| Against Autonomy: Global Dialectics of Cultural Exchange Contributor(s): Reiss, Timothy J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0804743509 ISBN-13: 9780804743501 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $33.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2002 Annotation: " This impressive piece of original research and analysis reframes numerous debates in literary studies (especially post-colonial and Third World literatures), presents alternative views on relationships among several literary areas, and serves as a vivid antidote to much humdrum or dogmatic work. It' s a big book, and an important one, and for many it will be an essential one." -- Haun Saussy, Stanford University " This is a magesterial study of the various cultural instruments (ideas, forms, discourses) used by the West to control other cultures as well as the reworkings of these instruments by cultures which creatively refashioned them to fit their own needs. With its broad coverage of periods and languages, its tremendous learning, and its radical challenge to Eurocentric aesthetics, it constitutes a model of global literary studies for the new century. For those interested in the operations of cultural exchange, this is an indispensable book." -- Vassilios Lambropoulos, University of Michigan |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Literary Criticism |
| Dewey: 306.01 |
| LCCN: 2002280137 |
| Series: Cultural Memory in the Present |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.06" W x 8.98" (1.62 lbs) 560 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book investigates "cultural instruments," meaning normative forms of analysis and practice that are central to Western culture. It explores their history from antiquity to the early Enlightenment and their use and reworking by different cultures, moving from Europe to Africa and the Americas, especially the Caribbean, in the process giving close readings of a wide range of authors. |