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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE /284 mind. In the context of the dominant practice of the Eurocentric formulation of knowledge, however, the anti-Orientalist criticism was looked on as a disturbing challenge. To the academic establishment, it was a movement of rebellion and resistanceâat least at the initial stage. The East Asian field (where I have been more than an occasional sojourner) has long been organized from the colonial perspective, and thus Saidâs criticism was not accepted at once, especially by established scholars. Critical categories transferred from European literature to East Asian literatureâwithout scrutiny as to their applicabilityâwere still very much in use at the beginning of the 1980s. Genre, form, structure, periodicity (such as âmodernityâ and âmodernizationâ), intentionality, affect, authorship, originality, audience, textuality, media, plot, character, tonality, the idea of âliteratureâ itself, and many other fundamental literary and cultural notionsâas well as the terms used in describing and analyzing European literature(s) and culture(s)âwere more or less randomly chosen as approximations. Even at the 1983 conference in Seoul, there were sharp divisions and disagreements among the panelists on the merit of the newly proposed transvaluation. As I reread my contribution, âAgainst the Native Grain: Reading the Japanese Novel in America,â I am
Comparative Literature – Duke University Press
Published: Jan 1, 2001
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