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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 377–379.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., 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 of the planet look like? Where and how should one begin to catalogue, chronicle, dissect the millennia...
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (4): 389–391.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Zachary Sng Labors of Imagination: Aesthetics and Political Economy from Kant to Althusser. By Jan Mieszkowski. New York: Fordham University Press, 2006. 226 p. University of Oregon 2008 book reviews
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (3): 217–228.
Published: 01 June 2003
... proceeded to mourn its collapse.
Indeed, over the past two decades leftist writers in both Eastern and Western
Europe have looked back to the moments when the promise of solidarity mani-
fested itself among the men and women who labored together on the factory
floor. Although this collective hope...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 227–232.
Published: 01 June 2023
... as in “reflection” theories. Yet one hears an echo of Marxism’s labor theory of value in the body of the replaceable cine-worker, subject to exhaustion, depletion, and death, given the expendability of film extras and stunt workers. The distressed body is further the site of oppression as manifest...
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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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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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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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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
... —Bialik’s
lines “Strong be the hands” and “Indeed the people is grass”—takes on new mean-
ing among the pioneering laborers in Palestine.
A striking aspect of this quasi-manifesto is its exuberant and fragmented mod-
ernist language. Shlonsky’s Hebrew is situated among the sounds of this new...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 247–263.
Published: 01 June 2022
... Kris . Colonialism in Global Perspective . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2020 . McKeown Adam . “ The Social Life of Chinese Labor .” In Chinese Circulations: Capital, Commodities, and Networks in Southeast Asia , edited by Tagliacozzo Eric and Chang Wen-Chin...
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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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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (2): 225–236.
Published: 01 June 2021
..., the narrative takes the form of a wandering, with qualities of both reportage and dream, through unhomely landscapes where there is everything and nothing to see: oil tankers, heavily secured freight ports, military-logistical infrastructure, sparse silhouettes of mute labor. The story is set in 2012 (a few...
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