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VOL. 60, No. 1, 2023
Forum: On Sentient Flesh and the Horizons of Comparatism
Introduction
Nergis Ertürk
Notes on Sentient Flesh
Fred Moten
Play Yo’ Part: A Note on Poeisis in Black
Bedour Alagraa
Love-Improper, in Deed: Review of Sentient Flesh
Sora Han
Loving Sentient Flesh
Jeffrey Sacks
Articles
The Ancestors Call from the Future: Genealogy, Ancestrality, Judgment
Rosalind C. Morris
Of Life and Death: African Cultural Worldviews and Black American Survival in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon and Amiri Baraka’s Slave Ship
Portia Owusu
Writing Mobility, Writing Stillness: Silvia Mistral’s Transatlantic Displacements
Tabea Alexa Linhard
Dogs and the Politics of Il|legal Border Crossing: Suad Amiry’s Sharon and My Mother-in-Law and Marios Piperides’s Smuggling Hendrix
Angelos Evangelou
The Revival of Pamphletary Speech in the Twenty-First Century: The Rhetoric of Reversal
Amina Damerdji
Book Reviews
Inter-imperiality: Vying Empires, Gendered Labor, and the Literary Arts of Alliance by Laura Doyle
Christopher Bush
At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War by Monica Popescu
Cajetan Iheka
Karen J. Renner
VOL. 60, No. 2, 2023
Forum:
Traveling with Death of a Discipline: Forum on the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Gayatri Spivak’s Death of a Discipline
Forum Introduction: Death of a Discipline and the Imperatives of Comparatism
Nergis Ertürk
“To My Questioners: Alphabetically Listed by Last Name”. Interview with Spivak, by Emily Apter, Pheng Cheah, Brent Hayes Edwards, and David Golumbia
Gayatri Spivak
Other Knows Best
Ben Conisbee Baer
The Need for a Black Planetarity
Rich Purcell
Singular Unverifiability
Gavin Walker
Death of a Discipline: An Anthropologist Tries to Respond
Rosalind C. Morris
Death of a Discipline and the Task of Worlding
Anirban Bhattacharjee
Articles
The Most Mexican of Us All: Yiddish Modernism and the Racial Politics of National Belonging
Rachelle Grossman
Place-Based Translingualism, Identity, and the Contemporary World Literary Space: Jhumpa Lahiri’s Turn to Italian
Gabriele Lazzari
Melancholy as Landscape: Benjamin, Pamuk, Sebald, Süreya
Josh Alvizu
2022 A. Owen Aldridge Prize Winner: “Toward Weaving/Reading Hemispheric Land and Literature”
Laurel Sturgis O’Coyne
Book Reviews
Eurasia Without Borders: The Dream of A Leftist Literary Commons, 1919-1943. By Katerina Clark
Ali Behdad
Stranger Fictions: A History of the Novel in Arabic Translation. By Rebecca C. Johnson
Hannah Scott Deuchar
DisOrientations: German-Turkish Cultural Contact in Translation, 1811-1946. By Kristin Dickinson
Duncan Gullick Lien
Old Schools: Modernism, Education, and the Critique of Progress. By Ramsey McGlazer
Maria Truglio
Subterranean Fanon: An Underground Theory of Radical Change. By Gavin Arnall.
Sara-Maria Sorentino
The Nigrescent Beyond: Mexico, the United States, and the Psychic Vanishing of Blackness. By Ricardo A. Wilson II
Theodore W. Cohen
Fellow Travelers: How Road Stories Shaped the Idea of the Americas. By John Ochoa
Antonio Barrenechea
VOL. 60, No. 3, 2023
SPECIAL ISSUE
Redesigning Modernities I: Infrastructures, Ecologies, and Emancipatory Openings
Guest edited by Sarah J. Townsend and Vinay Dharwadker
FROM THE SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORS
Introduction to Redesigning Modernities I: Infrastructures, Ecologies, and Emancipatory Openings
Sarah J. Townsend
Modernity and Difference: In the Context of India and Indian Literatures
Vinay Dharwadker
DOSSIER: ECOLOGIES, FOODWAYS, AND COMMODITY CHAINS
Sweetness and Flour: A Biopolitical Fable of the Sixteenth Century
Ana Schwartz
Gold Links: Teaching Culture through Commodity Chains
Heather McCune Bruhn and Sarah J. Townsend
Material Modernities: Aluminum in the Making of a Global Cultural Economy
Emily McGiffin
The Use and Abuse of Compost
Eva-Lynn Jagoe
INTERVIEW WITH MARCELO D’SALETE
Modernity and Counternarrative in Marcelo D’Salete’s Angola Janga and Gayl Jones’s Palmares: Prelude to an Interview with Marcelo D’Salete
Miguel A. Valerio
“Redesigning the Past”: Interview with Marcelo D’Salete
Marcelo D’Salete with Miguel A. Valerio, translated by Amanda Talbot
ARTICLES
The Farmer, the Influencer, and the Labors of Rural Self-Media
Shaoling Ma
Speculative World-Building, Modernity, and the Text in Crisis: An Ecological Reading of Renee Gladman’s Ravicka Novels
Martin Schauss
Toward a Feminine-Matrixial Understanding of Modernity: Subjectivity-as-World-Fabric, the Ecology of Love, and the Temporality of Just Now
Christoph Solstreif-Pirker
Representing Past Futures: Approaches to Reading Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer Today
Krista Brune, Justus Peña Berman, Jutta Gsoels-Lorensen, MaryEllen Higgins, Ibis Sierra Audivert, and Maria Truglio (with Alex Rivera)
BOOK REVIEWS
Beyond English: World Literature in India. By Bhavya Tiwari
Roanne L. Kantor
The Idea of Indian Literature: Gender, Genre, and Comparative Method. By Preetha Mani
Aliya Ram
Doña Bábara Unleashed: From Venezuelan Plains to International Screen. By Jenni M. Lehtinen
Irina R. Troconis
The Global White Snake. By Liang Luo
Jen-Hao Walter Hsu
VOL. 60, No. 4, 2023
ARTICLES
The Chinese Character as an Interface for Artistic Creation: Re-cognition of Graphics and Phonetics
Haomin Gong
Archaism, “Elegant Paraphrase,” and the Chinese Translation of Three Modern Japanese Novels
Leo Tak-hung Chan and Jindan Ni
Global Modernism: The Literary Language of the Japanese, Shanghainese, and Taiwanese New Sensationalist Schools
Choi-kit Yeung
Risky Masquerades: The Play of Masks in Yukio Mishima’s Confessions and Qiu Miaojin’s Crocodile
Xiaofan Amy Li
Ambitious Self-Condemnation: The Fallen Woman in Novels by Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis and Amelia Opie
Katharine Ann Jensen
“Prendre un bain de multitude”: Origins of the Flâneur in Baudelaire’s Translations of De Quincey
Roxanne Covelo
BOOK REVIEWS
Secondhand China: Spain, the East, and the Politics of Translation. By Carles Prado-Fonts.
Nicolás Fernández-Medina
American Mediterraneans: A Study in Geography, History, and Race. By Susan Gillman.
Charlotte Rogers
Maps of Empire: A Topography of World Literature. By Kyle Wanberg.
Katherine Marta Kouhi Hallemeier
The World in a Grain of Sand: Post-colonial Literature and Radical Universalism. By Nivedita Majumdar.
Felix Fuchs