and his work has appeared in journals such as New Formations and Historical Materialism. In 2019, he was awarded a Teaching Excellence Award.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: World Literature, Non-Synchronism, and the Politics of Time
Authors: Filippo Menozzi
Series Title: New Comparisons in World Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41698-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41697-3Published: 07 June 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41700-0Published: 08 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-41698-0Published: 06 June 2020
Series ISSN: 2634-6095
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6109
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 213
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Postcolonial/World Literature, Contemporary Literature, Comparative Literature, African Literature, Asian Literature, Political History