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Rashmi Varma
Extracting Indigeneity
Revaluing the Work of World Literature in These Times
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.
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Extracting Indigeneity
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| Subtitle |
Revaluing the Work of World Literature in These Times
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| Author(s) |
Rashmi Varma
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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.
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Berlin
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| Publisher |
ICI Berlin Press
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| Date |
April 27, 2021
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| Subject |
allegory
extractivism
indigeneity
world literature
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| Rights |
© by the author(s)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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| Harvested |
yes
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| Language |
en-GB
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| short title |
Extracting Indigeneity
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| page start |
127
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| page end |
147
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| Source |
The Work of World Literature, ed. by Francesco Giusti and Benjamin Lewis Robinson, Cultural Inquiry, 19 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2021-04-27), pp. 127–47
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