From Cultural ThThird-Worldism to the Literary World-System

• Autores: Jernej Habjan
• Localización: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, ISSN-e 1481-4374, Vol. 15, Nº. 5, 2013 (Ejemplar dedicado a: World Literatures from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Century), 11 págs.
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In his article "From Cultural Third-Worldism to the Literary World-System" Jernej Habjan links the debate on Franco Moretti's distant reading to the debate on Fredric Jameson's "third world culture." In and around this debate, Aijaz Ahmad both critiqued close reading and rejected Jameson's "Third-Worldism." What Jameson's and Ahmad's interventions into literary theory meant at the end of the real-socialist alternative and what Moretti's meant at the end of the US-American alternative to real-socialism, a synoptic reading of all three interventions might help achieve at the end of what seemed the European alternative to the US-American alternative