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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (1): 19–40.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Sofia Samatar Abstract This essay examines spatial effects in Tayeb Salih’s novel Season of Migration to the North , drawing on the work of eleventh-century theorist Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani and two twentieth-century theorists, Joseph Frank and Julia Kristeva. Attending to formal patterns...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (4): 429–450.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Sarah M. Quesada Abstract This essay addresses the undertheorized three-decade engagement of US Puerto Rican poet Víctor Hernández Cruz with North Africa. In his poems on Egypt, the author argues that Cruz’s particular brand of south–south engagement is excluded from cosmopolitan theory—one...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 247–263.
Published: 01 June 2022
... . . . of more southerly routes . . . [that] provincialize Europe and North America” ( Bystrom and Hofmeyr 2 ). Singaporean American writer Kevin Kwan, on the other hand, published his Rich trilogy, including the debut novel Crazy Rich Asians , in quick succession; the three novels narrate the multigenerational...
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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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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 25–31.
Published: 01 March 2017
... in the North Atlantic echoes the history of European colonialism, and suggesting that one particular element of the Pacific Ocean is ongoing and diverse Indigenous presence, it reflects on the lack of engagement with Pacific scholarship in academic work globally. Rather than Ocean Studies turning its attention...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 161–181.
Published: 01 June 2011
... experience, are conducted under the aegis of Miłosz, his “Master.” These experiments are not historically neutral, and the political dimension of Miłosz's poetic meditation is not lost upon Heaney, whose own desire is to forge a poetic more de-materialized than that of his previous volumes North (1975...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (1): 49–72.
Published: 01 March 2012
... with Haitian authors generally and with the works of the Baron de Vastey (1781–1820) in particular. Vastey composed at least ten prose works, all of which circulated either in the original or in English translation in the Atlantic World. U.S. newspapers in the north that printed or reviewed Vastey's works...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (4): 429–449.
Published: 01 December 2013
... will disqualify him for entrance into Mexican high society. Through Menardo, introduced as “the mestizo,” Almanac critiques Mexican mestizaje as a cultural construct, and I consider whether this critique functions as the sort of exclusionary gesture Castillo has ascribed to some North American Indians when...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (2): 208–226.
Published: 01 June 2014
... during the rise of neoliberalism and the culture clash between an already unstable Latin American middle class and North American consumerism. I locate Vicuña's critique of consumerism, complacency, and the subordination of environmental concerns by comparing her use of the spiral to that of Robert...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 125–134.
Published: 01 June 2024
... beyond the western European and North American ones with which it has so long been associated calls for new theorizations and historicizations. Along the way, it assesses why primitivism’s purview had previously been so narrow by tracing the development of scholarship associated with primitivism...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (1): 117–121.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Thom Dancer Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History . By Joseph North . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2017 . 253 p. Copyright © 2019 by University of Oregon 2019 Joseph North’s Literary Criticism inspires mixed feelings. The book operates by telling...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 256–273.
Published: 01 June 2009
..., the impoverished
countries, . . . in short, the immense majority of humanity), begins a dialogue with the hegemonic
European-North American philosophical community . . . [with the] poverty of the greater part of human-
ity as a fundamental philosophical and ethical theme. (The Underside of Modernity vii...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (4): 298–314.
Published: 01 September 2001
...
resources and markets for the emerging capitalist economies of Western Europe
and North America.
GLOBALIZATION & WOMEN/299
European colonization and expansion may be taken as beginning with the
onslaught on the Americas in 1492 and as continuing...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 316–326.
Published: 01 June 2009
... fangs, necklace of hearts, and
serpent skirt, and the right half an industrial stamping press, with the resulting
hybrid clearly intended to symbolize the union of the mechanical North and
the organic South, as the title of this panel insists. It should not be surprising,
then, that Chris Gray...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 231–243.
Published: 01 June 2009
... and Criticism: An Electronic Annotated Bibliography. < http://www.uiowa.edu/uiowapress/interamerican/ >. ____. “Old World Roots/New World Realities: A Comparatist Looks at the Growth of Literature in North and South America.” Council on National Literatures/Quarterly World Report 3 . 3 ( July...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 189–208.
Published: 01 June 2009
... American Unity: Marriage of the Artistic Expression of the North and
South of this Continent (1940). Fresco. 22.5 x 6.74 meters. All rights reserved. Unauthorized public
performance, broadcasting, transmission, or copying, mechanical or electronic, is a violation of
applicable laws. ©...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 January 2010
..., Ephraim. Hebrew Poetry in North Africa . Jerusalem: Magness, 2003 . [Hebrew] Herzl, Theodor. Impressions of a Journey to Eretz Yisrael . Trans. Michal Berkovitz. Warsaw: Achiasaf, 1922 . [Hebrew] Knafo Asher. The Baby from Ifrane . Tel Aviv: Bimat Kedem Le'sifrut, 2000 . [Hebrew] Levine...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (2): 158–177.
Published: 01 March 2005
... OF ABJECTION/159
Georgette! belongs to a body of texts known as “beur literature,” a term coined
at the beginning of the 1980s in reference to writings of second generation North
African immigrants living in Paris and its suburbs.3 Aqud joins a much smaller
group of literary works written in Hebrew...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (3): 272–275.
Published: 01 September 2020
... to capitalist globalization, so that we ignore the North-in-the-South and keep thinking about identity, which in fact also plays havoc with democracy. In democracy as a constitutional system of government, there is a performative contradiction between liberty—ipseity or autonomy, my freedom, my rights...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 March 2017
... into dialogue with what remains an often hegemonic Anglophone
(North) Atlantic studies (despite a rich array of writing pointing elsewhere, as Te
Punga Somerville reminds us). To frame a conversation about the current state of
the field across a variety of continents and languages, we cast out in two...
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