Comparative Literature in a World Become Tlon

Kadir, Djelal

doi:10.1353/ccs.2006.0010

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“…When positing the plurality of world literatures, the danger of treating the issue of locatedness as an invisible, one grows with the proximity to a dominant point in the literary system of knowledge, in spite of the fact that "pluralizing" world literature would indicate situated sensibility. The perils of generalizing the effects of literary knowledge production outside the globalist frame have already elicited warnings in the formulation of some alternatives, such as: "negotiated comparative literature" (Kadir 2006), the anti-assimilationist and anti-generalizing "negative globality" (Moreiras), of which one can find instantiations in concepts like "distant reading" (Moretti), or "planetarity" (Spivak). In Borrego's theory of economy, late capitalism creates "the conditions for the METANATIONALIZING THEORY IN COMPARATIVE STUDIES 69 formulation and development of a new paradigm of world accumulation," that would address the increasing need "to deal with superstructural issues (social, political, cultural, etc.)…”

Section: Situated Comparatismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Metanationalizing Theory in Comparative Studies

Ursa¹

2019

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The paper is a conceptual proposal in favour of employing the metanational, a term and concept born in the economy theories on the multinational, as a descriptor and a theoretical tool in the humanities, here represented by comparative studies. Namely, addressing the lack of target and purpose of transnationalist descriptions, as well as the Romanticization of the uneven character of cultural peripheralities and of scholarship on marginality, the metanational has a useful vectorial definition pointing to a change in how knowledge is produced and used, with a focus on networking, self-reflexiveness, spatialization of historicity, and on recognizing agency when learning "with/ from" the world, via sensing webs of scattered knowledges. The paper discusses differences between metanational and other transnational forms of anti-globalist posits, such as the ones already canonized as mainstream world literature or postcolonial studies.

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Section: Situated Comparatismmentioning

confidence: 99%