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On Translation and Being Just: The Arabic Novel and the British Archive
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (4): 379–405.
Published: 01 December 2024
... in conversation with a contemporaneous Arabic novelization of the event. Reading across these divergent texts, the author investigates how translation shaped Dinshaway, and how Dinshaway might yet reshape conceptions of justice. In the archive, British officials use untranslatability to justify delay, absence...
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The Plantation as Archive: Images of “the South” In the Postcolonial World
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (4): 402–422.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Alfred J. López The central proposition of this essay is that a reading of the plantation as an archive, rather than as a single unified, stable signifier, offers possibilities for understanding the plantation image's continued efficacy as a signifier for today's postcolonial, postglobal South...
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Shipwrecks, Slavery, and the Challenge of Global Comparison: From Fiction to Archive in the Colonial Indian Ocean
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 446–461.
Published: 01 December 2012
... . 2012 ACLA PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Françoise Lionnet
Shipwrecks, Slavery,
and the Challenge
of Global Comparison:
From Fiction to Archive in
the Colonial Indian Ocean
he Indian Ocean has always been the most “global” of all oceans...
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Sebald's Parrot: Speaking the Archive
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 123–135.
Published: 01 March 2013
... of entering the state archive in Prague and discovering his own origins, he has a dream which implicitly recalls the figure of Humboldt's parrot, a talking animal and the only creature to preserve the sounds of a now extinct language. If this is an image sourced in the literature of eighteenth-century science...
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Baroque Sovereignty: Carlos Sigüenza Y Góngora and the Creole Archive of Colonial Mexico
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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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Fugitive Archives: Translation, Sea, and History in Indian Ocean Fiction
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 186–201.
Published: 01 June 2022
... drift, which refers to the self-conscious mode of rewriting the past that subjects the archive to the instability and fluidity of the sea. Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies (2006) and Gurnah’s Paradise (1994) both tell stories of forced displacements in the nineteenth-century Indian Ocean; both rewrite colonial...
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The Oasis Poets: Perpetrators, Victims, and Soldier Testimony
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (4): 366–382.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Antony Rowland This article examines the categories of victim and perpetrator testimony in relation to the writing contained in the Salamander Oasis Trust archive in the Imperial War Museum at Duxford. In Dimensions of the Holocaust , Elie Wiesel famously commented that the Holocaust produced...
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The World’s Literatures: Erich Auerbach’s Early Essays on Giambattista Vico
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (4): 381–403.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of the human “Schauspiel” (drama) and fateful “Lage . . . der Menschen” (human condition) in a world whose literatures reach far beyond the European archive enshrined in Mimesis . Auerbach Dr. Iur. Dr. Phil. Fasanenstr. 77. St[ein]pl[atz] 9539 16.2.22. Dear Mr. Frisch, Enclosed...
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What Original? Origin Stories, Script Teratologies, and Leibniz's Hexagrammatology
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 26–35.
Published: 01 March 2013
... as the origin or arché of the archive (versus cultural repertoires and marginal expressions). This essay uses Leibniz's search for a linguistic original and origin of Chinese as a test case as well as a caveat against some implications of the claim for linguistic “originality” (with its different meanings...
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Literary Praxis Beyond the Melodramas of Commitment: Edward Upward, Soviet Aesthetics, and Leftist Self-Fashioning
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (4): 408–428.
Published: 01 December 2013
... who traded his gift for the security of a cause.” Recuperative readings of the last few years have instead stressed Upward as an eccentric modernist rather than a doctrinaire adherent of socialist realism. Drawing extensively on unpublished archival sources, I argue that these recent recuperative...
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The Remediation of Higher Education and the Harm of Student Debt
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 43–51.
Published: 01 March 2014
... shifted from the government to the individual. One of the most striking features of this shift has been the astronomical increase of college student loan debt. This article outlines basic information about student debt and presents excerpts from an archive of testimonies of student debtors from across...
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The Rhythm of Unity: Irène Némirovsky’s Suite française and Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (1): 64–85.
Published: 01 March 2019
... how Suite française engages creatively with War and Peace and its reception. Building on archival material and close textual analysis, the article unravels the complex relation between the two novels by exploring questions of structure, the connections between history and fiction, and the use of music...
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Poster, “Solidarity,” by Kamal Boullata. Poster used by the General Union o...
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in Cross-Revolutionary Reading: Visions of Vietnam in the Transnational Arab Avant-Garde
> Comparative Literature
Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 2. Poster, “Solidarity,” by Kamal Boullata. Poster used by the General Union of Palestinian Students, 1969. The Palestine Poster Project Archives (PPPA).
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View of workers unloading bananas to the pier at the Baltimore and Ohio Rai...
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in Postindustrial Waterfront Redevelopment and the Politics of Historical Memory
> Comparative Literature
Published: 01 June 2021
Figure 3. View of workers unloading bananas to the pier at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Fruit Pier, October 1958. Courtesy of the Baltimore Museum of Industry Archives.
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Page from the Viennese address book of Sigmund Freud, showing Freud’s effac...
Available to PurchasePublished: 01 December 2018
Figure 2. Page from the Viennese address book of Sigmund Freud, showing Freud’s effacing of Theodor Reik’s contact details. From the archives of the Freud Museum, London. Used by permission.
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Poster, “Victory, Vietnam-Palestine,” in Arabic and English, designed by Is...
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in Cross-Revolutionary Reading: Visions of Vietnam in the Transnational Arab Avant-Garde
> Comparative Literature
Published: 01 September 2021
Figures 1a–b. Poster, “Victory, Vietnam-Palestine,” in Arabic and English, designed by Ismail Shammout. Published by the Palestine Liberation Organization, Lebanon, ca. 1972. The Palestine Poster Project Archives (PPPA).
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Colonial Copyright, Customs, and Port Cities: Material Histories and Intellectual Property
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (3): 264–277.
Published: 01 September 2018
... trade. This collapse of copyright (and indeed other forms of IP) into mark of origin was routine. A file in the Cape Town archives labeled “Merchandise Marks Law” contains a bewildering series of cases including fake razor blades, a list of copyright works from Britain, objects that falsely...
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Views of workers unloading a Banana Boat using electric conveyors at Pier O...
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in Postindustrial Waterfront Redevelopment and the Politics of Historical Memory
> Comparative Literature
Published: 01 June 2021
Figure 2. Views of workers unloading a Banana Boat using electric conveyors at Pier One on Pratt Street, March 5, 1928. Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. Print and Negative Collection. Courtesy of the Baltimore Museum of Industry Archives.
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Degree Zero of History
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (4): 404–425.
Published: 01 September 2001
...” is a conscientious, deconstructive scholar who is aware of the
limits of generalizations, but is rooted in problems of historiography, archive and documentary
evidence. I wish to thank Prof. Kazuko Takeyama, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo for requesting this
clarification.
5 For a discussion of the significance...
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Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (4): 506–508.
Published: 01 December 2023
... alma mater, Harvard University. Relatedly, but more saliently, we don’t actually know for sure what to call the person whom Gruesz narrates as his teacher, a man who appears elusively in the written archive produced by Mather and his contemporaries, and who is most vividly named by Mather’s neighbor...
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