Recently added articles from Comparative Literature:
Latin America Translated (Again): Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives in the United States
Jul 01, 2009; ... When they asked him how he would like to be remembered, he answered: "That's a future battle." To remember someone is to allow him to keep fighting. - Juan Villoro, "La batalla futura" (referring to Roberto Bolaño)1 TWO EVENTS in the last three months of 2007 are telling ...
Cyborgs, Post-Punk, and the Neobaroque: Ricardo Piglia's La ciudad ausente
Jul 01, 2009; ... NEAL STEPHENSON'S LITERARY CAREER surprised readers and critics when it took a sharp turn from the future to the past - from his early cyberpunk/science fiction novels, Snow Crash and The Diamond Age, to a series of novels, The Baroque Cycle, set in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In ...
The Trans-American Outcast and Figurations of Displacement
Jul 01, 2009; ... IN MODERNITY AT LARGE, Arjun Appadurai examines how "locality emerges in a globalized world," how "global facts take local form" (18), and how these processes are related to colonialism, mass migration, and mass media. In conjunction with his discussion of the creation of locality, he introduces ...
Accenting the French in Comparative American Studies
Jul 01, 2009; ... IF THE FIELD OF AMERICAN STUDIES has slowly expanded beyond the fifty states to include the Americas as a whole, it is still fragmented by linguistic divisions. While the increasing use of Spanish within the United States has fostered ties with Spanish-speaking Latin America, Francophone areas ...
The (Neo) Baroque Effect: A Critical Inquiry into the Transformation and Application of a Conceptual Field to Comparative American Studies
Jul 01, 2009; ... THE TERMS "BAROQUE" AND "NEOBAROQUE" have been frequently used in the last ten or fifteen years to highlight certain modern and contemporary artistic trends and characteristics, particularly in the aesthetic realm. A large body of novels produced in the West since the 1960s has been categorized ...