...Paul Stasi Cheah Pheng , What Is a World? On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature ( Durham : Duke UP , 2016 ), pp. 408, cloth, $99.95 . Copyright © 2017 by Paul Stasi 2017 Pheng Cheah answers the titular question of his new book, What Is a World? On Postcolonial...

... . Cheah , Pheng . “Grounds of Comparison.” Grounds of Comparison: Around the Work of Benedict Anderson . Ed. Cheah Pheng and Culler Jonathan. New York: Routledge, 2003 . 1 -20. Culler , Jonathan . “Anderson and the Novel.” Grounds of Comparison: Around the Work of Benedict Anderson . Ed...

... Zeitalters, für das die extensive Totalität des Lebens nicht mehr sinnfällig gegeben ist . . . und das dennoch die Gesinnung zur Totalität hat.) 4 On the novel as the working out of a problem, see Wasser . 5 For more on this, see Bewes . 6 Here I would part with Pheng Cheah 's...

... and the external necessities of bourgeois social reality ( Moretti 9 ; Mao 93 ). 8 This is a very influential way of reading the bildungsroman as a genre. As critics like Tobias Boes and Pheng Cheah have emphasized, however, the discourse on Bildung that emerged in Germany in the closing decades...

...-expression. Notably, James's idealist understanding of modernism, as well as the kind of contemporary novel he champions in Modernist Futures , coincides with Pheng Cheah's memorable characterization of literature as a world-making activity—that is, as “not merely a product of the human imagination...

.... ———. Illuminations . Ed. Hannah , Arendt . Trans. Harry Zohn. New York: Schocken, 1969 . Culler , Jonathan . “Anderson and the Novel.” Grounds of Comparison: Around the Work of Benedict Anderson . Ed. Culler Jonathan and Cheah Pheng. New York: Routledge, 2003 . 29 -52. de Man , Paul...

... books, both crucial for novel studies: What Is a World? Postcolonial Literature as World Literature (2016) , by Pheng Cheah, and Forget English! Orientalisms and World Literatures (2016) , by Aamir Mufti. These two books together show that the energy of current world literature debates passes...

..., and Pheng Cheah “confounding,” Agathocleous recognizes. As the term’s myriad nineteenth-century antecedents that she compiles suggest, cosmopolitanism has been con- founding for some while. When territorialized in depictions of London, the cosmopolitan leant itself to worried but excited imaginings...

..., 1987 . Appiah , Kwame Anthony . “Cosmopolitan Patriots.” Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling Beyond the Nation . Ed. Pheng Cheah and Bruce Robbins. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1998 . 91 –114. Articles of Confederation. The Origins of the American Constitution: A Documentary History...

... contrapuntally between the page and the air. For Morse, the acts of speaking and listening on the BBC and Eastern Service were “world-making,” his study being a welcome archival counterpart to works by Eric Hayot, Pheng Cheah, and Emily Apter. For Morse, the world-making quality of the Eastern Service owes...

... of the growl suggests that “the human being is . . . the différance inscribed within the inhuman force field that . . . she seeks to transcend and overcome” ( Cheah 180 ). Tranquilina's cry disfigures rather than “reconfigures” the stable terms of recognition, and paraphrasing Jacques Ranciére, the growl...

... America . Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1998 . Rorty , Richard . Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity . Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989 . Rorty , Richard . “Justice as a Larger Loyalty.” Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling Beyond the Nation . Ed. Pheng Cheah and Bruce Robbins. Minneapolis: U...

... and the Novel .” Grounds of Comparison: Around the Work of Benedict Anderson . Ed. Culler Jonathan and Cheah Pheng . New York : Routledge , 2003 . 29 – 52 . Defoe Daniel . Robinson Crusoe . London : Penguin , 2001 . Dickens Charles . Bleak House . London : Penguin...