{"product_id":"all-the-difference-in-the-world-9780804731980","title":"All the Difference in the World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTalks about culture and comparison. This book inquires into the idea of comparison in a postcolonial world. It argues that inclusiveness is not a sufficient response to postcolonial and multiculturalist challenges because it leaves the basis of equivalence unquestioned.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this innovative study, Melas analyzes the impact postcolonial writing has had on one discipline, comparative literature.\" -- \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Melas displays a thorough familiarity with the pertinent body of established contemporary theory, and her treatment of the critical corpus is unusual in its historical scope and sophistication. \u003ci\u003eAll the Difference in the World\u003c\/i\u003e is an outstanding contribution to postcolonial critical studies.\" -- Gregson Davis, Dean of Humanities and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities * Duke University *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAll the Difference in the World\u003c\/i\u003e is an outstanding and rigorous work that reflects on the concept of comparison itself and on the history of the field of comparative literature. In her philosophically-grounded readings of the problematics of time and narrative, history and identity, trauma, and geography, Melas offers exquisitely detailed arguments that yield illuminating insights on Conrad, Walcott, Césaire, and Simone Schwarz-Bart. An innovative and rewarding book.—Françoise Lionnet, University of California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a subtle, intelligent book, illuminating in the insights it brings to the work of individual authors.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Modern Language Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Contents  Acknowledgements  Preface   CHAPTER 1\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  Grounds for Comparison\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  Comparative Reaches Unimagined\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  The Time of Comparison\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  The Space of Comparison\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  Incommensurability : Postcoloniality and the Ends of Comparison\t\t\t\t  CHAPTER 2\t  Ungrounding Comparison: Conrad and Colonial Narration\t\t\t\t\t  Imperial Comparison\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  Marlow and The Rhetoric of Dissimilation\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  Foiled Communities\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  CHAPTER 3   The Empire's Loose Ends: Dissimilated Readings\t\t\t\t\t\t  Dissimilation\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  Dissimilation and Com-paraison\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  Relation\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  CHAPTER 4\t  Ruined Comparatives: Epic Similitude   and the Pedagogy of Poetic Space in Derek Walcott's Omeros\t\t\t\t  History and The Place Without People: Amnesia and Analogy\t\t\t\t  Forgettable Vacations and Metaphor in Ruins\t\t\t\t\t\t  Homeric Similes and Omeric Similitudes: A Contingent Excursus\t\t\t\t  Pedagogy of Poetic Space (\"Our Last Resort As Much As Yours, Omeros\")\t\t  Envoi\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  CHAPTER 5\t  The Gift of Belittling All Things: Catastrophic Miniaturization   in Aim' C'saire and Simone Schwarz-Bart\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  Geometries of Blood  The Plenitude of Smallness  Irreducibility\t  Catastrophe and Finitude\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  The Horizon's Hero: Monocosm to Microcosm\t\t\t  REFERENCE LIST\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t   Index","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405528768855,"sku":"9780804731980","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804731980.jpg?v=1730492743","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/all-the-difference-in-the-world-9780804731980","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}