... Turn to the Planet: Literature, Diversity, and Totality I. Literary Studies in 1983 In 1983, I was in Seoul to present a paper. The occasion was a conference on East Asian literature, a topic not too different from the one assigned to me for another event last year...

... engagement with our fragile planet and its species offers strong aesthetic responses to urgent political impasses. Ananda Devi’s eponymous character Joséphin entertains a relation with the Indian Ocean that can be read as a layered parable of the end of man. Her novel is a brilliant poetic translation...

...Frédéric Neyrat [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by University of Oregon 2024 The earth is not a planet. This is the strange denial that runs through a good deal of ecological thinking and, more generally, culturally dominant representations of the earth. I use the term denial...

... of framing literary studies in a national, or even a comparative-national, arena and urged us to think about lit- erature in a global circuit of communications, the only way left to go is out and up, toward an investigation of multiple worlds or planets. And yet you might be thinking that a title like...

... Planets . Abridged, Erich Laßwitz. Trans. Hans Rudnick. Afterword, Mark R. Hillegas. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1971 . ____. “Über Zukunftsträume.” 1899. Homchen und andere Erzählungen . Munich: Heyne, 1998 . 450 -70. MacKenzie, Norman, and Jeanne MacKenzie. The Time...

... as a device that can craft powerfully alternative worlds, and in many ways this function is performatively fulfilled by Doyle’s own wide-ranging, unconventional book. What would a genuinely global history of the planet look like? Where and how should one begin to catalogue, chronicle, dissect...

... impérios: transformações cartográficas do Atlântico sul.” Anais do Museu Paulista 17 . 2 ( 2009 ): 15 – 37 . Print . Morton Timothy . Ecology Without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics . Cambridge : Harvard UP , 2007 . Print . Price Rachel . Planet/Cuba: Art...

... with heterogeneity on a different scale” and relates “to imperialisms on another model,” one that takes stock of “the finan- cialization of the globe” (85): I propose the planet to overwrite the globe. Globalization is the imposition of the same system of exchange everywhere. In the gridwork of electronic...

... era.” In his recent review of Daniel Tiffany’s My Silver Planet: A Secret History of Poetry and Kitsch (2014), Chasar speculates that there is “an odd or unexpected literariness” to be found in a range of popular poetries and that these varieties of writing are anything but “static...

... Arab-Latin American relations is but one example. The essay proposes a tertiary model that connects U.S. to Latin American and Arabic studies. © 2013 by University of Oregon 2013 Works Cited Arac Jonathan . “Global and Babel: Language and Planet in American Literature.” Dimock...

... Planet . London : Sage Publications , 2010 . 249 . Print . Connery Christopher L. “The Oceanic Feeling and the Regional Imaginary.” Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary . Ed. Dissanayake Wimal Wilson Rob . Durham : Duke UP , 1996 . 284 – 311...

... . Chakrabarty Dipesh . “ Beyond the Global: The Planet as a Perspective on Human History .” Paper presented at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada , October 10, 2019 . Chakrabarty Dipesh . “ The Planet: An Emergent Humanist Category .” Critical Inquiry 46 , no. 1 ( 2019 ): 1 – 31...

... . ____. Imperative zur Neuerfindung des Planeten/Imperatives to re-imagine the planet . Hrsg. Willi Goetschel. Wien: Passagen, 1999 . ____. “Translator's Preface.” Of Grammatology . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976 . Woolf, Virginia. “The Death of the Moth.” The Death of the Moth and Other...

... of rage against an American-led expansion of the world market, whose financial and military might is symbolized by the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Like the advances of transnational capital to the farthest corner of our planet, this eruption of atrocious vengeance directed at the metropolitan...

..., and cultural institutions) was thought to occupy every single region of the planet, the novel produced privileged and efficient nar- ratives of the global formation of a bourgeois world. Because the novel was the hegemonic form that bourgeois imagination adopted in the nineteenth century, and because...

... likewise considers “the wild as a qualitative effect felt in the mode of relationship rather than as an identifiable space or place.” 26 The catastrophe-to-hopeful-future arc is common across popular conservation writing more broadly. Edward O. Wilson ’s Half Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life...

... I’m so—let’s stick with that word—so utopian. Let me say both Area Studies and planet, ok? Many people have had problems with my saying that we should infiltrate Area Studies. But you know if you work student by student then—it’s people talking about some abstract thing called Area Studies...

... of a Discipline, In our attempt to track planetarity as making our home unheimlich or uncanny, we will construct an allegory of reading where the discursive system shifts from vagina to the planet as the signifier of the uncanny, by way of nationalist colonialism and postcoloniality. (74) The trajectory here...

... >. Nixon Rob . Slow Violence . Cambridge : Harvard UP , 2011 . Print . People, Planet Profits: The Shell Report 2001 . Web. < reports.shell.com/sustainability-report/2010/.../shell_report_2001.pdf >. “remediation, n.” OED Online . March 2013 . Oxford UP . 7 May 2013 . Web...

... this, but in this (obscurely titled) book we have it exhumed. BOOK REVIEWS / 461 But I have to ask how it is that a work about someone so devoted to clarity can itself be so obscure? Departments of English embarked on the long voyage to Planet...