The Death of Comparative Literature False News about True Events
The Death of Comparative Literature False News about True Events
Author(s): Ovidiu Mircean Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai
Keywords: Comparative literature; Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak; “Death of a discipline”; Trans-atlantic studies; Charles Bernheimer; Postcolonialism
Summary/Abstract: The study is a polemic response to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s Death of a Discipline. It analyses the political implications of the “new comparative literature” announced in the book, making constant references to the traditional issue of the “crisis of comparative literature”, or to examples of comparative studies published nowadays and their hermeneutical implications.
Journal: Caietele Echinox
- Issue Year: 2009
- Issue No: 16
- Page Range: 76-83
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English
- Content File-PDF
