Böcker av Djelal Kadir

Columbus is the first star in a constellation of European adventurers whose right to claim and conquer each land mass they encountered was unquestioned by their countrymen. How a system of religious beliefs made the taking of the New World possible and laudable is the focus of this review.

This is a historical and critical reassessment of the field of comparative literature-the study of cultures and their literary posterity across national borders and historical frontiers-at a moment when notions of literacy and culture are under inordinate pressure by predatory globalization and militaristic realpolitik.