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Zusatztext "This important and original book will prove controversial and difficult to ignore. Kadir deals with apparently timeless issues while discussing! often pointedly and trenchantly! issues of cultural politics that are as immediate as the running trailers on the bottom of the cable news channels. He holds a multi-leveled conversation! addressing both specialists in the field and those same specialists in their embodiment of citizenship. This dual thrust constitutes the book's most important accomplishment and demonstrates the urgent necessity for the Comparative Literature he advocates." Informationen zum Autor Djelal Kadir is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University and founding president of the International American Studies Association. His books include Columbus and the Ends of the Earth (1992) and The Other Writing (1993) Klappentext This is a historical and critical reassessment of the field of comparative literature--the study of cultures and their literary posterity across national borders and historical frontiers--at a moment when notions of literacy and culture are under inordinate pressure by predatory globalization and militaristic realpolitik. Zusammenfassung This is a historical and critical reassessment of the field of comparative literature-the study of cultures and their literary posterity across national borders and historical frontiers-at a moment when notions of literacy and culture are under inordinate pressure by predatory globalization and militaristic realpolitik.
