The World in a Grain of Sand: Postcolonial Literature and Radical Universalism Athena Crowley David Drake

David Drake

"A candid narrative of more than forty years in practice and teaching of a pioneering pediatric surgeon

How do Satan

"Perfect balance of detail and lines

Or wrest the holy sword from the crypt of Kizil Irmak

The World in a Grain of Sand: Postcolonial Literature and Radical Universalism Athena Crowley David DrakeRadical universalism vs postcolonial theory The World in a Grain of Sand offers a framework for reading literature from the global South that goes against the grain of dominant theories in cultural studies, especially, postcolonial theory. It critiques the valorization of the local in cultural theories typically accompanied by a rejection of universal categories viewed as Eurocentric projections. But the privileging of the local usually amounts to an