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“Enter Ghost of Goethe”: Comparison and Indigenous Literary Studies in the Pacific
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 266–282.
Published: 01 September 2023
... scholar Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett arrived in Auckland with his freshly printed book Comparative Literature , drawing on work by, among others, Goethe . Responding to Pacific studies scholar Teresia Teaiwa’s argument that “more often than not … the Pacific is not brought to the table as an equal partner...
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Doing Cultural Studies Inside Apec: Literature, Cultural Identity, and Global/Local Dynamics in the American Pacific
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (4): 389–403.
Published: 01 September 2001
... in order to force upon “Asia/Pacific” a
critical awareness of its own regional unevenness, alternative possibility, spatial
contestation, and desublimated otherness. “Asia/Pacific” can thus become a criti-
cal signifier for a cultural and literary studies (inside APEC, as it were) in which
opposition...
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Where Oceans Come from
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 25–31.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Alice Te Punga Somerville Tracing the various names used for the Pacific Ocean and drawing on Pacific scholarship and poetry, this article suggests alternative genealogies for the field of Ocean Studies that are visible from the Pacific region. Observing that the claim that Ocean Studies began...
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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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The Trans-Indigenous Lens: A Re-recognition
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 283–297.
Published: 01 September 2023
... of Minnesota Press , 2014 . Diaz Vicente M. “ Ocean in the Plains: The Politics and Analytics of Trans-Indigenous Resurgence in Chuukese Voyaging of Dakota Lands, Waters, and Skies in Miní Sóta Makhóčhe .” Pacific Studies 42 , nos. 1–2 ( 2019 ): 1 – 44 . Gandhi Evyn Lê Espiritu...
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Transpacific Community: America, China, and the Rise and Fall of a Cultural Network
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (1): 114–116.
Published: 01 March 2019
... of mediation” (xxvii). As an imagined, conceptual space in which these figures negotiated between the political ideologies of liberalism and leftism as well as Eastern and Western cultures, the Pacific was also mediated quite literally by the advent of new technological media. The historicity of this study...
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Afterword: The Last Universal Commons
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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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Introduction: Globalization and the Humanities
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (4): 275–282.
Published: 01 September 2001
... the media construction of
consumer citizenship and calls upon academic intellectuals to respond critically
to the challenge of neoliberal globalization.
A similar counterhegemonic impulse underlies Rob Wilson’s critique of the
“Asia/Pacific” construct. “Doing Cultural Studies Inside APEC” (Asia...
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Beyond Afro-Orientalism: Langston Hughes, Koreans, and the Poetics of Overlapping Dispossessions
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (2): 201–221.
Published: 01 June 2017
... Walters John , eds. Langston Hughes and the South African Drum Generation: The Correspondence . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2010 . Print . Green Michael Cullen . Black Yanks in the Pacific: Race in the Making of American Military Empire after World War II . Ithaca : Cornell UP...
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Indian Ocean Narratives, Tidalectics, and Perth’s Centre for Stories
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 233–246.
Published: 01 June 2022
... toward a new present. While it may seem unusual to employ Perez’s idea of reading anthologically, mooted in a Pacific context, to analyses of literature about the Indian Ocean, several studies of the latter have assayed an inter- or transregional approach. Gaurav Desai’s Commerce with the Universe...
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Plausible Intimacies: Transpacific Entanglements in Lima Barreto’s “O homem que sabia javanês”
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 73–88.
Published: 01 March 2023
... on the streets of Rio, revealing the tangible closeness of two experiences categorized as different and distant. The essay considers how the plausible yet fictional intimacies in this literary counternarrative conceptually reorient readers toward both the Pacific and the Atlantic. 4 Lowe crafts...
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Democratizing Illnesses: Umezaki Haruo, Censorship, and Subversion
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (2): 157–178.
Published: 01 March 2000
..., 1945-1949 . Lund Studies in International History no. 23. Malmö: Liber Förlag, 1986 . Busch, Noel F. Fallen Sun: A Report on Japan . New York: Appleton, 1948 . Cobley, Evelyn. Representing War: Form and Ideology in First World War Narratives . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993...
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Submarine Futures of the Anthropocene
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 32–44.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Elizabeth DeLoughrey This essay outlines the development of the “oceanic turn” and the rise of “critical ocean studies” as vital to figuring the Anthropocene. It builds upon the work of Elizabeth Povinelli's theory of “geontologies,” and by turning to the submarine sculptures of Jason deCaires...
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Poetry and the Production of Solidarity: Nazım Hikmet in Beijing, “Asiafrica,” and World Literature
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Comparative Literature (2025) 77 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 March 2025
... poetry solidarity China world literature translation DURING HIS VISIT TO BEIJING in 1952 to attend the Asia-Pacific Peace Conference (APC), the Turkish poet Nazım Hikmet cut a striking figure to his interviewer Yang Xuechun: “After only a few days in Beijing, the poet has a custom-made walking...
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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
... in modern and contemporary France (Sciamma, Varda), bodily mausolea of migration on the Senegalese shoreline (Diop), and shapeshifting war memorials in Atlantic and Pacific tidelands (Darrieussecq, Rolin, Virilio). Examples of anamorphic seascapes, especially in photography, underscore the reversibility...
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A Transnational Poetics
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (4): 448–451.
Published: 01 December 2011
..., the
Pacific Rim, and elsewhere are cultural realities that need to be studied and are unlikely
to be thwarted or slowed by English departments or literary critics turning away from
the language specificity of Anglophone poetries. However diversified by region and
nation, imaginative constructs in a shared...
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Desiring Bodies: Ovidian Romance and the Cult of Form
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (4): 452–454.
Published: 01 December 2011
... language literatures in Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, the
Pacific Rim, and elsewhere are cultural realities that need to be studied and are unlikely
to be thwarted or slowed by English departments or literary critics turning away from
the language specificity of Anglophone poetries. However diversified...
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Voices Revealed: Arab Women Novelists, 1898–2000
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (4): 454–456.
Published: 01 December 2011
... language literatures in Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, the
Pacific Rim, and elsewhere are cultural realities that need to be studied and are unlikely
to be thwarted or slowed by English departments or literary critics turning away from
the language specificity of Anglophone poetries. However diversified...
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Transatlantic Irishness: Irish and American Frontiers in Patrick McCabe's The Butcher Boy
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (1): 3–24.
Published: 01 January 2011
... to theorize
transatlantic intersections if American Studies is to overcome “an isolationist ten-
dency to construe” questions of race and gender “as interior histories whose range
of reference stops at the checkpoints of various borders or at the Atlantic and Pacific
seaboards” (47). The attention...
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The Native in Comparative Literature
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (3): 272–275.
Published: 01 September 2020
... native nativism complicity Emecheta COMPARATIVE LITERATURE IS about other languages, a sense of equivalence among languages, and a study of the denial of that equivalence when necessary. “Native” as a rather violent mark of that historical denial belongs largely to the British empire. The term...
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