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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (4): 498–501.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Nicholas Harrison [email protected] Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony . By Jill Jarvis . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2021 . 288 pp. Copyright © 2022 by University of Oregon 2022 “The magnitude of the legal violence exercised...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 237–265.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Shu-mei Shih Abstract This essay examines how comparative literature as a discipline has never confronted its interlocking contexts of settler colonialism, imperialism, and racialization as its conditions of possibility in the United States. Inspired by recent efforts at decolonization in other...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 274–294.
Published: 01 June 2009
... Económica, 1968 . ____. The Role of the Americas in History . Trans. Sonja Karsen. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 1992 . IGNACIO M. SÁNCHEZ PRADO
The Return of
the Decolonized:
The Legacies of
Leopoldo Zea’s Philosophy
of History...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 283–297.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Chadwick Allen Abstract Originally part of the 2022 Presidential Roundtable “Comparative Literature and Indigeneity,” this essay meditates on the ACLA president’s call to “decolonize” the field of comparative literature. Beyond providing a catchy slogan, what might “decolonization” mean...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (2): 171–193.
Published: 01 June 2019
... of the law yet underwrite it. Against Voltaire’s cosmopolitanism and Enlightenment-era ideals, Habiby’s humor thus offers a differential and conflictual community that prioritizes a practice of decolonization over ideal solutions and their dichotomous logic. Here, however, Habiby’s criticism does not end...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (4): 357–380.
Published: 01 December 2019
... reiterate the terms they claim to diagnose or contest. It also argues that, in their affective relation to decolonization, Arendt—and Foucault and Agamben—conjures and advances a social panic in a desire to domesticate the destabilizing force of anticolonial struggle. Finally, the article reads Kanafani’s...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (2): 238–249.
Published: 01 June 2017
... poetics of creolization, and its politics was seen as either too committed to Manichean patterns of anti-colonial thinking or too accommodating in its willingness to envision federalist as opposed to nationalist solutions to the problem of decolonization. Over the past decade that situation has changed...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (4): 361–376.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of this study. Disgust in Chughtai’s writings emerges as an unruly affect, posing a particular kind of conundrum in the feminist politics of decolonization. My analysis underscores the dialectic of attraction and repulsion that underwrites the aversive energies of disgust. Through the femme figure of craving...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (2): 107–115.
Published: 01 June 2016
... Wayne Yang K. . “Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education, and Society 1 . 1 ( 2012 ): 1 – 40 . Print . Weheliye Alexander G. Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Feminist Theories of the Human . Durham : Duke UP...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (1): 86–107.
Published: 01 March 2019
... observer ever since there has been a writer in a central position. It is my position that this aspiration is counterproductive, a mistake. The project of developing a conception of the possibility of a decolonized world cannot traverse the path of an undivided identity. Audre Lorde has put forward...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 260–267.
Published: 01 June 2024
... powerful account of Negritude and related decolonial movements, primitivism was not a singular European event but part of a global project, and its defining tropes cannot be separated from the cultural projects of decolonization in the Global South and, I would add, the racialized enclaves...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (2): 141–154.
Published: 01 June 2016
... . Ed. Lee Christopher J. . Athens : Ohio UP , 2010 . 351 – 61 . Print . Chakravarty Dipesh . “The Legacies of Bandung: Decolonization and the Politics of Culture.” Making a World after Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives . Ed. Lee Christopher J...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (3): 316–324.
Published: 01 September 2012
... leading up to the 1952 showdown). The authors of the studies
reviewed here also engage to varying degrees with Camus’ painfully conflicted
stance over decolonization and, especially, the independence of his native Algeria,
a stance that has long been criticized by such distinguished critics as Edward...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (1): 144–146.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of the Nobel Prize in Literature. The central part of this chapter is devoted to the 1958 International Writers’ Congress hosted in Tashkent. Among more than two hundred participants who attended the Congress were literary representatives of Asian and recently decolonized African nations, including...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 266–282.
Published: 01 September 2023
... zero, and serves to shift the responsibility for the work of reckoning with disciplinary interventions from those who can afford to forget (over and over again) back to those who cannot help but remember ( Attewell ; Willans ). 15 Someone is editing a high-profile book about decolonizing...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 March 2013
... on World Literature.” New Left Review 1 ( Jan./Feb. 2000 ): 54 – 68 . Print . ———. “The Slaughterhouse of Literature.” MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly 61 . 1 ( Mar. 2000 ): 207 – 27 . Print . wa Thiong'o Ngugi . Decolonizing the Mind: The Politics of Language in African...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 125–134.
Published: 01 June 2024
....2.b,” December 2023. 3 Oxford English Dictionary , s.v. “primitive (n.), sense I.1.b., I.2.a.” December 2023. 2 The question of whether it is possible or desirable to “decolonize” primitivism has been taken up in papers presented at the symposium “‘Primitivism’ in the Age...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (4): 325–356.
Published: 01 September 2002
.... The Browser's Ecstasy . New York: Counterpoint Press, 2000 . Okonkwo, Chidi. Decolonization Agnostics in Postcolonial Fiction . London: McMillan Press, 1999 . ____. Out There: Marginalization and Contemporary Cultures . Ed. Russell Ferguson, et al. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (4): 448–451.
Published: 01 December 2011
...” models of identity and affiliation. Pressing for “a recon-
ceptualization of twentieth- and twenty-first century poetry studies” (x), Ramazani succes-
sively employs “a variety of transnational templates — globalization, migration, travel,
genre, influence, modernity, decolonization, and diaspora...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (4): 452–454.
Published: 01 December 2011
..., migration, travel,
genre, influence, modernity, decolonization, and diaspora — to indicate the many ways in
which modern and contemporary poetry in English overflows national borders, exceeding
the scope of national literary paradigms” (xi).
A Transnational Poetics divides roughly into three...
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