...Juliana Spahr Duke University Press 2004 Connected Disconnection and Localized Globalism in Pacific Multilingual Literature Juliana Spahr 1 Five years ago, I moved to the island of Oahu to take a job at the Uni...

...Adam Miyashiro Abstract Debates in medieval studies about race and the global Middle Ages parallel past debates in comparative literature. Both comparative literature and medieval studies struggle with their Eurocentric origins while simultaneously trying to negotiate a non-Eurocentric approach...

...—in the Western rediscovery of World Literature in the era of globalization. Similarly, Western postcolonial scholars have only recently begun to acknowledge the creative, cultural and political affiliations of Global South writers to internationalist organizations such as the Afro‐Asian Writers Association which...

... in contemporary fiction and TV. She also discusses her career, beginning as a New Historicist, and her current project constructing a print-and-web anthology of American Literature in the World . © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Wai Chee Dimock American literature global literature New Historicism...

.... Spahr  /  The ’90s  173 tences of Ron Silliman. Further, despite an increasing awareness of the importance of globalization to literary study, there have been few scholarly studies that question this balkanized vision of contemporary literatures. This article, thus, is a thought experiment...

... México; at the 2013 MLA in Boston; and at Williams College. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Roberto Bolaño allegory world literature Nazism comparison Comparison, Allegory, and the Address of “Global” Realism (The Part about Bolaño...

...Harshana Rambukwella Recent scholarly work on Sri Lanka has sought to align itself with postsecularist trends in global scholarship. The Sri Lankan variant does not emerge from a direct concern with the place of religion in public or political life, but it exhibits similarities to its global...

.... It argues that for most postcolonial literatures or literatures from emergent literary spaces (to use Pascale Casanova's term), literary value inheres as much in the teachability of the text as in whatever other aesthetic qualities it may possess. This means that the text's ability to illustrate, rework...

...R. A. Judy “Literature,” Orhan Pamuk once remarked, “is the greatest treasure we, humanity, have to discuss and to understand ourselves; and now, the most popular, most intelligent, most flexible form of literature today, in the last two hundred years in fact, is the great art of the novel...

... as to be essentially invisible. However, if the expansion of the English language across the globe and the morphology of English literature departments have now grown so familiar as to appear wholly unremarkable, it is important to remember that neither the dominance of global English nor the current structures...

... and more spectacularly in recent years as literatures of globalization embedded in transnational circuits of exchange. But this, as the author of “Orientalism and the Institution of World Literatures” empha- sizes, is only because literary critics choose to ignore the fact that it was much earlier...

... of the poetics of “world literature” to engage the ever-changing vicissitudes of postcolonial globality. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Derealizations of the Ideal: Walcott Encounters Seferis Stathis Gourgouris Literary criticism is always...

... existence becomes infused with authenticity, valorized as a site of cultural origins, and envisioned as an antidote to the globalizing force of the military-industrial complex. This essay examines two seminal works in the canon of Arabic literature, Ghassan Kanafani's Rijal fi al-Shams ( Men in the Sun...

...; from Germany’s coming to terms with its Nazi past to contemporary memory studies; from world literature and globalization to the humanities education today; from his intellectual debt to Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault to his first exposure to the work of Theodor Adorno, and his relationship...

... as secure as they seemed to be, and today there would appear to be com- pelling reasons to return to such questions and to ask how that literature is faring in the conditions of a globalized neoliberal capitalism. To some, it will seem impertinent even to frame the issue in this manner because...

... an important query that elucidates the totalizing moves of medieval studies’ global turn: “If ‘Orientalism’ is the cultural logic of the modern, bourgeois West in its outward orientation, what precisely is its relation to world literature, the concept of a single literary system or ensemble that, at least...

... , no. 1 : 5 – 20 . Shih Shu-mei . 2004 . “Global Literature and the Technologies of Recognition.” PMLA 119 , no. 1 : 16 – 30 . Starosta Anita . 2013 . “Accented Criticism: Translation and Global Humanities.” boundary 2 40 , no. 3 : 163 – 79 . Vizenor Gerald...

.... How can criticism escape this condition without seek- ing new false orders, without reproducing older ones in new guises? Now, in a time after Eurocentrism, Europe is presumed provincialized; the all-­ embracing, apparently centerless designation global in “global literature” or “global...

... examination of its use and effects within international neoliberal regimes could be modeled on Sarah Brouillette's disentanglement of UNESCO's involvement with literary culture. Her study exposes how “the critical discourses of World Literature” ground themselves “in the political economy of global literary...

... ethnicities, flow across borders at great speed, scale, and volume. It is one instance of how allegorization works in creating a global concept from within the more limited concept of global literature, which need not always be in English, a point that, with the rise of the PRC into an aggressive and self...