What is a world?: on postcolonial literature as world literature

Abstract

The new world literature : literary studies discovers globalization -- The world according to Hegel : culture and power in world history -- The world as market : the materialist inversion of spiritualist models of the world -- Worlding : the phenomenological concept of worldliness and the loss of world in modernity -- The in-between world : anthropologizing the force of worlding -- The arriving world : the inhuman otherness of time as real messianic hope -- Postcolonial openings : how postcolonial literature becomes world literature -- Projecting a future world from the memory of precolonial time -- World heritage preservation and the expropriation of subaltern worlds -- Resisting humanitarianization -- Epilogue without conclusion : Stories without end(s)