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Evolution Of Comparative Literature Essay

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(Comparative literature as a discipline had its origin in western academia and it still carries that supremacy and dominance. In the post-colonial era, this tendency to normalize the western supremacy is being challenged at various levels. The paper deals in detail with the complexities that Comparative Literature comes across within the post colonial spaces. When Comparative Literature meant as a liberating factor for European literatures, it rather demands more introspection of the existing layers of power structure in terms of language and literatures in Post colonial country like India. It doesn’t confirm with Goethe’s concept of ‘World Literature’. In this globalized, cosmopolitan world the influence and power of English is taken into question in the context of …show more content…

The field of comparative literature is still a contesting terrain scrutinized by scholars across disciplinary and national boundaries and is influenced and transformed with its contact with other areas of studies. The post- colonial intervention in the field of comparative literature has a very great impact on the field. Currently the very terminology of post- colonialism is under inspection for its dependence on the category of ‘colonial’ when it comes to self definition. The discourses are reduced to categories which are strongly remarked by the colonialism followed by the intervention of post-colonial scholars. In such a juncture, this paper mainly looks at the post-colonial interventions in the discourse on comparative literature with reference to concepts like the emerging concept of ‘transnational

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