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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (3): 252–271.
Published: 01 September 2019
...L. Maria Bo Abstract This article examines Eileen Chang’s 1953 translation of Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea into Chinese as Cold War propaganda for the United States Information Service (USIS). It argues that this translation, meant to show the truth of democracy through its high...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (4): 503–505.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Marta Hernández Salván [email protected] Forms of Disappointment: Cuban and Angolan Narrative after the Cold War . By Lanie Millar . New York : State University of New York Press , 2019 . 262 pp. Millar reads disappointment as a collective feeling created polyphonically...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (3): 283–301.
Published: 01 June 2010
... of messenger writer. This in turn contributes to a more thorough historicization of the texts and the concerns of iconic leftist writers in the Cold War. University of Oregon 2010 Benjamin, Walter. “Theses on the Philosophy of History.” Illuminations . Trans. Harry Zohn. Ed. Hannah Arendt. New York...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (1): 72–92.
Published: 01 March 2018
... than essence, a neutral tone undercuts the management and representation of race in our post-Cold War present. Copyright © 2018 University of Oregon 2018 Cold War US-China relations first-person voice tone Works Cited Bachner Andrea . Beyond Sinology: Chinese Writing...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 188–206.
Published: 01 June 2023
... politics of the Right. It argues that the end of the Cold War prompted a reconfiguration of political identities and public discourse in both the West and the former Soviet territories—through distinct but interrelated logics—that highlighted the failures of liberalism in ways that set the stage...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 244–255.
Published: 01 June 2009
...CHRISTOPHER WINKS Building on Ngugi wa Thiong'o's concept of moving the cultural center away from Europe towards a multiplicity of creative centers and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's call for a revitalized comparative literature that would avail itself of the insights of a post-Cold War area studies...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 201–219.
Published: 01 June 2024
... modernism and Cold War discourses of apocalypse. In this way, the article claims the importance of The Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts both to African modernism and to the evolving engagement across the twentieth century between eccentric writing and the preservation of an imagined...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (4): 429–450.
Published: 01 December 2024
... challenges the internalization of whiteness for a Latinx population. But part of the issues that arise with this valorization is that Cruz’s poetry draws from a Cold war-era nostalgia of internationalist (or “Nasserist”) rhetoric, and other forms of Egyptian neoliberal nationalisms that complicate Cruz’s...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (4): 283–297.
Published: 01 September 2001
... altered all national and international
relations: first, the ascendancy of the so-called neo-liberal economy; second, the
end of the cold war; and, finally, the spread of desocialized individualism, or self-
interest and self-indulgence, as the rational choice in everyday life. These devel-
opments...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (1): 144–146.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., Japan, and the Soviet Union, had established cinema industries, many newly independent African countries had few if any films to show and benefited from the Soviet support of their filmmakers. Taking the readers behind the scenes of the Cold War–era film industry, this chapter also discusses Soviet...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 172–187.
Published: 01 June 2023
... the Russian president recently compared himself, to the Cold War “sphere of influence” whose loss he has frequently lamented since calling the collapse of the Soviet Union “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe,” in 2005. In tandem with Vladimir Putin’s own historiographical exegeses in the months leading up...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (4): 466–486.
Published: 01 December 2018
... diplomatic priorities. This is not to say that Hanif or the universities hosting him are cynical promoters of those priorities. Indeed, I follow Cohn in reiterating that authors have historically navigated politically treacherous Cold War patronage with a quite conscious intention of subverting...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 43–51.
Published: 01 March 2014
... : Beacon , 2009 . Print . “Impact of Economic Crises on Mental Health.” World Health Organization: Regional Office for Europe , 2011 . Print . Lewontin R.C. “The Cold War and the Transformation of the Academy.” The Cold War and the University: Toward an Intellectual History...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 133–139.
Published: 01 June 2023
.... Their reverberations across the globe, in fact, are made even more visible against the ethnically centered nationalisms—whether expressed in explicitly white Christian terms or disguised as authoritarian civic nationalism—that have filled the vacuum of the Cold War ideological binary in the decades following...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (1): 3–24.
Published: 01 January 2011
.... ———. Gangs of New York Soundtrack . Universal International, 2002 . CD. Suri, Jeremi. “Explaining the End of the Cold War: A New Historical Consensus?” Journal of Cold War Studies 4.4 ( 2002 ): 60 -92. Print. Syndergaard, Rex. “`Wild Irishmen' and the Alien and Sedition Acts.” Eire-Ireland 9.1...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (3): 234–238.
Published: 01 June 2005
...HAUN SAUSSY University of Oregon 2005 Chomsky, Noam, et al., eds. The Cold War and the University: Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years. New York: New Press, 1997 . H.R. 3077. “Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute.” 18 Mar. 2004 < http://edworkforce.house.gov...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (3): 316–339.
Published: 01 September 2020
... in South Africa . Lanham, MD : Lexington Books , 2009 . Plihon Dominique . “ L’altermondialisme, version moderne de l’anticapitalisme? ” Actuel Marx 44 , no. 2 ( 2008 ): 31 – 40 . Popescu Monica . South African Literature beyond the Cold War . New York : Palgrave Macmillan...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (1): 105–106.
Published: 01 March 2016
... untimeliness and creative autonomy from history.
Stepping back from either position, Norman argues and illustrates through perceptive
close readings and imaginative comparisons that the desire for ahistoricism is itself his-
torically conditioned by the Post- and Cold War moment. Norman moves from...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (1): 114–116.
Published: 01 March 2019
.... In addition to its resplendent archival research and compelling literary analysis, this trailblazing book unleashes a multitude of possibilities in ensuing scholarship on the culture of the Pacific, Asian American modernism, popular front cultural productions and Cold War aesthetics. For these reasons alone...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 237–265.
Published: 01 September 2023
... are allowed to be hidden behind what is deemed respectable scholarship. I am thinking here of the Cold War and the immediate post–Cold War context for comparative literature, as the generation of European exiles before de Man established the discipline in the US academy into which de Man entered and in which...
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