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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (3): 316–339.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Duncan M. Yoon Abstract The People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) presence in Africa has fundamentally changed globalization patterns. Most scholarship interrogates whether the Chinese presence is either a “new colonialism” or a “win-win” for development by focusing on economic or social scientific...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 247–263.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Neelofer Qadir Abstract Popular rhetoric of the twenty-first century as the “Asian century” frequently coheres around China as a rising global superpower and thus focuses on its financial and material ambitions in sites across Asia and Africa. Such narratives, ensconced within the BRICS (Brazil...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (2): 141–154.
Published: 01 June 2016
... of corpses. The picture of global
racial alliance that China purportedly advocated was also not all that rosy. China’s
engagement with Africa —as can be seen by Chou En-lai’s no less than ten visits to
various African countries between 1963 and 1964, the Chinese support for the
building...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 45–53.
Published: 01 March 2017
... York : Harper and Row , 1972–73 . Print . Bystrom Kerry . “Reading the South Atlantic: Chile, South Africa, the Cold War, and Mark Behr's The Smell of Apples.” African Studies 71 . 1 ( 2012 ): 1 – 18 . Print . Blum Hester . “The Prospect of Oceanic Studies.” PMLA 125...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 16–24.
Published: 01 March 2017
... Peninsular, and,
ultimately, China. “He stopped there and smiled,” we are told, “having drawn half
the known world in one continuous line with his piece of chalk” (By the Sea 37).
The scene is remarkable for the way it interrupts an Atlantic frame of reference by
drawing Africa into a world arranged...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (3): 287–311.
Published: 01 September 2015
... of “the coolie odyssey” (211) and enables through its transcul-
tural frames “the meeting of imaginaires from India, Africa, Europe, China” (211).
For Torabully, this novel advances a perception of India —by the coolie and by oth-
ers —that is itself irremediably modified by the voyage (211). In a 2011...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (2): 114–131.
Published: 01 June 2018
...—might ask if the vernacular itself should be taken for the fundamentally translatable concept it seems to be. The exchange value of the vernacular is rising. To the problem of articulating new common ground between Africa and Asia, for example, it offers a tantalizing resolution. In its apparent return...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (2): 105–113.
Published: 01 June 2018
... and transnational stature of Rabrindanath Tagore: his positions on Bengali language literature (in cholitobhasha ) and his ambivalent reception in China as a kindred figure of vernacular progress. Drawing on a 1924 lecture by Tagore in Hangzhou, Lahiri concludes that “Tagore’s writings may dramatize vernacular...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (4): 293–312.
Published: 01 September 2006
... of global trade,
as Southeast Asia straddled the sea route between the two great markets of China
and India and served as an important redistribution center. The Javanese have
been known to sail to Africa since Roman times, with a colony settling in Mada-
gascar. Southeast Asian port cities were open...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (3): 234–238.
Published: 01 June 2005
.../markups/108th/sed/hr3077/917main.htm:16-17 >. Newman, Robert P. Owen Lattimore and the “Loss” of China . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992 . Saussure, Ferdinand de. Course in General Linguistics. Trans. Wade Baskin. New York: Rand McNally, 1966 . ____. Ecrits de linguistique...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (1): 144–146.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Djagalov’s From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and Third Worlds is a groundbreaking study of intellectual, sociocultural, political, and artistic networks that have emerged as the result of the Soviet engagement with the literary and cinematic fields in Africa...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 133–139.
Published: 01 June 2023
... with decolonization across the global south and the civil rights movement in the US. And after the collapse of the Soviet Union, a similarly expansive ambition has animated the reactionary worldbuilding of a new Eurasian global order extending from Moscow to China across the former Soviet territories...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 140–152.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Jinyi Chu Abstract What is the connection between class and race? Socialist revolutionaries in early twentieth-century Russia engaged with this question in their political essays. The imperial partition of China and the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway made the China question one...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 256–273.
Published: 01 June 2009
... a long process of civilization creation in the Afro-
Asian continent, beginning with the Neolithic cultures in present-day Turkey, with
cities as old as the seventh millennium BCE in Mesopotamia, passing through
Egypt in the fourth millennium, and appearing in the civilizations of India and
China...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 298–307.
Published: 01 September 2023
... national language (Japanese) and my second national language (Chinese). On the surface, the Republic of China’s abolition of the special Japanese colonial administrative concept of the Indigenous territorial boundary ostensibly granted Indigenous peoples equal rights of citizenship. The moniker...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (3): 256–267.
Published: 01 June 2002
...
thinkers from Latin America, Africa, and Asia to whom Young devotes the greater
part of his book is not merely a genealogical precursor of postcolonial theory—
one side, as it were, of the “Marxism and . . .” articulation that makes for the
unresolved tension in the work of contemporary theorists...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (3): 270–288.
Published: 01 September 2021
... of affiliation in Comparative Literature (1949–2019) and 1616: Anuario (1978–2019) Countries of Affiliation Comparative Literature 1616: Anuario Australia 2.25% — Canada 2.25% 1.27% China — 5.06% France 1.12% 3.80% Germany 3.37% 2.53% India 1.12% — Ireland...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (2): 177–180.
Published: 01 March 2006
...Ban Wang The Clash of Empires: The Invention of China in Modern World Making. By Lydia Liu. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. 318 p. University of Oregon 2006 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/170
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (4): 389–407.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Alena Rettová A central discussion in African Philosophy concerns the “African concept of time,” famously theorized by John S. Mbiti. Mbiti makes a distinction between a circular and a linear concept of time, associating the former with Africa and the latter with the West. Critical...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (2): 170–173.
Published: 01 March 2006
... and state power (94), comparing the work of these anthropologists with Ernst
Kantorowicz’s well-known study The King’s Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political The-
ology: “Just like the first kings of ancient China, Western sovereigns became the organiz-
ers of space and time, as well...
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