Planetarity offers a critical stance beyond national and global perspectives

Evidence

Critics such as Gayatri C. Spivak, Masao Miyoshi, and Paul Gilroy have, in their different ways, advocated types of “planetarity” as a way beyond the self-interest and short termism of contemporary international perspectives. Gilroy writes of the “planetary humanism” necessary to reconfigure intercultural relations on a more open and egalitarian footing, and Miyoshi argues that the new role of literary studies should be to contribute to replacing exclusivist imaginings with ones that emphasize our “common bonds to the planet.” — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 393

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s use of Hamid’s Reluctant Fundamentalist (metropolitan-centers vs. migrant perspective) and to world literature debates.