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This book of essays addresses the theme of inequality and includes critical readings in classic and contemporary works.

Equality in literature. --- Marginality, Social, in literature. --- Segregation in literature.

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World Literature and Dissent reconsiders the role of dissent in contemporary global literature. Bringing together scholars of world and postcolonial literatures, the contributors explore the aesthetics of resistance through concepts including the epistemology of ignorance, the rhetoric of innocence, the subversion of paying attention, and the radical potential of everydayness. Addressing a broad range of examples, from the Maghrebian humanist Ibn Khaldn to India's Facebook poets and examining writers such as Langston Hughes, Ben Okri, Sara Uribe, and Merle Collins, this highly relevant book reframes the field of world literature in relation to dissenting politics and aesthetic. It asks the urgent question: how critical practice might cultivate radical thought, further social justice, and value human expression?

Social conflict in literature. --- Dissenters in literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Equality in literature. --- Social justice in literature. --- Aesthetics, Modern. --- Literature, Modern --- History and criticism. --- Modern aesthetics

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Challenging the tidy links among authorial position, narrative perspective, and fictional content, Stephen Hong Sohn argues that Asian American authors have never been limited to writing about Asian American characters or contexts. Racial Asymmetries specifically examines the importance of first person narration in Asian American fiction published in the postrace era, focusing on those cultural productions in which the author’s ethnoracial makeup does not directly overlap with that of the storytelling perspective.Through rigorous analysis of novels and short fiction, such as Sesshu Foster’s Atomik Aztex, Sabina Murray’s A Carnivore’s Inquiry and Sigrid Nunez’s The Last of Her Kind, Sohn reveals how the construction of narrative perspective allows the Asian American writer a flexible aesthetic canvas upon which to engage issues of oppression and inequity, power and subjectivity, and the complicated construction of racial identity. Speaking to concerns running through postcolonial studies and American literature at large, Racial Asymmetries employs an interdisciplinary approach to reveal the unbounded nature of fictional worlds.

LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Asian American. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions. --- Equality in literature. --- Subjectivity in literature. --- Race in literature. --- Point of view (Literature) --- First person narrative --- American literature --- Fiction --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Narrative, First person --- Literature --- History and criticism. --- Asian American authors --- Technique --- Nunez, Sigrid. --- Murray, Sabina. --- Foster, Sesshu. --- Lee, Chang-rae.