All the Difference in the World: Postcoloniality and the Ends of Comparison

by Natalie Melas

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This book is about culture and comparison. Starting with the history of the discipline of comparative literature and its forgotten relation to the positivist comparative method, it inquires into the idea of comparison in a postcolonial world. Comparison was Eurocentric by exclusion when it applied only to European literature, and Eurocentric by discrimination when it adapted evolutionary models to place European literature at the forefront of human...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0804731985

ISBN13:9780804731980

Release Date:December 2006

Publisher:Stanford University Press

Length:304 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.3" x 9.0"

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