Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability
&ldquo;Just following Emily Apter&rsquo;s dizzying array of texts from diverse traditions and times (including a tightly argued discussion of the philosophicality of Simone de Beauvoir, lost in translation to the best of US feminists), embracing much experimental material, all read with meticulous care, is an education. No one has thought the question of world literature in greater depth, at once re-thinking Comparative Literature as translatability studies.&rdquo;—Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak&ldquo;Rarely does one read a book with the titleAgainstthat is so muchforimportant causes and ideas: writing, translation, worldliness, diversity, cosmopolitanism, while fully aware of their promises and threats. In this moment of dispossession of the Humanities, we needed just that book to clarify matters and move beyond the contradictions.&rdquo;