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- Title
"The Pan-Asian Empire and World Literatures".
- Authors
PARK, Sowon S.
- Abstract
In her article "The Pan-Asian Empire and World Literatures" Sowon S. Park argues that world literature studies have been limited to "Europe and its Others." That is to say, while there has been an increasing preoccupation with literary networks beyond the Western canon since the middle of the last century, the investigations have been restricted to the colonial world and the postcolonial states of the Western powers. The non-Western colonial field of the Pan-Asian empire (1894-1945) -- Imperial Japan, colonial Korea, semi-colonial China, and Taiwan -- has been not so much relegated to the margins as just passed over. Park recalibrates the dynamics of the "West and the rest" and "center/periphery" models of world literature by bringing an East Asian perspective to the discussion and presents an atypical model that expands the radius, as well as challenges certain accepted norms.
- Subjects
POSTCOLONIALISM; COMPARATIVE literature; LITERARY criticism; EUROPEAN literature; POSTCOLONIAL analysis
- Publication
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature & Culture: A Web Journal, 2013, Vol 15, Issue 5, p1
- ISSN
1481-4374
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7771/1481-4374.2348