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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (1): 20–43.
Published: 01 March 2024
... Anglophone, which are rival strategies for the teaching of non-Western literatures in English in US academe. In its concluding sections, the essay considers whether it is possible to teach Bhagat’s “English like Hindi” without allowing it to masquerade as a conduit to a supposedly authentic Indian vernacular...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 273–288.
Published: 01 September 2022
... postcolonial comparative literary critic has always known of the dominance of certain literatures in languages such as Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu. Other Indian literatures have had less national let alone global circulation whether the works have been written in English...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 289–292.
Published: 01 September 2022
... in a culture where stories played a significant role in shaping our consciousness, and they were not always in the written form. Assamese Assam Northeast India Indian English literature Amitav Ghosh orality Copyright © 2022 by University of Oregon 2022 [email protected] Over...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 399–419.
Published: 01 September 2010
... Indian Literature” and S. Mukherjee, Idea). The goal was to
weave India’s many diverse linguistic/literary strands into a singular overarching
category called “Indian literature” (ironically, in English translation), a category
that would reveal the national unity underlying India’s multilingual...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 186–201.
Published: 01 June 2022
... . “ The Submerged History of the Indian Ocean in Admiring Silence .” English Studies in Africa 56 , no. 1 ( 2013 ): 65 – 77 . Orsini Francesca . “ The Multilingual Local in World Literature .” Comparative Literature 67 , no. 4 ( 2015 ): 345 – 74 . Prestholdt Jeremy . “ Locating...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (4): 333–356.
Published: 01 December 2019
... in the West. 25 In this sense, Hamid’s text carries the burden of the South Asian postcolonial canon, which allows it to be staged as the “other” to both an older Indian writing in English in South Asia, and a category like Western or even American literature in the Euro-American literary field. 26...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 15–25.
Published: 01 March 2013
... and Madness.” Translation Review 65 ( 2003 ): 47 – 53 . Print . Chaudhuri Amit . “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore.” A Concise History of Indian Literature in English . Ed. Mehrotra Arvind Krishna . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2009 . 117 – 32 . Print...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 171–185.
Published: 01 June 2022
... to it. To see the Indian Ocean in By the Sea is not only to see it from an English afar and a modern day, and not only from a national-territorialism that counters its regional translocalities, but from the close up of the intimacies and animacies of things and words, another kind of stuff that regional...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 54–73.
Published: 01 March 2017
... Venuti.
London: Routledge, 2000. 126–40. Print.
Obilade, Tony. “The Stylistic Function of Pidgin English in African Literature: Achebe and Soy-
inka.” Research in African Literatures 9.3 (1978): 433–44. Print.
Ramanujan, A.K. “Some Thoughts on ‘Non-Western Classics’: With Indian Examples...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (4): 466–486.
Published: 01 December 2018
...-rate. It’s circumscribed by what the western reader can appreciate: exotica or erotica. . . . The [Indian Writer in English] takes a touristy look at India” (qtd. in Brouilleltte, “South Asian Literature” 34–35 ). 11 See also the attitude of one of the informants in Narayanan: “English...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (3): 283–298.
Published: 01 September 2020
... of despair at the proliferation of languages, whether eighteen . . . , fifty-six . . . , or whatever canonical number happened to be in vogue” (509). Long before the arrival of the English and their language, literate Indians were expected to be conversant not only with “Languages of Place,” or desabhasas...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (3): 287–311.
Published: 01 September 2015
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of academic interest in questions of créolité subsequent to the publication in 1989
of the Martinican manifesto Éloge de la créolité and the translation into English of
Edouard Glissant’s Discours antillais (Caribbean Discourse). In Coolitude: An Anthology
of the Indian Labour Diaspora (2002), Torabully...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 16–24.
Published: 01 March 2017
... and nativist thought. At the same time, coastal form is found to decenter, extend, and thicken constructions of world literature, while opening to a planetary perspective sensible to the prodigious and implacable forces of the Anthropocene. © 2017 by University of Oregon 2017 Indian Ocean African...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (4): 293–312.
Published: 01 September 2006
... on “imagined communi-
ties” in Indonesia has been widely used by postcolonial scholars as well as scholars
of other periods of English literature seeking to understand state formation and
its relationship to print culture. The cultural anthropologist Clifford Geertz’s
analysis of nineteenth-century...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 233–246.
Published: 01 June 2022
... and branches in a great many spaces elsewhere” ( introduction 10–11 ) both in Australia and along the Indian Ocean’s rim. Using Wood’s meditations as a starting point, I argue in this essay that scholars working on the literatures of the Indian Ocean should pay attention to literary anthologies such as Wave...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (1): 94–113.
Published: 01 March 2015
... chosen to spell his name as Wankhade, given that several of his English-language
publications as well as his U.S. records spell it as such.
3 Except when otherwise indicated, translations are mine with the assistance of Shantanu Kher
and Sunder Hattangadi.
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 7–15.
Published: 01 March 2017
... the Atlantic: English Globetrotters and Transoceanic Connections.” William and Mary Quarterly 63 . 4 ( 2006 ): 675 – 92 . Print . Green Nile . “Maritime Worlds and Global History: Comparing the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean through Barcelona and Bombay.” History Compass 11 . 9 ( 2013...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (3): 320–343.
Published: 01 September 2021
... historiography. At the scale of Hindi literature, as part of the larger literary history of North Indian literary idioms, the long poem can be understood as one resolution to a tension within Hindi poetry over the fate of the epic poem, or kāvya , which was an important element in how literary critics analyzed...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 220–239.
Published: 01 June 2024
... . “ Yiddish Endangerment as Phenomenological Reality and Discursive Strategy: Crossing into the Past and Crossing out the Present .” Language & Communication 38 ( 2014 ): 18 – 32 . Bevis William . “ American Indian Verse Translations .” College English 35 , no. 6 ( 1974 ): 693 – 703...
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The Hikayat Abdullah , the Missionary Press, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century “World Literature”
Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (4): 451–471.
Published: 01 December 2024
... one landed on merits of the Malay language, “it must be admitted that for the sake of its literature there would be little inducement to Europeans to study it” (122). Such was the opinion of the Indian Magazine in its effort to “supply information” about Malay to a middle-class English...
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