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• Precarity in the Times of Partition: Personal vs Communal Love in Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan and Saadat Hasan Manto's "Gurmukh Singh ki Wasiyat".

  Author:Ayesha PerveenFrom:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 24, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  June 20225,988 words Report The paper studies how various shades of love respond to precarity in anarchic times by comparing the narrative representation of the aftermath of the Partition of the British colonized Subcontinent into independent...

• Female Bonding and Marginality in Shang Wanyun's novella "Xialihe" (1978).

  Author:Antonio PaolielloFrom:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 24, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  June 20228,211 words Report This article explores the representation of homosociality between two marginalized female characters in "Xialihe" ([phrase omitted]) (1978), a novella by Sinophone Malaysian writer Shang Wanyun ([phrase omitted])...

• The Turn toward the Nonhuman in Susan Straight's A Million Nightingales.

  Author:Katarzyna E. Nowak-McNeiceFrom:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 24, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  June 20228,238 words Report This article proposes a reading of Susan Straight's 2006 novel A Million Nightingales in the light of critical posthumanities, focusing specifically on references to nonhuman animals. It does so in order to place...

• The Extinction Race: Techniques of the Human in Proust, via Houellebecq.

  Author:James DuttonFrom:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 24, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  June 202211,814 words Report In his article, "The Extinction Race: Techniques of the Human in Proust, via Houellebecq" James Dutton "reads" identity and race from the point of view of technics. Namely, he does so through the work of two nominally...

• "A Sick Eagle" and "I am": Hymns to Sculpture by Keats and Rilke.

  Author:Ya-feng WuFrom:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 24, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  June 20229,600 words Report At the turn of eighteenth and nineteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, sculpture came to serve as an emblem of humanity's response to the challenges of the times. John Keats and Rainer Maria Rilke, felt compelled...

• Cooling Down Transmedia Storytelling.

  Authors:Jan Baetens, Ku Leuven, and Domingo Sanchez-MesaFrom:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 24, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  June 20226,187 words Report In this article we propose a reading of "Dead End Street", one of the most successful songs of one of the most popular British pop groups of the 60s, The Kinks. However, we will not discuss the song as such, but its...

• Poetics of the Crystal-Image: Dreams in Mirror and Ashes of Time Redux.

  Author:Yuh-Yi TanFrom:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 24, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  June 202216,851 words Report This paper delves into recurrent dreams and related recollections in Andrei Tarkovsky's Mirror and Wong Kar-wai's Ashes of Time Redux. Gilles Deleuze has called Mirror a film of "turning crystal" because it reflects the...

• Trauma, History, and Terror in the Poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa and Sinan Antoon.

  Author:Hessa A. AlghadeerFrom:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 24, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  June 20226,855 words Report In her comparative study "Trauma, History, and Terror in the Poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa and Sinan Antoon," Hessa A. Alghadeer considers the work of the African American poet Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1941) and the (Arab)...

• The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien and Shahnameh by Firdausi: A Sadraic Interpretation of Free Will and Determinism.

  Authors:Mohsen Hanif and Masoud TadayoniFrom:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 24, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  June 20226,486 words Report Fate, doom, and free will have always proved to be controversial terms among philosophers. The chief problem is whether a deterministic power prescribes the destiny of creatures or they possess pure free will in shaping...