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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 26–51.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Mariajosé Rodríguez-Pliego Abstract This article explores the relationship between storytelling and prophecy by reading narratives of extractivism in the US-Mexico borderlands that raise questions about the apocalyptic aftermaths of colonialism. Specifically, it analyzes contemporary migration...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 201–219.
Published: 01 June 2024
... remnant at the edge of the world-system. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by University of Oregon 2024 African literature modernism folklore extractivism jungle BORN IN ABEOKUTA, Nigeria, in 1920, Amos Tutuola is best known for his first two novels The Palm-Wine Drinkard...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 45–53.
Published: 01 March 2017
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as a mysterious, blank res nullius or no man’s land to a final frontier for privatized
extractivism, itself facilitated in places by the melting of polar icecaps.
As the introduction to this forum signals, a tension exists between a more
humanist Oceanic Studies concerned with the historical invention...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 220–239.
Published: 01 June 2024
... from which they crafted their works. Seen in this way, ethnopoetics depends on a literary version of the theft of land and of the extractivism that follows it: appropriation. Christine Meilicke, in the only book-length study of Rothenberg’s poetry, argues that “appropriation is fundamental to his work...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (3): 316–339.
Published: 01 September 2020
..., providing a local counterpoint to the text’s globalized outlook. Isookanga’s epic hustle collides with Salonga’s deep time, producing postcolonial globalization’s extractive time. Russell West-Pavlov has explored how this extractivism manifests in the novel through biopolitics. He shows how Marx’s...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 240–259.
Published: 01 June 2024
... impulse to romanticize “wild” others. It is driven by the perceived imminent extinction of the wild. To think of rewilding as a speculative utopian project brings to the fore the material conditions—land clearances and habitation loss, the degradation of environments by pollution and extractivism...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (3): 355–377.
Published: 01 September 2024
... In my use of the phrase “extractive reading,” I am thinking with Amanda M. Smith, who examines literature’s relationship to “the ecology of extractivism” and ways that fictional texts may disrupt or reinforce it ( 6 ). In a different sense, one less directly engaged with global geopolitics, pushing back...
