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James AU Kin-pong
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2017.09.003
University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
This article looks at how cosmopolitanismthe notion of universality within a diversity of multi-cultureshas been shaping the discipline of world literature. The article encompasses chiefly three parts. The first part offers an overview of the debates on the discipline widely discussed by literary scholars such as Franco Moretti, David Damrosch and Emily Apter. I take issue with the harmonic co-existence of both local and global elementsand what I define as “glocality”in literatures to exhibit the inevitable trend of the trans-cultural, supranational and cross-historical interactions among multiple centres and/or various cities especially in the twenty-first century. I thereby argue in the second part using Leung Ping Kwan (1949-2013)’s “Images of Hong Kong” (1992) and Louise Ho’s two poetry pieces written in 1994 to prove how Kantian Cosmopolitan elements have deeply embedded in the poem written in a city where the West frequently interacts with the East. I conclude by stepping in further to argue that only through tolerating and mediating between the region and the globe can world literature as a discipline find its way out without fear for marginalising any of the literary pieces.
cosmopolitanism, universality, Immanuel Kant, world literature, Hong Kong
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