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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 16–24.
Published: 01 March 2017
... and nativist thought. At the same time, coastal form is found to decenter, extend, and thicken constructions of world literature, while opening to a planetary perspective sensible to the prodigious and implacable forces of the Anthropocene. © 2017 by University of Oregon 2017 Indian Ocean African...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (3): 269–284.
Published: 01 September 2024
... it quite differently, in terms that negate the planetary dimension of the earth, erasing its cosmological inscription in order to make it incomparable, so that it refers only to its own conditions of existence. I will call it Gaia, a critical zone, ecosystem of ecosystems, but also a technosphere...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 March 2017
... work on the hydromateriality of the seas from a post-human and planetary perspective. To these streams of scholarship, the article adds the notion of “hydrocolonialism.” The article ends with a summary of the contributions that make up the forum. © 2017 by University of Oregon 2017 Oceanic...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (4): 275–282.
Published: 01 September 2001
... that local happenings
are shaped by events occurring miles away and vice versa” (64). Nowhere could
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one find a more telling example of such intensified processes of planetary
interaction, of “the stretching of social, political and economic activities across
frontiers...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (3): 316–339.
Published: 01 September 2020
... materials of a global economy” (114). Lomama’s “affirmative biopolitics sets up [a] cosmic framework . . . across the species . . . where an underlying connectivity and a common planetary destiny provide the ethical parameters for participation” (114). This trans-species connectivity carries the narrative’s...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (3): 234–238.
Published: 01 June 2005
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advanced in 2000, published in 2003, thus appears extraordinarily utopian.
Utopian, vast, bold, intercontinental, planetary—but none of this means doomed
in advance and unworthy of our efforts. Metonymy, synecdoche, catachresis:
changes of name, transfers from part to whole, grafts and parentheses...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (2): 150–165.
Published: 01 June 2021
... at the planetary scale as it connects “the activity of the earth’s poles with the rest of the terrestrial world” and the shifting edges at which the oceans meet the land ( Deloughrey 34 ). At the same time, as Stacy Alaimo reminds us in Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (3): 199–200.
Published: 01 June 2005
... the figure of a “planetary” conception of Comparative
Literature that would conserve “the irreducible hybridity of all languages” (9). If
you want to teach Gilgamesh, Spivak’s book seemed to say, you’d better learn
Sumerian. More pressing, perhaps: if you want to teach Mahfouz, you’d better
learn Arabic...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 133–139.
Published: 01 June 2023
... aspirations as the dreamworlds of planetary collectivity articulated repeatedly throughout socialism’s long twentieth century: in the “Communist International” conceived after the October Revolution; and in the “friendship of the peoples” that emerged from the ashes of Stalinism and World War II to converge...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (3): 207–213.
Published: 01 June 2005
... taxonomy of such names including
but not identical with animism as well as the spectral white mythology of post-rational science. If we
imagine ourselves as planetary subjects rather than global agents, planetary creatures rather than global
entities, alterity remains underived from us, it is not our...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (4): 418–435.
Published: 01 September 2006
..., the literature around us is now unmistakably a
planetary system” (54). From here, the only question, obviously, is to show how
we have reached a planetary, or global, dimension of literary phenomena and
how this system functions internally. Regarding the latter, Moretti chooses the
example of the novel...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 201–219.
Published: 01 June 2024
... between a supposed space of primitivity and an ideal of human civilization in his early fiction. Part 3 returns to the larger problem of how to understand Tutuola both within histories of twentieth-century Nigerian literature and planetary modernism more broadly. By placing The Palm-Wine Drinkard...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (4): 439–459.
Published: 01 December 2020
... many other planets in a dynamic planetary system of authors. He accomplished this through literary references that pepper the globe, borrowing from various languages at a whirlwind pace. Imagen offers a glimpse into Cortázar’s world and his own mental library of worldwide writers, mapping connections...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (2): 209–224.
Published: 01 June 2021
... to Chakrabarty, the challenge of humanistic thought in the Anthropocene will be to incorporate this encounter with the planet—one that will take place increasingly frequently as humans continue to disrupt, and thereby disclose, the planetary conditions of their existence—into our conceptions of what it means...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (4): 438–447.
Published: 01 December 2011
... this betokens not the extension of a method, but of a mad-
ness; or perhaps you were reassured by noticing that the date of this lecture is,
after all, April Fool’s day. But here I am, still promising to talk to you about inter-
planetary literature.
Faced with that rebuke to your hypothesis, you might...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 336–360.
Published: 01 September 2010
... is
insane Pero quién es Nic-Nac? ¿Dónde está? ¡Ah! ¡En una casa de locos!” (179;
But who is Nic-Nac? Where is he? Oh! In a loony binand informs the reader of
the psychiatric diagnosis: “manía planetaria” (180; planetary mania).
There are many things to compare in Verne’s and Holmberg’s novelization...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (3): 256–272.
Published: 01 June 2005
...
towards—a young man—that led him towards African revolution.
I think somehow it became, through my own cutting it in three lectures, Bern-
heimer Report, and so on. It looked like it was a parochial battle.
EH: The concept that you end with in the third lecture is much more planetary
—the vagina...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (3): 266–269.
Published: 01 June 2003
... most astute pages, the chapter “turns philosophy’s
attention patiently and thoroughly to something philosophy would love to ignore—the
fact that human life is constrained to the life of the body” (Cavell, p. 87).
The planetary chapters on de Man and Dostoevsky, which occupy half the book...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (3): 287–311.
Published: 01 September 2015
... . “Introduction: Postcolonial Literature in a Changing Historical Frame.” Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2012 . 1 – 29 . Print . Ray Sanjeeta . “Towards a Planetary Reading of Postcolonial and American Imaginative Eco-Graphies.” A Companion...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 233–246.
Published: 01 June 2022
... these “flotsam and jetsam” larger narratives are constructed ( 511 ). In “Coastal Form: Amphibian Positions, Wider Worlds, and Planetary Horizons on the African Indian Ocean Littoral,” Samuelson explains that in an amphibian aesthetic “sensory reception is oriented simultaneously towards land and sea, interior...
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