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Argues that Latinos are not newcomers in the United States by documenting a network of Spanish-language cultural activity in the nineteenth century. Juxtaposing poems and essays by both powerful and peripheral writers, this title proposes a major revision of the 19th-century US canon and its historical contexts.

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Argues that cultural politics - specifically America's often covert patronage of the arts - played a highly important role in the transfer of imperial authority from Britain to the United States during a critical period after World War II.

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Tracing the move from the anticolonial, nationalist, and arabist literature of the early years to the relative cosmopolitanism and diversity of Maghrebi francophone literature today, this title draws on contemporary literary and postcolonial theory to "deterritorialize" its study.

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Analyzes writers and gurus, literary texts and religious movements, and the political uses of religion alongside the literary expressions of religious teachers, showing the cosmopolitan interconnections between the Indian subcontinent, the British Empire, and the American New Age.

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Challenging the widespread 'separatist imagination' behind partition, this book demonstrates the ways in which works of Jewish and Arab literature reject simple notions of separatism and instead display configurations of identity that emphasize the presence of alterity within the self - the Jew within the Arab, and the Arab within the Jew.

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Scholarship on translation has moved well beyond the technicalities of converting one language into another and beyond conventional translation theory. This title covers a range of topics, from simultaneous translation to legal theory, from the language of exile to the language of new nations, and from the press to the cinema.

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Tells the story of political and artistic upheavals through the manifestos of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book ranges from the Communist Manifesto to the manifestos of the 1960s and beyond, and highlights the varied alliances and rivalries between socialism and repeated waves of avant-garde art.

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Argues that shame is a dominant temperament in twentieth-century literature, and the key to understanding the ethics and aesthetics of the contemporary world. This title states that the practices of postcolonial literature depend upon and repeat the same structures of thought and perception that made colonialism possible in the first place.

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Defines a transnational literary "zone" that shaped the development of the modern novel. This book rethinks the genre's evolution as marking the power and limits of modern cultural nationalism. It is suitable for readers interested in the novel's development, British and French cultural history, and extra-national patterns of cultural exchange.

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For a century, the history of the novel has been written in terms of nations and territories: the English novel, the French novel, the American novel. But what if novels were viewed in terms of the seas that unite these different lands Examining works across two centuries, The Novel and the Sea recounts the novel's rise, told from the perspective

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Follows "The Pilgrim's Progress" as it circulates through multiple contexts - and into some 200 languages - focusing on Africa, where 80 of the translations occurred. This book accounts for how "The Pilgrim's Progress" traveled abroad with the Protestant mission movement, and was adapted and reworked by the societies into which it traveled.

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With selections extending from the beginning of comparative study through the years of intensive theoretical inquiry and on to contemporary discussions of the world's literatures, this title helps readers navigate a rapidly evolving discipline in a dramatically changing world.

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Organized around a series of propositions that range from the idea that nothing is translatable to the idea that everything is translatable, this book examines the vital role of translation studies in the "invention" of comparative literature as a discipline.

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African literature has commonly been seen as representationally naive vis-a-vis modernism, and canonical modernism as reactionary vis-a-vis postcolonial literature. What brings these two bodies of work together, argues the author, is their disposition toward Utopia or the horizon of a radical reconfiguration of social relations.

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Offers an analysis of "transnational citizenship" from the perspective of contemporary Europe. This title argues for the democratization of how immigrants and minorities in general are treated by the modern democratic state, and the need to reinvent what it means to be a citizen in an increasingly multicultural, diversified world.

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Examines the works of selected bilingual and bicultural writers of the United States (including Oscar Hijuelos, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Eva Hoffman) and Germany (Libuse Monikova, Rafik Schami, and E S Ozdamar, among others), developing a framework for understanding the relationship between displacement, memory, and language.

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