{"product_id":"horizontal-comparison","title":"Horizontal Comparison","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy analyzing African and Caribbean texts on their own terms, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eHorizontal Comparison\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e articulates new forms of transoceanic solidarity.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fields of comparative literature and Black Atlantic studies have an Africa problem: despite sustained attempts to decenter Western paradigms, they still privilege the United States and Europe as the primary loci of reference. So argues Cajetan Iheka in \u003ci\u003eHorizontal Comparison\u003c\/i\u003e, which aims to redirect both fields toward a non-hierarchical, South-South orientation focusing on the links between Africa and the Caribbean. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy analyzing the literary work and real-life trajectories of writers such as Peter Abrahams, Chimamanda Adichie, Maryse Condé, Buchi Emecheta, Jamaica Kincaid, Claude McKay, Dinaw Mengestu, Ferdinand Oyono, Taiye Selasi, and Sam Selvon, Iheka draws our attention to the ways in which African and Caribbean texts inform and mutually constitute each other, bypassing the usual comparisons to Western literary canons. The book challenges not only Western cultural hegemony in the study of global Black writing, but also the very methodologies of comparative literary studies, offering fresh insights into reading, trauma, character, and the “worlding” of literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57298455953752,"sku":"9780226847115","price":29.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780226847115.jpg?v=1779870661","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/horizontal-comparison","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}