Search Results for regional literature

... of Guantánamo, as a form of regional literature produced on contested ground. It proposes that, when read across the dividing line and between languages, poetry presents a more intimate and locally specific Guantánamo than the widely known version. Copyright © 2020 by University of Oregon 2020...

... in the vernaculars were also shortchanged. Secular-elite/upwardly mobile English is the third and dominant fault line along which literatures in the region are rationalized. All can be traced, at least for Aamir Mufti, to the colonial and imperial transfer of ideas where a mode of seeing produced a “cultural system...

... object-oriented ontology, and world literature, this essay explores how a close encounter with objects, stories, and descriptive language can reveal the form and poetics of the Indian Ocean. A concept of regional relationality, encompassing both connectivity and narratability, emerges alongside...

...Roanne L. Kantor Abstract This article seeks to explain the recent popularity of South Asian Anglophone literature (beginning in 1981 and peaking between 1998 and 2008) in light of the boom in Latin American literature of the 1960s. It argues that the phenomenon of regional literary “booms” shares...

... on the multilingual north Indian region of Awadh in the early modern period, it argues that an approach to literature and space that takes multilingualism within society and literary culture as a structuring and generative principle and holds both local and cosmopolitan perspectives in view is more productive...

...SILVIA SPITTA; LOIS PARKINSON ZAMORA Taking as their point of departure the murals painted by the Mexican artists Diego Rivera and Miguel Covarrubias for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, the editors address the development of comparative literature as an academic...

... in Hindi literature and which reconfigured the category of the middle class in the universally recognizable terms of alienation. Using the case of the nayī kahānī, the essay offers a new literary historical approach that moves beyond sweeping accounts of a single postcolonial mode to attend to regional...

..., Russia, India, China, and South Africa) formation, re-entrench a problematic Orientalism while pushing further to the margins still the complex, long-standing regional histories. This essay juxtaposes Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis trilogy and Kevin Kwan’s Rich trilogy in relation to Indian Ocean histories of trade...

... and communities living in the shadow of insurgencies and state violence. The Anglophone metropolitan postcolonial critic’s often-shallow knowledge about a region, its literature and deep politics, and their many rationalizations about why it is so, dovetails with the manner in which lies, exaggerated and fake...

... investigation of the constituent elements of “Cuban-ness” transcends any kind of Cuban exceptionalism (a doctrine nonetheless proclaimed by many Cubans regardless of political affi liation) and provides material fundamental to the self-understanding of the entire region. That Caribbean literature can shed...

... in English literature. For this reason, Segal’s book is indispensible for those in the field of comparative literature. COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 452 Yet this is no ordinary overview of a region’s literatures. For the Western reader, the literatures of Eastern European countries scarcely existed...

... developments in Spanish literature, or the Pushkinist seeking sonnet parallels in English literature. For this reason, Segal’s book is indispensible for those in the field of comparative literature. COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 452 Yet this is no ordinary overview of a region’s literatures...

... developments in Spanish literature, or the Pushkinist seeking sonnet parallels in English literature. For this reason, Segal’s book is indispensible for those in the field of comparative literature. COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 452 Yet this is no ordinary overview of a region’s literatures...

... of Bolaño’s novel with respect to Latin American literature in translation is proportionally much greater; since 1997, only three authors from the region have been granted the distinction of having one of their works included among the “100 Notable Books” listed each year: Jorge Luis Borges in 1998...

... the anticolonial nationalist period effectively mar- ginalized and reduced to regional or local knowledge the sophisticated eco-theory of language/literature present in the rival classical tradition of Tamil. The sec- ond example identifies certain aesthetic innovations in the popularbhakti   poetry...

... done now in the area of comparing national or regional literatures. Such efforts are being supplanted by studies of the inner workings of a culture or literature, which presumably are different from those of another. Power, however, is nearly always introduced as the constitutive factor...

... as a political-economic signifier to bespeak and mediate the border-crossing expan- sionism—if not will to transnational community—emerging in this “borderless” COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/390 region. This trope of Asia yoked to Pacific is used to mobilize the cash-driven transfusion and to drive the megatrends...

... Historical Regions of Europe. An Outline.” Trans. Julianna Parti. Acta Historica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 29 . 2-4 ( 1983 ): 131 -84. ____. “The Budapest Round Table.” Cross Currents 10 ( 1991 ): 17 -30. ____. “The Lisbon Conference on Literature; A Round Table of European...

... conceptualization of the region: Samoan writer, artist, and educator Albert Wendt’s 1974 “Towards a New Comparative Literature  69:1 DOI 10.1215/00104124-3794579  © 2017 by University of Oregon COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 26 Oceania” and Tongan writer, educator, and philosopher Epeli Hau’ofa’s 1993 “Our...

.... Literary studies is the domain of English and perhaps a few other entities responsible for languages from outside the region, while Māori language literature (and its exponents and critical practitioners, such as Pei Te Hurinui Jones) is the domain of Māori studies. Māori language literary studies has...