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
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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 46 October 2022
Editorās 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 Obadikeās
āBlackness for Saleā
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
ZĢizĢekās Jews
Adam Komisaruk
General Articles
The Language of Flowers in Henry Jamesās In the Cage:
Mrs. Jordanās Ecological Message
by Mohammed Hamdan
Hell is Definitions
by Victor Peterson II
āGod is everywhereā: What Muriel Spark Is Up To in Robinson
by Cynthia Lewis
Countermapping and Temporal Borders in Rachid Boudjedraās Topographie ideĢale pour une agression caracteĢriseĢe
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
KoĢjin 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 OāRourke, 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 OāKeeffe
Reviews
Rutledge Prize
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