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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (3): 470–476.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Amiya Dev Dev’s article discusses the Mahābhārata as world literature in the context of the epic tradition, including Homer’s Iliad and the Odyssey and the German epic poem Nibelungenlied ( The Song of the Nibelungs ). © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 The M a h...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (1): 169–182.
Published: 01 May 2012
... metaphors, too, and thereby reflect the conception of reality dominant in the respective epoch. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012
World Metaphor, Metametaphor:
Veils in Literature...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2006) 26 (3): 506–513.
Published: 01 December 2006
... 232 pp., $75.00 (cloth), $24.95 (paper) Packaging Post/Coloniality: The Manufacture of Literature Identity in the Francophone World Richard Watts Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005 208 pp., $60.00 (cloth), $22.95 (paper) Duke University Press 2006...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (3): 477–483.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Aduke Grace Adebayo Adebayo’s article examines the diffcult road that African literature had to take toward becoming acceptable in its own right between the 1930s and the 1950s. In the 1960s, after political independence in most African states, African literature found a central place in world...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (3): 484–491.
Published: 01 December 2012
... of comparative literature in Iran in the light of younger scholars’ and graduate students’ interest in interdisciplinary studies, translation, and world literature. This article is a revised version of a paper presented at the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Conference, “Creoles...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 362–369.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Julie Vig Abstract This article connects the Sikh tradition to wider cultural and literary worlds by examining how gurbilās literature—written from the end of the seventeenth century into the nineteenth—is tied to the wider Braj literary world and more specifically to Braj martial poetry. Gurbilās...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (1): 101–106.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Reem Bassiouney This essay examines the use of language in the literature that discusses the diaspora, with concentration on one novel. The essay concentrates on the diglossic situation that prevails in the Arab world, in which there are two varieties, high and a low, each with a different function...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (1): 50–60.
Published: 01 May 2008
... preempted secular and Cold War imperatives. For literature, wartime chaos punctured the myth of progress and along with it realist literature predicated on a knowable world. After a half century of serving the Arab cause, realism became an overnight anachronism and from its grip emerged the Lebanese war...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (3): 584–590.
Published: 01 December 2012
... a range of lateral networks that fall within the Third World or Global South. It is hence of particular relevance to those pursuing post–area studies scholarship and has much to say to the themes of this special issue on comparative literature across Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. Hofmeyr’s...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 337–342.
Published: 01 December 2023
... literatures of the global Cold War. 4 In the process, alternative genealogies and relationalities of the Middle East emerge, ones that place the Middle East in the world rather than prioritize how “the world” has acted on the Middle East, usually as a periphery or site of intervention. Doing so brings...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (2): 372–386.
Published: 01 August 2020
... the lines between British imperialism, pan-Islamic ambitions, and nationalism during the closing days of World War II. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 South Asia Iraq Muslim cosmopolitanism travel literature women's autobiographical writing British Empire Urdu During World...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (3): 404–415.
Published: 01 December 2008
...Christoph Schumann In the intellectual history of the Arab world, there is a remarkable dearth of literature on liberal thought. In comparison, nationalism and Islamism have attracted much more attention and molded our image of the Middle East. This essay takes a new look at liberal thought...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 325–333.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Cynthia Talbot Abstract In tribute to Allison Busch, who did so much to restore the reputation of vernacular literature not just as poetry but also as history, Talbot offers an account of an obscure Rajput warrior from Bikaner who decided it would be better to die. In asking why Ramsingh...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 95–114.
Published: 01 May 2020
... artifact of visual and print culture. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 Arabic book history postcolonial Arab art transnational modernism graphic design world literature Beirut and Lebanon history global sixties Technologies of printing, widening spheres of literacy...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (1): 170–180.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Rebecca Gould Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 References Abu Deeb Kamal . “ Studies in Arabic Literary Criticism: The Concept of Organic Unity .” Edebiyat 2 , no. 1 ( 1977 ): 57 – 89 . Apter Emily . Against World Literature: On the Politics...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (1): 136–140.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Alexander Beecroft Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 References Beecroft Alexander . An Ecology of World Literature: From Antiquity to the Present Day . London : Verso , 2015 . Bronner Yigal Shulman David Dean Tubb Gary A. , eds. Innovations...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (1): 149–154.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Anna M. Shields Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 References Beecroft Alexander . An Ecology of World Literature: From Antiquity to the Present Day . New York : Verso , 2015 . Bronner Yigal Shulman David Dean Tubb Gary A. , eds. Innovations...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (1): 122–127.
Published: 01 May 2018
... : Brill , 2014 . Chang Kang-i Sun Owen Stephen The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature . Vol. 1 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2010 . Damrosch David . What Is World Literature? Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2006 . Denecke Wiebke Li...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 476–491.
Published: 01 December 2024
... inspiration from the trend of “historical poetics” spearheaded by Yopie Prins and Virginia Jackson 10 to delineate the trenchant reality of power differentials in the domain of lyric studies and world literature. Both authors seek to mitigate the universalizing tendencies of reading lyric poetry. 11...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (2): 451–456.
Published: 01 August 2018
... Press 2018 secularism history literature Egypt References
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. The Islamic Jesus: How the King of the Jews Became a Prophet of the Muslims . New York : St. Martin’s Press , 2017 .
Allan
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. In the Shadow of World Literature: Sites...
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