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The Hikayat Abdullah , the Missionary Press, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century “World Literature”
Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (4): 451–471.
Published: 01 December 2024
...” status of non-Western texts often played out in colonial microencounters rather than European metropoles. Moreover, Abdullah’s text demonstrates how the secular logics undergirding world literature were significantly produced by missionary institutions, given their involvement in colonial publishing...
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Comparative Literature (2025) 77 (1): 21–39.
Published: 01 March 2025
... the connections between Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin , the translation and popularization of which in China was inextricably bound up with the Protestant missionary civilizing project; and Family by Ba Jin ( Jia 家, 1933), one of the most widely read novels in modern China. [email protected]...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (4): 489–505.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Chenxin Jiang [email protected] Copyright © 2021 by University of Oregon 2021 LIKE OTHER WESTERN concessions and colonies in China, the short-lived German concession in Tsingtau (Qingdao) was fitted out with churches and missionaries along with its hospitals and police stations...
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (2): 164–185.
Published: 01 March 2008
... to
Islam before the twentieth century, Christian missionaries (especially Protestant
ones) played a critical role. Indeed, as Albert Gérard argues, “the emergence of
modern African literature in vernacular languages was closely linked with the
dissemination of Protestantism”(177).3 Protestants had been...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (4): 442–462.
Published: 01 December 2021
... Liaozhai tales, collected in two volumes, was published by Thos. de la Rue and Company in London under the title Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (hereafter Strange Stories ). 2 This translation came thirty-eight years after two Protestant missionaries in China, both associated with the Canton...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (4): 354–372.
Published: 01 September 2001
.... Phrases in Dispute . Trans. Georges Van Den Abbeele. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988 . Murray, Jocelyn. “The Church Missionary Society and the `Female Circumcision' Issue in Kenya, 1929-1932.” Journal of Religion in Africa 8 ( 1976 ): 92 -104. MacIntyre, Alasdair. “Relativism...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (3): 295–316.
Published: 01 September 2018
... in the Pacific and within the global histories of experimental poetry and anti-colonial struggle, but also against the backdrop of the introduction of letterpress printing into Hawaiʻi, where the medium both perpetuated missionary-colonial impositions and nurtured the political discourse of a sovereign nation...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (3): 365–368.
Published: 01 September 2014
... as a way to expose the failures of Portuguese missionary/
colonial tactics as well as to counter Hiob Ludolf’s privileging of Habesha Christianity “at
the expense of the Roman Catholic Church” (57), Belcher finds that “Johnson’s erasures
book...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (2): 228–232.
Published: 01 June 2015
... of the Conquest,
the Creole identifies his singular place and mission in viceregal Mexico. Distanced from
officials and missionaries who were ignorant of the sources and dynamics of patrimonial-
ism and communitarianism, as well as the seemingly anarchic, “mongrel” mass of urban
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (2): 132–144.
Published: 01 June 2018
... reverence for pious instruction (either directly via missionaries or indirectly via their alter ego the East India Company state). As many authors have shown, this is also conveyed by a turn to English as the only viable medium of education, augmented by sums given over to translating edifying texts...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (4): 460–462.
Published: 01 December 2020
... in Morocco generated legitimacy by supporting Muslim religion and Arabic language education and literary production. Spain thus fashioned itself as the lesser of two colonial evils vis-à-vis France, whose linguistic and missionary policies were far more stringent. Colonial Governor Juan Luis Beigbeder...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 26–35.
Published: 01 March 2013
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ciple. During his correspondence with the Jesuit missionary Joachim Bouvet,
however, he thought he had found a solution for this problem in the form of the
hexagrams. In his letter to Bouvet in 1701, Leibniz describes the project of a Char-
acteristica universalis according to algebraic principles...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 157–178.
Published: 01 June 2024
... of ‘primitive mentality’ as Lévy-Bruhl does without considering the primitivist biases of the informants [the Western missionaries] is dangerous to say the least. G. Leroy [ sic ] had shown in his Primitive Reason that the choice made by Lévy-Bruhl in order to arrive at positivist conclusions no longer...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (4): 492–511.
Published: 01 December 2024
... to the early modern period. When the Jesuits arrived in China and Japan in the sixteenth century, they turned to ancient Rome to make sense of the foreign cultures they encountered. As Stuart M. McManus has shown, Jesuit missionaries saw the Japanese as akin to the Romans in their martial character, stoicism...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (4): 350–353.
Published: 01 September 2003
... of the Hindu religion. Hinduism was,
in effect, reconfigured and corrected with strategies borrowed from both brahmanical
commentaries on the Veda and biblical hermeneutics as practiced by missionaries.
The author’s method is based on the philological deconstruction of the metaphors
that surround...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (4): 354–355.
Published: 01 September 2003
... was,
in effect, reconfigured and corrected with strategies borrowed from both brahmanical
commentaries on the Veda and biblical hermeneutics as practiced by missionaries.
The author’s method is based on the philological deconstruction of the metaphors
that surround mythic representations centered...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (4): 355–358.
Published: 01 September 2003
... by missionaries.
The author’s method is based on the philological deconstruction of the metaphors
that surround mythic representations centered on the authority of an absent text. Ini-
tially, knowledge of the Veda was founded solely on secondary sources, which were often
whimsical and imprecise...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (4): 358–360.
Published: 01 September 2003
... of the Hindu religion. Hinduism was,
in effect, reconfigured and corrected with strategies borrowed from both brahmanical
commentaries on the Veda and biblical hermeneutics as practiced by missionaries.
The author’s method is based on the philological deconstruction of the metaphors
that surround...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (4): 360–363.
Published: 01 September 2003
... was,
in effect, reconfigured and corrected with strategies borrowed from both brahmanical
commentaries on the Veda and biblical hermeneutics as practiced by missionaries.
The author’s method is based on the philological deconstruction of the metaphors
that surround mythic representations centered...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (4): 363–365.
Published: 01 September 2003
... by missionaries.
The author’s method is based on the philological deconstruction of the metaphors
that surround mythic representations centered on the authority of an absent text. Ini-
tially, knowledge of the Veda was founded solely on secondary sources, which were often
whimsical and imprecise...
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