Description:
The Critical Situation: Vexed Perspectives in Postmodern Literary Studies is concerned with the ways in which literary and cultural criticism are and have been situated in relation to a variety of ideological and institutional structures, including those of world literature, American studies, spatial literary studies, cultural critique, globalization and postmodernity.
Review Quotes:
"The Critical Situation could be titled 'Prolegomena to a Critical Education.' Under a bold initial reference to Sartre, it demonstrates how being aware of the situatedness of our readings liberates our subjectivity to embrace the long-term perspective of a radical, cosmopolitan humanism, unbound from the vagaries of one's 'national' culture"-- Didier Coste, Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, Bordeaux Montaigne University.