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During the second half of the twentieth century, the discipline of comparative literature witnessed a huge expansion. Since the 1980s, a considerable number of perceptive experts in the field have been striving to break through the West-centric and colonialist ideology. Especially from the aspect of the Asian-African-Latin American Third World point of view, following the advent of the postcolonial era and the wide-ranging influence of post-structuralist theory, the comparative literature discipline is currently exhibiting an unprecedented vigor and vitality, which presages an even greater expansion in the future.
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Armando Gnisci, “Comparative Literature as a Discipline of Decolonialization” in Matthew F. Rusnak [trans.] We, the Europeans: Italian Essays on Postcolonialism (Aurora, CO: The Davies Group, 2014), Chapter 2.
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Ibid., p. 6.
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Frédéric Loliée, A Short History of Comparative Literature: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day . Trans. M. Douglas Power (London: Kennikat, 1906). Available at: https://archive.org/stream/shorthistoryofco00loliuoft/shorthistoryofco00loliuoft_djvu.txt. For the Chinese translation, see Luoliai: Bijiao wenxue shi, translated by Fu Dong (Shanghai: Shanghai shudian, 1989), p. 352.
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Paul de Man, Allegory of Readings (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1979), pp. 16–17.
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Charles Bernheimer, Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism (Baltimore: John Hopkins Universiy Press, 1995), p. 7.
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Charles Bernheimer, “Comparative Literature at the Turn of the Century.” Report on Professional Standards to the American Comparative Literature Association, 1993. Availbale at http://www.umass.edu/complit/aclanet/Bernheim.html [Accessed 1/9/2015].
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Ibid.
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Ibid.
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Yue, D. (2016). The International and National Nature of Comparative Literature. In: China and the West at the Crossroads. China Academic Library. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1116-0_24
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