World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth - by J Daniel Elam (Paperback)

"Introducing "World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth", a groundbreaking book that challenges traditional notions of reading and critique in the field of comparative literature.

Written by J.

Daniel Elam, this book uncovers an anticolonial genealogy that advocates collective inexpertise, unknowing, and unrecognizability.

By foregrounding theories of reading and critique in the writing of Lala Har Dayal, B.

R.

Ambedkar, M.

K.

Gandhi, and Bhagat Singh, Elam shows how these anticolonial activists theorized reading not as a way to cultivate mastery and expertise but rather to disavow mastery altogether.

This book is essential reading for anyone interested in reconsidering the commitments of humanistic critique and egalitarian politics in the still-colonial present.

With its innovative approach and provocative argument, "World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth" is a must-read for scholars and students of comparative literature, as well as anyone interested in the intersection of literature, politics, and social justice."