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ISBN-10: 0801883806
ISBN-13: 9780801883804
Edition: 2006 (Annotated)
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As an academic discipline built upon Enlightenment thought and a cosmopolitan world-view -- not grounded in the literary tradition of any single language or nation -- comparative literature has benefited from regular re-examination of its basic principles and practices. The American Comparative Literature Association's 1993 report on the state of the discipline, prepared under the leadership of Charles Bernheimer, focused on the influence of multiculturalism as a concept transforming literary and cultural studies. That report and the vigorous responses it generated, published together as Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism, offered a comprehensive survey of comparative… criticism in the 1990s. In the first decade of the twenty-first century, globalization has emerged as a defining paradigm in nearly every area of human activity. This latest report from the ACLA demonstrates that comparative critical strategies today can provide unique insights into the world's changing -- and, increasingly, colliding -- cultures. From its inception this project sought to incorporate an even wider range of voices than had its predecessor: while Haun Saussy's survey of the discipline serves as a starting point, additional position papers from other leading scholars represent diverse and often provocative viewpoints. These are followed by a series of reflective, insightful responses. The resulting report examines how the condition (or myth) of globalization, in all its modes and moods, affirms or undercuts the intuitions of comparative literature; how world literatures, whether seen as utopian project or as classroom practice, intersect with the canons and interpretive styles of national literatures; how language, media, history, gender, culture, and other material conditions of practice appear under the conditions of the present moment. Responding to the frequent attacks against contemporary literary studies, Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization establishes the continuing vitality of the discipline and its rigorous intellectual engagement with the issues facing today's global society. Contributors include Emily Apter, Christopher Braider, Marshall Brown, Jonathan Culler, David Damrosch, Caroline Eckhardt, Caryl Emerson, David Ferris, Gail Finney, Roland Greene, Linda Hutcheon, Djelal Kadir, Franoise Lionnet, Fedwa Malti-Douglas, Richard Rorty, Haun Saussy, Katie Trumpener, Steven Ungar, and Zhang Longxi.