World Literature and Decolonization

作     者：Stefan HELGESSON 

作者机构：Stockholm University 

出 版 物：《Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures》 (外国语言与文化（英文）)

年 卷 期：2024年第8卷第1期

页      面：55-67页

学科分类：07[理学] 0701[理学-数学] 070101[理学-基础数学] 

主　　题：decolonization ecologies epic world literature Mazisi Kunene Emperor Shaka the Great 

摘      要：With remarkable force,decolonizationre-entered the academic agenda some ten years *** been an ambivalent historical experience undergirding postcolonial studies in its emergence in the 1980s,decolonizationtoday is wielded as a concept and a rallying *** of its rhetorical purposes is to set up an opposition between morally objectionable and morally progressive ways of constructing and sharing knowledge,yet the content of the term is often *** this context,world literature has much to contribute,both methodologically and ***,on the one hand,there is a decolonizing potential in the very ambition to make the world s literary cultures visible,the critical dimension of world literature scholarship makes us aware of its colonial *** Mazisi Kunene s epic poem from South Africa,Emperor Shaka the Great,as its key example,this article discusses how the dual potential of world literature might contribute to adecolonized mode of literary reading.