7 articles in this issue
Daniel Fried, Zhang Hui
The introduction to the special issue "(Non-)Geographical Futures of Comparative Literature", part of a joint project between CRCL/RCLC and Peking University's Journal of Comparative Literature and World Literature.
Yulia Pushkarevskaya Naughton
"this essay will explore the experience of taxi driving in modernist Russian-French writer Gaito Gazdanov’s Night Roads and postmodern Ukrainian-Canadian writer Helen Potrebenko’s Taxi!. Both texts are exilic in nature (and as such, prime objects of compa... see more
Keyang Dou
On various approaches to the reading of the Yijing (I Ching, or Book of Changes).
Rebecca Gould
"In pursuit of the twinned goals of canon transformation and the globalized study of literary form, I propose three ways for forging a canon responsive to the political present. The first and most obvious proposal is empirical: increasing the canon’s glob... see more
Josh Stenberg
"The independently-developed tradition of Chinese literature points to the necessity of constantly rethinking world genre boundaries. For example, spoken theatre is not a universal genre, but a specific Western form that has spread through imperialistic a... see more
Liyan Qin
"The Woman Warrior sets in motion debates on the issue of authenticity and on who can speak on behalf of whom. Who is entitled to speak for the Chinese culture in the United States? Does one have to know China enough before writing on China? How much know... see more
Pei Zhang
Discusses St. Thomas More's account of the formation of Utopia in the work of the same name: "The characterization of Utopus...serves as More’s answer to the...question [of] how a philosopher can become a king, though in language, rather than in reality."