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The Multilingual Local in World Literature
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (4): 345–374.
Published: 01 December 2015
... on the multilingual north Indian region of Awadh in the early modern period, it argues that an approach to literature and space that takes multilingualism within society and literary culture as a structuring and generative principle and holds both local and cosmopolitan perspectives in view is more productive...
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Doing Cultural Studies Inside Apec: Literature, Cultural Identity, and Global/Local Dynamics in the American Pacific
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (4): 389–403.
Published: 01 September 2001
... Studies . New York: Routledge, 1992 . Hall, Stuart. “The Local and the Global: Globalization and Ethnicity.” Culture, Globalization and the World-System . Ed. Anthony D. King. Binghampton: State University of New York, Department of Art and Art History, 1991 . 19 -39. Hau'ofa, Epeli. “Our Sea...
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The Geopolitics of Comparing and Representing the Other
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (3): 289–298.
Published: 01 September 2021
...José Luís Jobim Abstract Ferdinand Denis, Almeida Garrett, and Alexandre Herculano were European authors who, during the nineteenth century, formulated a meaning for local color below the equator, and contributed to a comparativism that geopolitically originated from the Old World, which created...
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Vernacular Missing: Miraji on Sappho, Gender, and Governance
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (2): 132–144.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Geeta Patel Abstract Vernacularization as a concept has gained circulation in our time within the ambit of South Asia: scholars use it to name what they designate as local—whether sexuality, language, architecture, religion, capital, or aesthetic practices. When claims are made...
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Twentieth-Century Experiments in Form: A Critical Re-Reading of Cecilia Vicuña's Indigenism as Episteme
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (2): 208–226.
Published: 01 June 2014
... individualism that begins at the locale, and extends in a non-linear curvature. Vicuña's poetry and art constitute an epistemology that recurs during the performance of locality and redefines the collective expression of historical time from the events of language that realize the present. © 2014...
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Guantánamo, Cuba: Poetry and Prison on Divided Ground
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (3): 299–315.
Published: 01 September 2020
... of Guantánamo, as a form of regional literature produced on contested ground. It proposes that, when read across the dividing line and between languages, poetry presents a more intimate and locally specific Guantánamo than the widely known version. Copyright © 2020 by University of Oregon 2020...
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Plagiarism and Authorship in Turn-of-the-Century Venezuela
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (4): 406–417.
Published: 01 December 2020
... Rodríguez; the novel El hombre de hierro ( The Iron Man ; 1907) by Rufino Blanco Fombona, which was interpreted as a copy of Flaubert’s Madame Bovary but justified by its local character; and the very curious case of Rafael Bolívar Coronado, whose writing implodes the category of authorship that underlies...
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An Intimate “Range of Elsewhere”: Sensuous Imaginaries of the Indian Ocean in Precolonial Swahili Poetry
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 156–170.
Published: 01 June 2022
... as a productive way of “thinking” about Indian Ocean relations, namely as a continual reemergence of cycles of sensation, questioning the clear-cut dichotomy of the “exterior” world and “intimate” notions of irreducible personhood as well as notions of local and cosmopolitan. Zeroing in on the betel quid, which...
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Knowing and Not Knowing: Gossip, News, and Rumors in Two Novels about Assam
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 273–288.
Published: 01 September 2022
... by Bengali writer Sumana Roy and The House with a Thousand Stories by Assamese novelist and poet Aruni Kashyap, to show that, despite their crucial differences in form, style, and narration, both novels use a locally inflected English language to tell stories about how rumor and gossip destroy families...
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The Politics of Plagiarism: Queer Appropriation and Collaborative Creation in Ena Lucía Portela and María Moreno
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (4): 471–497.
Published: 01 December 2022
... on the location of the so-called cosmopolitan in queer literary genealogies and on power dynamics and hierarchies among both authors and characters and different creative forms, including academic writing. The article argues that while the diegesis of their texts is largely set outside their local contexts, both...
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Historicist Cosmopolitanism from Scandinavia’s First Novel
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 345–372.
Published: 01 September 2022
... cosmopolitanism that has reemerged in the past decades. Holberg was Scandinavia’s preeminent Enlightenment figure and is still beloved for his stage comedies. His only European success, Niels Klim’s Underground Travels (1741), argues for a cosmopolitanism situated in history, geography, and local culture...
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“Noseological” Parody, Gender Discourse, and Yugoslav Feminisms: Following Gogol′'s “Nose” To Ugrešić's “Hot Dog on a Warm Bun”
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (2): 161–178.
Published: 01 March 2010
.... As Ugrešić dismantles the phallus's imaginary “veils,” she also unmasks persistant gender inequality and a virulent socio-political backlash during the immediate post-Tito years. Ugrešić embeds in her psychoanalytic parody an incisive reading of gender discourse and local feminisms in 1980s Yugoslavia...
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Lost in Lit-Terra Incognita, or What Is and to What End Do We Study World Literature?
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 315–335.
Published: 01 September 2010
... of the existing translations and that rests uncomfortably and problematically on thematic universals. This problem necessitates a critical examination of the fraught legacy of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Eurocentric critics who unthinkingly assigned universal value to their local parameters...
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Sleepwalking Certainties: Agency, Aesthetics, and Incapacity in W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz and Hermann Broch's The Sleepwalkers
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (2): 162–181.
Published: 01 June 2013
...Stephen Thomson When we first encounter the narrator of Austerlitz , he is wandering around the unfamiliar town of Antwerp with, he tells us, “unsicheren Schritten” (1; 9). As well as reflecting the unfamiliarity of the locale, these “uncertain steps” evince a proud modesty characteristic...
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Amid the Ruins of Time: The Classics as Modernist Project in Gadamer and Seferis
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (2): 166–184.
Published: 01 June 2015
... the classical world's final gasp, as its supposedly timeless significance and power is used one last time in order to inaugurate its relegation to the category of the insignificant, the arbitrary, the personal, and merely local. This abdication of the Classics' claim to universality under the aegis of their own...
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Writing Nothing: Negation and Subjectivity in the Holocaust Poetry of Paul Celan and Dan Pagis
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (4): 438–458.
Published: 01 December 2014
... be negated. Finally, by tracing the same structure of negated subjectivity in the work of the Hebrew poet Dan Pagis, I show that this dispute is not merely a local debate between two German-language thinkers but an indication of a deeper fault line in poetic representation of the Holocaust. © 2014...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (2): 116–129.
Published: 01 June 2016
... of comparison (the “color line”) in response to lynching and imperial conquest. Arguing that the question of comparison in the present must be resolved by collective action rather than scholarship, it tentatively suggests a few possible lines of study attuned to the local and geopolitical dynamics of race...
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Coastal Form: Amphibian Positions, Wider Worlds, and Planetary Horizons on the African Indian Ocean Littoral
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 16–24.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Meg Samuelson This essay makes a case for the categories of littoral literature and coastal form through which it aims to take up the expansive possibilities of the maritime turn while keeping both the materiality of the ocean and the locality of the shore in sight. It elaborates the notion...
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Empson and Mu Dan: Modernism as “Complex Word”
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2018
..., is rarely mentioned. Empson’s significant work The Structure of Complex Words , completed in Peking in the early 1950s, remains untranslated and under-studied. Empson’s encounter with China illuminates the material mediation of language, local and global politics, and cultural difference, which have...
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Rhyme in European Verse: A Case for Quantitative Historical Poetics
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (2): 194–212.
Published: 01 June 2019
...-accentual verse in Russia in the 1730s–40s, which represented an encounter between Polish, German, and French practices of versification. In addition to the general compensatory principle and local effects of borrowing, the article discusses a previously unexplored kind of formal complexity that evolves...
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