Two-Way Mirrors engages in cross-cultural study-a pursuit inherently both reflective and reflexive, shedding light not only on the object of study but also on the subject conducting the study. The book's leading metaphor is that of the shop window, which is at once transparent (allowing a view of the merchandise on display) and reflective (offering an image of the prospective shopper). Eugene Eoyang confronts the topics of globalization, postmodernism, and the other as self, bi-directionally, from both an Asian and a Western perspective. He celebrates the continuing development of comparative literature, a discipline particularly well suited to cross-cultural exploration.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part 1 Polar Paradigms Chapter 2 Thinking Comparatively: Orienting the West and Occidenting the East Chapter 3 Canon Fodder: The Challenge of Non-Western Literatures Chapter 4 Agon vs. Ritual: East-West Perspectives Chapter 5 The Ethics and Aesthetics of Literature: A Comparative Perspective Part 6 Post-modern Perspectives Chapter 7 Being Familiar and Being Strange: The Subjective Experience of Globalization Chapter 8 Post-Modernism and Traditional East Asian Literature Chapter 9 The Modern and the Postmodern: A Cross-cultural Perspective Chapter 10 The Advent of the Traditional Future: Global Imaginaries Chapter 11 "History," "Herstory," "Theirstory," "Ourstory": Gender, Genre, and Cultural Bias in Accounts of East Asian Literature Part 12 The Globalization/Glocalization of Knowledge Chapter 13 The Globalization of Knowledge: Comparative Literature as Interdisciplinary and Multilingual Discourse Chapter 14 The Glocalization of Knowledge: Tianya-The Ends of the Earth or the Edge of Heaven
