As an academic discipline built upon Enlightenment thought and a cosmopolitan worldview -- not grounded in the literary tradition of any single language or nation -- comparative literature has benefited from regular reexamination of its basic principles and practices. The Americ…
Utopian Generations develops an interpretive matrix for understanding world literature--one that renders modernism and postcolonial African literature comprehensible in a single framework. African literature has commonly been seen as representationally naïve vis-à-vis modernism,…
La Literatura Comparada, que explora desde los géneros hasta los movimientos artísticos, pasando por los temas y las formas en sus variadas metamorfosis, tiene un único y gran anhelo: el de superar las fronteras nacionales para, como aspiraba Goethe, poder por fin soñar con una …