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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (2): 492–494.
Published: 01 August 2007
...Carrol Clarkson J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading: Literature in the Event Derek Attridge Chicago: University of Chicago Press; Scottsville, South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2005 xv + 225 pp., $47.50 (cloth), $19.00 (paper) Duke University Press 2007...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (2): 399–407.
Published: 01 August 2005
... fteCntttoa Revolution Constitutional the of Event “Originator” an as Maidens Quchan the of Tale The riain e l Mirsepassi, Ali mod- of see narrative Eurocentric ernization, the of critique recent more a For 1...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (2): 388–410.
Published: 01 August 2011
... to Middle Eastern immigrants. Through interviews and visual analysis of the New York Persian Day Parade, one of more than 180 annual ethnic parades in Manhattan, I track, analyze, and compare the use of space, signs, and performance to argue that Iranian American public events such as the parade offer...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 466–480.
Published: 01 December 2015
... predicting people rather than horses. This is because the future is not considered an open-ended event subject to laws of chance, but rather an event that is fixed. The races are perceived as spectacles hiding the real underlying game, where races are being manipulated by jockeys, trainers, horse owners...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 370–380.
Published: 01 August 2022
... translated between 2009 and 2017, especially on the climactic event of the poems: the killing and beheading of the Rajput Arjun Singh by Anupgiri Gosain (a.k.a. Himmat Bahadur). In the course of the essay Pinch describes two visits to eastern Bundelkhand in search of traces of the events and personalities...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 386–397.
Published: 01 December 2023
..., whether at Bandung (1955), Belgrade (1961), or Cairo (1964), events that receive the bulk of scholarly interest in nonalignment's trajectory and significance, nonalignment occurred at a different scale. Scrutinizing nonalignment's intellectual history can reveal forms of knowledge that can be salvaged...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (3): 528–543.
Published: 01 December 2009
... but have also failed to realize the poetics that exist within the parameters of religious and Koranic exigencies of martyrdom. This article summarizes and creates reference points for the morphology of a contemporary phenomenon, which finds its prototype not only in the tragic events of Karbala but also...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (2): 425–442.
Published: 01 August 2011
... in the diaspora. In the latter case, this article considers the protests as a transnational media event, focusing on the use of social media in the Iranian diaspora, and examines how Iranians around the world have used social media to connect to the events in Iran as a form of activism and in the performance...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 143–158.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Jakob Krais Abstract During the 1920s and 1930s, French Algeria and Italian Libya witnessed spectacular motor-sports events: desert rallies as well as car races on closed circuits. Speed sports events, in this context, served three main purposes: they integrated or reconquered the colonial...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (1): 147–155.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Muhammad Velji Martin Heidegger broadened the meaning of art to a truth -disclosing event akin to seemingly disparate events such as the founding of a political state, Jesus’s sacrifice for all humankind, and the questioning of a philosopher. Art makes us pay attention to it by presenting...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (1): 6–20.
Published: 01 May 2018
... to survive that event? What stories does it record and what does it render invisible? Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 archives Palestine capital history historiography land Israel References Abu-Lughod Janet . Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 309–324.
Published: 01 August 2022
..., but rather that of an earlier king. These earlier events, together with the geography of conquest and pilgrimage provided by Dhanapāla, suggest a political subtext for the hymn; namely, a veiled critique of the inability of the Cauḷukya kings of Gujarat to protect the religious landscape, and a veiled praise...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 422–429.
Published: 01 August 2022
... revolutionary talk to pose questions about the particularities of their immediate contexts, and they posed new concepts of revolution along the way. Congealed manifestations of the term revolution can preclude our effort to think the event as experience. If revolution signals the disruption of existing...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (1): 75–88.
Published: 01 May 2013
... Persian Story a major cinematic event in Britain and a durable visual record of oil modernity in Iran. It further analyzes the visual composition and narrative of the film in order to understand how AIOC’s network of executives and filmmakers selected and managed representations of urban space and society...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 486–491.
Published: 01 December 2015
... theory have with regional art and artists. The discussion is the first of a series of events that intersect ongoing concerns of the journal, even as they open new avenues for collective consideration of art and its curation that extends beyond the attention that an individual art historian or cultural...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 622–638.
Published: 01 December 2015
... contemporary Palestinian universe of discourse has led to meanings that we today associate with the (ongoing) Palestinian catastrophe. Although the notion of 1948-as-catastrophe is as old as the nakbah, the event as catastrophe and its atrocities only entered the English-language intellectual register...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 492–507.
Published: 01 December 2024
... part reconstructs Tamil taṉippāṭal criticism through close readings of lives of poets ( carittiram ), which narrativize the poetic utterance within a rhetorical event. It discusses how this critical style reveals a unique theory of the lyric. Finally, the article considers the possibilities and limits...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 275–292.
Published: 01 December 2023
... inhabitation of the camp; and how, on the other hand, private property rights intersect with the competing claims of refugees and the state, whose overriding power changed after the events of Black September in 1970. By historicizing the material processes of refugee land tenure and property creation...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (2): 344–353.
Published: 01 August 2018
... the Egyptian revolution (from its beginning in January 2011 to arguably its end in the aftermath of the events in Rab’a in August 2013) came in the creation—the doing—of art rather than the actual artwork itself. References Abaza M. Cairo Diary: Space-Wars, Public Visibility...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 18–33.
Published: 01 May 2024
... in Ankara. In the accounts of several Turkish and international critics, these two events were presented as kindred, reactionary maneuvers aimed at galvanizing nationalist fervor, and Turkish claims on biological and cultural property were pitted against universalist ideals of conservation. Drawing on long...
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