METAPHOR, COMPARISON AND CONTINGENCY
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https://doi.org/10.9771/ell.i73.47589Keywords:
Metaphor, Politics, ComparisonAbstract
This essay briefly comments on the advances of Comparative Literature and what they mean for the contemporary perception of Literature, which is permeated by the sociocultural factors of its production. This perception suggests that all production is inherently political, which means that it would be possible to analyze the complex cultural and political webs of any literary work, in comparison or not with other productions, through the way in which the metaphor is constructed in that creative gesture, that is, analyzing the political cargo that is metaphorically implied. Leaving aside rigid concepts is fundamental in this process, and for that reason, embracing the contingency of contemporaneity is a natural and coherent gesture with the complex webs of relations of the colonized world, whose production is inevitably political.
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