World Literature and Dissent reconsiders the role of dissent in contemporary global literature. Bringing together scholars of world and postcolonial literatures, the contributors?explore the aesthetics of resistance through concepts?including?the epistemology of ignorance, the rhetoric of innocence, the subversion of paying attention, and the radical potential of everydayness.??

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Addressing a broad range of examples, from the?Maghrebian?humanist Ibn Khald?n to India's Facebook poets and examining writers such as Langston Hughes, Ben?Okri, Sara Uribe, and Merle Collins, this highly relevant book reframes the field of world literature in relation to dissenting politics and aesthetic.? It asks the urgent question:?how critical practice might?cultivate?radical thought, further social justice, and value human expression?