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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (2): 199–217.
Published: 01 June 2016
... writings in those of Zweig, however, the goal is to interpret their work within the broader context of the intellectual debate on race and identity in Brazil. While much has been written about Cendrars's impact on Brazilian modernism, his contribution to the development of the concept of Brazil's...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (3): 228–243.
Published: 01 June 2008
... imperial memories of the Danish West Indies. Nor do they
ever acknowledge their own ambivalent relationship to racial and ethnic differ-
ences. Aunt Katrina, for example, does not want to talk about mixed-race identity
and miscegenation as possible problems in Denmark. When her niece asks her if
she...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (2): 149–172.
Published: 01 June 2014
... . Three Sad Races: Race Identity and National Consciousness in Brazilian Literature . New York : Cambridge UP , 1983 . Print . Herman Arthur . The Idea of Decline in Western History . New York : The Free Press , 1997 . Print . Hollier Denis . A New History of French Literature...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (2): 207–227.
Published: 01 June 2015
... The idea of mestisaje (mixed-race identity), and especially Hispanicity, has had and continues to
have a strong valence in the Dominican Republic, a country that has struggled to define itself
against the state-valorized blackness of its neighbor. However, despite the fact that Haiti has
defined...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 179–200.
Published: 01 June 2024
... . . . the masses of simple people” (124). Conflations of race and class as manifestations of a supposedly primitive collective identity also appear in the French translation of Claude McKay that is excerpted in Légitime défense , and in Paul Morand ’s New York travelogue. In these texts, the idea that the Black...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (2): 130–140.
Published: 01 June 2016
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Nyong’o, Tavia. The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory. Minneapolis: U of
Minnesota P, 2009. Print.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 140
Pickens, Therí. New Body Politics: Narrating Arab and Black Identity in the Contemporary United States.
New York: Routledge, 2014...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 429–431.
Published: 01 September 2010
..., sexuality, and race, Slaves to
Fashion aims to elaborate a cultural history of black dandyism in identities of the African
diaspora from the Enlightenment to the twenty-first century. In training the specific lens
of dandyism on such a wide historical and thematic expanse, Miller’s study incites...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (4): 385–402.
Published: 01 December 2021
... destruction. 17 More seriously, the charge that Vive la France is a vehicle for American-style identity politics, unsurprising within the universalist, republican discourse that dominates discussions of racism in France, completely ignores the multidirectional, relational analysis of race in the play...
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Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 423–426.
Published: 01 September 2010
..., sexuality, and race, Slaves to
Fashion aims to elaborate a cultural history of black dandyism in identities of the African
diaspora from the Enlightenment to the twenty-first century. In training the specific lens
of dandyism on such a wide historical and thematic expanse, Miller’s study incites...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 420–421.
Published: 01 September 2010
..., sexuality, and race, Slaves to
Fashion aims to elaborate a cultural history of black dandyism in identities of the African
diaspora from the Enlightenment to the twenty-first century. In training the specific lens
of dandyism on such a wide historical and thematic expanse, Miller’s study incites...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 421–423.
Published: 01 September 2010
..., sexuality, and race, Slaves to
Fashion aims to elaborate a cultural history of black dandyism in identities of the African
diaspora from the Enlightenment to the twenty-first century. In training the specific lens
of dandyism on such a wide historical and thematic expanse, Miller’s study incites...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 426–429.
Published: 01 September 2010
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ings about race and national identity by Brazilian authors who participated in the modern-
ist movement and by U.S. authors of the Harlem Renaissance. While there has already
been much research devoted to debunking the myths of racial democracy in these societ-
ies, Nunes’s approach is novel in two...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 237–265.
Published: 01 September 2023
..., “Memories” 7 ). To whose benefit, at what times, and for what implications are the European scholars in the United States exiles and not refugees, or refugees and not exiles? The categories of exile, émigré, immigrant, refugee, and migrant are identity categories with different class and race valences...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (1): 94–113.
Published: 01 March 2015
... explicitly attempts to create an homol-
ogy between race and caste or blackness and untouchability; instead, he demon-
strates that understanding Dalit identity through Black idioms can lead to the
invention of a new language of psychic subjugation, one which neither the lan-
guage of caste nor...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 73–88.
Published: 01 March 2023
... and slow consideration of Castelo’s body and the way in which Albernaz gathers meaning from that analysis is a moment of reading, but a failed one, because the categories that exist to organize race are as much a fiction as Castelo’s invented identity. Indeed, the racial categories mobilized by members...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 274–294.
Published: 01 June 2009
... Identity and Social Liberation in Latin American Thought . Albany: State U of New York P, 1993 . Stepan, Nancy Leys. “The Hour of Eugenics.” Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America . Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1996 . Swarthout, Kelley R. “Assimilating the Primitive.” Parallel Dialogues on Racial...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (4): 429–449.
Published: 01 December 2013
...-Lewis David . Cambridge : Harvard UP , 2002 . 3 – 50 . Print . McClintock Anne . Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest . New York : Routledge , 1995 . Print . Milligan Bryce . “An Interview with Ana Castillo.” South Central Review 16...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (1): 3–24.
Published: 01 January 2011
... ( 2004 ): 31 -46. Print. Camfield, Greg. “Sentimental Liberalism and the Problem of Race in Huckleberry Finn.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 46.1 ( 1991 ): 96 -113. Print. Castillo, Susan. “Narratives of Blood.” Rev. of Mixed Blood and Other Crosses: Rethinking American Literature from...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (3): 300–315.
Published: 01 September 2012
... identitary synthesis, perhaps emblematizing
Bhabha’s “liminal” negotiation of cultural identity across differences of race, class,
gender, and cultural traditions. More importantly, they all engage in a continual
interchange that produces a poetic construction, and a mutual and mutable rec-
ognition...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 335–345.
Published: 01 June 2009
... and dislocation that emphasize the historical,
geographical, economic, and cultural connections among various parts of the
hemisphere, and the narratives that represent this movement are characterized by
signifi cant differences concerning the culture, national origin, gender, class, and
race...
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