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SUMMARY:From World History to World Literature: China\, the South\, and th
 e Global 1960s - Prof. Shu-mei Shih\, University of California\, Los Angel
 es 
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CONTACT:Ghassan Moazzin
DESCRIPTION:This lecture explores the concept of world literature from wor
 ld historical perspectives and asks whether we can think about world liter
 ature from the vantage point of the South.  While China is often considere
 d as the site of alternative modernity or literature to the West\, Southea
 st Asia\, as the South to both the West and to China\, is seldom brought i
 nto the conversation within this ‘China versus the West’ binarism.  Ta
 king select literary representations of the Global 60s across Asia (China\
 , Southeast Asia\, and Hong Kong) as examples\, this lecture will explore 
 the possibility of a conception of world literature as a network of texts 
 without a predetermined center and a preordained future.
LOCATION:Rooms 8&9\, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
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