关键词: 世界文学, 反法西斯文学, 世界意识, 印度文学, 阿巴斯

Abstract: In the typological framework of world literature, anti-fascist literature remains an underexplored field. Existing studies on this topic either lack a cross-contextual perspective or overlook the anti-fascist experiences of minor belligerents. This essay draws on world literature theories to reveal the multifaceted “worldliness” of anti-fascist literature on the levels of dissemination, canonization, and value construction. More importantly, it takes India as a key example to examine the literary practices that indirectly engage with global anti-fascist struggles from the “margins” of World War II. Exemplifying a mode of writing driven by “world-mindedness,” K. A. Abbas’s novel Tomorrow Is Ours! demonstrates how literature guides readers to inhabit, interpret, and create the world, and thereby engages them in a yet-to-come global war devoid of direct embodied experience. By redefining world literature as local literature generated in world-mindedness, this essay offers a new perspective for understanding the worldliness of national and regional literatures, one that moves beyond the traditional parameters of translingual transmission and transnational reception.

Key words: world literature, anti-fascist literature, world-mindedness, Indian literature, Khwaja A. Abbas