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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 125–134.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Ben Etherington; Samuel J. Spinner Abstract This essay revisits critical issues in the scholarship on primitivism in the light of recent theoretical and historical developments. Particularly, it considers whether the expansion of primitivism studies to take in a range of contexts and cultures...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 220–239.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Samuel J. Spinner Abstract Jerome Rothenberg’s poetry brings together a group of major—seemingly disparate—topics: the Holocaust; ecological crisis; Yiddish culture; and what he terms ethnopoetics, a poetic primitivism centered largely on the culture of Indigenous Americans. This article shows how...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 179–200.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Alys Moody Abstract The negritude movement emerged from the Black intellectual milieu of Paris in the 1930s and became one of the defining anticolonial modes of the postwar years. It stands as an exemplary case of primitivism beyond its canonical European forms, performing a striking détournement...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 240–259.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Ben Etherington Abstract This essay considers whether the contemporary rewilding movement is a reincarnation of twentieth-century primitivism. Both reject capitalist modernity’s drive to dominate nature, and both idealize an originary or innate natural condition. Both are also galvanized...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 260–267.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Simon Gikandi Abstract Of all the terms that came to define the making of culture and art in the long twentieth century, there was perhaps none as necessary and troublesome as primitivism and the tropes associated with it. This afterword is a reflection on the collection of articles in this special...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 201–219.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Václav Paris Abstract This article situates the early novels of Amos Tutuola— The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952) and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1954)—in relation to literary primitivism. The first part outlines the initial misconstrual of Tutuola in the United Kingdom and United States as a “true...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 135–156.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Rafael Cardoso Abstract This article examines the relationship between exile and artistic primitivism, focusing on the experiences of European artists who sought refuge in twentieth-century Brazil. It begins by looking at broad issues of acculturation to Brazilian society, through a cursory...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 157–178.
Published: 01 June 2024
...-garde aesthetic discourse in the interwar period. Noticeable especially in the writings of the surrealist critics and affiliated thinkers such as Carl Einstein in the late 1920s and early 1930s, this discursive transformation is the theoretical facet of “modernist primitivism,” the shorthand term...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (1): 114–116.
Published: 01 March 2019
... the primitivism of modernist aesthetics with its “pentatonic democracy.” The efforts of these writers, as So points out, were not unidirectional; for example, in addition to collaborating with Buck and Walsh to translate his novels Moment in Peking (1937) and A Leaf in the Storm (1941), Lin, who would go...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (3): 354–356.
Published: 01 September 2016
.... The chapter revises the double origin of magical realism. On
the one hand, there is art historian Franz Roh’s notion of Neue Sachlichkeit as an “ahistorical”
synthesis of futurism and primitivism, emerging from his analysis of Otto Dix’s and George
Grosz’s works in 1925 Germany. On the other...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (4): 456–459.
Published: 01 December 2016
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claims in work by Vera Kutzinski, Brent Hayes Edwards, David Chinitz, Ramona Tougas,
and others.
Reframing interwar aesthetic primitivism is one thing; reframing Joseph Stalin is quite
another, and Lee’s book’s two bravest moments come as it addresses his legacy. First, The
Ethnic Avant-Garde...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (2): 144–160.
Published: 01 March 2010
... Primitivism. Productions of Race, Class, and Sexuality in Key Works of Modern Fiction . New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2004 . Halberstam, Judith. In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives . New York: New York UP, 2005 . Hamon, Philippe. Expositions: Literature and Architecture...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (2): 227–246.
Published: 01 June 2014
... in modernism’s positioning of race in the context of its
engagement with primitivism.3
2 The movie Black and White, based on Mayakovsky’s poem and not the script Hughes refused to
rewrite, was produced by Mejhraabpomfilm company as a cartoon and reviewed byFilm Forum in its
May 1933 issue...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (2): 199–217.
Published: 01 June 2016
... for constant change as opposed to the static, bloodless, stifling rationalism
that in his eyes was suffocating the Western world. His vision of modernity there-
fore also included a fascination for non-Western, especially African, cultures,
whose “primitivism,” he hoped, would be a source of energy...
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (3): 228–243.
Published: 01 June 2008
... M. Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance. A Woman's Life Unveiled . Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1994 . DeFalco, Amelia. “Jungle Creatures and Dancing Apes: Modern Primitivism and Nella Larsen's Quicksand.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (3): 246–254.
Published: 01 June 2000
... (Chow 45). This form of criticism exhibits an uncritical
primitivism that privileges non-Western culture and glories in its presumptive,
eventual—and always revolutionary—resurgence (Clark 44).
The postcolonial critic’s personal search in this way masks a lack of calling or
significance...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 5–14.
Published: 01 March 2014
... only within such structures — otherwise she is left to
primitivism, underdevelopment, or —worse —“socialism Of course, to read a dis-
cipline against the grain of such strictures might itself be seen as primitive, naïve,
and politically suspect. To the extent that no discipline, then or now...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (2): 149–172.
Published: 01 June 2014
.... It could be associated with traces or
symptoms of primitivism that remained readable in both modern man and mod-
ern civilization generally. Atavistic traits could accumulate and combine into what
he called a “maximum of monstrosity” (HC 669) the beast within” made
famous by Robert Louis Stevenson’s...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (2): 177–185.
Published: 01 March 2003
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of the late forties and fifties, the same cannot be said of the novels of collaborationist
writers like Jean Giono and others. Giono abandoned his literary reactionary primitiv-
ism—what one hostile critic had earlier labeled his “literary Tarzanism”—for more sub-
dued apolitical historical novels...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (2): 185–190.
Published: 01 March 2003
... of dramatists like Montherlant and Anouilh carried directly over into their dramas
of the late forties and fifties, the same cannot be said of the novels of collaborationist
writers like Jean Giono and others. Giono abandoned his literary reactionary primitiv-
ism—what one hostile critic had earlier...
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