Title

Global Literature and the Technologies of Recognition

Author

Shu-mei Shih

Genre

Article  

Pages

1-30

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Language

Chinese

Key words

Recognition, world literature, global literature, global multiculturalism, post-difference, sinophone literature

Abstract

       This article identifies five technologies of recognition that condition and retrict the entry of non-Western literatures into the area of global literature. It critiques major literary, cultural and philosophical trends that inform the construction and dissemination of these five technologies.