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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (3): 229–245.
Published: 01 June 2003
...FENG LAN University of Oregon 2003 Allen, Joseph. “Dressing and Undressing the Chinese Woman Warrior.” Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique 4 . 2 ( 1996 ): 343 -79. Buck, Pearl. China: Past and Present . New York: The John Day Company, 1972 . Chen, Youbing. Liang Han Nan...
View articletitled, The Female Individual and the Empire: A Historicist Approach to Mulan and Kingston's <span class="search-highlight">Woman</span> Warrior
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in The Border Underground: Indigenous Cosmovisions in the Migration Narratives of Leslie Marmon Silko and Yuri Herrera
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Published: 01 March 2023
Figure 2. Leslie Marmon Silko, Stone Avenue Mural (1998). In Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit , 150–51.
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 119–141.
Published: 01 June 2011
... and authenticity associated with a “human” selfhood. Selfhood, like text, here becomes assemblage: an assemblage of borrowed words. Focusing on Steven Hall's The Raw Shark Texts and Graham Rawle's Woman's World , I show how writing, text, and self are inextricably intertwined, and how this reinvigorates...
View articletitled, Posthumanities and Post-Textualities: Reading The Raw Shark Texts and <span class="search-highlight">Woman's</span> World
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 306–325.
Published: 01 September 2022
... on beginnings, endings, and the repetition of cycles. The critiques that these poets level in their work are also considered through a gendered lens here, as the association between woman and sea, as well as the mythologization of woman is discussed. This article analyzes key poems from these writers to draw...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (2): 176–193.
Published: 01 June 2018
... poet Louise Bogan’s 1921 lyric “Medusa” with Ovid’s Metamorphoses , this essay asks what modes of women’s engagement with myth have been left out or undertheorized in the wake of feminist critics’ investment in narratives of reclaimed voice. Instead of being a prosopopoeia in which the imagined woman...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (2): 122–143.
Published: 01 March 2010
... these works depict. In both texts the portrait raises the issue of the relation between identity and representation. Since in both stories the portrait is that of a woman and the painter is a man, they also deal with the way the power to represent (and thus determine or construct identity) relates to gender...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (1): 86–110.
Published: 01 January 2011
..., that a mode of reading attentive to the performance of parabasis in the text reveals that even this powerful message is constantly interrupted by the figure of woman as constitutive outside of democracy—that which makes possible its self-definition and simultaneously throws it into turmoil. Questioning...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (3): 253–268.
Published: 01 September 2011
... and their peculiarly transformed counterparts in its Russian translation and examines how Chulkov appropriates these elements to his own literary purpose, in both his voluminous collection The Mocker (1766–1768) and his short picaresque novel The Comely Cook or The Adventures of a Debauched Woman (1770). The timing...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (3): 272–275.
Published: 01 September 2020
... The Joys of Motherhood to underscore a critique of nativism in the rural-urban interface in Nigeria that is globally instructive and to point out the fact that woman is never native. It is in the frame of such methodological examples that we must deal with questions such as: what is the difference...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (4): 361–376.
Published: 01 December 2020
... object of what the author terms the erotics of disgust. Chughtai is perhaps most famous for her being tried for obscenity in 1942 for her most famous short story, “The Quilt” (“Lihaaf”), which narrates a young girl’s encounter with the erotic relationship of a middle-class Muslim woman and her female...
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Published: 01 June 2021
Figure 6a. (l) Ada from the back, on the terrace of the club, listening to the testimony of Souleiman’s coworker, who haunts the body of a woman. Figure 6b. (r) Reverse angle on Ada’s face, looking away at the rolling ocean. Screen captures from Mati Diop’s 2019 film Atlantics .
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (4): 307–324.
Published: 01 September 2002
... . Rauch, Leo, and David Sherman. Hegel's Phenomenology of Self-Consciousness: Text and Commentary . Albany: SUNY Press, 1999 . Ray, Sangeeta. En-Gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000 . ____. “The Postcolonial Critic...
View articletitled, Burning with Shame: Desire and South Asian Patriarchy, from Gayatri Spivak's “Can the Subaltern Speak?” To Deepa Mehta's Fire
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (4): 294–311.
Published: 01 September 2005
....” Critical Quarterly 38 . 2 ( 1996 ): 33 -50. ____. Immortality . Trans. Peter Kussi. New York: Harper Perennial, 1992. Trans. of Nesmrtelnost: romàn. 1990 . McAlpin, Mary. “Poststructuralist Feminism and the Imaginary Woman Writer: The Lettres portugaises.” Romanic Review 90 . 1 ( 2000...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (4): 354–372.
Published: 01 September 2001
... . A27 . Dieke, Ikenna. “From Fractured Ego to Transcendent Self: A Reading of Alice Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy.” The Literary Griot 11 . 1 ( 1999 ): 48 -68. ____. “Introduction: Alice Walker, A Woman Walking into Peril.” Critical Essays on Alice Walker . Ed. Ikenna Dieke. Westport...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (1): 44–58.
Published: 01 January 2006
... I nostri antenati
(Our Ancestors); second, and of more interest for this article, the loss of woman as
a kind of foundational moment, a marker of the subject’s entry into history. The
presence of this second scene in Calvino’s “cosmicomic” stories from the late
1960s is nothing less than...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 446–461.
Published: 01 December 2012
... India Company. One —and only one —of these
depositions reports the existence of a black woman who apparently survived the
disaster for a few hours. Given the superhuman efforts required of the swimmers
who did survive, this fact, simple yet extraordinary, made me wonder: who was this
woman...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (4): 320–337.
Published: 01 September 2003
... of a Woman Writer.” L'Esprit Créateur 40 . 2 ( 2000 ): 41 -51. Vernon, Kathleen M. “The Trauma of History/The History of Trauma: Plotting Memory in Jorge Semprun.” Cine-Lit III: Essays on Hispanic Film and Fiction ( 1997 ): 157 -67. Wisse, Ruth R. “The Individual from the Ashes: Hitler...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (3): 226–251.
Published: 01 September 2019
... into a cycle rickshaw, after sending off a woman acquaintance at the local train station in a small North Indian city. Distraught, he orders the driver to cycle him to the city center a few miles away. As the driver toils to maneuver the cycle over bumpy terrain, the narrator ruminates in the back seat, roving...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (2): 95–112.
Published: 01 March 2006
..., womanizer, and
knight; thief of kisses (a rapist, perhaps and loyal lover who bears the arms of
1 Little is known of Peire Vidal’s life beyond the few facts that can be gleaned from the medieval
biographies and from his songs themselves, which were probably also the sole source for his biogra-
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (3): 217–228.
Published: 01 June 2003
...,
dispersing and relocating industrial manufacture to the economies of the South,
it appears that the figure of the worker—particularly the woman worker—has
been pushed to the edge of contemporary European culture.
Literary responses to the socialist crisis range from sober historical description...
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