World Literature Decentered

<p>What would world literature look like, if we stopped referring to the “West”? Starting with the provocative premise that the “‘West’ is ten percent of the planet”, <i>World Literature Decentered </i>is the first book to decenter Eurocentric discourses of global literature and global history – not just by deconstructing or historicizing them, but by actively providing an alternative. Looking at a series of themes across three literatures (Mexico, Turkey and Bengal), the book examines hotels, melancholy, orientalism, femicide and the ghost story in a series of literary traditions outside the “West”. The non-West, the book argues, is no fringe group or token minority in need of attention – on the contrary, it constitutes the overwhelming majority of this world. </p> <p><strong>Introduction</strong>. Circumventing the West.<b> </b></p><p>Chapter One. The Ghost Story: <i>Hayalet, Fantasma, Bhut</i> </p><p>Chapter Two. The Hotel Narrative: Anayurt, Shahjahan, Isabel </p><p>Chapter Three. Femicide Narratives: <i>Mujer, Mohila, Kadın</i> </p><p>Chapter Four. Retelling Myth: <i>Mito, Katha, Efsane</i> </p><p>Chapter Five. Melancholy: <em>Monomora, </em><em>Melancolía, </em><em>Hüzün</em></p><p>Chapter Six. The Orient: <i>Şark, Prachi, Oriente</i></p><p>Conclusion. The Ten Percenters.</p>