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...Cornelius Collins Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Doris Lessing’s Prophecies of Globalization “A Horizontal, Almost Nationless Organisation”: Doris Lessing’s Prophecies of Globalization Cornelius Collins In presenting the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature to Doris Lessing...

...Julian Murphet Copyright © Hofstra University 2011 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Coetzee’s Lateness and the Detours of Globalization Coetzee’s Lateness and the Detours of Globalization Julian...

...Caroline Miles The Nation’s Region: Southern Modernism, Segregation, and U.S. Nationalism , by Duck Leigh Anne , Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2006 . 340 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2009 The South, the Nation, and Global Cosmopolitanism The Nation’s Region...

..., is that such a roundtable would be worth attending. Perhaps that is a problem large enough to merit a book in its own right. If so, it’s one I would surely want to read, should Siskind turn his attention in that direction. Cosmopolitan Desires: Global Modernity and World Literature in Latin America , by Siskind...

...Kayvan Tahmasebian; Rebecca Ruth Gould This article explores how the Iranian poet and translator Ahmad Shamlu (1925–2000) reconceives the configuration of world poetics. Working at the intersection of global modernism and translation studies, it traces the formation of a Persian modernist poetics...

...Emilio Sauri 2011 Emilio Sauri Cognitive Mapping, Then and Now: Postmodernism, Indecision, and American Literary Globalism Emilio Sauri Mere belief is hostile to the whole idea of thinking. To wear cre- dulity as one’s badge of intellect...

... allegorical and literal use of the blues. Copyright © Hofstra University 2019 fictional autobiography globalization modernity neo-slave narrative Paul Gilroy’s critique of modernity, The Black Atlantic (1993), is widely noted for positing a transnational framework for understanding...

... addresses its stealth core subject, a postwar America with its Western philosophical baggage and political and historical burden fumbling awkwardly forward toward new social and gender models. Copyright © 2020 Hofstra University 2020 colonial modernity ethics globalization postcolonialism trauma...

... (1979), I demonstrate that it is finally the failure of connection or solidarity that motivates Naipaul’s attentiveness to the other. Copyright © 2020 Hofstra University 2020 colonial modernity ethics globalization postcolonialism trauma V S. Naipaul’s composite novel In a Free State...

... in A World of Love , a late modern picturesque interrupts the romantic emplotment of Ireland’s entry into global capitalist networks. Copyright © Hofstra University 2015 17 On geopolitical competition and world war, see Hall and Malešivić 2013, 20; on the ramifications for Ireland, see Lieven 2013...

... this might actually mean. By placing Cobra alongside some contemporary work in Buddhist studies, I argue that the novel both understands and laments its own Orientalism. Cobra thus closes with a call for a future philosophy of global engagement—a call, I argue, that is still relevant for literary criticism...

...Christopher Laverty This essay examines the influence of Elizabeth Bishop on Seamus Heaney’s poetics in the 1980s and 1990s as he became a global poet. She stands as a unique and overlooked exemplar in Heaney’s poetic pantheon. His reading of Bishop’s work, for all its limitations, nonetheless...

... with a desire to write a utopian collective. This is confirmed both by previously unstudied draft material for Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1971) and the published texts that followed. However, in The Four-Gated City this attempt to break from the destructive globalization of the postwar era becomes deeply...

...Wei Liu While studies of Langston Hughes’s transnationality don’t often prioritize his involvement with the international Left, this essay takes up the question of how his global imaginary and his radicalism inform one other, examining specifically the fate of Hughes’s early radicalism—his early...

... the relation of intellectual life to global political crisis was unavoidably at issue. Moore’s contribution to the proceedings, “Feeling and Precision,” proved a defining statement of her compositional principles. Situating Moore’s statement in relation to the inquiry Wahl set out to develop through...

... and reinscribed the significance of Eastern European geographies into the US imaginary. Novakovich’s and Blažević-Krietzman’s transnational positions have allowed them to create innovative form and content in ways that enhance the global appeal and reception of their work. Furthermore, their dual experience...

...” (Wising 4). It follows that Burroughs urges us to contest capitalist globalization, which the Schneiderman and Walsh anthology Retaking the Universe: William S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization (2004) models as a post- Cold War order of domination. Burroughs, we are told, “might well...

...Jason Arthur The Global Remapping of American Literature , by Giles Paul , Princeton University Press , 2010 . 340 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2011 Review Reviews The Worlding of American Literature The Global Remapping of American Literature by Paul Giles...

... living in the Global South, they have been largely neglected when it comes to social, political, and scholarly awareness. Postcolonial literature provides a “corrective” (2) for this absence, argues Krentz, restoring the dignity of people with disabilities through depictions of “human, relatable...

...Min Hyoung Song Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global , by Heise Ursula , New York : Oxford University Press , 2008 . 250 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Min Hyoung Song Running Out of Room to Grow Sense of Place...