ROBERT MWEMBO LUMBILA NGOIE
When we talk about comparative literature, we often lose ourselves in all kinds of speculation, as is notorious in the human sciences. But that’s forgetting that we’re dealing with a discipline in search of its identity and, above all, its scientific survival. Many celebrities have already commented on this subject, but without really exhausting its entropy. It’s true that science lives from its daily refutations; the contradictions of comparative literature always tend to make it disappear by drowning it in the meanders of general literature. Despite this, a major question remains: is comparative literature academic flesh or an appendage of literature in general? These are the profound and objective reasons that have spurred us on to conduct wide-ranging research in this field.
