![]() ![]() These thematic and formal properties enable the text to construct a world-knowledge that presents readers with an alternative to extant globalization narratives insofar as it resists their drive towards a comprehension of the planet in terms of completeness, homogenization, abstraction, and totalization. It then shows how Atlas’s literary-visual form foregrounds selectiveness, inexhaustibility, and heterogeneity, and demonstrates the text’s relative independence from the need to organize places and events through a narrative progression in time and space. ![]() ![]() The article analyzes how Schalansky’s short prose texts develop an alterity-oriented world-knowledge. The article analyzes the text’s propositional world-knowledge as it appears on a discursive level as well as its non-propositional world-knowledge as produced through the text’s aesthetic form. Judith Schalansky’s Atlas of Remote Islands (Atlas der abgelegenen Inseln, 2009) constructs an alternative knowledge of the world in a globalization age. ![]()
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