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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (3): 263–265.
Published: 01 June 2006
...Charles Forsdick Postcolonial Criticism: History, Theory, and the Work of Fiction. By Nicholas Harrison. London: Polity, 2003. vii, 221 p. University of Oregon 2006 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/256
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BIRTH OF THE SYMBOL...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (2): 160–176.
Published: 01 March 2009
... and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy . New York: Columbia UP, 2003. Sylvia Huot. Postcolonial Fictions in the Roman de Perceforest: Cultural Identities and Hybridities . Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2007. Patricia Clare Ingham and Michelle R. Warren, eds. Postcolonial Moves: Medieval through Modern...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (4): 452–454.
Published: 01 December 2017
...
tragic consequences for peoples and social groups in postcolonial space” (194). Laying out
a new set of criteria for rethinking the concept of world literature as inseparable from the
performative process of worlding, Cheah makes the case in his final four chapters that
postcolonial fictions...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (4): 383–401.
Published: 01 December 2011
... of Nationalism . Rev. ed. London and New York : Verso , 2006 . Print . Balibar Etienne . “The Nation Form.” Race, Nation, Class . New York : Verso , 1991 . 86 – 106 . Print . Ball John Clement . Imagining London: Postcolonial Fiction and the Transnational Metropolis . Toronto...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (1): 61–83.
Published: 01 March 2021
... questions, whereas my aim is to focus on diachrony, historical determinants, and pressures coming from the configuration of the literary field. 8 Simon Gikandi has argued that, in line with postcolonial fiction of disillusionment, the central triad that structures the novel—without leading...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (3): 287–311.
Published: 01 September 2015
... postcolonial world literature are coupled with anthropologist Engseng Ho's distinction between the colonial and the imperial. I argue that the respective aesthetic priorities of these authors, and their fictional use of the histories of slavery and indenture in Mauritius, are best understood by means...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (1): 20–43.
Published: 01 March 2024
.... Proponents of the global Anglophone—offered as a renomination of the postcolonial—might respond in the negative. World literature and the global Anglophone are rival theories of how to enact literary comparison through English. Bhagat’s popular fiction at first presents an enticing solution...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 52–72.
Published: 01 March 2023
... the essay complicates the extant understanding of the “grotesque” in postcolonial Africa. Next, the close reading of The House of Hunger draws on neglected biographical detail, such as the author’s reflections on his stutter. My contention is that Marechera’s fictional etiology of his vocal breakdown...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 186–201.
Published: 01 June 2022
... by University of Oregon 2022 Indian Ocean literature historical fiction postcolonial fiction ocean studies multilingualism archive translation anarchive There is nothing solid about the way languages interact with each other. Their movement is more like that of liquids; they mingle and flow...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (4): 325–356.
Published: 01 September 2002
.... The Browser's Ecstasy . New York: Counterpoint Press, 2000 . Okonkwo, Chidi. Decolonization Agnostics in Postcolonial Fiction . London: McMillan Press, 1999 . ____. Out There: Marginalization and Contemporary Cultures . Ed. Russell Ferguson, et al. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 201–219.
Published: 01 June 2024
...) The creation of an environment ostensibly resistant to the mode of reading that understands postcolonial fiction in relation to uneven development is one consequence of Tutuola’s refracting the supposedly primitivist gaze of the Western reader. As a multifarious and living environment, rather than...
FIGURES
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (3): 227–242.
Published: 01 June 2004
... novelists to reinvigorate African textual practice.
The Power Durée
The foundational moment of what I will call a postcolonial power durée in
Francophone African fiction is located in Fantouré’s Le cercle des tropiques, a novel
that signals a renewed engagement with power in the annals...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (3): 357–359.
Published: 01 September 2016
... readings of spatial representations in postcolonial Caribbean novels. As she
argues, the yard novel and its representation of the interplay between space and identity is
a precursor to representations of the spatial problematic in postcolonial Caribbean fiction.
Through effective summaries...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 113–126.
Published: 01 March 2014
....11 Whereas women in postcolonial fiction are routinely expected to serve as
automatic victims of (white and black) male oppression, as universal mother fig-
ures, or, in the words of Elizabeth Wilson, as “liberée des constraintes sexuelles ou
morales” (qtd. in O’Regan, 74; liberated from sexual...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (3): 315–337.
Published: 01 September 2017
... African Writers and the Burden of Commitment . Charlottesville : U of Virginia P , 2011 . Print . Castle Gregory . “My Self, My Other: Modernism and Postcolonial Bildung in Assia Djebar's Algerian Quartet.” MFS: Modern Fiction Studies 59 . 3 ( 2013 ): 628 – 48 . Print . Cheah...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (4): 466–486.
Published: 01 December 2018
... precursor to the recent popularity of South Asian Anglophone fiction: doing so can suggest critical avenues that, although not obvious now, may prove fruitful in the fullness of time. Reference to the 1960s boom also offers a corrective to the tendency among South Asianist and postcolonial critics to assert...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (3): 256–259.
Published: 01 June 2006
..., THEORY, AND THE WORK OF FICTION. By Nicholas Harrison.
London: Polity, 2003. vii, 221 p.
Like many fields of academic analysis whose progressive constitution has been impeded
by their rapid emergence, postcolonial criticism risked, in the late 1990s, backing itself
into an impasse of self...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (3): 259–261.
Published: 01 June 2006
..., THEORY, AND THE WORK OF FICTION. By Nicholas Harrison.
London: Polity, 2003. vii, 221 p.
Like many fields of academic analysis whose progressive constitution has been impeded
by their rapid emergence, postcolonial criticism risked, in the late 1990s, backing itself
into an impasse of self...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (3): 261–263.
Published: 01 June 2006
..., THEORY, AND THE WORK OF FICTION. By Nicholas Harrison.
London: Polity, 2003. vii, 221 p.
Like many fields of academic analysis whose progressive constitution has been impeded
by their rapid emergence, postcolonial criticism risked, in the late 1990s, backing itself
into an impasse of self...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (4): 333–356.
Published: 01 December 2019
..., and declare the existence of the “other” phantasmagoric literary identity and history. Copyright © 2019 by University of Oregon 2019 literature festivals Indian and Pakistani fiction Mohsin Hamid postcolonial literature public culture THIS ARTICLE IS ABOUT public literature festivals...
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