Postcolonial Writing in the Era of World Literature

‘This deeply absorbing, brilliantly argued and theoretically complex study is a provocative contribution to the "world literature"debate. Bhattacharya’s persuasive reading of the aesthetic legacies of empire suggests that world literature today is postcolonial Anglophone writing. This book should be required reading for scholars of modern global literatures.’ - Supriya Chaudhuri, Professor Emerita, Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

‘In Postcolonial Writing in the Era of World Literature, Baidik Bhattacharya challenges those who consider that World Literature has rendered the Postcolonial outmoded: he resituates the debate to show that it is not a question of the one following the other or of simply being able to choose one over the other, showing that World Literature is itself an Orientalist construction. Its western adherents remain blithely oblivious to its postcolonial condition, determined by the very problem that they imagine World Literature has allowed them to ignore. A powerful and persuasive intervention, a game-changer.’ - Robert J.C. Young, Julius Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature, New York University, USA