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Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture; Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (4): 572–577.
Published: 01 December 2008
...Bruce Robbins Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture. By Aamir R. Mufti. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. xiii + 325 pp.; Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language. By Srinivas Aravamudan. Princeton, NJ...
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Type, Totality, and the Realism of Asian American Literature
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 415–432.
Published: 01 September 2012
... is typicality, which claims to broaden the significance of what might seem merely particular. This definition of realism illuminates two pioneering works of Asian American literature. Jade Snow Wong and Maxine Hong Kingston, despite their many differences, both engage in the realist project of overcoming...
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Unsettling Ethnic Detail in Asian American Metafiction
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (2): 239–259.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Wendy Allison Lee Abstract This essay examines the work of detail in contemporary Asian American metafiction by reconsidering Georg Lukács’s understanding of description as a mode of fiction that transforms humans into observers and objects via an excess of detail. Lukács’s work has informed views...
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The International Theme in AndrÉ Malraux's Asian Novels ∗
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Modern Language Quarterly (1978) 39 (2): 169–182.
Published: 01 June 1978
... ASIAN NOVELS*
By CHENGLOK CHUA
The role which Asia played in Andre Malraux’s creative imagina-
tion is comparable to that which Europe played in Henry James’s. Mal-
raux’s novels of 1926-33-La Tentation de I‘Occident (1926), Les
Conqutrants (1928), La Voie...
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Words about Words
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Modern Language Quarterly (2025) 86 (1): 63–70.
Published: 01 March 2025
.... I want to close by briefly considering whether there are models other than those of the traditional disciplines that might offer paths forward for literary studies. The other field in which I work, Asian American studies, has a history very different from that of most academic disciplines. Born...
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Humoring the Body: Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage
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Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (1): 111–114.
Published: 01 March 2007
..., exhaustively researched study of the changing for-
tunes of U.S. writing about Asia and Asians in the early twentieth century.
The Asiatic figure, whose staging as “the yellow peril” coincided with the
emergence of U.S. capitalism, became a way to theorize the vagaries of eco-
nomic modernity. Thus, Lye...
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The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England
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Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (1): 115–118.
Published: 01 March 2007
..., exhaustively researched study of the changing for-
tunes of U.S. writing about Asia and Asians in the early twentieth century.
The Asiatic figure, whose staging as “the yellow peril” coincided with the
emergence of U.S. capitalism, became a way to theorize the vagaries of eco-
nomic modernity. Thus, Lye...
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The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany
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Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (1): 119–122.
Published: 01 March 2007
..., a significant change in our assumptions about cultural
representation or literary narrative. America’s Asia stands apart. Colleen Lye
delivers an ambitious, exhaustively researched study of the changing for-
tunes of U.S. writing about Asia and Asians in the early twentieth century.
The Asiatic figure...
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Colonizing Nature: The Tropics in British Arts and Letters, 1760-1820
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Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (1): 123–126.
Published: 01 March 2007
..., exhaustively researched study of the changing for-
tunes of U.S. writing about Asia and Asians in the early twentieth century.
The Asiatic figure, whose staging as “the yellow peril” coincided with the
emergence of U.S. capitalism, became a way to theorize the vagaries of eco-
nomic modernity. Thus, Lye...
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Hart Crane: After His Lights
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Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (1): 126–128.
Published: 01 March 2007
..., exhaustively researched study of the changing for-
tunes of U.S. writing about Asia and Asians in the early twentieth century.
The Asiatic figure, whose staging as “the yellow peril” coincided with the
emergence of U.S. capitalism, became a way to theorize the vagaries of eco-
nomic modernity. Thus, Lye...
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America's Asia: Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945
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Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (1): 129–131.
Published: 01 March 2007
..., a significant change in our assumptions about cultural
representation or literary narrative. America’s Asia stands apart. Colleen Lye
delivers an ambitious, exhaustively researched study of the changing for-
tunes of U.S. writing about Asia and Asians in the early twentieth century.
The Asiatic figure...
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Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History
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Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (1): 132–135.
Published: 01 March 2007
..., exhaustively researched study of the changing for-
tunes of U.S. writing about Asia and Asians in the early twentieth century.
The Asiatic figure, whose staging as “the yellow peril” coincided with the
emergence of U.S. capitalism, became a way to theorize the vagaries of eco-
nomic modernity. Thus, Lye...
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China and the World: The Tale of a Topos
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Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (2): 145–171.
Published: 01 June 2007
...Haun Saussy University of Washington 2007 Haun Saussy is Bird White Housum Professor of Comparative Literature and of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University. His most recent book is the edited collection Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization (2006). Among...
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Gulliver and the Japanese: The Limits of the Postcolonial Past
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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (3): 457–480.
Published: 01 September 2004
... in Newtonian England, 1660-1740 (1993), and Dying Planet: Mars and the Anxieties of Ecology from the Canals to Terraformation (forthcoming). He is completing a book on European literature in the Asian-dominated world of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Gulliver and the Japanese:
The Limits...
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Joseph Brodsky’s Borrowed Chinese Voice
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (2): 165–190.
Published: 01 June 2022
... and the legacy of the Manchu-ruled empire. There was a history, then, of European authors pretending to speak in the name of Asians and specifically pretending to be Chinese. 8 In the tradition bequeathed by Montesquieu, use of the Asian voice and perspective was largely political and polemical, a tool...
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At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (2): 223–226.
Published: 01 June 2022
... , the influential 1962 Makerere conference, and the publishing house and cultural institution Mbari, headed by Es’kia Mphahlele. On the Soviet side were the Afro-Asian Writers’ Association, its multinational conferences, and its journal Lotus , as well as a state publishing industry that invested major resources...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 269–288.
Published: 01 September 2012
..., with Christopher Newfield and James Vernon, of “The Humanities and the Crisis of the Public University,” a special issue of Representations (2011). She is at work on a book tentatively titled Asian American Literature after 1968 . © 2012 by University of Washington 2012 This content is made freely...
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The Soviet Project of the 1930s to Found a “World Literature” and British Literary Internationalism
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (4): 403–425.
Published: 01 December 2019
... World War II when, during the Soviet Union’s big push for dominance in the Third World, the Afro-Asian Writers’ Association (1958–79) was launched with a conference in the Soviet Central Asian city of Tashkent. Several writers who became major figures in postcolonial literature began their international...
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Predicting the Past
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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (3): 481–504.
Published: 01 September 2004
...Deepika Bahri © 2004 University of Washington 2004 Deepika Bahri teaches postcolonial literature and theory in the English department at Emory University. She has coedited Between the Lines: South Asians and Post-coloniality (1996) and Realms of Rhetoric: The Prospects for Rhetoric...
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Books Received
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Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (1): 92–95.
Published: 01 March 1972
... Approach to the Analysis of Drama. The Hague and
Paris: Mouton, De Proprietatibus Litterarum, Series Maior, 15, 1971. 119 py.
22 guilders.
McDougall, Bonnie S. The Introduction of Western Literary Theories into Modern
China, 1919-1925. Tokyo: Centre for East Asian Cultural...
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