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..., to tell the story of trading expeditions in East Africa. The impulse to renarrate history in these novels can be understood as “the postcolonial desire to re-translate” the past, which means that the archival work of recuperating multilingual pasts is inseparable from the work of translation ( Niranjana...

...Marc Caplan [email protected] Hebrew Gothic: History and the Poetics of Persecution , by Karen Grumberg . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 2019 . 311 + xiv pp. Copyright © 2023 by University of Oregon 2023 Though often hailed as a miracle, the modern...

... for the mainstream return of fascist politics of white supremacy. In this context of alternative histories taken as fact, of conspiracy rhetoric seemingly impervious to reason, this article asks how we can respond in intellectually robust ways that will help us to ground an inclusive culture and build a better...

... . fall 2008 Volume 60, Number 4 JACQUES LEZRA The Indecisive Muse: Ethics in Translation and the Idea of History I. Two Dogmas of Translation...

...IGNACIO M. SÁNCHEZ PRADO Leopoldo Zea's philosophy of history constitutes a cogent interrogation of the colonial legacy in Mexico and thus also serves to demonstrate the importance of Latin America as a site of theoretical enunciation. This essay addresses Zea's early work on Mexico and his...

...Craig Cravens THE COLUMBIA LITERARY HISTORY OF EASTERN EUROPE SINCE 1945. By Harold B. Segel. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. 424 p. University of Oregon 2009 BOOK REVIEWS ON DIALOGUE. By Dmitri Nikulin. Lanham...

..., Mikhail. The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays . Trans. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Austin: U of Texas p, 1981 . ———. Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics . Trans. Caryl Emerson. Theory and History of Literature. Vol. 8 . Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1984 . ———. Sobranie sochinenii . Vol...

...Dennis Todd Breeding: A Partial History of the Eighteenth Century. By Jenny Davidson. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. 312 p. University of Oregon 2010 BOOK REVIEWS Or l a n d o f u r i o s o . By Lodovico Ariosto...

... methodology and peremptory interpretations in his two essays on Baudelaire. Finally, it offers a close comparative reading of Baudelaire's lyric “The Swan” and Benjamin's ninth aphorism in “On the Concept of History,” staging an unexpected and revealing correspondence between the two works to argue...

...J. Michael Dash The French Atlantic, Travels in Culture and History . By Marshall Bill . Liverpool : Liverpool University Press , 2009 . 375 p. © 2012 by University of Oregon 2012 BOOK REVIEWS WORLDS WITHIN: NATIONAL...

... no longer freely travelable, but crisscrossed by internal and international borders. This process is crucial in terms of the history of the novel because it undid the nexus of space, mobility, and narrative characteristic of the early-modern novel and forced the genre to invent plots that better aligned...

... Ksharim , 2009 . Print . Carlebach E. Efron M.J. Myers N.D. , eds. Jewish History and Jewish Memory . Hanover and London : Brandeis UP , 1998 . Print . Carlebach Elisheva . Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe . Boston : Harvard UP , 2011...

...Salvador J. Fajardo Modernism and the New Spain: Britain, Cosmopolitan Europe, and Literary History . By Rogers Gayle . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . 283 p. © 2015 by University of Oregon 2015 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 232 In either case, Baroque Sovereignty...

...Marijeta Bozovic Nabokov, History, and the Texture of Time . By Norman Will . Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature, 19 . New York : Routledge , 2012 . xvi, 205 p. © 2016 by University of Oregon 2016 Works Cited Appel Alfred Jr. Nabokov's...

... of such essentialist binaries, this article develops a nuanced understanding of the concepts of time and history expressed in two categories of novels in three African languages: Ujamaa novels in Swahili (Tanzania) and Chimurenga/Umvukela novels in Shona and Ndebele (Zimbabwe). While Ujamaa novels often operate...

... of oral traditions (biblical, Homeric, or non-Western) to writing-centered interpretations. Saussy’s forceful, methodical, exhilarating book is really several books rolled into one: a conceptual history of the asymmetrically linked concepts of orality and writing in the long twentieth century...

...Lina Steiner Herder’s Hermenutics: History, Poetry, Enlightenment . By Kristin Gjesdal . Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press , 2017 . Xiv+232 p. Copyright © 2019 by University of Oregon 2019 One of the pioneers of comparative literary studies and a founder...

...Thom Dancer Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History . By Joseph North . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2017 . 253 p. Copyright © 2019 by University of Oregon 2019 Joseph North’s Literary Criticism inspires mixed feelings. The book operates by telling...

...Maarten van Delden The Usable Past: The Imagination of History in Recent Fiction of the Americas. By Lois Parkinson Zamora. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xiii, 257 p. University of Oregon 2000 BOOK REVIEWS/179...

...Seth Lerer In Praise of the Variant: A Critical History of Philology. By Bernard Cerquiglini. Translated by Betsy Wing. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xiv, 93 p. University of Oregon 2000 BOOK REVIEWS/363...