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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (2): 195–197.
Published: 01 March 2005
...Stephen Arata Imaginary Communities: Utopia, The Nation, and the Spatial Histories of Modernity. By Phillip E. Wegner. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xxvi, 297p. The Senses of Modernism: Technology, Perception, and Aesthetics. By Sara Danius. Ithaca: Cornell University Press...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 156–170.
Published: 01 June 2022
... Indian Ocean imaginary, which cuts through national and continental boundaries ( Brugioni 87–91 ). Ironically, their use of former colonial languages carries the risk of reinforcing linguistic boundaries as well as shallow temporal frames rooted in colonialism. The “Swahili map” offers a historically...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (4): 373–388.
Published: 01 September 2001
... después de la Guerra Fría . Berlin: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2000 . LATIN, LATINO, AMERICAN/373
ROMÁN DE LA CAMPA
Latin, Latino, American:
Split States and
Global Imaginaries
MERICA’S HOLD ON THE UNIVERSAL...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (1): 25–45.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Ilya Kliger This essay attempts a reading of Ivan Turgenev’s First Love as a case study within a broader inquiry into the social imaginary of Russian realist fiction. One way to formulate the central question of the essay is to ask what happens when, on some deep structural level, an ostensibly...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 219–232.
Published: 01 June 2022
... for Comoran clandestine migrants, thousands of whom have perished on the treacherous sea crossing since 1995. In her novel Tropique de la violence (2016), Mauritian author Nathacha Appanah inscribes the Mahoran tragedy within a global imaginary of migration. This essay explores the risks and merits...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 188–206.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Sherryl Vint Abstract Using a reading of Hari Kunzru’s novel Red Pill to frame our contemporary political moment, this article asks what techniques of cultural critique are available to the Left today when the strategies of imaginary worldbuilding have become so central to the ethnonationalist...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (3): 246–266.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Michelle Zerba This essay reads Homer's Odyssey alongside several poems by the Greek-Alexandrian writer C.P. Cavafy who, although widely removed from the epic in time, shares a common geographical imaginary located in the Mediterranean and explores questions of cultural identity, memory, and gender...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 32–44.
Published: 01 March 2017
... Taylor it argues for a provocative Caribbean aesthetic of “sea ontologies.” By examining the multispecies collaborations of coral and reef ecologies, it suggests a new oceanic imaginary for the more-than-human Anthropocene. © 2017 by University of Oregon 2017 Anthropocene Caribbean...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2018
... languages and different locations, intersecting and diverging; and modernism as a missed encounter, an imaginary dialogue either facilitated or foreclosed by global geopolitics. Together, they present a picture of global modernism not as one holistic entity, but as errant and reiterative articulations...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 111–128.
Published: 01 March 2017
... and utterly fail. This article explores these narratives as “fictions of globalization” (James Annesley) that use spatial tropes and imaginaries as well as multiple references to the work of Franz Kafka to tell stories of alienation and Western masculine failure in the global capitalist economy. In both...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 171–185.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Vilashini Cooppan Abstract The circulatory connectivity that defines the Indian Ocean as critical object also inheres in objects themselves and the descriptive economies surrounding them. Combining regional chronotopes, the thingly imaginary of Abdulrazak Gurnah’s novel By the Sea , Graham Harman’s...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 244–255.
Published: 01 June 2009
..., this essay explores the Caribbean as an exemplary inter-American and comparatist crossroads space and analyzes several elements that enter into the diverse poetics of the region as articulated by its major writers and theorists: from chaos to transculturation, from magical realism and the “imaginary eras...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (2): 161–178.
Published: 01 March 2010
.... As Ugrešić dismantles the phallus's imaginary “veils,” she also unmasks persistant gender inequality and a virulent socio-political backlash during the immediate post-Tito years. Ugrešić embeds in her psychoanalytic parody an incisive reading of gender discourse and local feminisms in 1980s Yugoslavia...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 336–360.
Published: 01 September 2010
... each of these writers produced dissimilar imaginaries of the global reach of their bourgeois characters and plots. Finally, in a coda to this double hypothesis, I connect the interpretative models of the globalization of the novel and the novelization of the global with the rentrée of the concept...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 135–156.
Published: 01 June 2024
... as strategies affording cultural conviviality is analyzed. How does the condition of exile overlap with racial difference, and can it play a role in overriding it? The intersection of the exilic imagination with diasporic imaginaries deserves further scrutiny. Although Ismailovitch’s representations of Afro...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (3): 228–245.
Published: 01 June 2000
.... Somewhat paradoxically, those African texts that
feature anonymous and pseudonymous states are in fact most concerned with
the state and its relations to civil society.
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Franco Moretti asks,
Why do novels so often mix real geographical sites and imaginary...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (4): 376–386.
Published: 01 September 2006
... spatial structures that
assume the function of marking geopolitical discontinuities, operating on the
levels of the real, the symbolic, and the imaginary (Foucher 38). On a symbolic
level they are linked to the identity of specific communities related to specific
territories. Anthropologists have...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (4): 460–462.
Published: 01 December 2020
...-Andalusi imagination encouraged by the state took on different forms. On the one hand, the state used images of the colonial Andalusi imaginary in promoting state interests and tourism in both Andalucía (especially Granada, Seville, and Cordova) and Spanish Morocco. At the same time, this Andalusi...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (1): 18–30.
Published: 01 March 2016
... by University of Oregon 2016 Blanchot intimacy the imaginary Proust Abraham Works Cited Bersani Leo Phillips Adam . Intimacies . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 2010 . Print . Bident Christophe . Maurice Blanchot: Partenaire invisible . Seyssel : Champ Vallon , 1998...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (2): 158–177.
Published: 01 March 2005
... the fragmented, incoherent,
and terrified state of mind of their young protagonists who, in Lacanian terms,
fail to transition successfully from the imaginary state into the symbolic order.6
3 The origins of the term “beur” are usually traced to a word play on the French arabe, yet the shift
from “arabe...
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