“The Center Will Not Hold”
“The Center Will Not Hold”
The Widening Gyre of the New, New Americanist Studies
This chapter constitute a cultural critique of a growing left-oriented momentum in the U.S. that privileges world literature at the expense of the critical imperatives of the actual interregnum. The chapter claims this globally-oriented momentum that abandons the local “the nation-state system” is premature. In this interregnum, in which the U.S. continues its unilateral exceptionalist “errand [in the world's] wilderness,” it claims critics must continue to perceive their task as one in which the waning nation-state and the global community struggling to be born are indissolubly connected in a struggle.
Keywords: errand, globalization, interregnum, nation-state, world literature
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