Salam Darwazah Mir: Transnational Literature of Resistance, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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"Examines resistance literatures from Guyana - a British exploitation colony - and Palestine - a settler-colony - at a specific historical moment, by contesting the provinciality and Eurocentric focus of comparative literature, delivering the discipline's universal objectives, and expanding the discipline's practice by comparing two literatures and histories from the Global South. The author argues that the emergence of resistance poetry in both countries at this historical juncture forms part of the resistance to Empire during decolonization, linking the formerly colonized and the presently colonized people in the Global South"--