With the increasing globalization of literary studies, it is unsurprising that there should emerge numerous revisionist perspectives on previous forms of appropriation and erasure. While “literature” itself might be regarded as an embattled if not discarded concept, “British” or even “in English” might be equally contested. A debunking of traditional narratives and established canon might be anticipated, though it is perhaps less obvious what might replace them. Kim’s study opens with a consideration of “orientation” as spatial coordinate and sexual preference, followed by chapters on the evolution of the lyric subject (through Jones, Coleridge, and Shelley), on cosmopolitanism in Byron’s Eastern Tales, on female racialization in Hemans and Wheatley, and finally—and presumably of most interest to readers of this journal—on Blake, primarily The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and Jerusalem.
This article studies the performance of mourning for the martyrs of Karbalāʾ as the commemorative and ritualized cultivation of grief as perpetual reminder of the possibility of commitment against injustice. It takes Ismat Chughtai’s (d. 1991) Urdu novel Ek Katrā Khūn or One Drop of Blood as exemplifying the narrative-...
Bharatwaj Iyer· Philosophy East & West· 0 citations
This article contends that religion remained central to understanding ‘nationalism’ in Britain and India in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This proposition will be demonstrated in concrete form through reading, and cross
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reading, three interpretations of the Revolt of 1857: John Kaye’s A History of...
R. Govind· Studies in People's History· 0 citations
Focusing on Baldwin’s later works from the 1970s on, this article posits
that he began shaping an experimental nonfiction aesthetic that would allow him
to “sing” lyrically, diasporically, and discursively while
engaging in discourse with others. He improvised a means of enacting physically,
essayistically, and cin...
Walton M. Muyumba· James Baldwin Review· 0 citations
In The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), Hannah Arendt reimagines the relationship between aesthetics and politics. Rather than treating them as two adjacent fields, she situates aesthetic perception before ideological thinking. If totalitarian movements are distinguished by their disdain for sensual reality, as Are...
Patrick Eichholz· American Literature· 0 citations
In this wide-ranging collection of essays, a leading literary critic and intellectual examines classic English poetry, modern Jewish literature, the intersection of science and religion, and the fate of culture in a technological age. Whether the subject is the literary abilities of ChatGPT, the erotics of opera, the...
A. Kirsch· 0 citations
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