Published: 2022-12-31

To Staunchly “Remain a Reader” and build up a World Comradeship: Reflecting with Rabih Alameddine on World Literature

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Abstract

What is a classic? To what extent are books and book collections endangered goods? What is the role and meaning of literature and translation in times of hardship? In An Unnecessary Woman (2013), Rabih Alameddine addresses these questions, while also indirectly contesting traditional canonical practices based on rigid hierarchies and the logic of national and linguistic purity. Alameddine highlights the violence inscribed in the practices of book selection and canon formation. In doing so, he troubles received notions of the canon, the classics, and especially of world literature, offering an alternative conceptualization of this long-debated category as an intimate, cosmopolitan assemblage of worldly texts.

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Marchi, L. (2022). To Staunchly “Remain a Reader” and build up a World Comradeship: Reflecting with Rabih Alameddine on World Literature. Review of International American Studies, 15(2), 163–185. https://doi.org/10.31261/rias.12430

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RIAS Vol. 15, Fall-Winter No. 2/2002

Vol. 15 No. 2 (2022)
Published: 2022-12-31


eISSN: 1991-2773
Ikona DOI 10.31261/RIAS

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University of Silesia Press

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