The Comparatist
Edited by Zahi Zalloua, Whitman College
Frequency: Annually (October)
Latest Issue: Volume 43, October 2019
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Bibliographic Information: ISSN: 0195-7678
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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. 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.
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Table of Contents
Volume 43 October 2019
Editor’s Column
Pessimistic Times
by Zahi Zalloua
Pessimism
What is Critique without Pessimism?: Postcritique, Neoliberalism, and the Future of the Humanities
by Jeffrey R. Di Leo
The Concept of Post-Pessimism in 21st Century Dystopian Fiction
by Annika Gonnermann
The Epistemology of Pessimism
by R. Radhakrishnan
Notes Toward (Inhabiting) the Black Messianic in Afro-Pessimism’s Apocalyptic Thought
by Andrew Santana Kaplan
Affirmation in the Dark: Racial Slavery and Philosophical Pessimism
by Jared Sexton
Asia-Pessimism: Modeling a Revolution in Failure
by John Streamas
An Anarchist Power Amidst Pessimism: The Overcoming of Optimism in Jos. Saramago’s Blindness and Seeing
by James Martel
Pessimistic Chinese Cosmopolitanism and Jia Zhangke’s The World
by Sijia Yao
The Pointless Ecology of Renaissance Cynicism
by Pauline Goul
General Articles
Creolizing the Canon: Manuel Puig, Junot Díaz, and the Latino Poetics of Relation
by Charles H. Geyer
Judas, My Brother: Nikos Kazantzakis’ The Last Temptation of Christ with Slavoj Žižek
by Virginia Nickles Osborne
Pataphysical Assemblages: Fascist Spectacle in Paul Grimault’s Le roi et l’oiseau
by Thomas L. Cooksey
An Autobiography of Her Own—Matalon’s The Sound of Our Steps
by Tammy Frade Galon and Adia Mendelson Maoz
The Dissolution of Walls: Trauma, Healing, and the Sufi Way in Lessing’s The Memoirs of a Survivor
by Lidan Lin
Towards a Fanonian Poetics: Cultural Decolonization as Translation
by Richard L. W. Clarke
The “Annabel Lee” Blues: Re-Reading Edgar Allan Poe’s Rhythm and Rhyme Scheme
by Jacky W. Dumas
Latinxs in the Attic: (Erasing Latinx Presence and the) Policing (of) Racial Borders in Faulkner’s Light in August
by Paul M. Worley and Melissa Birkhofer
Reading as Resistance: Practicing Literacy and Interconnection in Nadeem Aslam’s The Golden Legend
by Beth Miller
Review Essay
R. Alton Lee, Publisher for the Masses, Emanuel Haldeman-Julius
by Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Book Reviews
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