... and their disparate claims to the truth. Chang navigates political ideologies by eschewing linguistic equivalence to favor equivocation instead, ultimately transforming Hemingway’s modernist form via her own. It thus adds to transpacific studies and Cold War historiography by revealing the intimate relationship...

... of Oregon 2023 Lima Barreto transpacific studies First Brazilian Republic intimacies lettered cartography IN “O HOMEM QUE sabia javanês” (“The Man Who Knew Javanese”), a 1911 short story by Brazilian author Lima Barreto (1881–1922), a man recounts an irreverent tale of how he ascended...

... and Fall of a Cultural Network invigorates the burgeoning study of early Asian American literature in the pre–civil rights era with its dazzling conceptualization of a transpacific community among American and Chinese writers and musicians during the interwar years. Focusing on the United States during...

... overlap Korean colonial loss with black disenfranchisement. In addressing the absence of Korea in studies of black radical literature, I also examine the poetics of what I call “overlapping dispossessions,” by which I mean literary conduits of transpacific interactions, inspired by leftist...

... . “Transpacific Solidarities: A Mexican Case Study on the Diffusion of Maoism in Latin America.” The Cold War in Asia . Ed. Yangwen Zhang . Leiden : Koninklijke Brill NV , 2010 . 185 – 216 . Print . Shih Shu-mei . “Comparison as Relation.” Comparison: Theories, Approaches, Uses . Ed...

...) for their paper “The Challenge of Lyric Ad- dress in War Poems by Yitzchak Laor and Ingeborg Bachmann.” Finally, the A. ACLA BULLETIN/iii Owen Aldridge Essay Prize, jointly sponsored by the ACLA and Comparative Lit- erature Studies, published...

... between subject and mechanism, voice and noise. Tone, in my case studies, indexes failed acts of representation. Wang’s tone is excessively animated, insofar as a compensatory liveliness exceeds Wang’s own person. By contrast, the tone of War Trash is neutral. In approximating “Asian” through noise rather...

... of comparison (the “color line”) in response to lynching and imperial conquest. Arguing that the question of comparison in the present must be resolved by collective action rather than scholarship, it tentatively suggests a few possible lines of study attuned to the local and geopolitical dynamics of race...

... Subjectivities on Both Sides of the Great Divide.” Explicación de Textos Literarios 28 . 1–2 ( 1999–2000 ): 47 – 62 . Print . ———. “Central American-Americans: Invisibility, Power and Representation in the U.S. Latino World.” Latino Studies 1 . 1 ( 2003 ): 168 – 87 . Print . ———. Taking...

... disciplines, this essay calls for decolonizing comparative literature via a critique of the discipline from the nineteenth century to the present. From evolutionary scientism at its origin, overarching and continuing Eurocentrism, the disavowal of area studies, the rise of literary theory, and the primacy...