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The “Alpha and Omega” Of Haitian Literature: Baron de Vastey and the U.s. Audience of Haitian Political Writing

Marlene L. Daut
Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (1): 49–72.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-1539208
Published: 01 March 2012
..., if not formal, recognition of our independence” (translated in Griggs 174). Joseph Clay of Pennsylvania acknowledged the danger of this “tacit” recogni- tion as early as 1804 when he told Congress, “We cannot trade with them with- out acknowledging their independence” (qtd. in Matthewson, “Jefferson...
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Global Renaissance: Alexander the Great and Early Modern Classicism from the British Isles to the Malay Archipelago

SU FANG NG
Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (4): 293–312.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-58-4-293
Published: 01 September 2006
..., 1970 . Budge, E.A. Wallis. The Life and Exploits of Alexander the Great Being a Series of Translations of the Ethiopic Histories of Alexander by Pseudo-Callisthenes and Other Writers . London: C.J. Clay and Sons, Cambridge University Press Warehouse, 1896 . Burton, Jonathan. Traffic...
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Fugitive Archives: Translation, Sea, and History in Indian Ocean Fiction

Kritish Rajbhandari
Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 186–201.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-9594826
Published: 01 June 2022
..., to tell the story of trading expeditions in East Africa. The impulse to renarrate history in these novels can be understood as “the postcolonial desire to re-translate” the past, which means that the archival work of recuperating multilingual pasts is inseparable from the work of translation ( Niranjana...
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Spanish Bawds and Quixotic Libraries: Adventures and Misadventures in Early English Hispanism and World Literature

José María Pérez Fernández
Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (4): 370–388.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-3698467
Published: 01 December 2016
... by the self-interested policies of cultural imperialism. © 2016 by University of Oregon 2016 James Mabbe translation and trade translation and empire Anglo-Hispanic relations English Cervantism Works Cited Alemán Mateo . The rogue: or The life of Guzman de Alfarache. VVritten...
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Beaches and Ports

Hannah Freed-Thall
Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (2): 131–149.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-8874051
Published: 01 June 2021
..., 1750–1840 , translated by Phelps Jocelyn . New York : Penguin , 1995 . Cowen Deborah . The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2014 . Crary Jonathan . 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep...
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Textimony: The Grammar of Atrocity

Deb Donig
Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (1): 105–124.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-10897146
Published: 01 March 2024
...Deb Donig Abstract This essay seeks to understand the complexity of a post-Holocaust discourse of comparative suffering in law and literature, focusing on the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade. The essay traces a history of post-1945 discourse about the Holocaust, as the place of Jewish...
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Empires of Love: Europe, Asia, and the Making of Early Modern Identity

Su Fang Ng
Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (4): 446–449.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-3327612
Published: 01 December 2015
... and the stories of drugged assassins—the reality behind them is fascinating to read, and one of the best things in the book—to Chaucer’s Squire’s Tale and Boiardo’s “Aristocratic Response to Mercantilism,” which captures the gist of the book throughout. The intricate networks of trade, extending over vast...
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An Intimate “Range of Elsewhere”: Sensuous Imaginaries of the Indian Ocean in Precolonial Swahili Poetry

Clarissa Vierke
Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 156–170.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-9594800
Published: 01 June 2022
... is believed to have been a historical figure, hailing from the mainland’s Tana Delta, just opposite the Lamu archipelago, which was implicated in an old Indian Ocean trade network between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, the period when the city-state of Pate rose to power ( Vernet 167–80...
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Thalassological Worldmaking and Literary Circularities in the Indian Ocean

Firat Oruc
Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 147–155.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-9594787
Published: 01 June 2022
... that constitutes a wide variety of “subjectivities” of people ( Gupta 520 ). Gurnah’s Indian Ocean world, moreover, is not only made by climate and trade cycles but also literary circularities. These circularities capture a dynamic cross-cultural traffic, exchange, and encounter across Asia, Africa, and the Middle...
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Abyssinia's Samuel Johnson: Ethiopian Thought in the Making of an English Author

Tara Ghoshal Wallace
Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (3): 365–368.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-2773700
Published: 01 September 2014
..., animated by that alterity” (18). Belcher’s larger theoretical argu- ment is propelled by the case of Johnson’s encounter with Habesha (Ethiopian) culture, beginning with his translation of Joachim Le Grand’s version of Jeronimo Lobo’s account of his voyage to Abyssinia and culminating in Rasselas...
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Africa, China, and the Global South Novel: In Koli Jean Bofane’s Congo Inc.

Duncan M. Yoon
Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (3): 316–339.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-8255350
Published: 01 September 2020
... by using Mandarin paratextually. 1 His acknowledgements state that Isabelle Rabut has translated each chapter title into Chinese. Chapter 1 makes explicit the novel’s focus on temporality in the Congo: “Terres et Temps” (Land and Times), “土地和时间.” Chapter 7 affirms Isookanga’s hustle: “Le Monde...
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World Literature, Postcolonial Studies, and Coolie Odysseys: J.-M.g. Le Clézio's and Amitav Ghosh's Indian Ocean Novels

Françoise Lionnet
Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (3): 287–311.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-3137225
Published: 01 September 2015
... names on these virtual confetti of empire. For J.-M.G. Le Clézio and Amitav Ghosh, two prolific award-winning writers translated into dozens of languages, to write about the region is to train their reader’s eye on transversal and lateral exchanges, and not merely on the dynamics...
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Epic Futurity: The Phaeacians, Carthage, and the Tradition

David Quint
Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 1–25.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-10160615
Published: 01 March 2023
... and excluded from the noble households of the Odyssey : trade and the art of metalworking. The two are connected, for metals were the most important commodities of ancient merchants ( Finley 60–61, 100–102 ). The wealth of Alcinous and his landed aristocracy officially depend on the fabulous fertility...
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(Re)Staging the Postcolonial in the World: The Jaipur Literature Festival and the Pakistani Novel

Sushil Sivaram
Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (4): 333–356.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-7709569
Published: 01 December 2019
... of trade” ( Born Translated 192 ). The novel forces readers in America to listen to a foreigner’s point of view, “not to ignore American solipsism or to suggest that American solipsism can be undermined by self-estrangement but to insist that Americans need to encounter other readers rather than other...
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The Rendezvous of Victory: Translations of Bandung Humanism

Adam Spanos
Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (1): 1–24.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-9434485
Published: 01 March 2022
... of conquest; translated by C. L. R. James as “there is a place for all at the rendezvous of victory”). This line came to define an ethics and an aesthetics for the cultural movement that ensued in the wake of the Bandung conference, which brought together heads of state from the third world in pursuit...
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Object Orientations and Circulatory Form in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea

Vilashini Cooppan
Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 171–185.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-9594813
Published: 01 June 2022
.... Stacks and sacks of pearls, cowrie shells, cloves, cinnamon, sugar, tea, opium, rice, cloth; bulk goods and luxury objects. Circulation speaks to material stuff, the trade routes and traffics long taken as the decisive referent of the Indian Ocean world. Considering the civilizational worlds of Islam...
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The Jewish Robinson Crusoe

LEAH GARRETT
Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (3): 215–228.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-54-3-215
Published: 01 June 2002
...LEAH GARRETT University of Oregon 2002 Altmann, Alexander. Moses Mendelssohn: A Biographical Study . Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1973 . Bassnett, Susan. “ The Translation Turn in Cultural Studies .” Bassnett and Lefevere 123 -40. Bassnett, Susan, and Andre Lefevere...
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Can the Middle Ages Be Postcolonial?

SIMON GAUNT
Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (2): 160–176.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-2009-004
Published: 01 March 2009
... . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Ananya Jahanara Kabir and Deanne Williams, eds. Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages: Translating Cultures . Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005. Sharon Kinoshita. Medieval Boundaries: Rethinking Difference in Old French Literature...
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Engaging the Enlightenment: Tournier's Friday , Delblanc's Speranza , and Unsworth's Sacred Hunger

SUSAN C. BRANTLY
Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (2): 128–141.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-2009-002
Published: 01 March 2009
.... “Paradigms of the Slave Trade in Two British Novels.” The International Fiction Review 23 . 1 ( 1996 ): 1 -6. Schmidt, James. “The Legacy of the Enlightenment.” Philosophy and Literature 26 . 2 ( 2002 ): 432 -42. Spaas, Lieve, and Brian Stimpson, eds. Robinsoe Crusoe: Myths and Metamorphoses...
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Inter-imperiality: Vying Empires, Gendered Labor, and the Literary Arts of Alliance

Ian Almond
Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 377–379.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-9722415
Published: 01 September 2022
... of the planet look like? Where and how should one begin to catalogue, chronicle, dissect the millennia of human activity on the planet—the clash of its battles, the collective jingle of its trade, the quiet murmur of its literary production—without employing “Eurocentric/androcentric” frameworks (251)? There’s...
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