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... Press, 1991 . BURNING WITH SHAME/307 RAHUL GAIROLA Burning with Shame: Desire and South Asian Patriarchy, from Gayatri Spivak’s “Can the Subaltern Speak?” to Deepa Mehta’s Fire...

...Roanne L. Kantor Abstract This article seeks to explain the recent popularity of South Asian Anglophone literature (beginning in 1981 and peaking between 1998 and 2008) in light of the boom in Latin American literature of the 1960s. It argues that the phenomenon of regional literary “booms” shares...

... comparisons between an imagined shared antiquity. Yet less work has been done comparing Eastern and Western ways of conceiving this analogy with current work in comparative literature. This essay considers late nineteenth- through early twentieth-century East Asian and Western analogies between classical East...

...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...

... ventriloquism,” Korean translators subtly insert subversive slogans into Hughes's radical poem “Our Land” in order to encourage anticolonial sentiment against Japanese censorship. By focusing on both Hughes's disaggregate representations of Asians and Korean circulations of black culture, this essay reconsiders...

...Sushil Sivaram Abstract This article reasons that the Jaipur Literature Festival between 2008 and 2011 attempted to institute via polemics, judgment, and celebration the category of the Pakistani novel in India by importing an alterity industry. By failing to contextualize alterity in a South Asian...

... of South Asian literary cultures and their engagements with the world. [email protected] Copyright © 2021 by University of Oregon 2021 realism modernism Hindi poetry Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh long poem śāyad, tolstoy-numā koī vah ādmī, mere kisī bhītarī dhāge kā āxirī chor...

... (Albanian, 1978); Sonallah Ibrahim’s Ice (Arabic, 2011); and Yurii Andrukhovych’s Moscoviad (Ukrainian, 2000). These works each depict a different decade and come from different locations on the concentric map of Soviet influence: the Afro-Asian world, Eastern Europe, and the non-Russian USSR. Together...

... between subject and mechanism, voice and noise. Tone, in my case studies, indexes failed acts of representation. Wang’s tone is excessively animated, insofar as a compensatory liveliness exceeds Wang’s own person. By contrast, the tone of War Trash is neutral. In approximating “Asian” through noise rather...

... vernacularization in this fashion and mobilized instead an accounting of the brutalist colonial histories where it was deployed for colonial transformation? The Urdu modernist poet Miraji (1912–1949), eschewing the term “vernacular,” mined English and European languages, and other Asian and Indian literary lineages...

...Madhumita Lahiri Abstract Whereas most modern South Asian vernacular literatures emerged in concert with nationalism, Tagore moved Bengali literature to its contemporary colloquial form even as he became ever more critical of Indian nationalism. This essay follows Tagore’s anti-nationalist and pan...

... he tried to conform and the experiences he had to transmit (123, 147–48). The final part turns to Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Marlowe’s Tamburlaine, the Asian silk trade, the middle-class, un-aristocratic audience of The Faerie Queene, and finally to the greatest geographical poet ever, John...

... and Asianism in the Age of Late Capital.” Public Culture 12 ( 2000 ): 233 -57. Cumings, Bruce. “Rimspeak; or, The Discourse of the `Pacific Rim.'” What Is In a Rim?: Critical Perspectives on the Pacific Region Idea . Ed. Arif Dirlik. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1993 . Dirlik, Arif, ed., “Introduction...

... and Transnational Reproduction.” Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism 5 . 1 ( 2004 ): 226 – 56 . Print . Chiu Monica . Filthy Fictions: Asian American Literature by Women . Walnut Creek : Altamira P , 2004 . Print . Fish Cheryl J. “The Toxic Body Politic: Ethnicity, Gender...

... Indonesian, 1950–1965 . Ed. Lindsay Jennifer Liem Maya H.T. . Leidon : KITLV Press , 2012 . 255 – 81 . Print . Burges G. Thomas . “Mao in Zanzibar: Nationalism, Discipline, and the (De)Construction of Afro-Asian Solidarities.” Making a World after Empire: The Bandung Moment...

...-Asian, tricontinental. Via literary and literary-critical engagements with the Vietnam War, this article first reconstructs a multilingual archive of transnational revolutionary thought in Arab avant-garde magazines in Morocco, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and the United States. Seeing Palestine through...

... countries. The focal point of this chapter is the Communist University for Toilers of the East (KUTV), which was established in 1921 and became the site of the first cultural encounters between Soviet, Asian, and African writers. Among KUTV graduates were prominent authors hailing from many countries...

... l'origine troyenne des Turcs.” Körösi Csoma-Archivum 2 ( 1926 -32): 422 -33. Frank, Andre Gunder. ReOrient: Global Economy in the Asian Age . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998 . Geertz, Clifford. Negara: The Theater State in Nineteenth-Century Bali . Princeton: Princeton...

... and Fall of a Cultural Network invigorates the burgeoning study of early Asian American literature in the pre–civil rights era with its dazzling conceptualization of a transpacific community among American and Chinese writers and musicians during the interwar years. Focusing on the United States during...