{"title":"Introduction: New Faces of Authoritarianism","authors":"Asad M. Haider, Massimiliano Tomba","doi":"10.7771/1481-4374.4010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.4010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44033,"journal":{"name":"CLCWEB-Comparative Literature and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86430983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neo-Authoritarianism and the Contestation of White Identification in the US","authors":"Justin Gilmore","doi":"10.7771/1481-4374.4014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.4014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44033,"journal":{"name":"CLCWEB-Comparative Literature and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138512752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article examines two aspects of neo-authoritarianism. The first is mainly diagnostic and concerns the nature of authoritarianism as a phenomenon of transition. The article investigates tensions and conflicts between temporalities. It pays attention to the asynchronous nature of change which, alongside the social structural level of changes, also the psycho-social level, intervene politically in different forms. There are social strata that are strangers in their own country and do not share the same present with others. For them, looking to the past is the only way to imagine a different future. If they are looking for values and authority, the neoconservatives fill the lack of authority with more power and replace the liquidation of old values with identity grounded on racism, nationalism, religion. By eroding the social cement that should keep society together, neoliberalism has also created room for compensatory phenomena, such as the need for community, authority, and politics. Understanding these needs constitutes the second, predominantly prognostic, part of this article’s analysis. Massimiliano Tomba, "Neo-Authoritarianism without Authority" page 2 of 12 CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 23.1 (2021): http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol23/iss1/4 Special Issue New Faces of Authoritarianism. Ed. Massimiliano Tomba
{"title":"Neo-Authoritarianism without Authority","authors":"Massimiliano Tomba","doi":"10.7771/1481-4374.4013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.4013","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines two aspects of neo-authoritarianism. The first is mainly diagnostic and concerns the nature of authoritarianism as a phenomenon of transition. The article investigates tensions and conflicts between temporalities. It pays attention to the asynchronous nature of change which, alongside the social structural level of changes, also the psycho-social level, intervene politically in different forms. There are social strata that are strangers in their own country and do not share the same present with others. For them, looking to the past is the only way to imagine a different future. If they are looking for values and authority, the neoconservatives fill the lack of authority with more power and replace the liquidation of old values with identity grounded on racism, nationalism, religion. By eroding the social cement that should keep society together, neoliberalism has also created room for compensatory phenomena, such as the need for community, authority, and politics. Understanding these needs constitutes the second, predominantly prognostic, part of this article’s analysis. Massimiliano Tomba, \"Neo-Authoritarianism without Authority\" page 2 of 12 CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 23.1 (2021): http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol23/iss1/4 Special Issue New Faces of Authoritarianism. Ed. Massimiliano Tomba","PeriodicalId":44033,"journal":{"name":"CLCWEB-Comparative Literature and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82339820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Defending “Western” Values: Reactionary Neoliberalism in the Americas","authors":"Gabriela Segura-Ballar","doi":"10.7771/1481-4374.4016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.4016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44033,"journal":{"name":"CLCWEB-Comparative Literature and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82638614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Time Decay: Assets, Authoritarianism, and Anxiety about the Future","authors":"Jack Davies","doi":"10.7771/1481-4374.4017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.4017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44033,"journal":{"name":"CLCWEB-Comparative Literature and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138512761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In 2016, a liar made a hypocrite appear worse and thereby won the US presidency. How did a liar, which is traditionally deemed something worse than a hypocrite, manage to do this? This article offers an answer. It does so by uncovering a peculiar mechanism, a Trumpian mechanism, at the heart of Trump’s relations with his critics. The mechanism explains how Trump benefited from wrong-footing his critics and is thus essential for understanding Trump’s success. The article offers a few key examples of this mechanism working against Trump’s political opponents, e.g., Trump’s (first) impeachment. It then shows how the mechanism also worked against Trump in regard to his handling of Covid-19. Ultimately, the mechanism helps explain both the outcome of the 2016 and the 2020 elections. The article concludes by stressing the importance of using this mechanism to better understand the Trump phenomenon. It claims that using the mechanism as a guide to understand Trump can prevent empowering the very object we, as critics, often aim to disempower.
{"title":"A Trumpian Mechanism","authors":"Emmett Peixoto","doi":"10.7771/1481-4374.4012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.4012","url":null,"abstract":"In 2016, a liar made a hypocrite appear worse and thereby won the US presidency. How did a liar, which is traditionally deemed something worse than a hypocrite, manage to do this? This article offers an answer. It does so by uncovering a peculiar mechanism, a Trumpian mechanism, at the heart of Trump’s relations with his critics. The mechanism explains how Trump benefited from wrong-footing his critics and is thus essential for understanding Trump’s success. The article offers a few key examples of this mechanism working against Trump’s political opponents, e.g., Trump’s (first) impeachment. It then shows how the mechanism also worked against Trump in regard to his handling of Covid-19. Ultimately, the mechanism helps explain both the outcome of the 2016 and the 2020 elections. The article concludes by stressing the importance of using this mechanism to better understand the Trump phenomenon. It claims that using the mechanism as a guide to understand Trump can prevent empowering the very object we, as critics, often aim to disempower.","PeriodicalId":44033,"journal":{"name":"CLCWEB-Comparative Literature and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90772474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The sordid twilight of the Trump presidency raised the stakes of the debate on fascism. While much of the discussion has been magnetised by the legitimacy of analogies with the 1930s, this article argues that a rich and complex tradition of Black radical critique of right-wing authoritarianism provides a vital resource for thinking through the problem of US fascism beyond analogy – beginning with the DuBoisian insight that a racial fascism forged by chattel slavery and settler-colonialism anticipated the ascendancy of European fascisms. The article homes in on Black radical theories of fascism developed in the wake of the movements and uprisings of the 1960s and the US state’s intensification of its repressive and carceral apparatus. Exploring the theoretical insights generated in the prison writings of George Jackson and Angela Y. Davis, it challenges the widely held belief that the 1970s stood as the nadir of theorisation of fascism, its degradation into mere political insult. Instead, with particular emphasis on Davis’s articulation of an incipient or preventive fascism, it investigates the theoretical consequences of the differential experience of fascism across axes of racialisation and reflects on the pertinence of Black radical theories of fascism to our current moment of recombinant White supremacy. Alberto Toscano, "Incipient Fascism: Black Radical Perspectives" page 2 of 11 CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 23.1 (2021): http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol23/iss1/6 Special Issue New Faces of Authoritarianism Ed. Massimiliano Tomba
特朗普总统任期的肮脏黄昏提高了关于法西斯主义的辩论的风险。虽然大部分讨论都被与20世纪30年代类比的合法性所吸引，但本文认为，黑人对右翼威权主义的激进批评的丰富而复杂的传统，为思考超越类比的美国法西斯主义问题提供了重要资源——首先是杜波依斯式的见解，即由动产奴隶制和定居者殖民主义形成的种族法西斯主义预示着欧洲法西斯主义的优势。这篇文章聚焦于黑人激进的法西斯主义理论，这些理论是在20世纪60年代的运动和起义以及美国政府加强镇压和监禁机器之后发展起来的。本书探索了乔治•杰克逊(George Jackson)和安吉拉•y•戴维斯(Angela Y. Davis)监狱写作中产生的理论见解，挑战了人们普遍认为的一种观点，即20世纪70年代是法西斯主义理论化的最低点，它堕落为纯粹的政治侮辱。相反，本书特别强调了戴维斯对早期或预防性法西斯主义的阐述，研究了法西斯主义在种族化轴线上的不同经历的理论后果，并反思了黑人激进法西斯主义理论与我们当前重组白人至上主义的相关性。阿尔贝托·托斯卡诺，“早期法西斯主义:黑人激进的观点”11页CLCWeb:比较文学和文化23.1 (2021):http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol23/iss1/6专刊威权主义的新面孔
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{"title":"“No Roses, White nor Red, Glow Here”: The Motif of the Garden in Two Proserpine Poems by A. Swinburne and D. Greenwell","authors":"Cristina Salcedo González","doi":"10.7771/1481-4374.3308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.3308","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44033,"journal":{"name":"CLCWEB-Comparative Literature and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87902014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of The Journey to the West, Vol. 1, Translated and edited by Anthony C. Yu","authors":"R. škultéty","doi":"10.7771/1481-4374.3435","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.3435","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44033,"journal":{"name":"CLCWEB-Comparative Literature and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75164336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Women’s presence in literary history has been particularly conditioned by their place in society and by the limited spheres in which their production was expected to appear (e.g. the sentimental novel, romances or children’s literature). In today’s digital, open and connected society, women continue to face visibility problems in the publishing industry and in the online spaces that grant presence and agency. Their role in cultural creations is still hindered by vertical powers that operate as main censors. This circumstance takes place even in a rhizomatic and decentralized virtual space, where dissident discourses have highlighted it, although without enough discursive power to create a full disruption in those monolithic powers capable of isolating and making invisible whole social and cultural sectors. Forcing women’s invisibility or limiting the scope of their production in cultural spheres results in adverse, when not downright traumatic, situations for these authors. The present study addresses the phenomenon of the neutralization of the female author and the strategies developed by women writing in Spanish and English in order to turn this situation around. Miriam Borham-Puyal and Daniel Escandell-Montiel, "Strategies page 2 of 13 of (In)Visibility and Resilience: Women Writers in a Digital Era" CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 22.4 (2020): http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol22/iss4/10 Miriam BORHAM-PUYAL and Daniel ESCANDELL-MONTIEL Strategies of (In)Visibility and Resilience: Women Writers in a Digital Era
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