The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship

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I AM ONLY TOO AWARE that in the past I have been associated with a call for the abolition of English departments. But today I will not be calling for their abolition . . . Although I have spoken of the need to abolish certain things as they are, what I really seek is a way of studying in which we focus on the connections between various phenomena instead of seeing them in isolation from one another. Teaching English literature in India or in Africa ought to be a way of crossing borders. What has been wrong in the colonial context is that the act of interpreting the other culture that is far from us has, instead of clarifying real connections and each culture thereby illuminating the other, ended by making us captives of the foreign culture and alienating us from our own. In calling for abolition, therefore, I am primarily seeking a way to clarify connections between one culture and another, literature and politics, literature and economics, literature and the environment, literature and psychology, between the parts and the whole. . . . One of the inherited traditions of Western education in the last four hundred years is that of putting things in compartments, resulting in an incapacity to see the links that bind various categories. We are trained not to see connections between phenomena, and we become locked in Aristotelian categories. So the East becomes East, and the West becomes West, and never...
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