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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (3): 340–360.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Oswaldo Zavala In the last decade, violence attributed to Latin American drug cartels has become a common theme in a proliferation of fiction and non-fiction about the drug trade written both in Mexico and the U.S. This essay shows how the majority of Mexican narconarratives—in particular the works...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (2): 228–232.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Jody Blanco Baroque Sovereignty: Carlos Sigüenza y Góngora and the Creole Archive of Colonial Mexico . By More Anna . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2012 . 360 p. © 2015 by University of Oregon 2015 Works Cited Anderson Benedict . Imagined...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (2): 192–206.
Published: 01 June 2012
... as literary icon and body of texts in order to assert their cultural credentials on the world stage. To that end, the essay is divided into three sections. The first examines how Joyce arrived in Mexico and the critical context that brought his work into the center of discussions about literature in the 1960s...
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (2): 142–163.
Published: 01 March 2008
...) . Mexico City: Joaquín Mortiz, 1973 . Alighieri, Dante. The Divine Comedy . Trans. Peter Dale. London: Anvil Press Poetry, 1996 . Anderson, Danny J. “Cultural Conversation and Constructions of Reality: Mexican Narrative and Literary Theories after 1968.” Siglo XX/XXth Century 8 . 1/2 ( 1990...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 274–294.
Published: 01 June 2009
...IGNACIO M. SÁNCHEZ PRADO Leopoldo Zea's philosophy of history constitutes a cogent interrogation of the colonial legacy in Mexico and thus also serves to demonstrate the importance of Latin America as a site of theoretical enunciation. This essay addresses Zea's early work on Mexico and his...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (4): 429–449.
Published: 01 December 2013
.../o communities. Significantly (and tragically), Letters ' Chicana protagonist, Teresa, envisions her recovery of a cohesive cultural identity as a return to a distant indigenous past (via traveling from the U.S. to Mexico) — which, I demonstrate, places Letters in conversation with Mexican...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (1): 41–63.
Published: 01 March 2019
... of the soul—and its affective manifestation in comparable contexts of postrevolutionary modernization and agricultural-economic transition. Both texts rupture the social realism that had dominated the literary scenes of Russia and Mexico, respectively, in the early twentieth century through the use...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 189–208.
Published: 01 June 2009
... area studies programs that focus on the U.S./Mexico border, the circum-Atlantic, the Pacific rim, the Caribbean, and/or the recently developed conceptual area of the Global South. The editors address these emerging American comparativisms—their limitations and potentials, their disciplinary commitments...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 231–243.
Published: 01 June 2009
... the current practice of Latin American history, U.S./Mexico border studies (particularly as developed by U.S. academics), and, since the 1980s, comparative American studies. The essay concludes by outlining a Boltonian approach to teaching the literature and history of the Americas and calling for a return...
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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 (2017) 69 (1): 129–141.
Published: 01 March 2017
... in the United States.” Comparative Literature 61 . 3 ( 2009 ): 346 – 65 . Web . Poniatowska Elena . La noche de Tlatelolco . Mexico : Ediciones Era , 1971 . Print . ———. Massacre in Mexico . Columbia : U of Missouri P , 1992 . Print . Rama Ángel . “El ‘boom’ en...
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (4): 389–391.
Published: 01 September 2008
... are produced largely in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and various U.S. cities: in Spanish-speaking Philadelphia and New York during the 1820s; in Cuba and Haiti during the 1830s; in New Orleans, Mexico, Haiti, and, yes, New England during the 1840s...
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (4): 391–394.
Published: 01 September 2008
... are produced largely in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and various U.S. cities: in Spanish-speaking Philadelphia and New York during the 1820s; in Cuba and Haiti during the 1830s; in New Orleans, Mexico, Haiti, and, yes, New England during the 1840s...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 256–273.
Published: 01 June 2009
... a lengthy discussion of everything 2 See Kadir’s 2007 keynote address to the International Forum at the annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association in Puebla, Mexico: “The Genesis of Comparative Literature: A Mexican Tributary,” available at www.acla.org/acla2007...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (3): i–xvi.
Published: 01 June 2006
..., Mexico xi Recognition of Contributors to the ACLA Endowments xi Comparative Literature Prizes for 2006 xiv 2006 René Wellek Prize Citation xvi ACLA Financial Statement COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/ii LETTER FROM THE ACLA PRESIDENT...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (2): 181–198.
Published: 01 June 2016
... thus challenges the idea that “politically motivated pornography” directly affected public opinion in the late eighteenth century. © 2016 by University of Oregon 2016 Enlightenment Colonial Mexico Religion History French Literature Works Cited Adamy Paule . “De qui est...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (4): 427–449.
Published: 01 December 2016
... a Critique of Sacrificial Reason: Necropolitics and Radical Aesthetics in Mexico.” What Else Could We Talk About? Ed. Medina Cuauhtémoc . México City : Editorial RM , 2009 . 131 – 43 . Print . Brean Herbert . “Men of the Mafia's Infamous Web.” Life Magazine . 1 Feb. 1960 : 58...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (2): 232–234.
Published: 01 June 2015
... resuscitation of the memory of Mexico before Spain: a risky enterprise, particu- larly when conducted outside the established institutions of interpretation (the govern- ment and the Church). Attentiveness to the stakes involved in such acts of remembrance can tell us not only about the melancholic passions...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (1): 90–93.
Published: 01 January 2009
.... Deke Dusinberre. New York: Routledge, 2002 . Knight, Alan. “Racism, Revolution, and Indigenismo: Mexico, 1910-1940.” Graham 71 -113. Pérez-Torres, Rafael. Mestizaje: Critical Uses of Race in Chicano Culture . Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2006 . Sommer, Doris. Foundational Fictions...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (1): 85–87.
Published: 01 January 2009
... sorrows and conversion, Mayan stone reliefs, the Codex Borgia, Rivera’s murals, Mexico’s Chur- rigueresque church facades, and Frida Kahlo’s self-portraits. These works fi nd a unify- ing center in her interpretation of the baroque, a defi ning feature of which is the “inor- dinate,” the tendency...