Abstract. This article suggests a marked ecological consciousness within the Arabic novel and its experimental poetics, reading the Kurdish-Syrian author Salīm Barakāt’s debut novel Fuqahāʾ al-ẓalām (...

Abstract. This article examines a series of annual PEN conferences from 1946 to 1950 to chart the changing landscape of the global literary space in the immediate postwar period. Founded in 1921, PEN ...

Abstract. This essay studies an emerging discourse on forms of exchange in mid- to late nineteenth-century Iran, both in national economic practices and international concessions. As the system of eco...

Abstract. Translation has often been compared to love, negotiation, and friendship, but a less frequent association with another affective process deserves further exploration. Both Jacques Derrida an...

Abstract. Line breaks are arguably the defining feature of poetry, in the absence of which a text becomes prose. Consequently, the translation of line breaks is a decisive issue for every poetry trans...

Abstract. As the Global North burns through our planet’s nonrenewable natural reserves, we find ourselves amid a crisis of resources. The legacy of Cold War consumption necessitated the extraction of ...

Abstract. This essay develops a comparative account of Walter Benjamin’s and Hart Crane’s architectonic metaphors for text, culture, and history. I argue that theorist and poet alike employ parallel c...

Abstract. Huang Gongwang’s scroll painting Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains was burned, torn apart, stolen, and resold many times before the two extant pieces of it settled across the Taiwan Strait fr...

Abstract. Early twentieth-century Chinese realist depictions of indoor space, such as the crowded tenement house and the penniless writer’s abode, enabled the portrayal of the physical and psychologic...

Abstract. This essay contextualizes Rosario Ferré’s literature within a Latin American history of cannibalistic writing, explores the three major elements of her translation philosophy, and examines p...

Abstract. In the 1983 article “My Chances/Mes chances: A Rendezvous with Some Epicurean Stereophonies,” Jacques Derrida gives philological questions massive philosophical significance by reading the l...

Abstract. What does it mean to face language? In a 2020 essay, Michael Allan urges scholars of comparative literature to rethink linguistic diversity, not just as multiple languages, but also as multi...

Abstract. This essay addresses Pablo Neruda and Nancy Cunard’s Spanish Civil War poetry anthology Los poetas del mundo defienden al pueblo espanol alongside Cunard’s earlier anthology, her massive and...

Abstract. Aimé Césaire’s long poem Cahier d’un retour au pays natal is the most expressive example of his ambitious effort “infléchir le français” (“to inflect the French”), as he famously put it in a...

Abstract. Erich Auerbach (1892–1957), best known as the author of Mimesis: Dargestellte Wirklichkeit in der abendländischen Literatur (1946; Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literatur...

Abstract. Today’s political despondency is informed by how Western populations no longer believe in the cosmopolitan stories that underpinned the modern world. Before Kantian universalism became hegem...

Abstract. This article analyzes two types of visual perception in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (1955): camera obscura and camera lucida, terms that are taken from photography and painting, respectively. ...

Abstract. Myths of the sea are some of the most enduring cultural associations with oceanic spaces. In particular, literature written from islands and coastal locations often shares an interest in the...

Abstract. Offering an itinerary of the thinking that led to Sentient Flesh: Thinking in Disorder, Poiēsis in Black, R. A. Judy explains the concept of “poetic socialities” mentioned in it. This explan...

Abstract. What does it mean to be a writer from Northeast India? What does it mean to write from the margins of India? What are the limitations of Indian English writing when it comes to depicting mar...

Abstract. This article articulates how an epistemology of ignorance structures the postcolonial metropolitan critic’s knowledge about a particular fraught state in India, Assam. Using the term agnotol...

Abstract. This article looks at the influence of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s early philosophy of language on the Black Arts Movement. Amiri Baraka’s essay / prose poem “Expressive Language” ends with a quot...

Abstract. Lord Byron’s reputation in Russia’s literary imagination might surprise those who remember him not only as a multifaceted poet or political commentator, but also as a sexual libertine. Follo...

Abstract. This article examines the intersection of the Yiddish modernist Yankev Glatshteyn’s poetics of old age with the cultural politics of language. Specifically, the article draws on Robert Pogue...

Abstract. While the ghazal has appeared in many linguistic traditions, its diversity is undermined by the imposition of a singular definition of this genre, which is further compounded by the overly s...

Abstract. This article tracks the engagement of several twentieth-century writers with a line from Aimé Césaire’s Cahier d’un retour au pays natal (Journal of a Homecoming): “et il est place pour tous...