This book makes the case that the idea of a "world" in the cultural and philosophical sense is not an exclusively Western phenomenon. During the Cold War a plethora of historical attempts were made to reinvent the notions of world literature, world art, and philosophical universality from an anticolonial perspective.

Pieter Vanhove is an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Languages and Cultures at Lancaster University. He holds a Ph.D. in Italian and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. Pieter's publications include articles in Critical Asian Studies, estetica: studi e ricerche, Senses of Cinema, and Studi pasoliniani.

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE - China and the Restaging of Afro-Asian World Literature

CHAPTER TWO - Moravia's Presidency of PEN International

CHAPTER THREE - Translating Anticolonial Universality in Gramsci and Pasolini

CHAPTER FOUR -The Singular Universal in Sartre's Lumumba Preface

CHAPTER FIVE -Malraux's Imaginary Museum of World Art

CHAPTER SIX -Huang Yong Ping's Competing Universalities

CONCLUSION