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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (2): 179–188.
Published: 01 March 2010
... to embrace all imaginative literary forms. Robbins has a more precise focus: the inter-relations among erotic and displaced erotic desires and drives; the class formations and reformations of capitalist, especially bourgeois, liberal societies; and the emergent formation of the welfare state as the mechanism...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 111–128.
Published: 01 March 2017
... and utterly fail. This article explores these narratives as “fictions of globalization” (James Annesley) that use spatial tropes and imaginaries as well as multiple references to the work of Franz Kafka to tell stories of alienation and Western masculine failure in the global capitalist economy. In both...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 240–257.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Anne-Lise François Abstract From Carolyn Merchant to Theodor Adorno, historians and critics of capitalist modernity have described its expansion as the story of the lifting of traditional taboos, or inversely as the laying down of a ban on taboo itself such that nothing is to remain off-limits...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 240–259.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Ben Etherington Abstract This essay considers whether the contemporary rewilding movement is a reincarnation of twentieth-century primitivism. Both reject capitalist modernity’s drive to dominate nature, and both idealize an originary or innate natural condition. Both are also galvanized...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (3): 291–306.
Published: 01 September 2011
... the ultimate endpoint of individualism. As the capitalist moder-
nity that gave birth to the Bildungsroman took global shape, however, its effects,
consequences, and meanings proved uneven. As a result, when writers on the colo-
nial spaces of the world system embraced the Bildungsroman they also...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (4): 452–454.
Published: 01 December 2017
... South that attempts to remake the world against capitalist
globalization” (2). Challenging recent accounts of world literature — which have largely
taken for granted the concept of “world” by reducing it to “circulatory movements that cut
across national-territorial barriers” (3) — Cheah’s...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 140–152.
Published: 01 June 2023
... by-product of capitalism. For Lenin, capitalism inevitably becomes imperialism because capitalist economies seek foreign markets and colonies in pursuit of maximum profits. In this process, imperialist powers use racial hierarchy and the inevitable clash of civilizations to legitimize imperialist expansion...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 159–179.
Published: 01 June 2020
... Hopkins University Press . 23 Oxford English Dictionary , s.v. “contiguity,” https://www-oed-com.proxy.library.nyu.edu/view/Entry/40226?redirectedFrom=contiguity (accessed August 10, 2019). 22 Davis’s precise description of the function of gender within a capitalist system...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (3): 351–353.
Published: 01 September 2017
... that emerged during three distinct moments, or
phase transitions, during China’s transformation from a Communist state (that experi-
mented with a capitalist alterity) to a global capitalist superpower and the world’s second
largest economy. In each section Li takes two chapters to explore films from...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (4): 389–403.
Published: 01 September 2001
... Asia-Pacific, and little harm will be done except to purists of cul-
tural borders, nation-mongers, or diehard pre-modernists who refuse to dream
in the late-capitalist future over the world’s biggest ocean.
More than stylistic promise or commercial slogan, “Asia-Pacific” also serves...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (1): 58–71.
Published: 01 January 2002
.... The rise of modern ethnography is in turn
examined in relation to the institutionalization of the natural sciences (espe-
cially astronomy and “micrography the emergence of a worldwide capitalist
market, and the ever more rapid revolutions of fashion—the restless vogues in
dress and cosmetics...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (2): 225–236.
Published: 01 June 2021
... a decade after Terminal Frigo (2005)—a melancholic journey through the ports of deindustrialized France, former sites of high-drama docker union strikes—of the deracinated, anonymized, zombified face of late-capitalist global labor. 3 The semiautomated extraction and hydraulic transport (pipelines...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (4): 442–461.
Published: 01 September 2001
... . Li, Cheng. “200 Million Mouths Too Many: China's Surplus Rural Labor.” The China Reader: The Reform Era . Ed. Orville Schell and David Shambaugh. New York: Vintage, 1999 . 362 -73. Lowe, Donald. The Body in Late-Capitalist USA . Durham: Duke University, 1995 . MacIntyre, Alasdair. After...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (1): 114–129.
Published: 01 March 2015
...” of labor under capital as follows:
The labour process becomes the instrument of the valorisation process, of the process of capital’s
self-valorisation the process of the creation of surplus value. The labour process is subsumed
under capital (it is capital’s own process) and the capitalist enters...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (2): 158–176.
Published: 01 March 2007
... from a vaunted disaffection with capitalist culture and its “ethic of
duty” (Bourdieu 366-67) to a resigned, if sometimes exuberant, acceptance of
hegemonic conditions—conditions revealed through the experience of travel.
For no matter what their original class status, Western slacker-travelers...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (2): 128–152.
Published: 01 March 2006
... developments in Asia, and especially in China, played in contributing to Europe’s global domi-
nance (43-67).
7 Wallerstein has recently updated his world-systems theory with an argument paralleling Dussel’s
critique: “[t]here could not have been a capitalist world economy without the Americas...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 188–206.
Published: 01 June 2023
... and the United States, the putative “end” of the Cold War paved the way for an aggressive ethos of capitalist competition that in its turn fueled the disenchantment of the bulk of the population whose labor—and therefore lives—was no longer of value. In the absence of the binary opposition between communism...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (3): 302–305.
Published: 01 June 2010
... at the Gate of Heavenly Peace, as Tiananmen
is literally known in Chinese, was a watershed world-historic event that marked China’s
compulsory participation in — and is the de facto sign of — the completion of the “civilized”
liberties of today’s global capitalist order. The brutal suppression...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (3): 305–307.
Published: 01 June 2010
... at the Gate of Heavenly Peace, as Tiananmen
is literally known in Chinese, was a watershed world-historic event that marked China’s
compulsory participation in — and is the de facto sign of — the completion of the “civilized”
liberties of today’s global capitalist order. The brutal suppression...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (3): 308–311.
Published: 01 June 2010
... at the Gate of Heavenly Peace, as Tiananmen
is literally known in Chinese, was a watershed world-historic event that marked China’s
compulsory participation in — and is the de facto sign of — the completion of the “civilized”
liberties of today’s global capitalist order. The brutal suppression...
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