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Poetry and the Camp: Epiphanic Witness and Ecstatic Cry in the Spanish-Cuban-American War of 1895–98
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (4): 403–420.
Published: 01 December 2021
.... As I argue, the reconcentrado ’s misery and abject vulnerability are precisely what render the violence of Americans “humanitarian” and that of Cubans “decorous” or “redemptive.” And this proves more scandalous than one may expect. For such poetry disavowed collateral responsibility...
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Guantánamo, Cuba: Poetry and Prison on Divided Ground
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (3): 299–315.
Published: 01 September 2020
... as geographically continuous with, and affectively connected to, Cuba. This article reads the poetry of Mohammed el Gharani and Ibrahim al-Rubaish, former detainees included in Marc Falkoff’s collection Poems from Guantánamo: The Detainees Speak , and of José Ramón Sánchez, longtime resident of the Cuban city...
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Concretism’s Dissonant Objects
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Comparative Literature (2025) 77 (1): 40–65.
Published: 01 March 2025
..., in speaking, ruins and leaves us in the ruins of the foundations of “speech.” Rachel Price tells us that Brull’s coining of the term jitanjáfora coincided with the rise of Afro-Cuban poetry: “Early commentaries on the movement used the concept of the jitanjáfora verse to cite, mimic, or parody African...
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A Great Bridge That Cannot Be Seen: Caribbean Literature as Comparative Literature
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 244–255.
Published: 01 June 2009
... Thiong'o. Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedoms . Portsmouth: Heinemann, 1993 . Ortiz, Fernando. Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar . Trans. Harriet de Onís. Durham: Duke UP, 1995 . Saussy, Haun, ed. Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins...
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Latin, Latino, American: Split States and Global Imaginaries
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (4): 373–388.
Published: 01 September 2001
... . Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1999 . 1 -22. Bloom, Harold. The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages , New York: Harcourt Brace, 1994 . Colás, Santiago. “Of Creole Symptoms, Cuban Fantasies, and Other Latin American Postcolonial Ideologies.” PMLA 110 . 3 ( 1995...
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The Politics of Plagiarism: Queer Appropriation and Collaborative Creation in Ena Lucía Portela and María Moreno
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (4): 471–497.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Natasha Tanna Abstract This article analyzes queer literary politics and the engagement with cultural precursors in the 1990s and into the twenty-first century in works by Cuban writer Ena Lucía Portela and Argentine writer María Moreno. The lack of a clearly defined tradition of lesbian/queer...
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The Coup of Langston Hughes's Picasso Period: Excavating Mayakovsky in Langston Hughes's Verse
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (2): 227–246.
Published: 01 June 2014
... uait” an integral part of his oeuvre, Hughes’s decision to translate them
would appear rather curious if one failed to consider the important role played in
their selection by the Cuban literary critic and translator José Antonio Fernández
de Castro. Fernández de Castro, a man whom Hughes...
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Latinx Cosmopolitanism in the Global South: Víctor Hernández Cruz and the Nostalgia of Egypt
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (4): 429–450.
Published: 01 December 2024
...: Cuban and Angolan Narrative after the Cold War . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2019 . Moreno Marisel C . “ ‘Swimming in Olive Oil’: North Africa and the Hispanic Caribbean in the Poetry of Víctor Hernández Cruz .” Hispanic Review 83 , no. 3 ( 2015 ): 299 – 316...
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Gained in Translation: Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s Soviet Travels
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (1): 41–60.
Published: 01 March 2021
... ʻĀliyah , 1987 . Faiz̤ Faiz̤ Aḥmed . Mah o sāl-i āshnāʼī: yādoṉ kā majmūʻah ( Months and Years of Friendship: Recollections ). Karachi : Maktabah-yi Dāniyāl , 1981 . Faiz̤ Faiz̤ Aḥmed . Safarnamah-e Kyūbā ( Cuban Travelogue ). Lahore : National Publishing House , 1973...
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The Wound and the Witness: The Rhetoric of Torture
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (3): 328–331.
Published: 01 September 2011
... a writer (Sheila), the other an artist (Sandra), a book illustrated by photographs
of miniature installations (chapter 7), as well as Cuban installation artist Sandra Ramos’s
work (chapter 8). Juxtaposing immigration and exile, chapters 7 and 8 also contrast Mexi-
can American immigrant expression...
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Misplaced Objects: Migrating Collections and Recollections in Europe and the Americas
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (3): 336–339.
Published: 01 September 2011
... a writer (Sheila), the other an artist (Sandra), a book illustrated by photographs
of miniature installations (chapter 7), as well as Cuban installation artist Sandra Ramos’s
work (chapter 8). Juxtaposing immigration and exile, chapters 7 and 8 also contrast Mexi-
can American immigrant expression...
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Neobaroque: Latin America's Alternative Modernity
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (2): 128–152.
Published: 01 March 2006
... Faulkner), Latin Ameri-
can colonial historians of the 1940s (Angel Guido, Pedro Henríquez-Ureña, and
Mariano Picón-Salas), Cuban essayists of the post-WWII era ( José Lezama Lima,
Alejo Carpentier, and Severo Sarduy), postmodern Latin American “Boom” nov-
elists (Carlos Fuentes and José Donoso...
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Greek Tragedy in Vergil's Aeneid : Ritual, Empire, and Intertext
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (3): 331–335.
Published: 01 September 2011
... a writer (Sheila), the other an artist (Sandra), a book illustrated by photographs
of miniature installations (chapter 7), as well as Cuban installation artist Sandra Ramos’s
work (chapter 8). Juxtaposing immigration and exile, chapters 7 and 8 also contrast Mexi-
can American immigrant expression...
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Riding the Black Ram: Law, Literature, and Gender
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (3): 339–343.
Published: 01 September 2011
... American Sheila and Sandra Ortiz Taylor’s
Imaginary Parents: A Family Autobiography (1996), a collaborative project created by two sis-
ters, one a writer (Sheila), the other an artist (Sandra), a book illustrated by photographs
of miniature installations (chapter 7), as well as Cuban installation...
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On the Translatability of Cultural Phenomena: Modernismo and Modernism within and without Mass Culture
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (3): 344–359.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., critical, and even journalistic currency before the turn of the twentieth century. From as early as 1888, modernismo referred to a transnational poetic movement conventionally dated around 1880–1920 and associated primarily with Rubén Darío ( 1867–1916 ) and Cuban José Martí (1853–95). When Darío deployed...
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Afterword: The Littoral Museum of the Twenty-First Century
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (2): 237–254.
Published: 01 June 2021
... of sand and cement in Japan (Narahashi, Ono), as well as the dereliction of Cuban beach architecture and American industrial harbors (Morales, Sekula). In art as in criticism, the waterfront stages gender and class crossings (Dumont) and tangles fields. The afterword thereby weaves the major threads...
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Nancy Cunard and the 1930s Coalitional Anthology
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (4): 448–470.
Published: 01 December 2022
... extensive connections within the Spanish-language poetry community to secure poems from Generation of 1927 poets Alberti and the future Nobel laureate Aleixandre, the Argentine Raúl González Tuñón, and the Afro-Cuban communist Guillén. Aside from the well-known contributions such as Auden’s “Spain...
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Jiménez, Modernism/O, and the Languages of Comparative Modernist Studies
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 127–147.
Published: 01 March 2014
... initiated by the Cuban poet José Martí. It was first crystallized in the
Nicaraguan writer Rubén Darío’s Azul . . . (1888), given its name and sense in an
1890 essay of Darío’s, then faded in the 1910s with the rise of various avant-gardes
and the death of Darío in 1916. As the first pan-Spanish...
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The Afterlife of Storytelling: Julio Cortázar's Reading of Walter Benjamin and Edgar Allan Poe
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (3): 244–260.
Published: 01 June 2008
... tratado de entender el
peronismo” After] That contact with the Cuban people . . . suddenly, without realizing it [I was
never conscious of all this] and already on my way back to Europe, I saw for the fi rst time that I had
been placed right in the heart of a people that was making its revolution...
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The Geopolitics of Comparing and Representing the Other
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (3): 289–298.
Published: 01 September 2021
... that are given to those elements in that particular geopolitical location. Consequently, the notion of “transculturation,” formulated by the Cuban Fernando Ortiz Fernández in the 1940s, is of relevance here. He sought to move away from the idea of “acculturation,” which held that there was a hegemonic culture...
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