TY - BOOK ID - 96360236 TI - World Literature and Dissent AU - Burns, Lorna. AU - Muth, Katie. PY - 2019 SN - 9781351357722 1351357727 9780203710302 0203710304 9781351357715 1351357719 9781351357708 1351357700 1138561851 PB - Milton : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Social conflict in literature. KW - Dissenters in literature. KW - Postcolonialism in literature. KW - Equality in literature. KW - Social justice in literature. KW - Aesthetics, Modern. KW - Literature, Modern KW - History and criticism. KW - Modern aesthetics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:96360236 AB - 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? ER -