Relationel komparatisme
Komparatismens udfordringer og agens i en globaliseret verden
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https://doi.org/10.7146/kok.v47i127.114741Nøgleord:
komparatisme; kolonialisme; globalisering; transkulturel; cirkulation; slaveristudier; postkolonial kritik; relationalitet; litteratur; billedkunst;Resumé
This article addresses a question crucial to contemporary cultural analysis: the question of how to compare and what to compare in a globalized world. Modern comparativism has effectively undermined the very foundation of historical comparativism, i.e. the idea of confined and segregated (national) cultures and Eurocentric perspectives and perceptions of what is historically significant, and what is not. The article opens with a discussion of some important critical revisions of comparative methodologies in the fields of comparative literature and art history, and then moves on to call for a relational comparativism that is attentive to three aspects: context, dynamics/agency and circulation. To indicate what the implications of a relational comparativism might be, we conclude with two case studies of the autobiography The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789) and the commemorative sculpture I Am Queen Mary (2018) by artists Jeannette Ehlers and La Vaughn Belle. Both works are related to the history of slavery; a history that in significant ways points to the need for rethinking comparativism.
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Drachmann, Emil Paaske. ”Toldbodens nye dronning – den danske kolonialismes im/materielle aftryk”. Slagmark. Tidsskrift for idéhistorie 75 (2017): 45-58.
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Mercer, Kobena. ”Art History and the Dialogics of Diaspora”. Small Axe 16 2 (2012): 213-27.
Mitchell, W. J. T. Seeing through Race. Boston, Mass.: Harward University Press, 2012.
Nelson, Charmaine A. Slavery, Geography and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica. London og New York: Routledge, 2016.
Olney, James. ”’I was Born’: Slave Narratives, Their Status as Autobiography and as Literature”. Callaloo 20 (Winter 1984): 46-73.
Papastergiadis, Nikos. Cosmopolitanism and Culture. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2012.
Petersen, Anne Ring. Migration into Art: Transcultural Identities and Art-Making in a Globalised World. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017.
Petersen, Anne Ring. ”The Place of the Black Body in White History: Jeannette Ehlers’s Decolonial Interrogation of ’the Darker Side of Western Modernity’”. Perspective december (2018): upagineret. http://perspective.smk.dk/en/place-black-body-white-history-jeannette-ehlerss-decolonial-interrogation-darker-side-western.
Petersen, Anne Ring. ”Tværkulturel analyse og den globaliserede kunsts metodiske udfordringer”. Terræn – Veje ind i samtidskunsten. Red. Kjærboe, Rasmus, et al. Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2019. 246-259 + 284-286 (noter).
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Shin, Shu-mei. ”Comparison as Relation”. Comparison. Theories, Approaches, Uses. Red. Rita Felski og Susan Stanford Friedman. Baltimore: John Hopkins University, 2013. 79-98.
Siskind, Mariano. Cosmopolitan Desires: Global Modernity and World Literature in Latin America. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2014.
Wamberg, Jacob. ”Dronning af koloniale sår”. Weekendavisen, Kultur, 13. April 2018: 23.
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Petersen, A. R., & Simonsen, K.-M. (2019). Relationel komparatisme: Komparatismens udfordringer og agens i en globaliseret verden. K&K - Kultur Og Klasse, 47(127), 29–50. https://doi.org/10.7146/kok.v47i127.114741
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