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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (3): 307–327.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Claire Solomon In Argentina, a multimedia boom in historical fictions about the so-called Jewish White Slave Trade of the early twentieth century in Buenos Aires has created a consensus about a particular set of events that deviates in consistent ways from the available evidence. In this essay I...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (3): 265–284.
Published: 01 September 2013
...-Masry al-Youm , 29 July–9 Sept. 2009 . Web. 27 Aug. 2012 . Saba Mahmood
Azazeel and the Politics of
Historical Fiction in Egypt
year after its publication, the novel Azazeel was awarded the prestigious
A International Prize for Arabic Fiction (modeled after...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (1): 60–71.
Published: 01 March 2018
... or inexplicable fictional world. Limbotopia not only reflects the loss of temporality in postmodernism but also responds to very specific historical and political configurations. We analyze the incidence of limbotopia in works by Israeli, American, British, Russian, and South Korean writers and film-makers...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (3): 299–319.
Published: 01 September 2021
... adaptations of Soviet erotic fiction. In reading Vâlâ’s neglected 1928 erotic historical comedy Baltacı ile Katerina ( Baltacı and Catherine ), unique among Vâlâ’s writings in its direct and explicit imagination and specification of an entangled revolution, this article suggests, by way of specific attention...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 202–218.
Published: 01 June 2022
... in Oslo, Gautier writes historical fiction about Pondicherry that recalls its centuries-long function as a vital node within the intersecting circularities of commerce and colonialism that developed the modern world. Le thinnai , his second novel, confirms Gautier’s affiliation to what Françoise Lionnet...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (3): 283–301.
Published: 01 June 2010
....” In contrast with prior studies that evaluate the historical realism of these works, I draw on Walter Benjamin's notions of revolutionary historiography in order to show how both the content and circumstances of publication of Seghers's and Carpentier's fiction illuminate their struggles with the role...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (3): 340–360.
Published: 01 September 2014
... is carefully structured as a roman à clef, weav-
ing together multiple historical events and figures: Operation Condor; the forma-
tion of the drug cartel federation; the 1985 murder of DEA agent Enrique “Kiki”
Camarena in Mexico (the fictionalized Ernie Hidalgo); the 1993 assassination of
Cardinal Juan...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 348–372.
Published: 01 September 2023
... and constellation of disjunctive historical materials, thereby resisting progressivist conceptions of literary and cultural tradition. I further highlight the ways in which, for both figures, experiences of built images are ever-mediated, in contrast to certain strains of extant scholarship that interpret Crane’s...
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Literary Trespassing in Susan Abulhawa's Mornings in Jenin and Sayed Kashua's Second Person Singular
Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (2): 222–237.
Published: 01 June 2017
...-Jewish other. In the fictional creations of Ismael/David and Amir/Yonatan, Abulhawa and Kashua, respectively, construe characters whose existence blurs the borderline between various versions of today's Palestinian Arab and mainstream projections of its Israeli-Jewish counterpart. These characters...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (3): 315–337.
Published: 01 September 2017
... conceiving the political conditions that produce child soldiers
as an artifact of a specific historical juncture and, for the literary critic, the corre-
sponding project of assessing the literary-historical import of the body of fiction
that takes up this famous character. As a stock figure among...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (1): 64–85.
Published: 01 March 2019
... the temporal setting of his novel, while in order to build her fictional narrative, Némirovsky was following the immediate historical events and therefore could only speculate on the unfolding of “Batailles” and “La Paix.” Secondly, Tolstoy wrote a preliminary version of his novel that reached almost four...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 186–201.
Published: 01 June 2022
... by University of Oregon 2022 Indian Ocean literature historical fiction postcolonial fiction ocean studies multilingualism archive translation anarchive There is nothing solid about the way languages interact with each other. Their movement is more like that of liquids; they mingle and flow...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 247–263.
Published: 01 June 2022
... and material worlds. I am particularly interested in how these trilogies published contemporaneously 5 rely on historical fiction (in the Ibis trilogy ) and flashbacks, diaries, and storytelling (in the Rich trilogy) to query the status of Asia(s) and Asians across multiple decisive historical events...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (3): 257–264.
Published: 01 September 2013
... of a humanist reading practice in the controversy
over the historical fiction of Egyptian novelist Youssef Zeidan. Mahmood demon-
strates how Zeidan’s novel Azazeel engages the Nestorian and Asturian positions
regarding the humanity or divinity of Christ, and she follows the debates in which
the Muslim...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 298–307.
Published: 01 September 2023
... (Bunun), the anthropology-style writing of Husluman Vava (Bunun) and Auvini Kadresengan (Drekay), and the early historical fiction of Badai do threaten self-limitation. But these are intended as works of literature, and though we could criticize them as rough and lacking literariness, how could we view...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (2): 225–236.
Published: 01 June 2021
... and Map Division. WERE ONE TO define “geographic fiction” (after the model of historical fiction) as fiction set in and structured by a real, well-documented geographic location, Jean Rolin’s Ormuz (2013) might qualify equally as the apogee of the genre and its hollowed out, postgeographical...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (4): 420–437.
Published: 01 December 2014
...
Uthat continues to fascinate and occupy scholars and leisure-time readers
alike. It can be read as a medieval detective story, a Gothic novel, or an historical
fiction with an enormous net of intertextual references woven into the text (see,
among others, Capozzi 134–36). The novel is also...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 273–288.
Published: 01 September 2022
... Tehsildar (published in Assamese in 2009 and English by Zubaan, 2013). The latter, as translator Aruni Kashyap notes, follows the life of a Bodo woman freedom fighter. Reading indiscriminately was a way out of ignorance. I consumed stories shaped by local mythology, historical fiction set before...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (1): 83–85.
Published: 01 January 2001
... on
three topics: the referential properties of fiction, the textual marks of fictionality, and the
relations between such marks and literary-historical interpretation.
Addressing the referential question, the book’s first chapter, “Focus on Fiction,” exam-
ines several meanings of the term fiction...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (1): 86–87.
Published: 01 January 2001
... focuses on
three topics: the referential properties of fiction, the textual marks of fictionality, and the
relations between such marks and literary-historical interpretation.
Addressing the referential question, the book’s first chapter, “Focus on Fiction,” exam-
ines several meanings...
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