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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 273–288.
Published: 01 September 2022
... and communities living in the shadow of insurgencies and state violence. The Anglophone metropolitan postcolonial critic’s often-shallow knowledge about a region, its literature and deep politics, and their many rationalizations about why it is so, dovetails with the manner in which lies, exaggerated and fake...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (2): 107–115.
Published: 01 June 2016
... of cosmopolitanism, philology, national narrative, and
translation across the last two centuries (Damrosch et al Comparative Ethnic
Studies’ genealogy of comparison reveals the tension among the coalitional imag-
inaries of race radical insurgency, sociological approaches to minority difference...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 289–292.
Published: 01 September 2022
... bloody insurgency, its instability. I could never belong to the world of these books by many Indian English writers where characters could leave for Los Angeles or Latvia at the drop of a hat. I didn’t have the money or the means. Or even imagination. Dilli bohu dur! Delhi was too far. Latvia or New...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (4): 455–458.
Published: 01 December 2019
... travel. Little Magazine, World Form is a major work of scholarship, sure to stand as a lasting contribution. In becoming the favored print technology for insurgent writers across oceans and centuries, the little magazine traveled the globe as a form while individual titles and issues often could...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 220–230.
Published: 01 June 2009
....” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 11 . 2 ( 2002 ): 173 -93. Ferrer, Ana. Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution 1868-1898 . Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1999 . Ferris, David. “Indiscipline.” Saussy 78 -99. Foster, Lynn V. A Brief History of Mexico . Rev. ed. New...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (1): 94–113.
Published: 01 March 2015
...)
Now we have seen the example of rebellious Negro literature. How do Marathi writers of the bahu-
jan samaj write? Do they have anger or insurgence relating to injustice? If they don’t, then why
don’t they?
Wankhade’s answer drew on a formulation of “identity” that would prove forma-
tive...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (2): 116–129.
Published: 01 June 2016
... as rioting or looting, this vio-
lence illuminates a space of occupation and counteroccupation, insurgency and
counterinsurgency, by refusing the promise of inclusion in the community of free-
dom police violence works to establish. Standing outside the bounds of acceptable
dissent, it does not debate...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (4): 406–428.
Published: 01 December 2024
... risks circumscribing the meaning of certain sexual acts for him, including the sex he is having with Eric. Marlon B. Ross, in Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness , understands Baldwin, across all of his novels, “to be pushing his reluctant audience [and perhaps even some of his...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (4): 307–324.
Published: 01 September 2002
... the benefits
of privilege. Spivak also writes: “When we come to the concomitant question of
the consciousness of the subaltern, the notion of what the work cannot say be-
comes important. In the semioses of the social text, elaborations of insurgency
stand in place of ‘the utterance’” (82). That is, when...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2022
... an insurgent in the fight against apartheid, that there is a place for all at the rendezvous of victory; the success of the struggle itself depends on the deferral of such claims. Yet Gordimer presents an aporia in thinking about collective liberation that is integral to the effect that Césaire and his...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 125–134.
Published: 01 June 2024
... : Stanford University Press , 2021 . Varma Rashmi . “ Primitivism in the Peripheries: Reflections on Auritro Majumder’s Insurgent Imaginations: World Literature and the Periphery .” Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 9 , no. 3 ( 2022 ): 417 – 23 . Zavgorodny-Freedman...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (3): 259–271.
Published: 01 September 2020
... a new sense of being for those now awakened from the stultifying effects of racial prejudice, but also a significant threat—the energy unleashed by Margaret’s art and Maru’s marriage to her is liberatory in radical and insurgent ways. The final paragraphs of the novel are worth citing...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 140–152.
Published: 01 June 2023
... districts have been mobilized, hundreds of millions of rubles have been spent, tens of thousands of troops have been dispatched to China, a number of battles have been fought and a number of victories won—true, not so much over regular enemy troops, as over Chinese insurgents and, particularly, over...
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Poetry and the Camp: Epiphanic Witness and Ecstatic Cry in the Spanish-Cuban-American War of 1895–98
Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (4): 403–420.
Published: 01 December 2021
... by Ciccariello-Maher George . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2008 . Ferrer Ada . Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868–1898 . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1999 . Foner Philip S. The Spanish-Cuban-American War and the Birth of American...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (4): 298–314.
Published: 01 September 2001
... by autocratic rulers, who were supported
by wealthy First-World countries as a bulwark against popular insurgencies re-
garded as “communist,” and they often used borrowed funds to subvert local
democracy through the military repression of their own populations.
The birth of the World Trade Organization...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (4): 385–402.
Published: 01 December 2021
... of the terms of translation. Without exempting theatrical translation from a critique of appropriation, I have sought to mine transcolonial performance for its transformative possibilities and performative insurgencies, against the (neo)colonial policing of social roles and political identities. The fact...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 156–170.
Published: 01 June 2022
..., in Kant’s words, to “an illimitable field of kindred representations” ( 318 ). For the German poet Durs Grünbein, this is the paradox of an insurgent “palpability,” on the one hand, and a “blurred view” on the other ( 84–94 ). There is the vast imaginative “field” of, for instance, the taste and the scent...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (2): 139–153.
Published: 01 June 2019
... dovries avoir perdu la loi; Ma e’ mi piace che li dardi e stocchi Semper insurgant contra me de limo, Dont je serai mort, par foi que je croi. Fort me desplait pour moi, Ch’io son punito ed aggio colpa nulla, Nec dicit ipsa: “Malum est de isto”; Unde querelam sisto. Ella sa ben che se ‘l mio cor si crulla...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (2): 166–183.
Published: 01 June 2021
..., salt, and most crucially, coffee. Santos belongs to Allan Sekula’s subterranean map of “insurgent waterfront cities,” along with Petrograd, Hamburg, Oakland, and Genoa ( 118 ). 6 A stronghold in abolition struggles, after abolition (1888), it became the new home for free people of color looking...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (4): 283–299.
Published: 01 September 2004
... composition (initial elements repeated at the end) we encounter in
Tolstoy’s late (1904) Hadji Murad. Indeed, the two novels form a tandem remi-
niscent of Homer’s epics. In his Hadji Murad, Tolstoy depicts a Caucasus leader
who, because of conflicts with an insurgent warlord, defects to the despised Rus...
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