ISBN:
1421409127
,
9781421409122
Language:
English
Pages:
346 S.
,
Ill.
Year of publication:
2013
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Cross-cultural studies
;
Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
Abstract:
Comparison expands upon a special issue of the journal New Literary History, which analyzed theories and methodologies of comparison. Six new essays from senior scholars of transnational and postcolonial studies complement the original ten pieces. The work of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ella Shohat, Robert Stam, R. Radhakrishnan, Bruce Robbins, Ania Loomba, Haun Saussy, Linda Gordon, Walter D. Mignolo, Shu-mei Shih, and Pheng Cheah are included with contributions by anthropologists Caroline B. Brettell and Richard Handler. Historical periods discussed range from the early modern to the contemporary and geographical regions that encompass the globe. Ultimately, Comparison argues for the importance of greater self-reflexivity about the politics and methods of comparison in teaching and in research.--Publisher description
Note:
Pt. 1. The stakes of comparison -- Pt. 2. Comparison in the world: uses and abuses -- Pt. 3. Comparison in the disciplines
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