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Article: Saussy, Haun, ed. 2006. Comparative literature in an age of globalization. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. $60.00 hc. $24.95 sc. xiii + 261 pp.(Book review)
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- January 1, 2009
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As one of a series of decennial reports by the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization offers itself as a "report on the state of the discipline" in 2004; but unlike previous ACLA reports it is conceived of by its editor, Haun Saussy, as "a multi-vocal report" in which nineteen authors present their arguments on the development of comparative literature in the contemporary era of globalization (viii). A common thread is provided by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's Wellek Library lectures, published as Death of a Discipline (2003), and the nineteen contributors were invited to impress, alarm, delight, and stimulate ...