Pub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.5325/complitstudies.60.3.0610
Aliya Ram
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Pub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.5325/complitstudies.60.3.0519
Shaoling Ma
abstract:The genre of Chinese rural "self-" or "we-media" (zi meiti) has drawn ire for "spectacularizing" the "rural lifescape" for urban consumers of China's rapidly developing platform economy. This article focuses instead on how the videos of Li Ziqi and Qiaofu Jiumei recenter production as a key visual force in global capitalism. By depicting the dynamic reciprocities between traditionally rural, artisanal or craft-based, and immaterial or affective labor, and—on the other hand—more ostensibly commercial farm work and e-commerce, Chinese microcelebrities show that different labor relations can dialectically coexist and overlap under contemporary state capitalism despite developments in productivity and automation that impute a historical directionality to the nature of work. The article discusses this in relation to the historical context and theoretical design of the People's Republic of China's recent Rural Revitalization strategic plan, as well as the country's growing platform economy. Belying Li's aestheticized portrayal of craftsmanship and self-sufficiency is the notorious non-appearing of alienated labor, private property, and the continuous expropriation of nature—but also their potential reversibility. Jiumei's candid depictions of rural e-commerce evidence rural platformization's value-extraction; and yet, perceptible in her comparatively more impoverished images are hints of the return of more conventional forms of work.
{"title":"The Farmer, the Influencer, and the Labors of Rural Self-Media","authors":"Shaoling Ma","doi":"10.5325/complitstudies.60.3.0519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.60.3.0519","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:The genre of Chinese rural \"self-\" or \"we-media\" (zi meiti) has drawn ire for \"spectacularizing\" the \"rural lifescape\" for urban consumers of China's rapidly developing platform economy. This article focuses instead on how the videos of Li Ziqi and Qiaofu Jiumei recenter production as a key visual force in global capitalism. By depicting the dynamic reciprocities between traditionally rural, artisanal or craft-based, and immaterial or affective labor, and—on the other hand—more ostensibly commercial farm work and e-commerce, Chinese microcelebrities show that different labor relations can dialectically coexist and overlap under contemporary state capitalism despite developments in productivity and automation that impute a historical directionality to the nature of work. The article discusses this in relation to the historical context and theoretical design of the People's Republic of China's recent Rural Revitalization strategic plan, as well as the country's growing platform economy. Belying Li's aestheticized portrayal of craftsmanship and self-sufficiency is the notorious non-appearing of alienated labor, private property, and the continuous expropriation of nature—but also their potential reversibility. Jiumei's candid depictions of rural e-commerce evidence rural platformization's value-extraction; and yet, perceptible in her comparatively more impoverished images are hints of the return of more conventional forms of work.","PeriodicalId":55969,"journal":{"name":"COMPARATIVE LITERATURE STUDIES","volume":"60 1","pages":"519 - 540"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48173554","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}
Pub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.5325/complitstudies.60.3.0613
Irina R. Troconis
{"title":"Doña Bárbara Unleashed: From Venezuelan Plains to International Screen","authors":"Irina R. Troconis","doi":"10.5325/complitstudies.60.3.0613","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.60.3.0613","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55969,"journal":{"name":"COMPARATIVE LITERATURE STUDIES","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42046916","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}
Pub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.5325/complitstudies.60.3.0460
H. M. Bruhn, Sarah J. Townsend
abstract:This co-authored article offers reflections on the pedagogical potential of focusing on commodity chains as an approach to teaching culture. By way of example, it foregrounds gold, drawing on the two authors' experiences teaching material related to this valuable mineral in very distinct fields: European art history (in courses on the ancient and medieval eras) and Latin American literature and culture (in courses about the Amazon taught in Spanish and Portuguese). The authors also discuss their collaborative work in creating an Open Educational Resources (OER) module on gold, and the possibility of a co-taught course. Gold is a particularly interesting commodity given the many myths that surround it, its history as a form of currency and standard of value, and the aesthetic qualities attributed to it. More generally, however, focusing on specific commodities from the point of extraction to their use in an array of products encourages students to think about the materiality of culture and its implication in an array of political, economic, and ethical issues. It also offers a way of charting connections and differences across long arcs of time, across geographical space and cultural differences, and across different academic disciplines.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.5325/complitstudies.60.2.0404
D. Lien
{"title":"DisOrientations: German-Turkish Cultural Contact in Translation, 1811–1946 by Kristin Dickinson (review)","authors":"D. Lien","doi":"10.5325/complitstudies.60.2.0404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.60.2.0404","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55969,"journal":{"name":"COMPARATIVE LITERATURE STUDIES","volume":"60 1","pages":"404 - 408"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45948925","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}
Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.5325/complitstudies.60.2.0397
A. Behdad
{"title":"Eurasia Without Borders: The Dream of a Leftist Literary Commons, 1919–1943","authors":"A. Behdad","doi":"10.5325/complitstudies.60.2.0397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.60.2.0397","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55969,"journal":{"name":"COMPARATIVE LITERATURE STUDIES","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70814523","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}
Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.5325/complitstudies.60.2.0312
Gabriele Lazzari
abstract:This article discusses Jhumpa Lahiri's recent turn to Italian through a formal and linguistic analysis of the creative and editorial projects she has undertaken in the last decade. By analyzing the author's trajectory from In Other Words (2016) to Whereabouts (2021) and by discussing two short stories she has published in the interval between her linguistic autobiography and her first Italian novel, the article argues that Lahiri's aesthetic and political concerns have transitioned from a utopian search for cosmopolitan encounters to a sharper attention to place-making and grounded relationality. Concurrently, her writing has moved from the pursuit of placeless abstraction to a more pronounced interest in site-specific forms of social bonding. The article further situates Lahiri's translingual practice within paradigms of postcolonial, diasporic, and translingual writing, and discusses how her choice to forsake a dominant language for a semi-peripheral one requires a different critical approach that considers both intrinsic and extrinsic factors. In fully embracing the precarious translational space between Italian and English, the article contends that Lahiri's latest reinvention contributes to deprovincializing both the Italian and the Anglophone literary field, while offering new ways of articulating identity, cultural belonging, and community in comparative and world literature studies.
本文通过对Jhumpa Lahiri在过去十年中从事的创作和编辑项目的形式和语言分析，讨论了她最近转向意大利语。通过分析作者从《In Other Words》(2016)到《行踪》(2021)的创作轨迹，并讨论她在语言自传和第一部意大利小说之间发表的两篇短篇小说，本文认为，拉希里的审美和政治关注点已经从乌托邦式地寻找世界相遇，转变为对场所创造和基础关系的更敏锐的关注。同时，她的写作也从追求无地点的抽象转向了对特定地点的社会联系形式的更明显的兴趣。本文进一步将拉希里的翻译实践置于后殖民、流散和翻译写作的范式中，并讨论了她选择放弃主导语言而选择半边缘语言的原因，这需要一种考虑内在和外在因素的不同批评方法。在充分接受意大利语和英语之间不稳定的翻译空间的同时，文章认为，拉希里的最新改造有助于意大利语和英语文学领域的去地方化，同时为比较文学和世界文学研究提供了表达身份、文化归属感和社区的新途径。
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.5325/complitstudies.60.2.0336
J. Alvizu
abstract:This article locates the work of Walter Benjamin, Orhan Pamuk, W. G. Sebald, and Cemal Süreya in a minor tradition of writers preoccupied with melancholy since the Baroque. By pushing the notion of melancholy outside the experience of the individual subject, melancholy can be understood beyond its inherited descriptions, which treat it either as an impetus for artistic creativity or as a medical condition. Instead, drawing on work in global modernist studies and ecocriticism, melancholy can be productively considered relationally and nonanthropocentrically. This article traces how in İstanbul: Hatıralar ve Şehir (Istanbul: Memories and the City), Pamuk, channeling strands of Islamic melancholy (ḥuzn), closely links the Turkish notion of hüzün (Turkish melancholy) to landscape (manzara), which notably troubles the human–nonhuman divide. Then it will be shown how Sebald's lamentations on destruction and the ruinated landscape in his poetry and the novel Die Ringe des Saturn (Rings of Saturn) both collapse distinctions between nature and culture and articulate a melancholy at the extremes of visual perception. In closing, a reading of Cemal Süreya's poem "Fotoğraf" ("Photograph") brings the work of all three authors together under the notion of a promising and critical "melancholy present."
本文将Walter Benjamin、Orhan Pamuk、w.g. Sebald和Cemal sastreya的作品定位于自巴洛克以来专注于忧郁的作家的小传统中。通过将忧郁的概念推到个体主体的经验之外，忧郁可以超越其继承的描述来理解，这些描述将其视为艺术创造力的动力或医疗状况。相反，借鉴全球现代主义研究和生态批评的工作，忧郁可以被有效地视为关系和非人类中心主义。本文追溯了在İstanbul: Hatıralar ve Şehir(伊斯坦布尔:记忆与城市)中，Pamuk如何引导伊斯兰忧郁的线索(ḥuzn)，将土耳其的h z n(土耳其忧郁)概念与景观(manzara)紧密联系起来，后者明显困扰着人类与非人类的分歧。然后，我们将看到西博尔德在他的诗歌和小说《土星之环》中对破坏和被毁景观的哀叹是如何瓦解自然与文化之间的区别，并在视觉感知的极端下表达出一种忧郁。最后，阅读Cemal sreya的诗“Fotoğraf”(“照片”)将三位作者的作品在一个充满希望和批判性的“忧郁当下”的概念下结合在一起。
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.5325/complitstudies.60.2.0415
Theodore W. Cohen
{"title":"The Nigrescent Beyond: Mexico, the United States, and the Psychic Vanishing of Blackness by Ricardo A. Wilson II (review)","authors":"Theodore W. Cohen","doi":"10.5325/complitstudies.60.2.0415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.60.2.0415","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55969,"journal":{"name":"COMPARATIVE LITERATURE STUDIES","volume":"60 1","pages":"415 - 418"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43682625","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}
Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.5325/complitstudies.60.2.0401
Hannah Scott Deuchar
{"title":"Stranger Fictions: A History of the Novel in Arabic Translation by Rebecca C. Johnson (review)","authors":"Hannah Scott Deuchar","doi":"10.5325/complitstudies.60.2.0401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.60.2.0401","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55969,"journal":{"name":"COMPARATIVE LITERATURE STUDIES","volume":"60 1","pages":"401 - 404"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45805193","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}
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