@article{Wiemann2021,
  author    = {Wiemann, Dirk},
  title     = {Being Taught Something World-Sized},
  series = {The Work of World Literature},
  journal   = {The Work of World Literature},
  editor    = {Robinson, Benjamin Lewis},
  publisher = {ICI Press},
  address   = {Berlin},
  issn      = {2627-728X},
  doi       = {10.37050/ci-19_07},
  pages     = {149 -- 172},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {This paper reads 'The Detainee's Tale as told to Ali Smith' (2016) as an exemplary demonstration of the work of world literature. Smith's story articulates an ethics of reading that is grounded in the recipient's openness to the singular, unpredictable, and unverifiable text of the other. More specifically, Smith's account enables the very event that it painstakingly stages: the encounter with alterity and newness, which is both the theme of the narrative and the effect of the text on the reader. At the same time, however, the text urges to move from an ethics of literature understood as the responsible reception of the other by an individual reader to a more explicitly convivial and political ethics of commitment beyond the scene of reading.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{WiemannRajaShaswati2021,
  author    = {Wiemann, Dirk and Raja, Ira and Shaswati, Mazumdar},
  title     = {Postcolonial world literature},
  series = {Thesis eleven : critical theory and historical sociology},
  volume    = {162},
  journal   = {Thesis eleven : critical theory and historical sociology},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {Sage},
  address   = {London [u.a.]},
  issn      = {0725-5136},
  doi       = {10.1177/0725513621994707},
  pages     = {3 -- 17},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {Postcolonial criticism has repeatedly debunked the ostensible neutrality of the 'world' of world literature by pointing out that and how the contemporary world - whether conceived in terms of cosmopolitan conviviality or neoliberal globalization - cannot be understood without recourse to the worldly event of Europe's colonial expansion. While we deem this critical perspective indispensable, we simultaneously maintain that to reduce 'the world' to the world-making impact of capital, colonialism, and patriarchy paints an overly deterministic picture that runs the risk of unwittingly reproducing precisely that dominant 'oneworldness' that it aims to critique. Moreover, the mere potentiality of alternative modes of world-making tends to disappear in such a perspective so that the only remaining option to think beyond oneworldness resides in the singularity claim. This insistence on singularity, however, leaves the relatedness of the single units massively underdetermined or denies it altogether. By contrast, we locate world literature in the conflicted space between the imperial imposition of a hierarchically stratified world (to which, as hegemonic forces tell us, 'there is no alternative') and the unrealized 'undivided world' that multiple minor cosmopolitan projects yet have to win. It is precisely the tension between these 'two worlds' that brings into view the crucial centrality not of the nodes in their alleged singularity but their specific relatedness to each other, that both impedes and energizes world literature today and renders it ineluctably postcolonial.},
  language  = {en}
}