...John Plotz Impure Worlds: The Institution of Literature in the Age of the Novel . By Arac Jonathan . New York : Fordham University Press , 2011 . xiii, 184 p . © 2012 by University of Oregon 2012 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 462...

... not to a critique of institutions, of form as such, then, but merely to a critique of bad  or impoverished  institutionalism, the kind of institution- alism that doesn’t think much about itself, that doesn’t have much truck with experiments, that complains about institutions in general so as to avoid thinking...

... the fact that literature, especially the novel, does work within a society that both exposes social processes and psychological drives and creates the institutions they need and desire. Frye organized his anatomy around a set of interlocking hermeneutical and structural levels and modes that attempted...

... can only hope that in the future this project could be developed into a digital platform to document the institutional histories and personal networks central to the development of the global cultural anticolonialism in mid-twentieth century—a crucial albeit often overlooked step in the evolution...

...,” and/or “global” in the decade since the book’s publication. How have provocations to center the Indigenous as an optics and as a mode of analysis been taken up, extended, critiqued, or reimagined by others? To illustrate the potential limitations of calls to “decolonize” dominant academic institutions, including...

...Eric Naiman This article explores the role of surveillance in Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pnin both within its contemporary political context and as a response to two earlier examples of American campus fiction: Randall Jarrell's Pictures from an Institution and Mary McCarthy's The Groves of Academe...

... towards Mizrahi Jews. Indeed, it was Bialik—the institution and the literary symbol—who served three generations of Zionist educators devoted to writing a new Jewish history from which the Jews who lived in Arab and Islamic lands during the last few centuries were erased. University of Oregon 2010...

... institutional locations, historical developments, and epistemic investments. © 2016 by University of Oregon 2016 Black Studies racial relationality incommensurability state violence coloniality Works Cited Ahmed Sara . On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life...

... and narrative strategies to political and literary histories in order to challenge the naturalized perception of linguistic and territorial boundaries. Through the investigation of how processes of border production and contestation define both the narrative geographies and the dynamics of institutional...

...” status of non-Western texts often played out in colonial microencounters rather than European metropoles. Moreover, Abdullah’s text demonstrates how the secular logics undergirding world literature were significantly produced by missionary institutions, given their involvement in colonial publishing...

... in postcolonial or global Anglophone world literature. Writing by Buchi Emecheta, Chinua Achebe, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie suggests how the appropriation of the language of British colonization has been undercut and abetted by the Anglophone cultural and educational institutions of US empire. Copyright ©...

... of modernity that had previously assured the place of the literary institution. © 2017 by University of Oregon 2017 Roberto Bolaño infrapolitics global war global novel 1968 Works Cited Avelar Idelber . The Untimely Present: Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction and the Task...

... and cultural assets, and therefore its general educational employment within public institutions, as opposed to its religious or liturgical use, causes no offense to anyone's freedom of conscience guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Confidence in this idea, however, set in only after...

...Jesper Gulddal This article explores the link between the novel and the passport system as one of the defining legal institutions of modernity. The late eighteenth-century introduction of modern strategies for controlling mobility brought about a reconfiguration of political space which was now...

...Sushil Sivaram Abstract This article reasons that the Jaipur Literature Festival between 2008 and 2011 attempted to institute via polemics, judgment, and celebration the category of the Pakistani novel in India by importing an alterity industry. By failing to contextualize alterity in a South Asian...

... institution, founded in 1858, modeled on a monarchical system and explicitly established to provide an alternative political and diplomatic structure during a period of intense colonial and legal violence. For the colonial state, the Kīngitanga’s position of deriving its sovereignty from its own context...

... , 1968 . Print . Blase Melvin G. Institution Building: A Source Book . New York : Columbia UP , 1986 . Print . Bortolussi Marisa Dixon Peter . Psychonarratology: Foundations for the Empirical Study of Literary Response . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2003 . Print...