It takes the average reader 4 hours and 57 minutes to read The World in a Grain of Sand by Nivedita Majumdar
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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 exercise in exoticization of the South. The book argues that the rejection of Eurocentric theories can be complemented by embracing another, richer and non-parochial form of...
The World in a Grain of Sand by Nivedita Majumdar is 288 pages long, and a total of 74,304 words.
This makes it 97% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 46 minutes to read The World in a Grain of Sand aloud.
The World in a Grain of Sand is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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