ICLS1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Comparative Literature, Eurocentrism
14 Aug 2018
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It means that it encompasses the globe/acted on a global scale. Has international consequence or benefits or is contributed to by many nations. "world" can be used in name phrases to substitute for "international" - as opposed to domestic. It can also raise the status or significance of an event. By contrast, the erstwhile conceptualization of world literature as literature from the rest operated through an opposite logic, in which the west was the invisible or absent referent. The invisibility of the west in world literature was also a form of eurocentrism in that it marked the west as universal that is, beyond reference. To confront this eurocentrism, the new world literature needs, ironically, to include the west. (shu-mei shih 431, "world studies and relational comparison") Or as positive term in relation to it spreading forms, like the novel, which are then hybridised by nations consuming this idea western culture, adopting and adapting these forms.
