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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 140–152.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Jinyi Chu Abstract What is the connection between class and race? Socialist revolutionaries in early twentieth-century Russia engaged with this question in their political essays. The imperial partition of China and the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway made the China question one...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (2): 227–246.
Published: 01 June 2014
... to distinguish it from Hughes's 1920s poetry, associating the latter with a black nationalist literary aesthetic linked to an embrace of Pan-Africanism and the former with a proletarian poetic tied to a decidedly Marxist analysis of race and class-conflict. This article offers a counter-narrative...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (2): 103–121.
Published: 01 March 2010
... is a measure of the social dominance of his class, but the turning of his own power against himself in self-flagellation likewise indicates how the aristocracy, in the historical long run, may destroy itself from within. Taking its cue from Lampedusa and beginning with Don Quixote , this essay looks at social...
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in At the Edges of Unmeeting: Geometries of Sea and Land in Marianne Moore’s Seascapes
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Published: 01 June 2021
Figure 3. A page from Moore’s biology laboratory notebook illustrating the formation of medusa in the class Hydrozoa, 1908. The Rosenbach, Philadelphia, Moore VII:05:06.
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (2): 114–131.
Published: 01 June 2018
...; ʿāmmiyya , from al-ʿāmma , the common people. Long-ninth-century Arab-Islamic thought defined al-ʿāmma as a “middle” class, or its language and that of al-khāṣṣa (the elite) as shades of one Arabic, converging at an ideal midpoint. I trace echoes in late-nineteenth-century Algerian, Syro-Lebanese...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (3): 226–251.
Published: 01 September 2019
... in Hindi literature and which reconfigured the category of the middle class in the universally recognizable terms of alienation. Using the case of the nayī kahānī, the essay offers a new literary historical approach that moves beyond sweeping accounts of a single postcolonial mode to attend to regional...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (4): 361–376.
Published: 01 December 2020
... object of what the author terms the erotics of disgust. Chughtai is perhaps most famous for her being tried for obscenity in 1942 for her most famous short story, “The Quilt” (“Lihaaf”), which narrates a young girl’s encounter with the erotic relationship of a middle-class Muslim woman and her female...
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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 (2010) 62 (4): 399–419.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Revathi Krishnaswamy While the literatures of the (third) world are being rapidly curricularized in revamped Comparative/World or Postcolonial literature classes, the theories and methodologies used to interpret and evaluate these texts are still drawn primarily from the Western tradition...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 43–51.
Published: 01 March 2014
... from different classes and groups, funded largely by governmental sources. The period since then — the era of neoliberal capitalism, which began in the 1980s — has seen a pronounced shift, as higher education has been privatized in several ways, notably with the cost of tuition being progressively...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (2): 208–226.
Published: 01 June 2014
... during the rise of neoliberalism and the culture clash between an already unstable Latin American middle class and North American consumerism. I locate Vicuña's critique of consumerism, complacency, and the subordination of environmental concerns by comparing her use of the spiral to that of Robert...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 327–347.
Published: 01 September 2023
... elaborates on literary elements from Russia in his 1924 story “Nights of Spring Fever,” which deploys the metonymic confines of impoverished, narrow spaces in order to explore wider topics of social class and transcultural encounter. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by University of Oregon 2023...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (2): 237–254.
Published: 01 June 2021
... of sand and cement in Japan (Narahashi, Ono), as well as the dereliction of Cuban beach architecture and American industrial harbors (Morales, Sekula). In art as in criticism, the waterfront stages gender and class crossings (Dumont) and tangles fields. The afterword thereby weaves the major threads...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 179–200.
Published: 01 June 2024
... in “Conscience raciale et révolution sociale.” For Ménil, it is in the realm of poetry that negritude’s primitivizing impulse toward the dissolution of time and the production of racial essences can coexist with his Marxist commitment to historicize the experiences of race, class, and antillanité...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (1): 62–78.
Published: 01 March 2015
... century, testament as it
is to Marx’s ongoing interest in the achievements of literary realism as a means of
disclosing with impartiality and characteristic vraisemblance the types of an age, the
psychology of class, and the social and economic conditions in which these emerge.3
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (3): 228–243.
Published: 01 June 2008
... nineteenth century —most notably Jens Peter Jacob-
sen and Henrik Ibsen.
Most Larsen scholarship of the past three decades has defi ned her as, fi rst and
foremost, an African-American writer who played an essential role in the aesthetic
and literary rethinking of race and class that characterized...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (2): 207–227.
Published: 01 June 2015
... Dominican ide-
ology (see Mayes et al
Before analyzing how both novels explore the issues outlined above, I’d like
briefly to summarize them. Ollivier’sMère-Solitude charts the story of the upper-
class mixed-race Morelli family from the perspective of Narcès Morelli, its youngest
descendant...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (4): 408–428.
Published: 01 December 2013
.... Upward’s authorship also anticipates Ray-
mond Williams’s contention that the concept of commitment implicitly denies
that all subjects are from an early age socially aligned by class position (see “The
Writer indeed, Upward took this concept further than Williams, believing at
points that his own...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (3): 272–275.
Published: 01 September 2020
... was a great equalizer, no caste/class differentiation there, no differentiation among the various religions of India. On the other hand, it is today a reverse-racist term, claimed by the English-speaking Global South, or in the diaspora, in my estimation a collective ideological interpellation organic...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (1): 110–124.
Published: 01 March 2021
... in the fourth level. The tailor’s story encompasses both levels, and the tailor himself seems to belong to the artisan class of the barber rather than to the professional class of the doctor, steward, and broker, his codefendants. He tells about the barber telling the stories of his six brothers, but the first...
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