Comparative Literature/World Literature: A Discussion with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and David Damrosch

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Research Article| December 01 2011 Comparative Literature/World Literature: A Discussion with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and David Damrosch David Damrosch; David Damrosch David Damrosch is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature in the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, and is a past president of the American Comparative Literature Association. His books include The Narrative Covenant: Transformations of Genre in the Growth of Biblical Literature (1987), We Scholars: Changing the Culture of the University (1995), What Is World Literature? (2003), The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh (2007), and How to Read World Literature (2009). He is the founding general editor of the six-volume Longman Anthology of World Literature (2004) and of The Longman Anthology of British Literature (4th ed., 2009), editor of Teaching World Literature (2009), and coeditor of The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature (2009). He is also the founding director of the Institute for World Literature (www.iwl.fas.harvard.edu). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is University Professor at Columbia University. She is the translator of Jacques Derrida's Of Grammatology (1976) and of Mahasweta Devi's Imaginary Maps and the author of, among others, In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics (1987), Thinking Academic Freedom in Gendered Post–Coloniality (1993), Outside in the Teaching Machine (1993), A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Towards a History of the Vanishing Present (1999), Death of a Discipline (2003), Other Asias (2005), and An Aesthetic Education in the Age of Globalization (forthcoming). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2011) 48 (4): 455–485. https://doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.48.4.0455 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation David Damrosch, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak; Comparative Literature/World Literature: A Discussion with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and David Damrosch. Comparative Literature Studies 1 December 2011; 48 (4): 455–485. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.48.4.0455 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressComparative Literature Studies Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2011 by The Pennsylvania State University. All rights reserved.2011The Pennsylvania State University Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.