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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (2): 218–234.
Published: 01 June 2018
... a process of spectral recuperation, these children of survivors employ the figure of the child to tell the event of their own refugee becoming. Former child refugees recently come of writerly age across a multilingual global diaspora are thus reappropriating an in-between generation’s collective postmemory...
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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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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (2): 238–249.
Published: 01 June 2017
... dramatically, both in relation to Negritude politics (see the ground-breaking work of Gary Wilder) and in relation to its poetics. This review essay examines the recent (re)turn to Negritude by looking at Carrie Noland's 2015 Voices of Negritude in Modernist Print: Aesthetic Subjectivity, Diaspora...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (4): 367–387.
Published: 01 September 2009
... fellow staunch Zionists, he argued passionately that Hebrew should be the language of the emerging national culture and that Yiddish, the language of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, should be abandoned to the Diaspora. But, strangely enough, Shlonsky's early poetry and manifestoes are infused with Yiddish...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 January 2010
... outside of history, Zionist historiography has enabled both the economic dispossession and cultural oppression of these groups, including their uprooting and relocation from one region to another. A close and retrospective reading of “poems of diaspora and redemption” written by Bialik and his...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (3): 300–315.
Published: 01 September 2012
... associated with any given Latin American nation-state. It is a reminder that we need to seek alternative epistemologies that encompass newer approaches to our understanding of the flux of Latin American diasporas to and within the U.S. We can no longer conceive of Latinidad as a trope under which hyphenated...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (4): 429–449.
Published: 01 December 2013
... to recover can best be understood, I argue, in the context of the different national circumstances in which they grow up, the consequences of Chicana/o diaspora, and traditional versus colonially influenced American Indian standards for tribal identification. © 2013 by University of Oregon 2013 Works...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (2): 253–255.
Published: 01 June 2014
...: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism . New York : Verso , 1991 . Print . Bradbury Malcolm McFarlane Jim , eds. Modernism: 1890–1930 . London : Penguin , 1976 . Print . Hall Stuart . “Cultural Identity and Diaspora” . Identity, Community, Culture, Difference . Ed...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (4): 394–412.
Published: 01 December 2017
...-American writers are participating in a larger effort to imagine anti-statist and anti-autochthonous ways of dwelling. Copyright © 2017 University of Oregon 2017 Diaspora Russian-American literature Russian-Jewish literature Gary Shteyngart Anya Ulinich Works Cited Aviv Caryn...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (2): 107–115.
Published: 01 June 2016
..., Relational Racisms: Some Thoughts on Method.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 32 . 7 ( 2009 ): 1271 – 82 . Print . Hall Stuart . “Cultural Identity and Diaspora.” Theorizing Diaspora . Ed. Braziel Jana Evans Mannur Anita . Malden : Blackwell , 2003 . 233 – 246 . Print...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 233–246.
Published: 01 June 2022
..., racism, and resistance at the very southeastern edge of the Indian Ocean. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by University of Oregon 2022 Indian Ocean Australia diaspora migration anthologies INTRODUCING WAVE AFTER Wave: Writers from the Indian Ocean , editor Robert Wood states...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (3): 241–245.
Published: 01 September 2015
... Odyssey in the African Diaspora Since 1939 . New York : Oxford UP , 2013 . Print . MICHELLE ZERBA AND ADELAIDE RUSSO Introduction to Odyssey, Exile, Return N THE FIRST YEARS of the new millennium, the experiences of odyssey, I exile, and return, which form...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (2): 227–246.
Published: 01 June 2014
... and Manuscript Archive , Yale University , New Haven . ———. “To Langston Hughes ,” 15 Sept . 1931 , Langston Hughes Papers, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Archive , Yale University , New Haven . Edwards Brent Hayes . The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (2): 222–237.
Published: 01 June 2017
... in Exile: Diaspora and the Search for a Homeland . Austin : U of Texas P , 2005 . Print . Handal Nathalie . “The Shape of Time: New Palestinian Writing.” Words Without Borders . 15 May 2015 . Web. 15 May 2015 . < http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/article/the-shape-of-time-new...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (4): 373–388.
Published: 01 September 2001
... nations now have in the United States permanent diasporas, whose dollar remittances constitute a lead- ing item in their former nation’s economies. A split state implies a permanently severed entity, a loss in many respects; but perhaps it could also suggest a postnational symptom that has many...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 5–14.
Published: 01 March 2013
.... Comparative Literature  65:1 DOI 10.1215/00104124-2019248  © 2013 by University of Oregon COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 6 exceptionalism by focusing on transnational connections, expatriate American writers, the circulation of U.S. popular culture abroad, and ethnic minority and diaspora writers...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 420–421.
Published: 01 September 2010
..., sexuality, and race, Slaves to Fashion  aims to elaborate a cultural history of black dandyism in identities of the African diaspora from the Enlightenment to the twenty-first century. In training the specific lens of dandyism on such a wide historical and thematic expanse, Miller’s study incites...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 421–423.
Published: 01 September 2010
..., sexuality, and race, Slaves to Fashion  aims to elaborate a cultural history of black dandyism in identities of the African diaspora from the Enlightenment to the twenty-first century. In training the specific lens of dandyism on such a wide historical and thematic expanse, Miller’s study incites...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 423–426.
Published: 01 September 2010
..., sexuality, and race, Slaves to Fashion  aims to elaborate a cultural history of black dandyism in identities of the African diaspora from the Enlightenment to the twenty-first century. In training the specific lens of dandyism on such a wide historical and thematic expanse, Miller’s study incites...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 426–429.
Published: 01 September 2010
... to Fashion  aims to elaborate a cultural history of black dandyism in identities of the African diaspora from the Enlightenment to the twenty-first century. In training the specific lens of dandyism on such a wide historical and thematic expanse, Miller’s study incites a much- needed dialogue between...