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Time,2012(detail).Courtesy theartist.  \n4  \nON POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE AS WORLD LITERATURE  \n◎2016 Duke University PressAll rights reserved  \nPrinted in the United States of Americaon acid-free paper ∞  \nDesigned by Amy Ruth BuchananTypeset in Minion Pro by WestchesterPublishing Services  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataCheah,Pheng,author  \nWhat is a world?:on postcolonial literature as worldliterature/Pheng Cheah.  \npages cm  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index.ISBN 978-0-8223-6078-0(hardcover:alk,paper)ISBN 978-0-8223-6092-6(pbk.:alk.paper)ISBN 978-0-8223-7453-4(e-book)  \n1.Postcolonialism.2.Literature and society  \n3.Literature and globalization.4.Literature,Modern—History and criticism.I.Title.PN56.P555C442016809.05—dc232015028568  \nCover art:William Kentridge,video stillfrom TheRefusal of Time,2012.5-channel video installation withbreathing machine.Courtesy the artist,Marian GoodmanGallery(New York,Paris,London),Goodman Gallery(Johannesburg,Cape Town)and Lia Rumma Gallery(Naples,Milan).  \nACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii  \nINTRODUCTION Missed Encounters:Cosmopolitanism,WorldLiterature,and Postcoloniality 1  \nPART I.The World of World Literature in Question  \n1 The New World Literature:Literary Studies DiscoversGlobalization 23  \n2 The World According to Hegel:Culture and Powerin World History 46  \n3 The World as Market:The Materialist Inversion of Spiritualist Modelsof the World 60  \nPART II.Worlding and Unworlding:Worldliness,Narrative,and “Literature”in Phenomenology and Deconstruction  \n4Worlding:The Phenomenological Concept of Worldlinessand the Loss of World in Modernity 95  \n5 The In-Between World:Anthropologizing the Force of Worlding 131  \n6 The Arriving World:The Inhuman Otherness of Timeas Real Messianic Hope 161  \nPART II.Of Other Worlds to Come  \n7 Postcolonial Openings:How Postcolonial Literature BecomesWorld Literature 191  \n8 Projecting a Future World from the Memory of Precolonial Time 216  \n9 World Heritage Preservation and the Expropriationof Subaltern Worlds 246  \n10 Resisting Humanitarianization 278  \nEPILOGUE Without Conclusion:Stories without End(s)310  \nNOTES 333  \nSELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 369  \nINDEX 383  \n100  \nEven though it puts into question the equation of the world with the spatialextensiveness of the globe,a book that takes as its subject something as large asthe world and literature's relation to the world is necessarily the product ofintellectual conversations that have stretched across the globe.Special thanksto Jonathan Culler,Elizabeth Grosz,and David Wang Der-wei for reading themanuscript,Benedict Anderson and Caroline Hau for invaluable feedback onthe epilogue,Wendy Larson for her insightful comments on chapter 7,andZachary Manfredi for his careful reading of chapters 4 and 5.Peter Fenves andSimon Gikandi were exemplary manuscript reviewers.This book is stronger be-cause of their incisive comments.Nuruddin Farah and Amitav Ghosh patientlyanswered factual questions about their writing.  \nEarlier versions of chapters were presented at the Beijing Foreign Lan-guages University,Binghamton University,Birkbeck,University of London,the University of British Columbia,Cornell University,Ehwa Woman's Uni-versity,Florida State University,Georgetown University,Goldsmiths,University ofLondon,the University of Hong Kong,Indiana University,the Universityof Wisconsin at Madison,the University of Manchester,National Chung-hsingUniversity,National Taiwan University,the National University of Singapore,New York University,Northwestern University,the University of Oregon atEugene,Oxford University,Peking University,the University of Pennsylvania,Seoul National University,Shanghai Jiaotong University,Stanford Univer-sity,Thammasat University,the University of Washington at Seattle,and theUniversity of Zürich.I would like to thank my interlocutors on these occa-sions,especially Samuel Weber,Susannah Gottlieb,Costas 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