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Readings in World Literature

PublisherOmnidawn
CategoryPoetry
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PublisherOmnidawn
ISBN / ASIN1890650641
ISBN-139781890650643
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Sales Rank825,423
CategoryPoetry
MarketplaceUnited States  🇺🇸

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Readings in World Literature is the daybook of a speaker haunted by the prospect of perpetual night. Cast in the form of lecture notes for an imaginary course in the humanities, this extended prose sequence combines academic satire, a survivor s memoir, translations from obscure works of world literature, and a postmodern journey through the underworlds of various cultures. Accompanied by a class full of skeptical students some in headscarves, some, occasionally, dressed in fatigues the quixotic protagonist of this volume undertakes to scale the Tower of Babel that is world literature, and learns, in the process, that learning itself may count for precious little in the final reckoning. Contrary to the accounts of Mu Lian, Odysseus, and Kwasi Benefo, this speaker discovers, it is not customarily permitted to visit the underworld. No, the underworld visits you.

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