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Toward a Literary Community?

The essay focuses on the idea of singularity that recent scholarship has engaged to undo the idea of community put forth by the preceding “era of cultural studies”. In the same way as the community was previously connected with culture, the singularity is now associated with literature. The scholars criticized in this essay claim that literature establishes a sort of co-belonging between humans that does not rely on any kind of identity attributes. Hence, literature unbinds the identity bonds characteristic of the idea of community in cultural studies. In the place of such a “community essence” it establishes a void that is supposed to open the community to external otherness. In the name of the non-relation to this radical otherness outside it, the literary community forecloses any identity relations between human beings within it. However, when we trace the European genealogy of this idea, the geopolitically restricted and ethically problematic character of literary community comes to the fore.

singularity, community, culture, literature

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