Extracting Indigeneity: Revaluing the Work of World Literature in These Times

Varma, Rashmi

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Rashmi Varma

Extracting Indigeneity

Revaluing the Work of World Literature in These Times

In: The Work of World Literature, ed. by Francesco Giusti and Benjamin Lewis Robinson, Cultural Inquiry, 19 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2021), pp. 127–47

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This essay examines extractivism as both a project and a process that is bolstering new forms of imperialism on a world scale. It argues that extractivism is as much grounded in material accumulation as it is in cultural extraction to create new forms of value. The writings of indigenous writers such as Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar offer an important key to understanding the work of the literary in making visible and resistant that which extractivism seeks to exploit for profit.

Part of The Work of World Literature Containing:
The Work of World Literature / Francesco Giusti, Benjamin Lewis Robinson
Untranslatability and the Challenge of World Literature / Derek Attridge
World Literature and the Problem of Postcolonialism / Lorna Burns
Transcontextual Gestures / Francesco Giusti
The World after Fiction / Benjamin Lewis Robinson
Extracting Indigeneity
Being Taught Something World-Sized / Dirk Wiemann
Working Conditions / Jarad Zimbler
Afterword / Emily Apter

Title	Extracting Indigeneity
Subtitle	Revaluing the Work of World Literature in These Times
Author(s)	Rashmi Varma
Identifier	https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-19_06
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Description	This essay examines extractivism as both a project and a process that is bolstering new forms of imperialism on a world scale. It argues that extractivism is as much grounded in material accumulation as it is in cultural extraction to create new forms of value. The writings of indigenous writers such as Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar offer an important key to understanding the work of the literary in making visible and resistant that which extractivism seeks to exploit for profit.
Is Part Of	The Work of World Literature
Place	Berlin
Publisher	ICI Berlin Press
Date	2021
Subject	allegory extractivism indigeneity world literature
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Language	en-GB
short title	Extracting Indigeneity
page start	127
page end	147
Source	The Work of World Literature, ed. by Francesco Giusti and Benjamin Lewis Robinson, Cultural Inquiry, 19 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2021), pp. 127–47
Bibliographic Citation	Rashmi Varma, ‘Extracting Indigeneity: Revaluing the Work of World Literature in These Times ’, in The Work of World Literature, ed. by Francesco Giusti and Benjamin Lewis Robinson, Cultural Inquiry, 19 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2021), pp. 127–47 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-19_06>
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