...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...

... savior of the darker races of the world, the leader of Asia, and a great stabilizing force in those areas of backward China LANGSTON HUGHES, KOREANS, AND OVERLAPPING DISPOSSESSIONS / 207 where the armies of the Rising Sun were spreading culture” (I Wonder 275–76). The police also changed...

... ( 2000 ): 58 – 78 . Oye David Schimmelpenninck van der . Russian Orientalism: Asia in the Russian Mind from Peter the Great to the Emigration . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2010 . Oye David Schimmelpenninck van der . Toward the Rising Sun: Russian Ideologies of Empire...

...: Cambridge University Press, 2003 . Chaudhuri, K.N. Asia Before Europe: Economy and Civilisation of the Indian Ocean from the Rise of Islam to 1750 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990 . Cheah Boon Kheng. “The Rise and Fall of the Great Melakan Empire: Moral Judgement in Tun Bambang's...

... of affection, Nocentelli argues that the eroticization of spousal relations not only paralleled the rise of ethnography in the European expansion overseas, but was also linked to it. Travel in Asia profoundly shaped the understanding of European sexuality and racial identity as Euro- pean ethnography...

... objective status for what we could consider fantasy” and “has located fairyland in a definite place” (135, 144). What a shock. It is a simplification of the argument to say that Murrin located Fairy Land somewhere in Cen- tral Asia, but not a great simplification. So striking was the claim that rumors...

... with APEC-like stories and Pacific Rising images. We need to begin articulating a “critical regionalism” in the Asia- Pacific region, one respectful of Asian and Pacific heritages, diasporas, and communities, but wary of hegemonic designs articulated upon these diverse localities and social groupings...

... analogies looked as unlikely. It was, after all, the growing Western academic interest in East Asia that made René Étiemble declare a crisis in comparative literature in the 1960s. If comparative literature, having started out as comparison across the Rhine following the rise of national consciousness...

... by University of Oregon 2016 Relational comparison Bandung China world literature W.E.B. Du Bois Works Cited 60 Years: Asia-African Conference. Spec. issue of TEMPO ( 26 April 2015 ). Print . Anderson Perry . “Sino-Americana.” London Review of Books 34 . 3 ( 2012 ): 20...

... ambiguous. Europa has a prefatory dream in which she sees two continents fig- ured as women, one of whom, named Asia, represents herself as Europa’s mother, while the other, as yet nameless, seems foreign and unknown; each of the women claims that Europa belongs to her, and the foreign one takes her away...

... Ivens; it also discusses early works of Chris Marker. Through comparing the films about Spain, China, and Southeast Asia that span decades between the Spanish Civil War until the Vietnam War, Djagalov highlights Karmen’s legacy for world cinema (for example, Karmen’s footage of the Spanish Civil War...

... of the liberalization of the Indian economy or the growth in transnational manufacturing in Bangladesh—or political—in the form of Pakistan’s involvement in the US war in Afghanistan or India and Pakistan’s development of nuclear capabilities—the large-scale rise in interest in South Asia between 1991 and 2008...

... powers. As critical geographer Sharad Chari cautions, postcolonial infrastructures of capitalism and resource extraction systematically disadvantage African societies, turning them into extractive enclaves for a so-called rising Asia: “If the ‘gatekeeper state’ was an institutional form forged...

... language literatures in Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific Rim, and elsewhere are cultural realities that need to be studied and are unlikely to be thwarted or slowed by English departments or literary critics turning away from the language specificity of Anglophone poetries. However diversified...

... uncontested, growth into a de facto linguistic standard for political and commercial interaction throughout the world. As he declares in a particularly notable passage from the opening chapter: “The global spread of English and the rise of English language literatures in Asia, Africa, the Caribbean...

... language literatures in Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific Rim, and elsewhere are cultural realities that need to be studied and are unlikely to be thwarted or slowed by English departments or literary critics turning away from the language specificity of Anglophone poetries. However diversified...

... in Europe, and the spread of European empires in Asia and Africa. Nationalism gave the comparative urge its fundamental ambiguity or ambivalence. On the one hand, with the emergence of literature in vernacular languages, national rivalries enlisted literature as cultural capital, and comparison came...

...): the former death-dealing, the latter life-giving. The rise of stronger forms of pan-Arab and territorial anti-colonialism and nationalism in the twentieth century, following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and entrenchment of British and French imperialisms across West Asia and North Africa, would...

...MONICA SPIRIDON University of Oregon 2006 Bassin, Mark. “Asia.” Modern Russian Culture . Ed. Nicholas Rzhevsky. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998 . 57 -85. Braudel, Fernand. Espace et histoire. Vol 1 of L'identité de la France . Paris: Arthaud-Flammarion, 1986...

... to its own death) overemphasizes the decline of the Mughal empire as the relevant historical and political context for the ghazal in South Asia while masking the rise of British colonialism that more directly precipitated this political decline. Nevertheless, colonialism cannot be underestimated...