World Literature Today, June 22nd, 2001
I applaud the attention that WLT continues to give to subaltern and emerging literatures. Numerous articles and essays in our professional journals, while addressing a variety of literatures and approaches, seem bent on conveying a singular idea: literature is instrumental. As a colleague commented to me in passing, it used to be that literary texts were textured and held multiple meanings; literary theory helped us understand them. Now the opposite seems true: theory is open to interpretation, debate, and analysis, while literary works must do the yeoman's work of proving theory's point. Thi...
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