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Papers

(The median citation count of Comparative Literature is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Inter-imperiality: Vying Empires, Gendered Labor, and the Literary Arts of Alliance	7
“Une origine oubliée”: Global Modernity and East-West Debates over Classical Heritage	4
The Poetics of Protest, from Africa to Minneapolis	4
Nancy Cunard and the 1930s Coalitional Anthology	2
The Chicano Moratorium and—the French New Wave? Asco, Agnès Varda, y Después	2
Mourning in Translation: An Elegy’s Six-Hundred-Year Journey Across Languages	2
Cannibalizing Language, Translation, and Opacity in Writings by Rosario Ferré: The Multilingual Author and English	2
Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony	1
Black Mythologies: René Ménil, Negritude, and the Critique of Anticolonial Primitivism	1
Pleasure’s Swerve: Philology among Lucretius, Derrida, and Deleuze	1
Sex and Death; or, The Problem of Thinking Comparatively	1
Epic Futurity: The Phaeacians, Carthage, and the Tradition	1
To Face Language; or, Reading Multilingualism and the Infrastructures of Loss	1
Aesthetics and Anthropology in the Early Years of Comparative Literature: The Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum	1
Subterranean Asias: Cold War Extraction in Indian and Russian Science Fiction	1
Is Rewilding Twenty-First-Century Primitivism?	1
Creole Indias, Creolizing Pondicherry: Ari Gautier’sLe thinnaias the Archipelago of Fragments	1
Remembering Edward Said: Introduction to the Forum on Freud and the Non-European	1
Concretism’s Dissonant Objects	1
“A Tragedy of Origins”: Jean Métellus’s Anacaona	1
Intimate Foreign Relations	1
“Je est un autre”: Beckett’sNot I, Rimbaud, and Synesthesia	1
The Mythic Sea in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Poetry	1
Hope for a New Order: Postwar PEN and the Reconstruction of the Global Republic of Letters	1
Divisive Affect, Loyalty, and National Cohesion: Du Bois contra Wagner	1

The Multisensorial Ramayana and Its Migrant Afterlife in the Making of German Romanticism and Narendra Modi’s India	1
The Trans-Indigenous Lens: A Re-recognition	1
Analysis in Exile	1
An Archipelagic Node in Global Migration? The Stakes of Comparison and Irony in Nathacha Appanah’s Tropique de la violence	1
Transported Memories: How “I Remember” Poetry Became an International Form	1
Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815–1848	0
The Politics of Plagiarism	0
Latinx Cosmopolitanism in the Global South: Víctor Hernández Cruz and the Nostalgia of Egypt	0
Introduction	0
Translation and Polylanguaging: Sexuality and Novels from James Baldwin to Mohamed Mbougar Sarr	0
Pushkin’s Photographs; or, Photography as an Aesthetic Principle in Andrei Bitov	0
Afterword: Primitivism under Erasure	0
Said and the Non-Freudian	0
Surrealism’s “Primitive Reason”: Magic, Technique, Alteration	0
Geological Alephs: The Latin American Novel in the Anthropocene	0
The World’s Literatures	0
Hebrew Gothic: History and the Poetics of Persecution	0
Two Aspects of Language, Two Types of Comparison	0
Constraint against Constraint: Hunger Strikes and the Score	0
Retroactive Continuity: How (Not) to View a Scroll Painting in the Twenty-First Century	0
Translating Line Breaks: A View from Persian Poetics	0
Can We Still Say “We”? Manuel Puig and the Question of Readership in the Global Age	0
Joseph Conrad, East-Central Europe, and the Politics of Language; or, Poland by Paratext	0
Freud and the Non-European	0
Inflecting the French	0
Discursive Migrations: Romantic Aesthetics and Imperial History in the Black Hole of Calcutta	0
The Time-Traveling Translator; or, World Literature Turns to Time	0
Sensing Migrant Romanticism: Introduction	0
Fugitive Archives: Translation, Sea, and History in Indian Ocean Fiction	0
“English like Hindi”: Chetan Bhagat, Popular Fiction, and India’s Voice	0
The Architectonics of Hope: Fragments of Life and Text in Walter Benjamin and Hart Crane	0
“translation and the continuum of decomposition”: Daniel Borzutzky’s Translation-Based Hemispheric Poetics	0
Thalassological Worldmaking and Literary Circularities in the Indian Ocean	0
Northeast Indian or Assamese	0
Under the Sign of Ariel: Disputed Territories, Rising Tides, and Literary Mauritius	0
“Que de fame ait cors, ame et vie”: Authorial Manipulation and the Matter of Pygmalion in the Roman de la Rose and Ovid’s Metamorphoses	0
Celestial Democracy: From Geocentric Ecology to Planetary Philosophy	0
An Intimate “Range of Elsewhere”: Sensuous Imaginaries of the Indian Ocean in Precolonial Swahili Poetry	0
Our Civilizing Mission: The Lessons of Colonial Education	0
Historicist Cosmopolitanism from Scandinavia’s First Novel	0
“Enter Ghost of Goethe”: Comparison and Indigenous Literary Studies in the Pacific	0
The Arabic Prose Poem: Theory and Practice	0
Said and the Non-European	0
Primitivism Now, Primitivism Again: Introduction	0
The Transnational Itinerary of the Sympathetic Reader	0
Forms of Disappointment: Cuban and Angolan Narrative after the Cold War	0
Decolonizing US Comparative Literature: The 2022 ACLA Presidential Address	0
Jacobin Prayers and Byronic Blows: The Black Romanticism of Henry Highland Garnet’s Orations	0
Three Translations from the Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum: “Preliminary Tasks of Comparative Literature, Part III: Decaglotism”; “Laws of Comparative Literary Research”; and “Goethe	0
Asia Rising Is an Imperial Fiction: A View from the Indian Ocean	0

Poetry and the Production of Solidarity: Nazım Hikmet in Beijing, “Asiafrica,” and World Literature	0
Ethnoracial Utopianism and Speculative Aesthetics after the End of History	0
Darwish in Hebrew: On the Legitimacy of Intertextuality Between Palestinians and Israelis	0
Romanticism beyond the Grave: The Exhumation of Jorge Isaacs’s Body and the Political Modernization of the Romantic Hero in Early Twentieth-Century Colombia	0
Empathy in Post-Oslo Palestinian Literature: Reading between Identification and Recognition in Ala Hlehel’s Au Revoir Acre and Ibtisam Azem’s The Book of Disappearance	0
Migrant Sense and Migrant Sensibility	0
Bombay Hustle: Making Movies in a Colonial CityRelaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran: Material Cultures in TransitJaponisme and the Birth of Cinema	0
Salīm Barakāt’s Weird Ecology	0
Living Arrangements: Mise-en-scène and the Nouveau Roman in the Fiction of Ann Quin	0
Reasoning the Need: Reasons, Ethics, and Character in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure	0
Tutuola in the Bush of Primitivism	0
The African Novel of Ideas: Philosophy and Individualism in the Age of Global Writing	0
The Border Underground: Indigenous Cosmovisions in the Migration Narratives of Leslie Marmon Silko and Yuri Herrera	0
On the Dissemination of Carolingian Literature and Drama in the Former Portuguese Empire: A Comparative Analysis of African, Asian, and Latin American Variants of the Matter of France	0
Geoengineering, Empire, and the Politics of Climate Fiction: The Gulf Stream Novel, 1890–1925	0
Suspicious Gifts and Speculative Translations: Colonial and Semicolonial Encounters between English and Persian	0
Transcending Transcendental Homelessness: Exile and the Idea of the Primitive in Brazil	0
When the Nonhuman Speaks in Nineteenth-Century Canton	0
Mimesis and Mythos in Aristotelian Arabic Poetics	0
Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas	0
Nothing to Say but the Unsayable: How Locke’s Linguistic Functionalism Turned into Leopardi’s Analogical Language	0
The Spatiality of Poverty in Modern Chinese Realism	0
“Limitless Black Resonance”: The Grotesque Sonority of Dambudzo Marechera and Sony Labou Tansi	0
Textimony: The Grammar of Atrocity	0
Plausible Intimacies	0
Paul de Man’s Flemish	0
A Loose Yet Effective Link: Some Creative Aspects of Comparative Literature	0
Object Orientations and Circulatory Form in Abdulrazak Gurnah’sBy the Sea	0
Primitive Passions: Indigeneity, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Sinophone Literature	0
Hearing Celtic Minstrelsy in Persian: Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, Kasiprasad Ghosh, and Audiation in Anglo-Indian Persianate Poetry	0
Civilizational Myth and Class Politics	0
World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics	0
The Hikayat Abdullah, the Missionary Press, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century “World Literature”	0
The Wound as Opening for the Unheard-Of	0
The Literary; or, Learning to Move into Another’s Space: A Conversation with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak	0
Knowing and Not Knowing	0
That Anti-racist Feeling	0
Lolita in Humbert Humbert’s Camera Obscura and Lolita in Vladimir Nabokov’s Camera Lucida	0
On Translation and Being Just: The Arabic Novel and the British Archive	0
Indian Ocean Narratives, Tidalectics, and Perth’s Centre for Stories	0
“We Are All Endangered Species”: Jerome Rothenberg’s Jewish Primitivism	0
“Mine from ’33; Yours from ’41”	0