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From:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn their article, "BreadTube Rising: How Modern Creators Use Cultural Formats to Spread Countercultural Ideology," J.J. Sylvia IV and Kyle Moody analyze the rise of BreadTube. Scholars have argued that YouTube's...
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From:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed"What is the role played by the aesthetics and politics of space," asks Kanishka Goonewardena, "in producing and reproducing the durable disjunction between the consciousness of our urban everyday life [...] and the now...
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From:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn their article, "Beyond 'Rising Tides' and 'Lying Flat': Emergent Cultural Practices Among Youth in Urban China", Diego Gullotta and Lili Lin examine how Chinese youth are positioned within the dominant culture, how...
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From:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn his article, "Necropolitics and Visuality: Remembering 'Speculative Fictions' in Hong Kong after Ranciere and Mbembe," Anthony Siu examines images from Defiance.Voices, a two-volume collection that gathers photography...
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From:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe overlapping crises of the present beg the question of causes; when and how did the problems begin? The question is particularly urgent in light of renewed calls for social justice, spurred by the transnational...
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From:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedCurrent criticism of works of eco fiction maintains that one of the central contributions of this literary genre is a consciousness-raising effect that these works have on their readers by virtue of alluding, with...
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From:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn their article, "Conjunctures, Commodities, and Social State Marxism," Stephen Shapiro discusses our current moment as the conjuncture of three temporalities: a secular trend of centrist liberalism, a Kress cycle of...
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From:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article seeks to elaborate a map or cartogram based on a number of protests and social mobilizations that took place in different parts of the world -mainly in Latin America, but also in Europe and Asia. Beyond the...
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From:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn her article, "Confinement, Care, and Commodification in Mati Diop's In My Room," Brittany Murray discusses a short film released in 2020 by the French and Senegalese director, Mati Diop. Shot in the artist's studio in...
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From:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn her article, "Incendiary Devices: Imagining E-Waste Frontiers and Africa's Digital Futures," Treasa De Loughry focuses on different visual responses to e-waste in West Africa, from eco-documentary film and photography...
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From:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe topical book Wuhan Diary, authored by the Chinese writer Fang Fang during the COVID-19 lockdown of Wuhan, is not so much a diary as a "becoming-diary," given its performative practices. Wuhan Diary's emphasis on the...
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From:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe article will document the emergence of the composite art form of "Dhoom Dham" in the state of Telangana, a southern state from India. A mixture of folk song-and-dance routines interspersed with political speeches,...
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From:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn her article, "Kazuo Ishiguro and the Service Economy," Kate Montague argues that Kazuo Ishiguro's novels enact a poetics of work for the present moment--not just at the level of narrative but also in the kind of...
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From:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn "Literature and Economy in Portuguese-speaking Southern Africa", Thomas Waller offers a comparative reading of literary responses to neoliberalization in Portuguese-speaking southern Africa. Reading the proliferation...
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From:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn "Fredric Jameson and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's Periodizing the Black Internal Colony," Jeremy Matthew Glick reads these authors' coupling of Black radical struggle with wars of decolonization as engaging against a...
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From:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSwatie and Rashee Mehra discuss in their "Biopolitics in the Twenty-first Century: India and the Pandemic", the rise of the biopolitical state in India in the 2020s. The article emphasizes the relevance of Michel...