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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (4): 345–374.
Published: 01 December 2015
... for world literature than approaches based only on cosmopolitan perspectives of circulation and recognition. © 2015 by University of Oregon 2015 world literature multilingual literature north India Works Cited Fazl Abul . Áín i Akbari . Trans. Jarrett H.S. . Vol. 3...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (3): 320–343.
Published: 01 September 2021
... as a crucial element in Muktibodh’s long poem. Understanding the formal development of Muktibodh’s long poem is important not only because it reshapes our understanding of the literary landscape of North India, but also because it indicates the ways in which detailed formal analysis, in this case of meter, can...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (1): 23–41.
Published: 01 January 2002
... ): 222 -43. Nelson, E.W. The Eskimo about Bering Strait . Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983 . Prater, D. Thomas Mann, A Life . New York: Oxford University Press, 1995 . Raheja, G.G., and A.G. Gold. Listen to the Heron's Words: Reimagining Gender and Kinship in North India...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (3): 226–251.
Published: 01 September 2019
... category in postcolonial India. Addressing an already-existing, middle-class readership that was well aware of the Hindi literary field, nayī kahānī writing contradictorily concealed the inequalities of class, caste, religion, and gender that led to individuals’ sense of unbelonging in postcolonial North...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 273–288.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., took root after 1971.” He reminds us how, unlike the “informal or vernacular names like North India or South India, . . . Northeast India is an officially organized and named region—an artifact of deliberate policy,” and how the term Northeasterner is not merely a geographic description but one...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (1): 25–51.
Published: 01 March 2022
... .” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 11 , no. 4 ( 1946 ): 699 – 712 . Bailey Thomas Grahame . History of Urdu Literature . Delhi : S. Sethi , 1932 . Bangha Imre . “ Rekhta: Poetry in Mixed Language: The Emergence of Khari Boli Literature in North India...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (4): 333–356.
Published: 01 December 2019
.../234442 . King Christopher R. One Language, Two Scripts: The Hindi Movement in the Nineteenth Century North India . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1994 . “ KLF-2011: Writing the World .” YouTube, uploaded by KarachiLitFestival, December 9 , 2016 . youtube.com/watch?v=YpWgtSm4piE...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (3): 272–275.
Published: 01 September 2020
... in British India, and I still feel a thump in my chest when I hear the word native used in the racialized way, positive or negative. My parents, upper caste, anti-casteist, anticapitalist intellectuals that they were, could still be called native/nigger when they were growing up. The word native...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 7–15.
Published: 01 March 2017
... as discrete units” (206). This insight led, over the next three decades, to legislation designed to govern the empire systemically, as a single unit. The most famous of these legislative acts is probably the Tea Act of 1773, which aimed to use markets in North America to offset debt accrued in India...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (2): 132–144.
Published: 01 June 2018
... as the centerpiece of a nineteenth-century process of the conversion (often finessed through religion) of colonized subjects by East India Company officials and then the colonial state in India. It has been imagined as being carted along with the ontological, epistemological, and metaphysical etiologies...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 15–25.
Published: 01 March 2013
... Salman Rushdie’s secure place in American English departments and R.K. Narayan’s continual neglect, even though he is widely taught in English departments within India. Such exclusions are an ironic out- come of the original languages caveat, which is just as strong within the discipline...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (4): 466–486.
Published: 01 December 2018
... Orientalism within postcolonial literary criticism has led many scholars to focus on the way certain representations of the East (in this case, contemporary India and Pakistan) fulfill the desires of Western readers. One might call these “perverse relational affects” through which, according to many...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 147–155.
Published: 01 June 2022
... the placing of the subjects of Creole Indias on the negative, deficit end of the continuum of cultural hybridity and mobility (as subjects defined by cultural and historical loss and subjugation), Ananya Jahanara Kabir reads Franco-Tamil novelist Ari Gautier’s Le thinnai as a creative work that is able...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (1): 73–92.
Published: 01 March 2012
...A. Sean Pue Modernist Urdu poet N.M. Rashed's Iran men ajnabi ( A Stranger in Iran , 1957), published ten years after the partition of British India, describes the experiences of an Indian Muslim soldier in the British Indian Army occupying Iran during World War II. Rashed's narrator searches...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 220–230.
Published: 01 June 2009
... SUPPLEMENT / 225 literature in the same way that colonized subjects did — as a largely unforeseen consequence of their having been colonized and marginalized in the fi rst place. These literatures —from India, Algeria, St. Lucia —are the “new” immigrants that have been there all along, but which...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (3): 283–298.
Published: 01 September 2020
... Diversity Index, while Pakistan ( 0.762 ) and Nepal (0.737) are just within the top quarter. The diversity is mostly concentrated in India (0.94), which figures within the top twenty countries in the Index. It is worth noting that the countries of the global North generally score quite low...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (1): 20–43.
Published: 01 March 2024
...: Dispatches from the Mofussil . London : Penguin , 2011 . Radway Janice . Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1991 . Rai Alok . Hindi Nationalism . Hyderabad, India : Orient Longman , 2001...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 256–273.
Published: 01 June 2009
... a long process of civilization creation in the Afro- Asian continent, beginning with the Neolithic cultures in present-day Turkey, with cities as old as the seventh millennium BCE in Mesopotamia, passing through Egypt in the fourth millennium, and appearing in the civilizations of India and China...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (1): 94–113.
Published: 01 March 2015
... and the Production of Normality in Nineteenth-Century American Culture.” Whitman East and West: New Contexts for Reading Walt Whitman . Ed. Folsom Ed . Iowa City : U of Iowa P , 2002 . Print . Horne Gerald . The End of Empires: African Americans and India . Philadelphia : Temple UP , 2009...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 399–419.
Published: 01 September 2010
... wasn’t addressed to the right people. Whatever the case, I got no response. My sense of urgency faded and I went back to supple- menting the Norton anthology with my own collection of criticism and theories from India and elsewhere. Meanwhile, obituaries for comparative literature continue...