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Pasolini in/and Catalonia: Translation, Minority Languages, and Internationalism

Jerry White
Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (1): 99–118.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-9434537
Published: 01 March 2022
.... [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by University of Oregon 2022 translation poetry cinema minority languages Catalonia PIER PAOLO PASOLINI’S relationship with Iberian translation sheds a great deal of light on important tendencies in Catalan cultural production of the mid-to late Franco...
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Paul de Man’s Flemish

Birger Vanwesenbeeck
Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (4): 427–447.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-9989230
Published: 01 December 2022
... thinkers’ respective experiences of native-linguistic loss. The essay closes by reflecting on the contrast between a major language's relative resilience to native-linguistic loss, as in the case of Derrida’s French, and the far more precarious condition of a minor language in exile such as de Man's...
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Diasporic Modernisms: Hebrew and Yiddish Literature in the Twentieth Century

Naomi Brenner
Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (2): 253–255.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-2682247
Published: 01 June 2014
... also incorporates a strong theoretical streak that situates Jewish-language diasporic modernism within a broader intellectual context. Schachter articulates her position in the book’s conclusion: “I want to suggest a more capacious view of the role that ‘minor’ languages play in the production...
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To Be or Not to Be an Israeli Arab: Sayed Kashua and the Prospect of Minority Speech-Acts

Gil Hochberg
Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (1): 68–88.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-2009-033
Published: 01 January 2010
... and provocative statements that “inter- rupt the narratives of fi liation through which the [very] meanings of majority and minority are determined, fi xed and internalized” (Mufti 121). Consider in this regard the question of language. In the context of minority lit- erature, this question has often been...
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Technorality, Literature, and Vernacular Literacy in Twenty-First-Century Africa

MORADEWUN ADEJUNMOBI
Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (2): 164–185.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-60-2-164
Published: 01 March 2008
... It is not surprising then that all of the information on Mount Zion’s website is in English. 28 The fact that Helen Ukpabio, the founder of the company, is a speaker of one of Nigeria’s so-called minority languages, Efik, may have made the use of English all the more attractive for reaching au- diences across...
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Two Sons of “Jewish Wit”: Philip Roth and Rafael Seligmann

JEFFERSON CHASE
Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (1): 42–57.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-53-1-42
Published: 01 January 2001
.... Friedman, Alan Warren. “The Jew's Complaint in Recent American Fiction.” Pinsker 149 -63. Gilman, Sander. Jewish Self-Hatred: Anti-Semitism and the Hidden Language of the Jews . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986 . ____. Jews in Today's German Culture . Bloomington and Indianapolis...
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The Quest for Epic: From Ariosto to Tasso

Tobias Gregory
Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (2): 177–179.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-2009-005
Published: 01 March 2009
... and remember this fi gure. Considering questions of translation, cross-language etymologies, minor languages, and multilingualism, Hochberg shows the ways in which the complex interplay of lan- guages activates literary texts, allowing us to see the representational tactics at work within them...
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Inscription and Erasure: Literature and Western Culture from the Eleventh to the Eighteenth Century

Thomas R. Hart
Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (2): 179–180.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-2009-006
Published: 01 March 2009
... and remember this fi gure. Considering questions of translation, cross-language etymologies, minor languages, and multilingualism, Hochberg shows the ways in which the complex interplay of lan- guages activates literary texts, allowing us to see the representational tactics at work within them...
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A Forgetful Nation: On Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United States

Ania Loomba
Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (2): 181–184.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-2009-007
Published: 01 March 2009
... and remember this fi gure. Considering questions of translation, cross-language etymologies, minor languages, and multilingualism, Hochberg shows the ways in which the complex interplay of lan- guages activates literary texts, allowing us to see the representational tactics at work within them...
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In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of the Separatist Imagination

Brian T. Edwards
Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (2): 184–187.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-2009-008
Published: 01 March 2009
... and remember this fi gure. Considering questions of translation, cross-language etymologies, minor languages, and multilingualism, Hochberg shows the ways in which the complex interplay of lan- guages activates literary texts, allowing us to see the representational tactics at work within them...
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Form and Instability: Eastern Europe, Literature, Postimperial Difference by Anita Starosta

Ania Spyra
Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (4): 457–459.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-4260483
Published: 01 December 2017
... through them is distorted by language. As an example, Starosta uses Tadeusz Konwicki’s A Minor Apocalypse (1979), written at a time when the Soviet Second World’s difference was solidified into incongruous temporality. The novel exposes totalitarian lan- guage as the opposite of the clear, ordinary...
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Decolonizing US Comparative Literature: The 2022 ACLA Presidential Address

Shu-mei Shih
Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 237–265.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-10475380
Published: 01 September 2023
.... Several contributors to the volume, probably for the first time in the discipline’s history, importantly refer to the need to study ethnic US and other minority literatures and Indigenous languages, especially the contribution by Mary Louise Pratt. Most crucially for my critique here, however...
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Beyond Sinology: Chinese Writing and the Scripts of Culture

Sheldon Lu
Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (3): 371–373.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-2773720
Published: 01 September 2014
...,” “Iconographies,” “Sonogra- phies,” “Allographies,” and “Technographies” —​and a conclusion. “Corpographies” investigates the relationship between the Chinese written language, on the one hand, and the human body, corporality, and materiality, on the other. It looks at a host of texts and theories...
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Problems He Never Gets Anywhere Near: Wittgenstein's Reading of Beethoven as a View of His Later Philosophy

Matthew Lau
Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 52–70.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-2414932
Published: 01 March 2014
... part brings the insights of this minor text to bear on both the controversial “rule-following” paradox from Philosophical Investigations and the role of skepticism in Wittgenstein's late philosophy. I suggest two related analogies, or what Wittgenstein himself might have called “family resemblances...
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Turn to the Planet: Literature, Diversity, and Totality

MASAO MIYOSHI
Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (4): 283–297.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-53-4-283
Published: 01 September 2001
... American civilization, and in- tellectuals emerging in the just liberated former colonized world found in Said’s criticism something both revolutionary and fundamental for mapping the his- tory and geography of the future. The term “Orientalism” was added to the vocabulary of many languages as a name...
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“Mine from ’33; Yours from ’41”: Poetic Reinventions in Post-Maidan Ukraine

Amelia M. Glaser
Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 207–226.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-10334542
Published: 01 June 2023
...Amelia M. Glaser Abstract At many points in modern history, Ukrainian identity has been bound up with the Ukrainian language, Ukrainian forms of Christianity, and specific collective experiences of trauma as Ukrainians. This sense of national identity was particularly felt in the immediate post...
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The One Vs. the Many: Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Novel

David A. Brewer
Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (1): 83–86.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-58-1-83
Published: 01 January 2006
...David A. Brewer The One vs. the Many: Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Novel. By Alex Woloch. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. ix, 391 p. University of Oregon 2006 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/70 BOOK...
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Dido's Daughters: Literacy, Gender, and Empire in Early Modern England and France

Anne Lake Prescott
Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (1): 77–79.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-58-1-77
Published: 01 January 2006
... for “faults” (in both one’s own and others’ work) is a continual con- struction of that “academic self.” Whether the discovering or uncovering of such fault-lines is part of the historical for- mulation of the discipline of linguistics (“Saussure’s story of the disciplines of language is a story...
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The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany

Barbara M. Benedict
Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (1): 80–83.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-58-1-80
Published: 01 January 2006
... for “faults” (in both one’s own and others’ work) is a continual con- struction of that “academic self.” Whether the discovering or uncovering of such fault-lines is part of the historical for- mulation of the discipline of linguistics (“Saussure’s story of the disciplines of language is a story...
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Regions of Sorrow: Anxiety and Messianism in Hannah Arendt and W.h. Auden

Lynn R. Wilkinson
Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (1): 86–89.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-58-1-86
Published: 01 January 2006
... for “faults” (in both one’s own and others’ work) is a continual con- struction of that “academic self.” Whether the discovering or uncovering of such fault-lines is part of the historical for- mulation of the discipline of linguistics (“Saussure’s story of the disciplines of language is a story...
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