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Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (3): 243–261.
Published: 01 June 2004
...CRISTINA VATULESCU University of Oregon 2004 Andreevich, E.A. “Structure and Functions of the Soviet Secret Police.” The Soviet Secret Police . Ed. Simon Wolin and Robert M. Slusser. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1957 . 96 -152. Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (2): 201–221.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Jang Wook Huh After Langston Hughes was shadowed by Japanese police in the port city of Chongjin, Korea, on his trip from the Soviet Union to Japan and China in 1933, he drew a parallel between the racialization of Koreans under Japanese colonial rule and that of American Negroes under Jim Crow...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (3): 285–305.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Seth Kimmel This essay argues that the effort to define and police the shifting boundaries of Christianity in early modern Spain produced a counter-intuitive peninsular logic of secularization. Hoping to stem the extension of ecclesiastical power over everyday cultural life, New Christians...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 52–72.
Published: 01 March 2023
... mishearings of Black voices as illegible or dissonant in order to establish a literal and conceptual proximity of voice to violence. Marechera and Sony Labou Tansi thus identify the truly grotesque brutality of colonialism, including its sounded modes of bodily regulation, racist accent policing, ableist...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (2): 116–129.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Vince Schleitwiler This essay connects recent academic debates over antiblackness and the rise of new theories and methods of comparison to the movements against police violence that are gaining visibility after the protests in Ferguson, MO, arguing that they all demonstrate the fracturing...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (3): 340–360.
Published: 01 September 2014
...
distinguishable from state structures. At its worst, the state —and here are included
the army, police corps, and the political class —is portrayed as weak, with some-
times dysfunctional and victimized institutions that the cartels are able to pen-
etrate and corrupt. Third, I argue...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (4): 385–402.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Olivia C. Harrison [email protected] Copyright © 2021 by University of Oregon 2021 A Black man slowly changes into the navy-blue attire of an officer of the Compagnies républicaines de sécurité (CRS), as footage of police brutality flashes up on the giant screen behind him. Turning...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (3): 307–327.
Published: 01 September 2011
... the time are spotty at
best, since they are based on municipal laws that required prostitutes in Buenos Aires to register with
the police and provide their country of origin, but not race, religion, or other ethnic information. As
Guy has noted, these partial statistics were the basis for the stories...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (3): 264–277.
Published: 01 September 2018
... by “several Pilots, Wharfmaster, Customs Department, Captains, Mates and Crews of Tugs, Signalmen, and Water Police” (also, one might add, an elaborate Immigration Restriction [IR] Department, not mentioned in the guidebook, since white tourists of the right class presumably would encounter them only briefly...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (2): 131–144.
Published: 01 June 2015
... with reality if these behaviors are eradicated through the intro-
duction of modern police measures. Writing at spatial and temporal coordinates
where movement control was particularly intense —Metternich’s Austria at the
height of its struggle with Napoleon —Schlegel associates this utopian strengthen...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (1): 68–82.
Published: 01 March 2020
... offer a possible answer as they continuously allude to the fact that the cause for Antonio’s suffering is rooted in institutions that fail when they are most needed. This can be seen, for example, by the way the police treat Antonio. In a perfect world, it would have been the system of criminal justice...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (1): 110–124.
Published: 01 March 2021
... with the gang’s money. He is then shaken down by the corrupt Baghdad police, as bad as the criminals, and banished from the city (346–48). 10 Daniel Beaumont points out that this young man in the tailor’s tale is lame and has not lost a body part like the young men in the three preceding tales, a shift...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 264–272.
Published: 01 June 2022
... equilibrium beyond the lies and vagaries of neocolonial dispossession. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by University of Oregon 2022 Works Cited Amnesty International . “ Police Violence around the World .” www.amnestyusa.org/issues/deadly-force-police-accountability-police...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (4): 345–365.
Published: 01 December 2011
... as such by another member of that group; at the same time, and
since at least 1830, criminals and, in particular, members of illegal political orga-
nizations might have used the same phrase to assert that one of their number was
a mouchard — that is, a police informant (Timmermans 144). We can expand...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (2): 187–190.
Published: 01 March 2002
..., sexuality and the law.
Fast forward now from the year 1868 to the year 2000 and Court TV. In the summer of
2000, Court TV announced a new series entitled simply Confession. It claimed to be, in a
sense, the police confession room unmasked: alleged criminals, in the process of confess-
ing, would...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (2): 191–193.
Published: 01 March 2002
..., sexuality and the law.
Fast forward now from the year 1868 to the year 2000 and Court TV. In the summer of
2000, Court TV announced a new series entitled simply Confession. It claimed to be, in a
sense, the police confession room unmasked: alleged criminals, in the process of confess-
ing, would...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (2): 193–195.
Published: 01 March 2002
..., sexuality and the law.
Fast forward now from the year 1868 to the year 2000 and Court TV. In the summer of
2000, Court TV announced a new series entitled simply Confession. It claimed to be, in a
sense, the police confession room unmasked: alleged criminals, in the process of confess-
ing, would...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (3): 276–282.
Published: 01 September 2020
... at Standing Rock in 2016 and its connections to #BLM #MFBL (the Movement for Black Lives), which gained national momentum during demonstrations against police brutality in 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri, which is just a few miles away from the village sites where a significant number of Osages lived when Lewis...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (4): 466–486.
Published: 01 December 2013
... and Marx, arguments
against censorship have tended to pivot on the equating of a written work with a
person.1 At the height of imperial censorship in Japan, this tactic was used by
authors and editors to highlight the parallels between the practices of censorship
by Publishing Police and torture...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (2): 160–175.
Published: 01 June 2018
..., on the surface, the catalogues of Homer, Dickens, and Bolaño are strikingly different (classical heroic rhetoric is a far cry from antebellum US newspaper advertisements or the clinical language of the twenty-first-century police procedural), the fact that all three of these texts include elements of violence...
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