Сравнително литературознание / световна литература. Дискусия (2011)
Comparative Literature / World Literature. А Discussion (2011)

Summary/Abstract: David Damrosch states that there are only three problems with the newly expanded world of comparative studies today. He shares an interest in these problems with Gayatri although they have a different perspective on them. The three intertwined problems are that the study of world literature can become culturally deracinated, philologically bankrupt, and ideologically complicit with the worst tendencies of global capitalism. He speaks about the need for studying more languages, for collaborative work, and great deal of pluralism in this field. Damrosch concludes that there is a dynamic interplay in which world literature can help reframe comparative study. He says that world literature is prior to the creation of most national literatures, but in another sense, world literature exists only within a national space for any given reader. So in this sense world literature is actually a function of national systems and needs to be thought about that way. National literature, comparative literature, and world literature exist in a dynamic interrelation.

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