Memos from the Besieged City: Lifelines for Cultural Sustainability (Cultural Memory in the Present)

Memos from the Besieged City: Lifelines for Cultural Sustainability (Cultural Memory in the Present)

by Djelal Kadir (Author)

Synopsis

This is a historical and critical reassessment of the field of comparative literature-the study of cultures and their literary posterity across national borders and historical frontiers-at a moment when notions of literacy and culture are under inordinate pressure by predatory globalization and militaristic realpolitik.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 296
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 15 Oct 2010

ISBN 10: 0804770492
ISBN 13: 9780804770491