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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (1): 94–113.
Published: 01 March 2015
... in Wankhade's criticism, from early writings on Whitman's “spiritual democracy” to essays on the Black Arts Movement and Ralph Ellison, which were repurposed by a generation of Marathi Dalit writers. These writings imagined new terms of Dalit identity outside of the discourse of the Indian nation...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (1): 119–140.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Alexander Lewis Abstract This article looks at the influence of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s early philosophy of language on the Black Arts Movement. Amiri Baraka’s essay / prose poem “Expressive Language” ends with a quotation from Wittgenstein: “Can the concept of God exist in a perfectly logical...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (1): 44–64.
Published: 01 March 2024
... Patricia . The Ruse of Repair: US Neoliberal Empire and the Turn from Critique . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2021 . Thomas Lorenzo . “ Neon Griot: The Functional Role of Poetry Readings in the Black Arts Movement .” In Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word , edited...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (2): 227–246.
Published: 01 June 2014
... : Editorial de Arte y Literatura , 1974 . Print . ———. “Two Weeks” . Trans. Hughes Langston . ts . 1930 . Langston Hughes Papers, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Archive , Yale University , New Haven . Gilroy Paul . The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness . New...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 179–200.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Alys Moody Abstract The negritude movement emerged from the Black intellectual milieu of Paris in the 1930s and became one of the defining anticolonial modes of the postwar years. It stands as an exemplary case of primitivism beyond its canonical European forms, performing a striking détournement...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 135–156.
Published: 01 June 2024
... between routes and roots, as Paul Gilroy neatly summarizes movements across the Black Atlantic ( 117, 133 ), opens up a space for new temporalities, historicities, narrativities. The desire to compensate for the transience and self-searching that come with exile generates a politics of displacement...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 89–110.
Published: 01 March 2023
... rather than as meaningful signifiers. The effect on the actor playing Mouth is even more intense: she performs in pitch black, usually strapped in place to prevent any movement other than her mouth. 5 The actor’s body is restrained not only to maintain the dramatic visual image of Mouth, however...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (2): 150–165.
Published: 01 June 2021
... in the original notebook offers two drawings of jellyfish ( fig. 2 ). One with nearly translucent, pink and blue highlights shows a cross section illustrative of the organism’s radial symmetry, with labels such as “mouth” pointing at the black square at the center of the image, gonads depicted as markings...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (2): 201–221.
Published: 01 June 2017
... assigns colonial images of black disenfranchisement to Koreans through translation, Hughes in his own translations relates black struggles to communist revolts, anticolonial fraternizations, and Négritude movements around the world (see Edwards, Fowler, Kaup, Kernan, Kutzinski, and Leary). 12...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (4): 429–450.
Published: 01 December 2024
... in particular draws from Egypt’s first prime minister, Gamal Abdel Nasser, who spearheaded his country’s decolonization movement and, symbolically, a South-South solidarity archetype. As an ancient civilization and a model of anti-colonial defiance, Egypt therefore represents nostalgia for bygone glories...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (3): 360–381.
Published: 01 September 2021
... States as a crucial anti-colonial link to Algerian revolutionary thought ( Souffles published the Black Panthers’ Ten-Point Program in 1969), American anti–Vietnam War poetry was placed alongside other contemporary movements in the radical Left. Similarly, Palestinian artist and art critic Kamal...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 283–297.
Published: 01 September 2023
... in both alphabetic writing and mathematics to denote significant relationships—to explicitly connect modes of human communication to the movement of the canoe, a technology deployed by Indigenous peoples across the Pacific. Similar to human voices, canoes transport meaning across distances. At line 13...
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (3): 228–243.
Published: 01 June 2008
...: Oxford University Press, 2007 . Gilman, Sander L. “Black Bodies, White Bodies: Toward an Iconography of Female Sexuality in Late Nineteenth-Century Art, Medicine, and Literature.” “Race,” Writing, and Difference . Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986 . 223 -61...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 293–305.
Published: 01 September 2022
... (New York: Fordham University Press, 2018). Through her study of C. L. R. James’s and Hélio Oiticica’s experimental and theoretical engagements with twentieth-century Trinidadian and Brazilian black popular arts respectively, Harris considers both the popular practices and theorizations...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (2): 238–249.
Published: 01 June 2017
... is or, better, what it does.1 For Noland, developing a poetics capable of appreciating the work of Césaire and Damas requires a multiply contextualizing approach grounded in the recogni- tion that Negritude is “a text-based (rather than oral) movement” (241), the prod- uct first and foremost of a print...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 335–345.
Published: 01 June 2009
.... Vélez-Ibáñez, Carlos, and Anna Sampaio, eds. Transnational Latina/o Communities: Politics, Processes, and Cultures . Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002 . Walcott, Rinaldo. “ `A Touch of Geography': Towards a Poetics of Black Space(s) in Canada.” Unhomely States: Theorizing English-Canadian...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (1): 46–59.
Published: 01 March 2018
..., as he does so, the narrator observes that the “black folio . . . nicked [his] pupil and a sharp pain ricocheted through [his] brain” (59). When the blackness does not dis- sipate, the narrator flees his mistress’s apartment, with, he says, “enough material” for a short story about the man...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 423–426.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Jaime Hanneken Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity. By Monica L. Miller. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. 390 p. University of Oregon 2010 BOOK REVIEWS Or l a n d o f u r i o s o...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 420–421.
Published: 01 September 2010
..., do lesser known treatises on the influence of the maternal imagination, theories of agricultural improvement, dissertations on elocution, anxieties about over-population, and the movement to stabilize the English language. “Separat[ing] out the literary from the scientific from the medical from...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 421–423.
Published: 01 September 2010
..., do lesser known treatises on the influence of the maternal imagination, theories of agricultural improvement, dissertations on elocution, anxieties about over-population, and the movement to stabilize the English language. “Separat[ing] out the literary from the scientific from the medical from...