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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (3): 316–339.
Published: 01 September 2020
... Pire Suisse . In sum Congo Inc. ’s innovative temporality, embodied by the term mondialiste , signals a shift in type of postcolonial narrative toward the global South novel. Copyright © 2020 by University of Oregon 2020 The game also engenders a paradox through the “superterrane” Gondavanaland...
FIGURES
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (1): 64–85.
Published: 01 January 2011
... argue that close readings of three texts—the 1955 Freedom Charter, which formed the basis of the New South African constitution; Phaswane Mpe's 2001 novel Welcome to Our Hillbrow ; and the 2006 film Catch a Fire —shed light on globalization as a political-economic-cultural strategy. I suggest...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (4): 333–356.
Published: 01 December 2019
... in South Asia. Hence, when I claim that JLF instituted the category of the Pakistani novel and literatures, I mean that the event imagined and named a group of authors as an entity characterized by a shared national, linguistic, ethnic, and/or religious logic for a South Asian and potentially global...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 247–263.
Published: 01 June 2022
... and exchange. Through world-historical events activated in these novels such as World War II and the first Anglo-Opium War, the essay’s argument follows nineteenth- and twentieth-century transits between the South Asian subcontinent, the Malay Archipelago, and China. Taking circularity as a central analytic...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (4): 466–486.
Published: 01 December 2018
... of this literature generally credit “perverse” stylistics with driving South Asian boom novels to global success. Some scholars who examine the context of this boom also buy into the idea that boom novels employ “inauthentic” representations in order to address “inauthentic” audiences. They also tend to connect...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (2): 141–154.
Published: 01 June 2016
...-
ated south, whether in terms of actual or symbolic geographies, of the so-called
Global South.
Comparative Literature 68:2
DOI 10.1215/00104124-3507922 © 2016 by University of Oregon
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 142
From Paris to Bandung
In William Gardner Smith’s novel The Stone Face...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 5–14.
Published: 01 March 2013
... extremely well: English and Spanish, and a third that is either
non-Indo-European or of the global South” (34).
The multilingual multiculturalist and the world literature approaches point
in different directions, the one insisting that the world is represented within the
nation, the other...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 111–128.
Published: 01 March 2017
... . Bone Martyn . “Narratives of African Immigration to the U.S. South: Dave Eggers's ‘What Is the What’ and Cynthia Shearer's ‘The Celestial Jukebox.’” CR: The New Centennial Review 10 . 1 ( 2010 ): 65 – 76 . Print . Brooks Kevin . “Dave Eggers's ‘What Is the What’ as World...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 133–139.
Published: 01 June 2023
... with decolonization across the global south and the civil rights movement in the US. And after the collapse of the Soviet Union, a similarly expansive ambition has animated the reactionary worldbuilding of a new Eurasian global order extending from Moscow to China across the former Soviet territories...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 147–155.
Published: 01 June 2022
... . Moretti Franco . Distant Reading . New York : Verso Books , 2013 . Pearson Michael . The Indian Ocean . London : Routledge , 2003 . Poddar Prem . “ The Indian Ocean Novel .” In The Novel in South and South East Asia since 1945 , edited by Tickell Alex , 550 – 63...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 335–345.
Published: 01 June 2009
... of the borderlands whose ancestors occupied
the territory for generations, the professional and academic traveler freely cross-
ing borders from the North as well as from the South —all belong to the category
of increasingly mobile trans-American subjects who contribute to the emergence
of translocalities...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (1): 19–31.
Published: 01 March 2020
... Gordimer (1981) . Coetzee’s text is set in an unknown place and time and centers on a fictive empire fighting fictive “barbarians,” while Gordimer’s novel is clearly set in South Africa at a time following a (future?) revolution, when the Apartheid regime falls and the first days of chaos ensue. Coetzee’s...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 172–187.
Published: 01 June 2023
... and Soviet assimilation policies had cemented a Russophone Soviet cultural sphere. It also coincided with decolonization movements across the global south and the use of old and new media for spreading propaganda. Radio, photography, television, and robust print runs changed the scale of the second Eastern...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (4): 402–422.
Published: 01 December 2011
... 16 ( 1998 ): 49 – 56 . Print . Lessing Gotthold Ephraim . Laocoön: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry . Trans. and intro. McCormick Edward Allen . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins UP , 1984 . Print . López Alfred J. “Introduction: The (Post)global South...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 273–288.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., in this case Indian literature including Anglophone Indian literature, as a given. While the global Indian novel circulates in English, the South Asian postcolonial comparative literary critic has always known of the dominance of certain literatures in languages such as Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 15–24.
Published: 01 March 2014
...) to neutralize the toxicity of an unfortunate oil spill in the
Gulf of Mexico, actually enable the persistence of Global South toxification in
places like the Niger Delta?
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 18
Remediation as Recasting of Old Environmental Media
As I previously noted, Jay Bolter and Richard...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 186–201.
Published: 01 June 2022
.... Following Gaurav Desai’s call to read Africa’s history of encounter “not only with the West but also with the East” as a way to decenter Europe in the studies of the Global South, I argue that the encounters depicted in these novels ask for a different spatial and temporal imagination where the local...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (3): 283–298.
Published: 01 September 2020
... by contrast, linguistic diversity was historically celebrated rather than feared. “Nowhere in the texts of premodern South Asia,” writes Sheldon Pollock in The Language of the Gods, his magisterial study of Sanskrit, “do we find the least hint of despair at the proliferation of languages, whether eighteen...
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Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (2): 158–176.
Published: 01 March 2007
... protagonists, protagonists who assume the role of non-
conformist visitors to the Global South in conditions where difference is largely
staged as exoticism for mass consumption. As postmodern travelers, both figures
represent repackaged Baudelairean flâneurs, aware of their status abroad as anony-
mous...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (4): 283–297.
Published: 01 September 2001
..., and South America. To keep countries on their side, they
chose whatever means available and expedient—foreign aid, propaganda, bribes,
covert violence, manipulated elections, or the dispatch of marines, naval fleets,
bombers and missiles. That is, as long as the cold war lasted, the impoverished
non...
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