The World in a Grain of Sand: Postcolonial Literature and Radical Universalism Athena Crowley ISBN10: 1510750169

ISBN10: 1510750169

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ISBN13: 9781610166324

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The World in a Grain of Sand: Postcolonial Literature and Radical Universalism Athena Crowley ISBN10: 1510750169Radical universalism vs postcolonial theory The World in a Grain of Sand offers a framework for reading literature from the global South that goes against the grain of dominant theories in cultural studies, especially, postcolonial theory. It critiques the valorization of the local in cultural theories typically accompanied by a rejection of universal categories viewed as Eurocentric projections. But the privileging of the local usually amounts to an