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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 231–243.
Published: 01 June 2009
...ANTONIO BARRENECHEA This essay locates the intellectual origins of comparative American studies in Herbert Eugene Bolton's “The Epic of Greater America” (1931). Bolton argued for a hemispheric approach to the study of history and laid the groundwork for a comparative practice with plural...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 189–208.
Published: 01 June 2009
... discipline in the U.S. and, more particularly, the recent development of the comparative study of the Americas. This growing field is variously referred to as Americas Studies, Transamerican Studies, Interamerican Studies, Hemispheric Studies and, depending upon the program or curriculum, it may also involve...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 209–219.
Published: 01 June 2009
... may be its most comparable trait. This essay explores some of the diverse symptoms and literary manifestations of this perennial hemispheric irony. University of Oregon 2009 Agamben, Giorgio. State of Exception . Trans. Kevin Attell. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2005 . Bhabha, Homi K...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 316–326.
Published: 01 June 2009
... Rivera's mural Pan American Unity (1939) to La ciudad ausente (1992), arguing that Piglia's blend of science fiction, literary canons, and popular culture creates a model for understanding the neobaroque tendencies of a hemispheric American literature that includes Neal Stephenson, William Gibson, Jonathan...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 335–345.
Published: 01 June 2009
...AMARYLL CHANADY This essay develops the concept of the “transamerican outcast” in order to examine the literary figure of economic exile in the Americas. This essay addresses emerging “translocalities” in the hemisphere—that is, multiple cultural networks and socially stratified global cities...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 5–14.
Published: 01 March 2013
... are comparative in nature, have been made since the early 1990s to reconfigure American studies beyond its established national-linguistic boundaries, either in relation to the American hemisphere or to various constructs of world literature. This essay reflects on those two mutually reinforcing processes by way...
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Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (2): 97–118.
Published: 01 March 2007
...VLADIMIR E. ALEXANDROV University of Oregon 2007 Abernathy, Marjorie, and Jeffrey Coney. “Semantic and Phonemic Priming in the Cerebral Hemispheres.” Neuropsychologia 28 . 9 ( 1990 ): 933 -45. Alexandrov, Vladimir E. “Biology, Semiosis, and Cultural Difference in Lotman's...
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (4): 389–391.
Published: 01 September 2008
..., literature was playing a significant role in the definition of nations, and outside the U.S. this role included opposition to growing U.S. hegemony in the hemisphere. Brickhouse writes: “While the American Renaissance of the United States proves in many cases...
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (4): 391–394.
Published: 01 September 2008
..., literature was playing a significant role in the definition of nations, and outside the U.S. this role included opposition to growing U.S. hegemony in the hemisphere. Brickhouse writes: “While the American Renaissance of the United States proves in many cases...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (1): 49–72.
Published: 01 March 2012
.... Holquist Michael . Austin : U of Texas P , 1981 . Print . “Baron De Vastey; Whites; Blacks; Hayti; Land.” Essex Register 18 . 43 , 27 May 1818 : 2 . Print . Bauer Ralph . “Hemispheric Studies.” PMLA 124 . 1 ( Jan. 2009 ): 234 – 50 . Print . Bellegarde-Smith...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 283–297.
Published: 01 September 2023
... links and relinks Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Graham’s poem illustrates how human voices and technologies anchored in Aotearoa are linked not only to other human voices and technologies located across the Pacific but also to their other-than-human kin. In the final line, the poem’s final dash...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 274–294.
Published: 01 June 2009
... a Common Literature? argued for the development of methodological approaches to study “the issue of hemispheric literary communality” as a counter- point to the radicalized versions of North-South antagonism developed both by Leopoldo Zea’s generation and by the intellectuals of the Cuban Revolution...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (3): 199–200.
Published: 01 June 2005
.... Not to mention Igbo, Khmer, Uzbek. . . . For those who might have complained that all this was too much work, Spivak offered the following brac- ing response: “There are a few hegemonic European languages and innumer- able Southern Hemisphere languages. The only principled answer to that is ‘Too bad’” (10...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (4): 275–282.
Published: 01 September 2001
... and the hemispheric construction of the Americas in order to question the ancient yet animate fables of republican fictions. Such deeply estab- lished academic disciplines as American and Latin American Studies, in his view, owe their constitution to civilization/barbarism, Anglo/Latin, North/South divisions...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (4): 429–450.
Published: 01 December 2024
... are exempt from both cosmopolitan theory and Global South preoccupations beyond the hemisphere. To do so, I argue that rather than simply inscribing Egypt and North African traditions more broadly within his concept of Latinidad, 3 Hernández Cruz creates a new space of engagement based on “southern...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 35–42.
Published: 01 March 2014
...- tic injunction to study literature “beyond the confines of one particular coun- try.” Taking as a case in point the emerging field of hemispheric American stud- ies, she identifies a troubling “replication of the unequal relations of power” (394) between the United States and Latin America...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (4): 339–359.
Published: 01 September 2006
... distinguishing features on the new nations that emerged. Eventually, inhabitants in these complex immigrant nations in the Western Hemisphere would begin to notice their own divergence from the ways of their original homelands. Their literatures were bound to ad- dress the distinction between the idea...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (3): 246–255.
Published: 01 June 2005
... essay “Echo” in Landry and MacLean, pp. 175-202. COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/248 and several of its more sanguine respondents. At the pragmatic level, this greater ambition (and even confidence) appears in her explicit declaration that “We must take the languages of the Southern Hemisphere as active...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (4): 373–388.
Published: 01 September 2001
... imaginary has withstood the test A of time. As a distant moment of discovery, a hemispheric marker, or the naming of a powerful modern nation, America’s claims to unique transcenden- tal dimensions continue to seem natural—if not necessary—to peoples, nations, and academic traditions. These outlines...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (4): 339–362.
Published: 01 September 2000
... nothing less than a semiotic explanation of how all levels of culture work every- where—from the relations between the hemispheres of the brain, to dialogue, to the production and consumption of cultural artifacts, to large scale changes in national cultures. Lotman’s decision to devise a cultural...