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

by Natalie Melas

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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804731977
• ISBN13: 9780804731973
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"