Comparison

Theories, Approaches, Uses

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

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Writing and teaching across cultures and disciplines makes the act of comparison inevitable. Comparative theory and methods of comparative literature and cultural anthropology have permeated the humanities as they engage more centrally with the cultural flows and circulation of past and present globalization. How do scholars make ethically and politically responsible comparisons without assuming that their own values and norms are the standard by which other cultures should be measured? "Comparison" expands upon a special issue of the journal "New Literary History", which analyzed theories and methodologies of comparison. Six new essays from senior scholars of transnational and postcolonial studies complement the original ten pieces. The work of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ella Shohat, Robert Stam, R. Radhakrishnan, Bruce Robbins, Ania Loomba, Haun Saussy, Linda Gordon, Walter D. Mignolo, Shu-mei Shih, and Pheng Cheah are included with contributions by anthropologists Caroline B. Brettell and Richard Handler. Historical periods discussed range from the early modern to the contemporary and geographical regions that encompass the globe.Ultimately, "Comparison" argues for the importance of greater self-reflexivity about the politics and methods of comparison in teaching and in research.

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Utgivningsdatum:2013-08-10
Mått:152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt:499 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:352
Förlag:Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:9781421409122

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Rita Felski is a professor of English at the University of Virginia and the editor of New Literary History. Susan Stanford Friedman is a professor of English and women's studies and director of the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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IntroductionPart I: The Stakes of ComparisonChapter 1. Why Compare?Chapter 2. Why Not Compare?Chapter 3. Crossroads, Distant Killing, and Translation: On the Ethics and Politics of ComparisonChapter 4. Axes of ComparisonPart II: Comparison in the World: Uses and AbusesChapter 5. Comparison as RelationChapter 6. On Comparison: Who Is Comparing What and Why?Chapter 7. Transnationalizing Comparison: The Uses and Abuses of Cross-Cultural AnalogyChapter 8. Race and the Possibilities of Comparative CritiqueChapter 9. The Material World of ComparisonChapter 10. Chomsky's Golden Rule: Comparison and CosmopolitanismChapter 11. Endings and Beginnings: Reimagining the Tasks and Spaces of ComparisonChapter 12. Comparison LiteraturePart II: Comparison in the DisciplinesChapter 13. Rethinking ComparativismChapter 14. The Uses of Incommensurability in AnthropologyChapter 15. Anthropology, Migration, and Comparative ConsciousnessChapter 16. A Meditation on Comparison in Historical ScholarshipNotes on ContributorsIndex