Aateka Khan
Bharati College, English Department, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
E-mail address: Aateka.khan@bharati.du.ac.in
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Abstract
This paper attempts to trace the history of Comparative Literature as a tool to postcolonial understanding, as well as the importance of a reciprocal relationship, where Comparative Literature can be understood, formulated and practiced through a postcolonial perspective. Though the correlation between these two areas of study has not gone unnoticed, yet, neither has there emerged a decidedly theoretical comparative postcolonial framework. The paper seeks to briefly map the history of the discipline and situate it in its postcolonial reception. In the course of the paper, paper will be focussing on three main aspects of the Comparative Literature-postcolonial conjunction, more or less in this order: postcolonial analysis of the discipline; the decolonising of Comparative Literature; and inversely, decolonising through comparative literature.
Keywords:
Comparative Literature; Eurocentricism; Postcolonial; Decolonial; Orientalist