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...Neelofer Qadir Abstract Popular rhetoric of the twenty-first century as the “Asian century” frequently coheres around China as a rising global superpower and thus focuses on its financial and material ambitions in sites across Asia and Africa. Such narratives, ensconced within the BRICS (Brazil...

... Persian, Rashed confronted a readership for whom those gestures could only be signs of Indo-Persian nostalgia, and the poem was largely misread as a paean to the cultural identity of the East. Yet for Rashed, Asia is not a marker of cultural heritage but closer to what Gayatri Spivak has called...

...Su Fang Ng Empires of Love: Europe, Asia, and the Making of Early Modern Identity . By Nocentelli Carmen . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2013 . 262 p. © 2015 by University of Oregon 2015 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 446 the travels of Marco Polo...

... and Cultural Heritage in East Asia .” In Protecting the Weak in East Asia: Framing, Mobilisation, and Institutionalisation , edited by Amelung Iwo , Bӓlz Moritz , Holbig Heike , Schumann Matthias , and Storz Cornelia , 52 – 74 . London : Routledge , 2018 . Bartsch...

... influenced by free verse poetics in Marathi, making clear that any consideration of modern Hindi literature must take into account the complex interrelationships of literary cultures in South Asia. Thus, Muktibodh’s long poem prompts a reconsideration of the role of genre and form in our understanding...

... oceanic space that has mediated a dynamic cross-cultural traffic across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. In response to the territorial logic of old and new comparative literature, the polysemic nature of the Indian Ocean invites the following the question: what would world literature look like when...

...Lara Norgaard Abstract This essay analyzes representations of Asia in the satirical 1911 short story “O homem que sabia javanês” (“The Man Who Knew Javanese”) by Brazilian author Lima Barreto. Like much of Barreto’s work, the short story critiques the deterministic categories of scientific racism...

... of English, which is tied to the notion of South Asia as a postcolonial space. I argue that postcolonialism in this case functions as a catachresis, but that the inadequacy of the category is an enabling rather than disabling feature. Both Thapa and Derrida are preoccupied with the question of whether...

... the discourse of Afro-Orientalism that represents Asia as an undifferentiated, static entity and thus marginalizes Asian cultural production. © 2017 by University of Oregon 2017 Langston Hughes Korea the Harlem Renaissance translation anticolonialism Works Cited and Consulted Arendt...

...Geeta Patel Abstract Vernacularization as a concept has gained circulation in our time within the ambit of South Asia: scholars use it to name what they designate as local—whether sexuality, language, architecture, religion, capital, or aesthetic practices. When claims are made...

... to occlude important evidence of cultural contact and hybridities; and 4) recognizing that the insights afforded by postcolonial theory give us a better understanding of how “Europe” came into being, how it related to the rest of the world, and how the medieval history of contact between Europe and Asia...

... of Islands.” Asia/Pacific as Space of Cultural Production . Ed. Rob Wilson and Arif Dirlik. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995 . 86 -98. Hereniko, Vilsoni, and Rob Wilson, ed. Inside Out: Literature, Cultural Politics and Identity in the New Pacific . Boulder, CO: Rowman and Littlefield Press, 1999...

... objective status for what we could consider fantasy” and “has located fairyland in a definite place” (135, 144). What a shock. It is a simplification of the argument to say that Murrin located Fairy Land somewhere in Cen- tral Asia, but not a great simplification. So striking was the claim that rumors...

...: Great Power Rivalry and British Isolation , 1894 – 1905 . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2007 . Osterhammel Jürgen . Unfabling the East: The Enlightenment’s Encounters with Asia . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2018 . Oye David Schimmelpenninck van der...

... for these years. 34 Alternatively, it can be traced to the rejection of Rushdie and his work by a mob-like public that was mostly Muslim, in parts of England, Iran, and South Asia. 35 In this game of telephone, Lall is quoting Rothstein who is quoting Michael Wood, an English professor...

... by University of Oregon 2016 Relational comparison Bandung China world literature W.E.B. Du Bois Works Cited 60 Years: Asia-African Conference. Spec. issue of TEMPO ( 26 April 2015 ). Print . Anderson Perry . “Sino-Americana.” London Review of Books 34 . 3 ( 2012 ): 20...

...: Cambridge University Press, 2003 . Chaudhuri, K.N. Asia Before Europe: Economy and Civilisation of the Indian Ocean from the Rise of Islam to 1750 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990 . Cheah Boon Kheng. “The Rise and Fall of the Great Melakan Empire: Moral Judgement in Tun Bambang's...

... ambiguous. Europa has a prefatory dream in which she sees two continents fig- ured as women, one of whom, named Asia, represents herself as Europa’s mother, while the other, as yet nameless, seems foreign and unknown; each of the women claims that Europa belongs to her, and the foreign one takes her away...

..., then they would be naturally persuaded of democracy’s superiority. US military textbooks developed for use in Asia blatantly state that “truth should be the weapon and conversion the objective” of operating personnel ( Donovan ). Richard So has further asserted “‘the fact’ as communication’s most trusted ally...

... Cheah and Bruce Robbins. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998 . 216 -29. Barlow, Tani E. Introduction. Formations of Colonial Modernity in East Asia . Ed. Tani E. Barlow. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997 . 1 -20. ____. “'green blade in the act of being grazed': Late Capital...