Scholars in both the humanities and management remain attached to the idea that literature will set us free. Whether this is because literary text seems unconstrained by our epistemes or reading literature offers a practice through which we will be able to shape ourselves into the people we want to be, many of us understand literature as something that offers us a chance to emancipate ourselves from the regime of knowledge we have now. Nevertheless, as the history of literature as colonial governmentality suggests, literature and literary study have been crucial forms of knowledge-power for creating and maintaining organizational structures as well as producing the willing subjects that make those structures work. This being so, how is it that are we still interested in using literature to make “better” people, whether the people in question are ”better” managers or their subordinates, rather than reorganizing literary study in the contemporary university?

人文学科和管理学领域的学者仍然对文学将使我们自由的想法依旧。无论是因为文学文本似乎不受我们的认识论的束缚还是阅读文学提供了一种实践，通过这种实践我们都可以将自己塑造成我们想要成为的人，我们中的许多人都将文学理解为使我们有机会从中解放出来的东西。我们现在拥有的知识体系。然而，正如殖民统治时期的文学史所暗示的那样，文学和文学研究已成为建立和维持组织结构以及产生使这些结构起作用的意愿主体的知识力量的重要形式。既然如此，我们仍然有兴趣使用文学来培养“更好”的人，