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Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (4): 372–376.
Published: 01 September 2000
...Haun Saussy Ideology, Power, Text: Self-Representation and the Peasant “Other” in Modern Chinese Literature. By Yi-tsi Mei Feuerwerker. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. viii, 321 p. University of Oregon 2000 BOOK...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (4): 363–366.
Published: 01 September 2000
..., POWER, TEXT: SELF-REPRESENTATION AND THE PEASANT “OTHER” IN MODERN CHINESE
LITERATURE. By Yi-tsi Mei Feuerwerker. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. viii,
321 p.
Books reviewed in this journal normally meet the definition of “comparative litera-
ture” current in university...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (4): 366–369.
Published: 01 September 2000
..., POWER, TEXT: SELF-REPRESENTATION AND THE PEASANT “OTHER” IN MODERN CHINESE
LITERATURE. By Yi-tsi Mei Feuerwerker. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. viii,
321 p.
Books reviewed in this journal normally meet the definition of “comparative litera-
ture” current in university...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (4): 369–372.
Published: 01 September 2000
..., POWER, TEXT: SELF-REPRESENTATION AND THE PEASANT “OTHER” IN MODERN CHINESE
LITERATURE. By Yi-tsi Mei Feuerwerker. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. viii,
321 p.
Books reviewed in this journal normally meet the definition of “comparative litera-
ture” current in university...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (3): 312–318.
Published: 01 September 2015
... for the peasant wisdom of orality:
The Druids, those great teachers, are comparable to the Palestinian rabbis! Here are our ances-
tors. . . . But neither the Druids nor the Rabbis wrote. . . . What are the Druids? Teachers who did
not write, not preachers, nor orators, but Rhythmo-catechists who transmit...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (3): 217–228.
Published: 01 June 2003
... to the Techno/Peasants: Word and Image in the Work of John Berger.” Image and Ideology in Modern/PostModern Discourse . Ed. David Downing and Susan Bazargan. Albany: SUNY Press, 1991 . 199 -227. Negt, Oskar. Arbeit und menschliche Würde . Göttingen: Steidel, 2001 . Negt, Oskar, and Alexander Kluge...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (1): 25–46.
Published: 01 January 2011
... understanding,
and very little clarity of mind” (Study 92, 126).
One of the products of his unclear mind, in Lawrence’s view, was “the Tolstoyan
fallacy of repudiating the educated world and exalting the peasant” (Cavalleria
18–19). The coal-miner’s son educated into the self-consciousness...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (3): 229–245.
Published: 01 June 2003
... in America as informed chiefly by struggles with racism, a story about
a girl who in male disguise leads a peasant uprising against the emperor in Beijing
seems irrelevant. As a result, the second strategy employed by Kingston’s defend-
ers is to label the story a “fantasy,” a “pure product” of a fertile...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 101–122.
Published: 01 March 2013
...
peasantry thanks to its employment in the title of Dmitri Grigorovich’s Anton-
NABOKOV’S “LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI” / 111
Goremyka (Anton-the-Wretch, 1847). At the center of Grigorovich’s novella is a hap-
less peasant, Anton, whose eventual ruin at the hands of his...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (4): 442–461.
Published: 01 September 2001
.... Greater China: The Next Superpower? New York: Oxford University Press, 1995 . ____, ed. The Living Tree; The Changing Meaning of Being Chinese Today. Spec. Issue of Dædalus 120 . 2 ( 1991 ). Solinger, Dorothy J. Contesting Citizenship in Urban China: Peasant Migrants, the State, and the Logic...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (3): 351–353.
Published: 01 September 2017
... (1987), exposing certain proto-capitalist sensibilities and desires that appear to be
projected backwards in time (and into the minds of peasant characters) to a period before
Communist China was a socio-political reality. Li maintains that Zhang employs the past
and peasants (a mainstay...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 225–227.
Published: 01 June 2011
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ries of peasant consciousness (283), and John Sidel’s functionalist sociology (212–13)
reflect a similar pattern of engagement and redirection, in which the theories themselves
are obliged to accommodate an authentic apprehension of the literary work.
At the heart of Tadiar’s exhaustive analyses...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 227–230.
Published: 01 June 2011
...-
ries of peasant consciousness (283), and John Sidel’s functionalist sociology (212–13)
reflect a similar pattern of engagement and redirection, in which the theories themselves
are obliged to accommodate an authentic apprehension of the literary work.
At the heart of Tadiar’s exhaustive analyses...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 230–234.
Published: 01 June 2011
...-
ries of peasant consciousness (283), and John Sidel’s functionalist sociology (212–13)
reflect a similar pattern of engagement and redirection, in which the theories themselves
are obliged to accommodate an authentic apprehension of the literary work.
At the heart of Tadiar’s exhaustive analyses...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (3): 252–271.
Published: 01 September 2019
... to the famine-like conditions plaguing the peasantry. Eventually, Comrade Wong taxes the starving farmers one time too many, and the villagers riot. When Gold Root and other peasants storm the local granary, they incur severe casualties from the local militia, and Beckon is killed in the chaos. Though Gold Root...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (3): 228–245.
Published: 01 June 2010
... in their writings, hoped to incite a great peasant
revolution that would destroy every foundation of the existing order. There were
those who believed that such a revolution, though desirable, could be realized
only after a relatively prolonged period of preparation and education of the
masses, while...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (4): 361–376.
Published: 01 December 2020
... Chughtai depicts the struggles of a distinguished male artist commissioned by a museum to paint the portrait of a young peasant girl from a small village. The short story, entitled “Til,” or “The Mole,” centers on the artist’s frustrated attempts at rendering this subaltern figure in his painting...
Journal Article
Poetry and the Camp: Epiphanic Witness and Ecstatic Cry in the Spanish-Cuban-American War of 1895–98
Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (4): 403–420.
Published: 01 December 2021
... is certain: nearly all reconcentrados were illiterate peasants, such that testimonial memoirs (and even oral histories) are exceedingly rare. 4 What we have are accounts by those who, as Primo Levi put it, “speak in their stead, by proxy” ( 83–84 ). It serves us well, thus, to recall Gayatri Spivak’s...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (3): 360–381.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., who sees? — Adūnīs, “A Grave . . . Because of New York” 1 SPECTATOR #3. In Vietnam, people believe peasants and the poor have value. SPECTATOR #5. They [the Vietnamese] know how to operate in the world, and how the world moves around them. SPECTATOR #4. Their teachers are not con artists...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (2): 114–131.
Published: 01 June 2018
... tilts Bishr’s middle upward, toward privilege. By “العوامّ” (1:137; the masses), al-Jāḥiẓ insists that he does not intend “الفلّاحين و الحُشْوَة و الصُّنَّاعَ و الباعة” ( 1 :137; the peasants, the lowly, the artisans, and the merchants), nor so-called “همج” (1:137; barbarians) within the Arab-Islamic...
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