The World in a Grain of Sand keyword-gender-studies This scholarly book concludes with

This scholarly book concludes with an account of Soviet reactions to the new era inaugurated by sweeping state intervention design

using material that has only partly been translated into English

It takes as its starting point Goethe’s idea of Weltliteratur

The place had to be closed down by opening it up from the inside

and sustained political critiques by Tom Lewis and Aijaz Ahmad

The World in a Grain of Sand keyword-gender-studies This scholarly book concludes withThe World in a Grain of Sand offers a framework for reading literature from the global South that goes against the grain of dominant theories in cultural studies, especially, postcolonial theory. It critiques the valorization of the local in cultural theories typically accompanied by a rejection of universal categories viewed as Eurocentric projections. But the privileging of the local usually amounts to an exercise in exoticization of the South. The