Primitivism in the Peripheries: Reflections on Auritro Majumder’s Insurgent Imaginations: World Literature and the Periphery

IF 0.3 3区 文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM
R. Varma
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AuritroMajumder’s Insurgent Imaginations: World Literature and the Periphery opens important critical space for rethinking world literature in the context of the internationalist tendencies, politics, and practices that have both produced and nurtured it throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In particular, Majumder’s interest in the intellectual ferment in the peripheries of global empires speaks to a burgeoning interest in the aesthetics of peripheral internationalism as well as the politics that it was a response to. To this growing field,Majumder infuses a distinctively materialist perspective that draws on systemic readings of world literature that situate it within the capitalist world system, and the combined and uneven development generated by capitalism’s incursions into the world’s peripheries. As a small contribution to this forum on Insurgent Imaginations, I seek to explore the politics and aesthetics of a radical anticolonial primitivism as an important and particularly rich site from where to think about peripheral internationalism. I am, of course, prompted by Majumder’s suggestive and nuanced analyses of the writings of Mahasweta Devi and Arundhati Roy on the predicament of tribals in contemporary India and the ways in which the writers’ formal innovations illuminate it.1 I therefore want to extend his discussion and
外围的原始主义:对Auritro Majumder反叛想象的思考:世界文学与外围
AuritroMajumder的《反叛想象:世界文学与边缘》为在二十世纪和二十一世纪产生和培育世界文学的国际主义倾向、政治和实践背景下重新思考世界文学开辟了重要的批判空间。特别是,Majumder对全球帝国边缘地区的知识发酵的兴趣,表明了人们对边缘国际主义美学以及它所回应的政治的日益增长的兴趣,Majumder注入了一种独特的唯物主义视角,这种视角借鉴了对世界文学的系统解读,将其置于资本主义世界体系中,以及资本主义入侵世界边缘所产生的综合和不均衡的发展。作为对这个叛乱想象论坛的一个小小贡献,我试图探索激进的反殖民原始主义的政治和美学,作为一个重要的、特别丰富的地方来思考周边国际主义。当然,Majumder对Mahasweta Devi和Arundhati Roy关于当代印度部落困境的著作进行了富有启发性和细致入微的分析,以及作家们的形式创新如何阐明这一困境,这让我深受鼓舞。1因此,我想扩展他的讨论
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