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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (2): 154–170.
Published: 01 June 2019
... that in his writings the deceptive device of mimicry resists totalitarianism precisely when it goes beyond any Aesopian or other useful purpose. Shalamov’s 1963 essay “The National Borders of Poetry and Free Verse” (“Natsial’nye granitsy poezii i svobodnyi stikh”) invites engagement as an exemplary Aesopian...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (1): 61–83.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., and Igiaba Scego. Drawing on diaspora studies, theories of narrative space, and contemporary theories of world literature, this article argues that Somali diasporic literature places at its imaginative and symbolic core the concept of the border. In so doing, Somali diasporic literature interlocks formal...
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Published: 01 June 2022
Figure 1. Map by GeoAtlas/GraphiOgre, 2019. Featured in Doctors without Borders’ 2021 map and fundraising campaign. Courtesy of Laurent Lafitte-Campagne, CEO of GeoAtlas/GraphiOgre. More
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (4): 376–386.
Published: 01 September 2006
..., complementarité, interférences , Paris: PUF, 2002 . Marquis de Custine. Lettres de Russie. La Russie en 1839 . Ed. Pierre Nora. Paris: Gallimard, 1975 . Meinhof, Ulrike H., ed. Living with Borders. Identity Discourses on East-West Borders in Europe . Alder-shot: Ashgate, 2002 . Odobescu, Alexandru...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 256–273.
Published: 01 June 2009
...ENRIQUE DUSSEL The present essay offers an interpretation of hispanos (Latin Americans and U.S. latinos) as historically, culturally, and geographically located “in-between” many worlds that combine to constitute an identity on the intercultural “border.” To illustrate how hispanos have navigated...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 26–51.
Published: 01 March 2023
... in the US-Mexico border, for example, assemble pieces usually shipped in from other countries and export finished products to the United States. Makina is a linguistic intermediary, as she explains herself: “Llevar mensajes era su manera de terciar en 18lm undo” (20; “Carrying messages was her way of having...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (3): 286–299.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Ania Spyra The study of the literature of large metropolitan centers that are divided along linguistic, ethnic, and cultural fault lines by colonizations, redrawn borders, or waves of migration provides one alternative to the national model in the study of comparative literature. Often opposed...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (2): 131–144.
Published: 01 June 2015
... no longer freely travelable, but crisscrossed by internal and international borders. This process is crucial in terms of the history of the novel because it undid the nexus of space, mobility, and narrative characteristic of the early-modern novel and forced the genre to invent plots that better aligned...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (3): 251–273.
Published: 01 September 2016
... in multiple versions, in countless fragments still being discovered throughout the Near East. This article explores how modern editions negotiate the borders of what comprises this work. Even more basically, it proposes that the very process of deciphering a forgotten language in an unknown script involves...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (1): 26–42.
Published: 01 January 2009
... and cosmopolitanism: the cultural critic and novelist Germaine de Staël (1766-1817). It argues that de Staël conceived of exile in terms of translation—as the necessity, even the opportunity, of crossing borders that are not only national but also linguistic and cultural. I begin by situating de Staël in relation...
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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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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 231–243.
Published: 01 June 2009
... the current practice of Latin American history, U.S./Mexico border studies (particularly as developed by U.S. academics), and, since the 1980s, comparative American studies. The essay concludes by outlining a Boltonian approach to teaching the literature and history of the Americas and calling for a return...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 274–294.
Published: 01 June 2009
... “Discourse on Margination and Barbarism,” putting them in dialogue with Gloria Anzaldúa's more recent theoretical engagement of border culture in order to assess their value as models for what Raewyn Connell calls “Southern theory.” This essay concludes with a discussion of several theorists who present...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 327–334.
Published: 01 June 2009
...MARY JEAN GREEN Although the field of American Studies has expanded beyond the borders of the United States, it continues to marginalize French-speaking cultures in the Americas: Québec, the Francophone islands in the Caribbean, and even Franco-Americans in the U.S. Although this marginalization...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (2): 144–160.
Published: 01 March 2010
... trajectory for understanding the emergence of European transnational prose modernism. In its conception, publication, and reception, A Madman's Defense straddles both national and linguistic borders; its plot involves travel trajectories that link Sweden with the continent, and Stockholm with Paris...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 361–375.
Published: 01 September 2010
..., Pound resists the homogenizing drive of imperial culture as well as the reification of national borders perpetuated in the study of national literatures. University of Oregon 2010 Ahearn, Barry. “Cathay: What Sort of Translation?” Ezra Pound & China . Ed. Zhaoming Qian. Ann Arbor: U...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (2): 137–161.
Published: 01 June 2013
... aspires to remind twenty-first-century critics that Freudian psychoanalysis was born at the border and emerged from the interstices of multiple languages, religions, and nationalities. In the Habsburg imperial setting where psychoanalytic thinking first took hold, the psychoanalytic subject and the syntax...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 207–226.
Published: 01 June 2023
... of East European borders. In the wake of the 2013–14 Euromaidan protests, poets in Ukraine have sought to correct the failures of both Soviet nationalities policy and post-Soviet Ukrainian national-identity formation by weaving Jewish, Ukrainian, and Crimean Tatar histories of collective trauma...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (2): 209–224.
Published: 01 June 2021
... , and Richter Virginia , eds. The Beach in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures: Reading Littoral Space . Farnham, UK : Ashgate , 2015 . Maggs Joseph . “ The ‘Channel Crossings’ and the Borders of Britain .” Race and Class 61 , no. 3 ( 2020 ): 78 – 86 . Mahmood Basit . “ Far Right...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (4): 429–449.
Published: 01 December 2013
... Palimpsest: Mexico in the Modern Imagination . Tucson : U of Arizona P , 1997 . Print . Cooper Janet . “A Two-Headed Freak and a Bad Wife Search for Home: Border Crossing in Nisei Daughter and The Mixquiahuala Letters.” Literature and Ethnicity in the Cultural Borderlands . Ed. Benito...