Am Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies (CCLPS) der Londoner SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) stellt der Komparatistik Aamir R. Mufti heute Abend sein neues Buch Forget English: Orientalisms and World Literatures vor:

Discussion with Professor Aamir R. Mufti (UCLA) of his book Forget English: Orientalisms and World Literatures (Harvard, 2016). Discussants: Professor Galin Tihanov (QMUL), Professor Florian Mussgnug (UCL), Dr Karima Laachir (SOAS) and Professor Francesca Orsini (SOAS).

Aamir Mufti’s recent book Forget English: Orientalisms and World Literatures (Harvard, 2016) is a powerful and authoritative intervention in the discussion of world literature and the hegemony of English. Pointing to the forgotten genealogy of world literature in the „Oriental Renaissance“ (Schwab) in late-18th and 19th century Europe, the book traces English’s ascendance to world hegemony and the Orientalist refashioning and „assimilation“ of non-European textual world into European categories of literature.