ABSTRACT
It seems unavoidable today, in the field of literary studies, the discussion about the expansion of the canon. The awareness of the diversity of the world forces to take into consideration other paradigms that account for the multiplicity of literary traditions of (semi)peripheral cultural geographies. Indeed, a new epistemological perspective is required in which it is possible to think literature from its dense relations, beyond reductive binarisms. One of the tools is the one provided by world literature, a category propelling epistemological changes making possible to think cultural productions beyond their original place, their cultural geography, and their historicity. This is a category in a phase of consolidation in literary criticism in the Portuguese-speaking world. As a comparative gesture, it allows a cosmopolitan approach in the study of Literatures in Portuguese, through alternative articulations in the comparative approach of these works.
Keywords:
Canon; Post-colonial studies; World literature; Epistemology; Literary criticism