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All the Difference in the World

Postcoloniality and the Ends of Comparison

By: Natalie Melas

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All the Difference in the World

Postcoloniality and the Ends of Comparison

By: Natalie Melas

Talks 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.

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Cultural Memory in the Present

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0804731977

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9780804731973

All the Difference in the World

Postcoloniality and the Ends of Comparison

By: Natalie Melas

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Postcoloniality and the Ends of Comparison

By: Natalie Melas

This book is about culture and comparison. Starting with the history of the discipline of comparative literature and its forgotten relation to the positivist comparative method, it inquires into the idea of comparison in a postcolonial world. Comparison was Eurocentric by exclusion when it applied only to European literature, and Eurocentric by discrimination when it adapted evolutionary models to place European literature at the forefront of human development. This book argues that inclusiveness is not a sufficient response to postcolonial and multiculturalist challenges because it leaves the basis of equivalence unquestioned. The point is not simply to bring more objects under comparison, but rather to examine the process of comparison. The book offers a new approach to the either/or of relativism and universalism, in which comparison is either impossible or assimilatory, by focusing instead on various forms of “incommensurability”—comparisons in which there is a ground for comparison but no basis for equivalence. Each chapter develops a particular form of such cultural comparison from readings of important novelists (Joseph Conrad, Simone Schwartz-Bart), poets (Aimé Césaire, Derek Walcott), and theorists (Edouard Glissant, Jean-Luc Nancy).

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308

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Stanford University Press

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0804731985

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9780804731980

The Last Sunset in the West

Britain's Vanishing West Coast Orcas (Fully Revised and Updated Edition)

By: Natalie Sanders

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The Last Sunset in the West

Britain's Vanishing West Coast Orcas (Fully Revised and Updated Edition)

By: Natalie Sanders

Fully revised edition with updated information on the surviving members of the orca pod. In 2014, marine biologist Dr Natalie Sanders joined the crew of the research vessel Silurian to seek out Britain's West Coast Community of orca and study them before we lose them forever. Though this orca pod has delighted scientists and whale watchers for years, we still know relatively little about them, and what we do know comes mostly from citizen science and chance encounters. But what is abundantly clear is that pollution, entanglement, military sonar and climate change continue to have an enormous impact on whales and dolphins and other marine life throughout the world's oceans. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the marine world in this age of climate change. A captivating yet poignant account, it takes the reader from the Western Isles of Scotland to Vancouver Island and elsewhere. It also delves deep into the history of our relations with these beautiful and sentient creatures to explain what their loss means and how we can avoid similar tragedies in the future.

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253

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Birlinn Ltd

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1788857216

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9781788857215

A Poetic Plunge

With Natalie Gilmore

By: Natalie Gilmore

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A Poetic Plunge

With Natalie Gilmore

By: Natalie Gilmore

These poems take you on a dive into the creative journey of a professional dancer and all the experiences and people that got her there along the way. It is a biography in poetic form.

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212

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3759737196

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9783759737199

A Perilous Advantage

The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney

By: Natalie Clifford Barney

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A Perilous Advantage

The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney

By: Natalie Clifford Barney

A translation of the works of Natalie Clifford Barney

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228

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New Victoria Publishers

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0934678383

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9780934678384

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All the Difference in the World

All the Difference in the World

All the Difference in the World

All the Difference in the World

The Last Sunset in the West

The Last Sunset in the West

A Poetic Plunge

A Poetic Plunge

A Perilous Advantage

A Perilous Advantage

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