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Comparative Literature 2009 61(3):209-219; DOI:10.1215/00104124-2009-011
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The Americas, Otherwise

America's Exceptional Comparabilities: An Instance of World Literature

DJELAL KADIR

Pennsylvania State University

Marked by exceptionalism as endemic characteristic, America's cultures, literary and otherwise, conform to the history of humans globally. American (especially U.S. American) exceptionalism is a paradoxical trait of inevitable conformity. Thus, America's self-estimation as incomparable may be its most comparable trait. This essay explores some of the diverse symptoms and literary manifestations of this perennial hemispheric irony.


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