Comparison Literature

New Literary History

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 567-582

  Walkowitz, Rebecca L ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77950815002     PISSN: 00286087     EISSN: 1080661X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/nlh.0.0102     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. J. M. Coetzee, Diary of a Bad Year (London: Harvill Secker, 2007), 29. Unless otherwise indicated, all future references to the text will refer to this edition
2. Coetzee, Dagboek van een slecht jaar [Diary of a Bad Year], trans. Peter Bergsma (Amsterdam: Cossee, 2007). A sticker affixed to the front cover proclaims the Dutch edition "Wereldprimeur de nieuwe roman van de Nobelprijswinnaar" (a rough translation of which would be "world premier of the new novel by the Nobel Prize winner")
3. In his introduction to a special issue on Globalization and World Literature, Djelal Kadir writes, "Comparative literature is neither a subject, nor an object, nor is it a problem. It is a practice." Djelal Kadir, 'To World, To Globalize-Comparative Literature's Crossroads," in Comparative Literature Studies 41, no. 1 (2004): 4
4. Judith Butler and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Who Sings the Nation-State?: Language, Politics, Belonging (London: Seagull Books, 2007), 58-61
5. Susan Bassnett, Comparative Literature: A Critical Introduction (Oxford: Blackwell, 1993), 11
6. Lawrence Venuti, "1990s and Beyond" in Lawrence Venuti, ed., The Translation Studies Reader, 2nd ed. (New York: Routledge, 2004), 334
7. For Sakai's and Chow's versions of this approach, see Naoki Sakai, Translation and Subjectivity: On 'Japan' and Cultural Nationalism (Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1997)
8. Rey Chow, The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work (Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press, 2006)
9. Matthew Kirschenbaum, Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008), 114
10. Franco Moretti, Atlas of the European Novel, 1800-1900 (London: Verso, 1998), 171-73
11. Isabel Hofmeyr, The Portable Bunyan: A Transnational History of the Pilgrim's Progress (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 2004), 240-43
12. Martin Puchner, Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 2006), 62-65
13. For details of the Potter translation history, see Rebecca L. Walkowitz, "Unimaginable Largeness: Kazuo Ishiguro, Translation, and the New World Literature," Novel 40, no. 3 (2007): 5
14. Tim Parks, Translating Style: A Literary Approach to Translation-A Translation Approach to Literature, 2nd ed. (Manchester: St. Jerome Publishing, 2007), 147
15. I discuss the anthological novel at greater length in "The Location of Literature: the Transnational Book and the Migrant Writer," Contemporary Literature 47, no. 4 (2006): 527-45
16. Andrew van der Vlies, South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read All Over (Manchester: Manchester Univ. Press, 2007), 5. Two of the best recent studies of multilingualism, book history, and the South African context of Coetzee's work are van der Vlies and Rita Barnard, "Coetzee in/and Africaans," unpublished manuscript
17. For examples of many of these new developments within the field of comparative literature, see Haun Saussy, ed., Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2006)
18. Moretti "Conjectures on World Literature," New Left Review 1 (2000): 54-68
19. David Damrosch, What is World Literature? (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 2003)
20. Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, 3rd ed. (London: Verso, 2006)
21. Rosemary Coombe, The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties: Authorship, Appropriation, and the Law (Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press, 1998), 225
22. Coombe's use of this phrase is derived from Richard Handler, 'Who Owns the Past? History, Cultural Property, and the Logic of Possessive Individualism" in Brett Williams, ed., The Politics of Culture (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1991), 63-74
23. Handler, Nationalism and the Politics of Culture in Quebec (Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1988), 39-41
24. Jonathan Culler, "Anderson and the Novel," in Grounds of Comparison: Around the Work of Benedict Anderson, ed. Pheng Cheah and Jonathan Culler (New York: Routledge, 2003), 50
25. See Wai Chee Dimock, Through other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 2006)
26. Jahan Ramazani, A Transnational Poetics (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2009)
27. Brent Hayes Edwards, The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 2003)
28. On the integration of regional articles within national magazines as a disruption of the homogeneous, empty time/space of national consciousness, see James Buzard, Disorienting Fiction: The Autoethnographic Work of Nineteenth-Century British Novels (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 2005), 172-73
29. Wai Chee Dimock, "Literature for the Planet," PMLA 116, no. 1 (2001): 174