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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 429–431.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Estelle Tarica Cannibal Democracy: Race and Representation in the Literature of the Americas. By Zita Nunes. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. 218 p. University of Oregon 2010 BOOK REVIEWS Or l a n d o f u r i o s...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (1): 64–85.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Melissa Tandiwe Myambo Exploring the relationship between capitalism and the discourse of multicultural democracy that animates the New South Africa's notion of itself as Rainbow Nation, this article attempts to understand why it is impossible for politically progressive postapartheid South African...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (1): 86–110.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Bishupal Limbu This article looks at how democracy is figured in Nepali writer Manjushree Thapa's novel The Tutor of History , which I read intertextually with Jacques Derrida's The Politics of Friendship . I begin by examining how Thapa's literary practice disrupts the privileged position...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (3): 269–284.
Published: 01 September 2024
... the Closed World 20 ). Celestial democracy can be seen as resulting from an “anarchist” act having abolished the ontological difference between the government of humans on earth and the celebration of divine presences in the heavens. The term anarchist refers here to a moment in the astronomical...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (3): 268–269.
Published: 01 June 2002
...Claudia Moscovici An Ethics of Dissensus: Postmodernity, Feminism, and the Politics of Radical Democracy. By Ewa Plonowska Ziarek. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. 275 p. University of Oregon 2002 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/268...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (1): 94–113.
Published: 01 March 2015
... in Wankhade's criticism, from early writings on Whitman's “spiritual democracy” to essays on the Black Arts Movement and Ralph Ellison, which were repurposed by a generation of Marathi Dalit writers. These writings imagined new terms of Dalit identity outside of the discourse of the Indian nation...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (3): 252–271.
Published: 01 September 2019
...L. Maria Bo Abstract This article examines Eileen Chang’s 1953 translation of Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea into Chinese as Cold War propaganda for the United States Information Service (USIS). It argues that this translation, meant to show the truth of democracy through its high...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 224–239.
Published: 01 June 2020
... slogans, in particular “democracy to come,” gain their power from their conflicted status as both constant and mercurial, grave and frivolous, passing and impassing. Copyright © 2020 by University of Oregon 2020 continental philosophy deconstruction Jacques Derrida Heinrich von Kleist literary...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (1): 114–116.
Published: 01 March 2019
..., and Lao She distinctly articulated a common structure of feeling that envisioned the Pacific as a transnational site of mutual democracy between the United States and China. If this conception seems fanciful, So nevertheless supports his significant claim with invaluable archival research throughout his...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 128–143.
Published: 01 June 2020
... of Democracy , translated by Brault Pascale-Anne and Naas Michael . New York : Fordham University Press , 2010 . Phillips James . The Equivocation of Reason: Kleist Reading Kant . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2007 . Schmitt Carl . Political Theology...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (4): 298–314.
Published: 01 September 2001
... “comparative advantage,” and the rewards of indi- viduals and countries will be proportionate to their contribution to the global market. 3. Democracy. Because trade liberalization requires expanded communications and freedom of movement, it will be accompanied by increased democracy. 4. Environmental...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (2): 157–178.
Published: 01 March 2000
... and R.J. Hollingdale. New York: Random, 1967 . Nishi, Toshio. Unconditional Democracy: Education and Politics in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952 . Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1982 . Ōkubo Yasuo. “Daiichiji sengoha no bungaku” [Literature of the first-wave après-guerre writers]. Kokubungaku...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 420–421.
Published: 01 September 2010
... Li t e r a t u r e o f t h e Am e r i c a s . By Zita Nunes. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. 218 p. This well-researched and thoughtful book examines the exclusionary structures of racial democracy in Brazil and the United States, focusing on early twentieth-century writ...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 421–423.
Published: 01 September 2010
... Li t e r a t u r e o f t h e Am e r i c a s . By Zita Nunes. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. 218 p. This well-researched and thoughtful book examines the exclusionary structures of racial democracy in Brazil and the United States, focusing on early twentieth-century writ...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 423–426.
Published: 01 September 2010
... Li t e r a t u r e o f t h e Am e r i c a s . By Zita Nunes. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. 218 p. This well-researched and thoughtful book examines the exclusionary structures of racial democracy in Brazil and the United States, focusing on early twentieth-century writ...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 426–429.
Published: 01 September 2010
... Li t e r a t u r e o f t h e Am e r i c a s . By Zita Nunes. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. 218 p. This well-researched and thoughtful book examines the exclusionary structures of racial democracy in Brazil and the United States, focusing on early twentieth-century writ...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 188–206.
Published: 01 June 2023
... and capitalism, simplistic appeals to national solidarity, whether under the banner of democracy or authoritarianism, have allowed racial antagonisms to return with a vengeance as the new fulcrum of contemporary imperial imaginations on both sides of the Atlantic. The racism of this new politics...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 462–463.
Published: 01 December 2012
... question: how can democracies, at their inception, democratically determine the limits of membership? The short answer is that they cannot. We must use a “them” to create an “us,” but to be truly effective for a new democracy, Fradinger argues, the “them” must have formerly been one of “us.” In other...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 463–466.
Published: 01 December 2012
... question: how can democracies, at their inception, democratically determine the limits of membership? The short answer is that they cannot. We must use a “them” to create an “us,” but to be truly effective for a new democracy, Fradinger argues, the “them” must have formerly been one of “us.” In other...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 466–468.
Published: 01 December 2012
... question: how can democracies, at their inception, democratically determine the limits of membership? The short answer is that they cannot. We must use a “them” to create an “us,” but to be truly effective for a new democracy, Fradinger argues, the “them” must have formerly been one of “us.” In other...