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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 52–72.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Scott Newman Abstract This article examines the figuring of Black voices in literature, specifically addressing the grotesque sonority of Anglophone and Francophone African writing. The analysis focuses on the Zimbabwean Dambudzo Marechera’s stuttered speech in the semi-autobiographical short...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (1): 72–92.
Published: 01 March 2018
... dynamic that makes “black voice” or
“black vernacular” the tropological foil to “Oriental writing.” For example, in a
study of early American talkies, Alice Maurice shows how the aura of authenticity
in “black voice” results in the “over-embodiment of African American perform-
ers” (158). Here...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (2): 227–246.
Published: 01 June 2014
... Literary Monthly in 1930), Hughes’s copy of
his own translation of “Black and White,” published in Film Forum in May 1933,2
and strategies Louis Aragon offered to Hughes —contained in the preface to one
of his translations, “À pleine voix” (“At the Top of One’s Voice”) —for importing
the Soviet...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (4): 404–426.
Published: 01 December 2022
... oppressed can be addressed in anticolonial relation. Although the use of the formal/plural you ( vous ) in one sense can be read as a formal address, even a voice of language, the use of vous , to quote Scharfman, “indicates the presence of an intrasubjective dialogue” between the speaker and the black...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (4): 269–293.
Published: 01 September 2007
...,” 3). Florián had a beaver-skin hat made in
the same color (“También sacó de castor/del mismo color, sombrero,” 5-6). The
poetic voice adds two verses that underscore the rarity of having even a single
black hair from this typically brown animal: “y es mucho que en negro tenga/de
aqueste animal un...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (4): 385–402.
Published: 01 December 2021
... as a voice recites excerpts from the first chapter of Frantz Fanon’s classic work on anti-Black racism, Black Skin, White Masks . As this selective summary of scenes indicates, the contiguous and continuous experience of racism is the thread that links France’s (post)colonial subjects, from Martinique...
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Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2022
... pronouncements the voice of a Black man who has not forgotten the miseries inflicted upon him by the French colonial power. This moment thus represents an epiphany in which the poet sees through the false universalism of the French civilizing mission and asserts an alternative universalism conceived from his...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 283–297.
Published: 01 September 2023
... huia ). But that wasn’t all. When visitors viewed the upright, parallel figures more closely and from multiple angles, the black whale and the wood canoe were also revealed to be representations of voiced instruments. The convex body of the black whale with distinctly Northwest Coast designs carved...
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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
..., sexuality, and race, Slaves to
Fashion aims to elaborate a cultural history of black dandyism in identities of the African
diaspora from the Enlightenment to the twenty-first century. In training the specific lens
of dandyism on such a wide historical and thematic expanse, Miller’s study incites...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 421–423.
Published: 01 September 2010
..., sexuality, and race, Slaves to
Fashion aims to elaborate a cultural history of black dandyism in identities of the African
diaspora from the Enlightenment to the twenty-first century. In training the specific lens
of dandyism on such a wide historical and thematic expanse, Miller’s study incites...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 426–429.
Published: 01 September 2010
... to
Fashion aims to elaborate a cultural history of black dandyism in identities of the African
diaspora from the Enlightenment to the twenty-first century. In training the specific lens
of dandyism on such a wide historical and thematic expanse, Miller’s study incites a much-
needed dialogue between...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 429–431.
Published: 01 September 2010
..., sexuality, and race, Slaves to
Fashion aims to elaborate a cultural history of black dandyism in identities of the African
diaspora from the Enlightenment to the twenty-first century. In training the specific lens
of dandyism on such a wide historical and thematic expanse, Miller’s study incites...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (2): 201–221.
Published: 01 June 2017
... ventriloquism,” Korean translators subtly insert subversive slogans into Hughes's radical poem “Our Land” in order to encourage anticolonial sentiment against Japanese censorship. By focusing on both Hughes's disaggregate representations of Asians and Korean circulations of black culture, this essay reconsiders...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 172–187.
Published: 01 June 2023
... migrant workers and residents from the Caucasus and Central Asia as well as the Black and Brown bodies of immigrants and travelers who were suddenly cast outside boundaries of post-Soviet citizenship and international solidarity ( Sahadeo, “Black Snouts,” Voices ; St. Julian-Varnon). Indeed, the word...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (1): 94–113.
Published: 01 March 2015
... subjectivity and the ongoing injustices of caste prejudice and violence. © 2015 by University of Oregon 2015 Dalit Marathi Manohar Namdeo Wankhade Walt Whitman Black Arts Movement Works Cited Adarkar Neera Menon Meena . One Hundred Years, One Hundred Voices: The Millworkers...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 89–110.
Published: 01 March 2023
... of struggling eyes, ears and brains responding to Mouth’s speech” (119). This visceral experience has been described by Corey Wakeling as a “deprivation felt . . . through sensory immersion, without narrative distance” (95). As audience, we find ourselves plunged into pitch blackness (with even fire exit...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 113–126.
Published: 01 March 2014
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Danticat, Edwidge. Breath, Eyes, Memory. New York: Vintage, 1998. Print.
Dukats, Mara L. “The Hybrid Terrain of Literary Imagination: Maryse Condé’s Black Witch of
Salem, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Hester Prynne, and Aimé Césaire’s Heroic Poetic Voice.” Race-ing
Representation: Voice, History...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (3): 298–313.
Published: 01 September 2019
... considers how the contemporary “Black Lives Matter” movement reckons with the problem of particularity and identity while also gesturing toward an incalculable singularity—infinitely deferred yet always “present.” Of course, the appearance of the Danish king’s ghost differs from that of Horton’s Whos...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 244–255.
Published: 01 June 2009
... & Faber, 1996 . James, C.L.R. The Black Jacobins . 2nd ed. New York: Vintage, 1963 . ____. Spheres of Existence . Westport: Lawrence Hill, 1980 . Lezama Lima, José. José Lezama Lima: Selections . Ed. Ernesto Livon-Grosman. Berkeley: U of California P, 2005 . ____. Obras Completas...
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