The Pan-Asian Empire and World Literatures

In her article "The Pan-As world literature studies have been been an increasing preoccupation with literary networks the last century, the investigations have been restricted to the colonial world and the postcolonial states of the Western powers. The non Imperial Japan, colonial Korea, semi the margins as just passed over. Park recalibrates "center/periphery" models of world literature and presents an atypical model that expands the radius > ISSN 1481-4374 Issue 5 (December 2013) Article 15 Sowon S. Park, -Asian Empire and World Literatures" b.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol15/iss5/15> 15.5 (2013) -first Century. Ed. > ian Empire and World Literatures" Sowon S. Park argues that limited to "Europe and its Others." That is to say, w beyond the Western canon s -Western colonial field of the Pan-Asian empire (1894 -colonial China, and Taiwan — has been not so much relegated to the dynamics of the "West and the rest by bringing an East Asian perspective to the discussion , as well as challenges certain accepted norms. > ©Purdue University