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Literatures of Liberation: Non-European Universalisms and Democratic Progress

Literatures of Liberation: Non-European Universalisms and Democratic Progress

Mangharam, Mukti Lakhi

Paperback

Series: Cognitive Approaches to Culture

PhilosophyLiterary CriticismFilm Studies

ISBN10: 0814254330
ISBN13: 9780814254332
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: Sep 13 2017
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The postcolonial spread of democratic ideals such as freedom and equality has taken place all over the world despite the widespread cultural differences that would seem to inhibit such change. In her new book, Literatures of Liberation: Non-European Universalisms and Democratic Progress, Mukti Lakhi Mangharam questions how these universalisms came to be and suggests that these elements were not solely the result of Europe-based Enlightenment ideals. Instead, they also arose in context-specific forms throughout the world (particularly in the Global South), relatively independently from Enlightenment concepts. These translatable yet distinct cognitive frameworks, or contextual universalisms, as she argues, were central to the spread of modern democratic principles in response to the relentless expansion of capital.

In this way, she posits that these universalisms reconceptualize democratic ideals not as Western imports into precolonial societies but as regional phenomena tied to local relations of power and resistance. In charting these alternative democratic trajectories, Mangharam examines oft-overlooked regional and vernacular literary forms and provides a fresh approach to current theorizations of postcolonial and world literatures.

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