This is a subtle, intelligent book, illuminating in the insights it brings to the work of individual authors. -The Modern Language Review All the Difference in the World is an outstanding and rigorous work that reflects on the concept of comparison itself and on the history of the field of comparative literature. In her philosophically-grounded readings of the problematics ... Read moreof time and narrative, history and identity, trauma, and geography, Melas offers exquisitely detailed arguments that yield illuminating insights on Conrad, Walcott, Cesaire, and Simone Schwarz-Bart. An innovative and rewarding book.-Francoise Lionnet, University of California, Los Angeles Melas displays a thorough familiarity with the pertinent body of established contemporary theory, and her treatment of the critical corpus is unusual in its historical scope and sophistication. All the Difference in the World is an outstanding contribution to postcolonial critical studies.
Gregson Davis, Dean of Humanities and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities In this innovative study, Melas analyzes the impact postcolonial writing has had on one discipline, comparative literature.
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