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VOL. 49, No. 1, 2012
Articles
‘In the Flash of an Eye a Multiplicity of Things’: The Poetics of the (In)Finite in James Joyce and Giacomo Leopardi
Federico Sabatini
‘Drowned in Blood’: Honor, Bloodline, and Domestic Ideology in The Duchess of Malfi and El médico de su honra
Ariane M. Balizet
The Prometheus Myth in the Sculptures of Sami Mohammed and the Plays of Aeschylus and Shelley
Zahra Ali
The Crimean Tatars and the Poetics of Home in Nineteenth-Century Russian and Turkish Literatures
Rory Finnin
Book Reviews
Across Oceans
Kate Flint. The Transatlantic Indian 1776-1930
(Quentin Youngberg)
Theo D’Haen and Reindert Dhondt, eds. International Don Quixote
(Bruce B. Burningham)
Mary Ann Gillies, Helen Sword, and Steven Yao, eds. Pacific Rim Modernisms
(R. John Williams)
Ben Stoltzfus. Hemingway and French Writers
(Jerry A. Varsava)
Collection and Preservation
Paul Eggert. Securing the Past: Conservation in Art, Architecture and Literature
(Curtis Swope)
Silvia Spitta. Misplaced Objects: Migrating Collections and Recollections in Europe and the Americas
(Ruth Y. Hsu)
Counter-Enlightenment and Postmodernism
Brian Lennon. In Babel’s Shadow: Multilingual Literatures, Monolingual States
(Claire Kramsch)
Peter Caravetta. Del posmoderno. Critica e cultura in America dall’alba del Duemila
(Barbara Alfano)
Christian Thorne. The Dialectic of Counter-Enlightenment
(Thora I. Bayer)
Central and Eastern Europe
Louise O. Vasvári and Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, eds. Comparative Central European Holocaust Studies
(Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru)
Michael Eskin. Poetic Affairs: Celan, Grünbein, Brodsky
(James Brasfield)
Brian Richardson, ed. Narrative Beginnings: Theories and Practices
(Gregory Byala)
VOL. 49, No. 2, 2012
Special Issue: Comparative Perspectives on the Black Atlantic
Guest Editors: Jossiana Arroyo and Elizabeth A. Marchant
Articles
Introduction
Jossianna Arroyo & Elizabeth A. Marchant
“We Never Could Understand Why the Black Man Did Not Come to Us:” Early African-Amerindian Subjectivities in Miguel Cabello Balboa’s Verdadera Descripción de la Provincia de Esmeraldas (1583)
Ruben A. Sánchez-Godoy
The Ship, the Plantation, and the Polis: Reading Gilroy and Glissant as Moral Philosophy
Guillermina de Ferrari
Songs and Intellectuals: The Musical Projects of Alain Locke, Alejo Carpentier, and Mário de Andrade
Luiza Franco Moreira
From Underworld to Avant-Garde: Art and Criminology in Cuba and Brazil
Rodrigo Lopes de Barros
Other Atlantics: Cape Verde, Chiquinho, and the Black Atlantic World
Brady Smith
Beyond Discontent: National and Diasporic Imaginings in Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Women’s Writing
Alexandra Perisic
The Black Atlantic as Dystopia: Bernardine Evaristo’s Blonde Roots
Judie Newman
Book Reviews
Joselyn M. Almeida, ed. Romanticism and the Anglo-Hispanic Imaginary
(Elizabeth Fay)
Joselyn M. Almeida. Reimagining the Transatlantic, 1780-1890
(Dawn Taylor)
Paul B. Miller. Elusive Origins: The Enlightenment in the Modern Caribbean Historical Imagination
(Adriana Mendez)
Mary Helen McMurran. The Spread of Novels: Translation and Prose Fiction in the Eighteenth Century
(Teresa Barnard)
Willliam Egginton. The Theater of Truth: The Ideology of (Neo)Baroque Aesthetics
(Roberto González Echevarría)
Lois Parkinson Zamora and Monika Kaup, eds. Baroque New Worlds: Representation, Transculturation, Counterconquest
(William Egginton)
Ralph Bauer and José Antonio Mazzotti, eds. Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas: Empires, Texts, Identities
(Luis Millones)
Dalia Kandiyoti. Migrant Sites: America, Place, and Diaspora Literatures
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Sarah Phillips Casteel
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VOL. 49, No. 3, 2012
Jorge Amado and World Literature
Articles
A. OWEN ALDRIDGE PRIZE WINNER 2011-2012
Exchange and Eidolon: Analyzing Forgiveness in Euripides’ Helen
Michelle C. Jansen
JORGE AMADO AND WORLD LITERATURE
Jorge Amado’s Penn State Lectures: Brazilian Literature, World Literature (Excerpts)
Transcribed by Caroline Egan and Dawn Taylor
Translated by Dawn Taylor
Is Jorge Amado the Gateway to Brazil or Not?
Alamir Aquino Correa
Rationalism Called Into Question in the Latin American Narrative: From Jorge Luis Borges to Jorge Amado
Eduardo de Faria Coutinho
Jorge Amado, Exile and Literature
Eduardo de Assis Duarte
Jorge Ahmad
Waïl S. Hassan
ARTICLES
The Ethics of Human Cloning in Narrative Fiction
Amit Marcus
When Orature Becomes Literature: Somali Poetry and Folk Tales in Somali Novels
F. Fiona Moolla
Book Reviews
Marieke Krajenbrink and Kate M. Quinn, eds. Investigating Identities: Questions of Identity in Contemporary International Crime Fiction
(Robert Rushing)
Wendy Larson. From Ah Q to Lei Feng: Freud and Revolutionary Spirit in 20th Century China
(Zhen Zhang)
Rei Terada. Looking Away: Phenomenality and Dissatisfaction, Kant to Adorno
(Jan Mieszkowski)
James Rovira. Blake and Kierkegaard: Creation and Anxiety
(Robert W. Rix)
Carole Levin and John Watkins. Shakespeare’s Foreign Worlds: National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age
(Alexander C. Y. Huang)
Brenda Machosky.Thinking Allegory Otherwise
(David Kelman)
Jeffrey Bardzell. Speculative Grammar and Stoic Language Theory in Medieval Allegorical Narrative: From Prudenyus to Alan of Lille
(Marc Mastrangelo)
Charlotte D. Eubanks. Miracles of Book and Body: Buddhist Textual Culture and Medieval Japan
(Keller Kimbrough)
Christi A. Merrill. Riddles of Belonging: India in Translation and Other Tales of Possession
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Aparagita Sagar
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VOL. 49, No. 4, 2012
MODERN CHINA AND THE WORLD: LITERARY CONSTRUCTION
Articles
Introduction
Liu Kang
Chinese Literary and Cultural Trends in a Postrevolutionary Era
Wang Ning
Zhu: Shengao: Shakespeare Translator and a Shakespearean Tragic Hero in Wartime China
Lu Tonglin
Refashioning Print Literature: Internet Literature in China
Jing Chen
The Ambiguities of Chineseness and the Dispute Over the “Homecoming” of Turandot
Chengzhou He
Eileen Chang’s Cross-Cultural Writing and Rewriting in Love in the Fallen City
Xiaoping Wang
A Voice Silenced and Heard: Negotiations and Transactions Across Boundaries in Ling Shuhua’s English Memoirs Ancient Melodies
Xiaoquan Raphael Zhang
Gary Snyder: Translator and Cultural Mediator Between China and the World
Robin Chen-Hsing Tsai
Commentary: Modernisms and Postmodernisms
Marshall Brown
Book Reviews
Seo-Young Chu. Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theroy of Representation
(Gerry Canavan)
Gang Zhou. Placing the Modern Chinese Vernacular in Transnational Literature
(Yiju Huang)
Ming Xie. Conditions of Comparison: Reflections on Comparative Intercultural Inquiry
(Alexander J. Beecroft)
Christopher Bush. Ideographic Modernism: China, Writing, Media
(Mark Goble)
Steven G. Yao. Foreign Accents: Chinese American Vernacular from Exclusion to Postethnicity
(Josephine Park)
Yi Zheng. From Burke and Wordsworth to the Modern Sublime in Chinese Literature
(Ban Wang)
Ronit Ricci. Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and South East Asia
(Richard Cohen)
David Herman. Basic Elements of Narrative
(John D.Wicinas )
Matthew Hart. Nations of Nothing but Poetry: Modernism, Transnationalism, and Synthetic Vernacular Writing
(Peter Howarth)
Roshni Mooneeram. From Creole to Standard: Shakespeare, Language, and Literature in a Postcolonial Context
(Suddhaseel Sen)
Freddie Rokem. Philosophers and Thespians: Thinking Performance
(Monica Prendergast)
Peter Hitchcock. The Long Space: Transnationalism and Postcolonial Form
(Jonathan Naito)