Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.5325/complitstudies.60.1.0031
Rosalind C. Morris
abstract:This article explores the recent and growing invocation of the concept of ancestrality in a self-consciously ethicized critical practice. It commences by undertaking a genealogy of ancestrality and reflecting on the convergences and divergences between these two terms—genealogy and ancestrality. The article then draws upon both the canonical anthropological archive wherein relations to ancestors were discussed and the author’s own extended research among people in southern Africa for whom ancestors are part of the cultural commonsense. On this basis, the author argues that, at least among those people with whom she is familiar, the ancestors are not figures of a past nor figures of moral virtue. Rather, they call from the future and orient action toward a community of recognition to which the living aspire. This community does not have a final judgment as the precondition of admission, and indeed, the article calls into question the deployment of the ancestral as the figure of an absolute judgment, while pointing to the risks of a primitivist nostalgia in the effort to make Africa not only of the site of irreparable loss but the name and locus of a lost wisdom that could ameliorate the social crises of our contemporaneity.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.5325/complitstudies.60.1.0095
T. Linhard
abstract:The article shows that mobility and stillness are entangled with one another and that specific mobile subjects are, following Michael Rothberg’s work, implicated in the stillness of others. The analysis focuses on figures negotiating tensions between mobility and stillness: deported workers traveling from Cuba to Spain in 1931, soldiers and civilians meeting in a hotel during the Spanish Civil War in 1938, and Spanish refugees interacting with locals in Martinique during an unexpected layover in 1939. Mistral’s works cross borders between countries and national literatures and this article considers her writing in relation to Katherine Anne Porter’s novel Ship of Fools, to competing and transnational narratives about race and class during the Spanish Civil War, and to the works of Martinican writers.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.5325/complitstudies.60.1.0013
Sora Y. Han
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.5325/complitstudies.60.1.0123
A. Evangelou
abstract:This article merges border and animal studies through a comparative study of Suad Amiry’s memoir Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries (2005, Palestine) and Marios Piperides’s film Smuggling Hendrix (2018, Cyprus). Engaging with the concepts of border aesthetics, border logic, and border law, the article draws attention to the function of animal characters (dogs) and illustrates their becoming platforms of anti-border politics. Both narratives explore the difference between human and animal experiences of borders and border-crossing, and through the fictionalized adventures of Nura and Jimi render borders simultaneously penetrable and comical. Their ability to legally or illegally cross the same borders their human owners are confronted with equips authors with ample opportunity for sharp political critique, largely invested in exposing the absurdity borders generate. Assigning these dogs with different legal statuses (Nura has a passport and crosses the border legally while Jimi crosses underground), Amiry and Piperides scrutinize the association between illegal border-crossing and resistance, demonstrating how it is only the contestation of border law which alone undermines border logic. The article thus exposes the complex tension between the political gain produced by the politicization of these animals vis-à-vis their becoming border-crossers, and the implications of this gesture for animals.
本文通过对Suad Amiry的回忆录《Sharon and My婆婆:Ramallah Diaries》(2005年，巴勒斯坦)和Marios Piperides的电影《走私亨德里克斯》(2018年，塞浦路斯)的比较研究，将边界和动物研究结合起来。本文运用边界美学、边界逻辑和边界法的概念，关注动物角色(狗)的功能，并说明它们成为反边界政治的平台。这两种叙述都探讨了人类和动物在边界和边界穿越方面的不同经历，并通过虚构的努拉和吉米的冒险，使边界同时具有可穿透性和滑稽性。它们合法或非法跨越人类主人所面临的边界的能力，为作者提供了充分的机会进行尖锐的政治批评，主要是为了揭露边界所产生的荒谬。给这些狗分配不同的法律地位(Nura有护照，合法越境，而Jimi是地下越境)，Amiry和Piperides仔细研究了非法越境和抵抗之间的联系，证明了只有边界法的争论才会破坏边界逻辑。因此，这篇文章揭示了这些动物政治化所产生的政治利益与-à-vis他们成为边境过境者之间的复杂紧张关系，以及这种姿态对动物的影响。
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.5325/complitstudies.60.1.0187
Febin Vijay, P. Tripathi
contemporary crime fiction’s creation of innovative textual strategies such as shifts from individual crime to entangled webs of sociopolitical crimes
当代犯罪小说创造了创新的文本策略，如从个人犯罪转向社会政治犯罪的纠缠网络
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.5325/complitstudies.60.1.0006
Bedour Alagraa
{"title":"“Play Yo’ Part”: A Note on Poēisis in Black","authors":"Bedour Alagraa","doi":"10.5325/complitstudies.60.1.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.60.1.0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55969,"journal":{"name":"COMPARATIVE LITERATURE STUDIES","volume":"60 1","pages":"12 - 6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47724711","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 : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.5325/complitstudies.60.1.0184
Karen J. Renner
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.5325/complitstudies.60.1.0001
Nergis Ertürk
{"title":"Forum: On Sentient Flesh and the Horizons of Comparatism","authors":"Nergis Ertürk","doi":"10.5325/complitstudies.60.1.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.60.1.0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55969,"journal":{"name":"COMPARATIVE LITERATURE STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47442396","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 objective of this study was to assess the effects of small, incremental additions to wheelchair frame mass (0 kg, +2 kg, and +4 kg) on the mechanical propulsion characteristics in both straight and curvilinear maneuvers. A robotic propulsion system was used to propel a manual wheelchair over a smooth tiled surface following rectilinear ("Straight") and curvilinear ("Slalom") trajectories. Three unique loading conditions were tested. Propulsion costs and system rolling resistance estimations were empirically collected using the robotic wheelchair tester. Propulsion cost values were equivalent across all loading conditions over the Slalom trajectory. In the Straight trajectory, adding 2 kg on the axle had equivalent propulsion cost to the unloaded configuration. Adding 4 kg on axle was comparable, but not equivalent, to the unloaded configuration with small (≤4.1%) increases in propulsion cost. This study demonstrates that small (0-4 kg) changes to the frame mass have no meaningful impacts on the propulsion characteristics of the manual wheelchair system. Differences in propulsion cost and rolling resistance were detectable but contextually insignificant.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.5325/complitstudies.59.4.0788
Ceyda Elgül
abstract:This article surveys the development and operation of biography in Turkish in light of a selection of publisher's series presented in the region starting from the nineteenth century. In addition to introducing the biography series as gateways for a survey of life-writing activities in the region, the study explores how biographies translated from other languages appear in relation to the biographies that were originally written in Turkish. In this research setting, the terms "minor" and "major" are elaborated in two layers. First, the study interrogates the content of the selected series that embrace individuals from "minor" and "major" regions of the world; and second, it explores whether translation appears as a "minor" activity in these series that remains as an invisible form of textual production. In both contexts, the assets that represent the "minor" and "major" are considered not as active competitors but as the collaborators of the publisher's commercial and social literary agendas.
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