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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 (2015) 67 (3): 287–311.
Published: 01 September 2015
... of the notion of interactive universalisms, which I borrow (and modify) from Seyla Benhabib. © 2015 by University of Oregon 2015 world-forming interactive universalisms indenture creolization coolitude Works Cited Alpers Edward A. The Indian Ocean in World History . New York...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 247–263.
Published: 01 June 2022
..., this essay reveals how an elongated temporal frame that accounts from non-European vantages—even in contemporary Anglophone literature—reorients not only what we consider the past and present of Indian Ocean worlds, but also how those pasts bear on the contemporary. [email protected] Copyright © 2022...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 147–155.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Firat Oruc Abstract Although the study of Indian Ocean literary circularities is a relatively new and dynamic field, it calls for alternative paradigms for global literary history in light of the nascent conversation between comparative world literature and oceanic studies. Following the creative...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 171–185.
Published: 01 June 2022
... object-oriented ontology, and world literature, this essay explores how a close encounter with objects, stories, and descriptive language can reveal the form and poetics of the Indian Ocean. A concept of regional relationality, encompassing both connectivity and narratability, emerges alongside...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 156–170.
Published: 01 June 2022
... multiple elsewheres. They conjure the Indian Ocean through tastes, scents, and views of its rich interiors, which delineate a distinctively coastal world implicated to different degrees in the vaster oceanic region. Borrowing from aesthetic theories, the article explores the poem’s sensuality...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 7–15.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Ashley L. Cohen This essay begins by observing that the Indian and Atlantic Ocean worlds were deeply linked in eighteenth-century British literature and colonial discourse—so deeply, in fact, that they shared a common name: “the Indies.” Theorizing outward from this case study, this essay advocates...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 186–201.
Published: 01 June 2022
... sources to recreate a colonial Indian Ocean world for a twenty-first-century audience in a predominantly monolingual medium of the novel. Ghosh uses colonial dictionaries to reconstruct the linguistic heterogeneity of colonial India, and Gurnah, likewise, reworks nineteenth-century travelogues written...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 202–218.
Published: 01 June 2022
... . Creolization has come to imply the encounter of Africans and Europeans in the Atlantic world through enslavement ( Kabir, “Beyond” ), with the privileged site for the concept’s theoretical elaborations being the Caribbean sugar plantation islands, though it is varyingly applied to Indian Ocean insular contexts...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 233–246.
Published: 01 June 2022
... Britain’s colonies in India and the Americas” ( 9 ), staging an inter-regional comparison between Indian Ocean and Atlantic worlds. The Atlantic is also a comparative body in Isabel Hofmeyr’s essay “The Black Atlantic Meets the Indian Ocean,” which argues that a three-way comparison of “the black Atlantic...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 March 2017
... : U of California P , 2009 . Print . Hofmeyr Isabel Dhupelia-Mesthrie Uma Kaarsholm Preben . “Durban and Cape Town as Port Cities: Reconsidering Southern African Studies from the Indian Ocean.” Journal of Southern African Studies 42 . 3 ( 2016 ): 375 – 87 . Print...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 446–461.
Published: 01 December 2012
... in part to the commercial activities facilitated by Bomma.
History has retained few traces of these men, but they serve as an entry into
the cosmopolitan and erudite universe of the northern Indian Ocean. Ghosh
provides a magnificent description of that world prior to Vasco de Gama’s arrival...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 219–232.
Published: 01 June 2022
... intellectually viable for multitudes of border-crossing cultural agents” ( Lionnet and Jean-François 1228 ), they fail to take into account the fact that not only is it possible and legitimate for Appanah to write about migrations both in the Indian Ocean and in the rest of the world, but it is also quite...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 264–272.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Françoise Lionnet Abstract The continued strategic importance of the Indian Ocean has led to contests over the sovereignty and integrity of its islands and territorial waters. Francophone Mauritian writers have been vocal about a situation they have denounced as unacceptable. Their literary...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 45–53.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., Atlantic, Pacific,
or Indian Ocean Studies, or inchoate initiatives such as the “Energy Humanities”
(see Reviews). Reflecting on the field itself, the invited contributions also draw
upon specific long-standing projects that take the oceans as their framework for
research: a half-dozen years ago...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (4): 445–446.
Published: 01 December 2015
... but traversable distances
of some of the most forbidding terrain on earth, were the dark foundations for the light-as-
air tales of romance.
In the second part the scene shifts south to the Indian Ocean with an account of the
romance of Huon of Bordeaux, and once again the most fantastic episodes...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (3): 241–245.
Published: 01 September 2015
... and unpredicted possibilities.”
Françoise Lionnet’s contribution, “World Literature, Postcolonial Studies, and
Coolie Odysseys: J.-M.G. Le Clézio’s and Amitav Ghosh’s Indian Ocean Novels,” is
simultaneously a commentary on decentering fictions by two very different award-
winning novelists...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (4): 293–312.
Published: 01 September 2006
..., and ideas traveled over great distances. Like the Mediterranean, the Indian
Ocean connected its different shores into a single economic entity with consider-
able cultural continuities.6 Globalization is not a new phenomenon. The Malay
Archipelago was connected to the wider world through networks...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 283–297.
Published: 01 September 2023
..., but it also featured four holes drilled in a line below the fin—that is, the four tone holes of a flute (in Graham’s Maori tradition, a koauau or putorino , but perhaps also, given the sculpture’s location in Seattle, an American Indian flute). Similarly, the concave body of the ocean-voyaging canoe—which...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 306–325.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., UK : Carcanet , 2017 . Hart Jonathan Locke . “ Poetry in English as Comparative and World Literature .” University of Toronto Quarterly 88 , no. 2 ( 2019 ): 229 – 45 . https://doi.org/10.3138/utq.88.2.10 . Hatch Emelyn . “ ‘A Deep Ocean One Can Plunge Into’: Interview...
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