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The Work of World Literature: Introduction
Untranslatability and the Challenge of World Literature: A South African Example / Derek Attridge
World Literature and the Problem of Postcolonialism: Aesthetics and Dissent / Lorna Burns
Transcontextual Gestures: A Lyric Approach to the World of Literature / Francesco Giusti
The World after Fiction: J. M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus / Benjamin Lewis Robinson
Extracting Indigeneity: Revaluing the Work of World Literature in These Times / Rashmi Varma
Being Taught Something World-Sized: ‘The Detainee’s Tale as told to Ali Smith’ and the Work of World Literature / Dirk Wiemann
Working Conditions: World Literary Criticism and the Material of Arvind Krishna Mehrotra / Jarad Zimbler
Afterword: Towards a Theory of Reparative Translation / Emily Apter
Title
The Work of World Literature
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Introduction
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Francesco Giusti
Benjamin Lewis Robinson
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https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-19_01
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The Work of World Literature
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Berlin
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ICI Berlin Press
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27 April 2021
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Cite as: Francesco Giusti and Benjamin Lewis Robinson, ‘The Work of World Literature: Introduction’, in The Work of World Literature, ed. by Francesco Giusti and Benjamin Lewis Robinson, Cultural Inquiry, 19 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2021), pp. 1-23 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-19_01>