The Comparatist
Edited by Zahi Zalloua, Whitman College
Frequency: Annually (October)
Latest Issue: Volume 46, October 2022
Size: 6" x 9", approx 175 pages
Bibliographic Information: ISSN: Print 0195-7678; Digital 1559-0887
Subscribe
- Individuals
Awarded the Phoenix Prize for Significant Editorial Achievement by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals in 1996, The Comparatist is a dynamic, well-established journal of comparative literature that has appeared annually since 1977. Its areas of focus include the comparative study of literature, cultural movements, and the arts; and literary and cultural theory. Members of the Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts receive a subscription to The Comparatist. For more information, visit The Comparatist‘s website.
Zahi Zalloua is associate professor of French in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at Whitman College.
Subscription Rates
Individual price – $54 1-year
Institutional price – $72 1-year
We have a partnership with Duke University Press (DUP) for print subscriptions. Agencies are eligible for a discount on the institutional rate. If you have questions about an existing subscription please contact DUP Journals Services:
- Individuals can subscribe online
- Email subscriptions@dukeupress.edu
- Phone toll-free in the US and Canada (888) 651-0122
- Phone (919) 688-5134
Masthead
Editor
Zahi Zalloua
Table of Contents
Volume 46 October 2022
Editor’s Column
On the Use and Abuse of Analogy
by Zahi Zalloua
Comparative Racisms
The Primal Scene of anti-Blackness: The Masochist Jouissance of White Racism
by Derek Hook
Slave/Animal/Labor: Marxist Incapacity and The Direction
Analogy Flows
by Sara-Maria Sorentino
Racial Capitalism and the Grounds of Contradiction
by Peter Hitchcock
The Language of Absurdity: Keith and Mendi Obadike’s
“Blackness for Sale”
by Charlotte Kent
The Tenure of Racism: Cornel West, Critical Race Theory,
and the Neoliberal Assault on Critique
by Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Ornamentalism in the French Empire
by Akrish Adhikari
The Fancy Girl Episteme: Tracking the Legacy of Master-Slave Rape in the Evolution of the Tragic Mulatto Trope
by Zeena Yasmine Fuleihan
Literary Alibi: The Consumption of African American and
Dalit Literatures
by Austin Anderson
Žižek’s Jews
Adam Komisaruk
General Articles
The Language of Flowers in Henry James’s In the Cage:
Mrs. Jordan’s Ecological Message
by Mohammed Hamdan
Hell is Definitions
by Victor Peterson II
“God is everywhere”: What Muriel Spark Is Up To in Robinson
by Cynthia Lewis
Countermapping and Temporal Borders in Rachid Boudjedra’s Topographie idéale pour une agression caractérisée
by Brittany Murray
Theory, Place: Exile and Roots
by Jane Gallop
Review Essays
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Crowds: The Stadium as a Ritual of Intensity
by Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Kōjin Karatani, Marx: Towards the Centre of Possibility; Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition; Thomas Nail, Marx in Motion: A New Materialist Marxism; Jules Joanne Gleeson and Elle O’Rourke, eds. Transgender Marxism
by Matt Bost
Jeffrey Clepp and Emily Ridge, ed. Security and Hospitality in Literature and Culture; Merle A. Williams, ed. Hospitalities Transitions and Transgressions: North and South
by Brian O’Keeffe
Reviews
Rutledge Prize
Advertising Rates
Advertising Rate
Full Page: $150
No cash discounts. A 15% agency commission is allowed for recognized agencies if payment is received within 30 days of invoice date.
Deadlines
Reservations: August 1
Camera-ready Copy: September 1
Mechanical Requirements
Full page: 4-3/8″ x 7″
Black-and-white camera-ready copy or PDF only
Color and bleeds not acceptable
Reservations and Camera-ready Artwork Contact
Kate Stack
University of North Carolina Press
116 South Boundary Street
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Email: kate.stack@uncpress.org