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Inter-imperiality: Vying Empires, Gendered Labor, and the Literary Arts of Alliance
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 377–379.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Ian Almond [email protected] Laura Doyle , Inter-imperiality: Vying Empires, Gendered Labor, and the Literary Arts of Alliance . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2020 . 378 pp. Copyright © 2022 by University of Oregon 2022 What would a genuinely global history...
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Labors of Imagination: Aesthetics and Political Economy from Kant to Althusser
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (4): 389–391.
Published: 01 September 2008
... of Nations and Karl Marx’s Capital. The main aim is to
uncover how Smith’s theory of exchange and Marx’s theory of labor rely crucially on
claims about language. Mieszkowski argues that for Smith the division of labor is the con-
sequence of a universal...
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At the Shores of Work
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (2): 166–183.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Figure 1. The seal authorizing labor. ...
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Sensuous Communism: Sand with Marx
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (1): 62–78.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Claire White This article reads George Sand's Le Compagnon du Tour de France (1840) alongside Karl Marx's “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844.” It considers how these contemporaries bring to bear on their accounts of labor, estrangement, and the structures of property an attention...
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Afterword: The Littoral Museum of the Twenty-First Century
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (2): 237–254.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Morgane Cadieu Abstract The museum, the mausoleum, and the memorial are key concepts for theorizing beaches and ports in twenty-first-century literature and cinema. On the littoral, these constructions suggest the very opposite of a sealed off monumentality to become living museums of women’s labor...
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Astonishing Politics: Emerson, Levinas, and Thinking Beyond Virility
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (3): 301–321.
Published: 01 September 2014
... political concepts. Centrally, both Emerson and Levinas cast virility as a firmness or “fixture” that desirable political labor would relax. Fixture does not account for a kind of power so mobile, flexible, or fluid that it cannot even be said to resist that over which it exerts power. Reading Emerson...
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Caste in Black and White: Dalit Identity and the Translation of African American Literature
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (1): 94–113.
Published: 01 March 2015
... and the restrictive language of the caste system. By constructing a racialized, “culturally dualistic” America, Wankhade's Marathi essays sought in African American narratives a way of describing the historical trauma, alienated labor, and “double consciousness” of Black life that could resonate with Dalit...
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“Ludicrous Anachronisms”: Dreams, Enclosures, and Mary Robinson’s “The Maniac”
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 159–179.
Published: 01 June 2020
..., enclosure can be understood as a process by which gendered labor and criminalized mobility, two forms of what Marxist critics call “non-work,” became integral features of capital accumulation over the course of the Romantic period. This article pursues an analogy between what John Hunter defined...
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Beaches and Ports
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (2): 131–149.
Published: 01 June 2021
... should be approached as a representational and geophysical overlap, an amalgamation of industry, biology, text, and image. Beaches and ports are ecological and industrial force fields: spaces of prohibition and pleasure, labor and play, exposure and refuge. They are the staging grounds and terraformed...
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“Que de fame ait cors, ame et vie”: Authorial Manipulation and the Matter of Pygmalion in the Roman de la Rose and Ovid’s Metamorphoses
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Comparative Literature (2025) 77 (1): 82–116.
Published: 01 March 2025
... an important renegotiation of the preparatory Narcissean foil to the myth. It also renegotiates Ovid’s discussion of Pygmalion as it relates to the character’s agential, authorial role in the creation of his statue, and to his own positionality as the author of the text that labors to bring the exemplum...
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Second World, Second Sex, and Literature on the European Left
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (3): 217–228.
Published: 01 June 2003
... never have lived under state socialism, they main-
tained a deep investment in the international workers’ movement, even when it
was clear that the Soviet Union and its satellites were on the road to ruin.2 They
produced works that lament not only the passing of the labor-based utopia but
also...
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Bombay Hustle: Making Movies in a Colonial City Relaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran: Material Cultures in Transit Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 227–232.
Published: 01 June 2023
... the complexity of labor in motion picture production, although the term practices does help to avoid the hierarchy inherited from arts criticism. What is at stake? Here is the major cultural form of our times and an educated audience remains oblivious of exactly how motion pictures and television were...
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How the Russians Read the French: Lermontov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 225–227.
Published: 01 June 2011
... into the condition of Philip-
pine modernity under globalization: the feminization of labor, the acceleration of urban-
ization (culminating in the “City Beautiful” project sponsored by Imelda Marcos), and
the poetics and politics of revolution from both the grassroots and the leadership. In
these sections...
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Translating Pain: Immigrant Suffering in Literature and Culture
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 227–230.
Published: 01 June 2011
... into the condition of Philip-
pine modernity under globalization: the feminization of labor, the acceleration of urban-
ization (culminating in the “City Beautiful” project sponsored by Imelda Marcos), and
the poetics and politics of revolution from both the grassroots and the leadership. In
these sections...
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Things Fall Away: Philippine Historical Experience and the Makings of Globalization
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 230–234.
Published: 01 June 2011
... into the condition of Philip-
pine modernity under globalization: the feminization of labor, the acceleration of urban-
ization (culminating in the “City Beautiful” project sponsored by Imelda Marcos), and
the poetics and politics of revolution from both the grassroots and the leadership. In
these sections...
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Lin Shu, Inc.: Translation and the Making of Modern Chinese Culture
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (3): 368–370.
Published: 01 September 2014
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mized the ephemerality of the positions available to educated Chinese in urban cultural
and educational institutions. The works of Lin Shu and his collaborators offer important
perspectives on transformations in mental labor in China at the turn of the twentieth cen-
tury. Lin Shu, Inc. reveals...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (4): 367–387.
Published: 01 September 2009
... on the altar of the new holiness, labor (277). But
the opening line also echoes national sentiment through a secondary allusion to
splendid garb (bigdey tifartekh) in Isaiah: “Awake, awake, clothe yourself in your
strength, oh Zion, clothe yourself in the garb of your splendor, oh Jerusalem, holy
city...
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Ethics before Comparison
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (3): 259–271.
Published: 01 September 2020
.... All this points to another set of problems regarding “world literature” that are rarely spoken of. I am referring to political and ethical issues, not pragmatic ones. In short, I am urging us to think about the work literary texts do in the world, and how our own labor stands in relation to that work...
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Asia Rising Is an Imperial Fiction: A View from the Indian Ocean
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 247–263.
Published: 01 June 2022
... Empire of Convicts , convict workers, in Singapore especially, were vital to transforming the island into an “entrepot” and “hub” for the British. He shows how “convicts work[ed] in tandem with other types of unfree labor, chattel slaves from East Africa . . . and bonded labor or debt slaves from...
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