Преосмисляне на компаративизма
Rethinking Conparativism

Summary/Abstract: Gayatri Spivak argues that comparison assumes a level playing field and the field is never level, if only in terms of the interest implicit in the perspective. It is, in other words, never a question of compare and contrast, but rather a matter of judging and choosing. She maintains that each literary tradition, tied to a dominant language group, confronts the narratives produced by the Eurocentric history. In her opinion rethinking of comparativism starts with the admission that as language, languages are equivalent, and that deep language learning must implode into a simulacrum of lingual memory. Spivak develops the idea that in the name of comparativism as equivalence, we should be prepared to undertake a serious and continuous undoing of nationalist or national language-based reading. She writes about comparativism in extremis and gives examples how it often makes visible the double bind between ethics and politics. The text states that in order to take the diversified subaltern or less-taught languages out of enclavist or collectivist pedagogy and politics, and to save Comparative Literature from unacknowledged and exclusivist comparison, structural and epistemological changes are required.

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