Abstract
In her article "Indigenous Literature and Comparability" Katherine Durnin discusses some of the barriers to the comparative study of Indigenous literature alongside non-Indigenous literature. These barriers include the Eurocentrism of traditional comparative literature, certain aspects of postcolonial theory and, above, all the assumption that Indigenous and Western epistemologies belong to separate and incommensurable worlds. Durnin examines some recent theoretical and critical approaches that offer ways to bridge the two worlds and make comparative literature an ethical space of mutual respect and understanding.
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Durnin, Katherine.
"Indigenous Literature and Comparability."
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
13.2
(2011):
<https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.1740>
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