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Table of Contents

Contents

Editor's Column: Pessimistic Times

Zahi Zalloua
pp. 1-5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2019.0000
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Pessimism

What is Critique without Pessimism? Postcritique, Neoliberalism, and the Future of the Humanities

Jeffrey R. Di Leo
pp. 6-25
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2019.0001
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The Concept of Post-Pessimism in 21st Century Dystopian Fiction

Annika Gonnermann
pp. 26-40
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2019.0002
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The Epistemology of Pessimism

R. Radhakrishnan
pp. 41-67
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2019.0003
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Notes Toward (Inhabiting) the Black Messianic in Afro-Pessimism's Apocalyptic Thought

Andrew Santana Kaplan
pp. 68-89
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2019.0004
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Affirmation in the Dark: Racial Slavery and Philosophical Pessimism

Jared Sexton
pp. 90-111
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2019.0005
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Asia-Pessimism: Modeling a Revolution in Failure

John Streamas
pp. 112-124
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2019.0006
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An Anarchist Power Amidst Pessimism: The Overcoming of Optimism in José Saramago's Blindness and Seeing

James Martel
pp. 125-146
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2019.0007
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Pessimistic Chinese Cosmopolitanism and Jia Zhangke's The World

Sijia Yao
pp. 147-158
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2019.0008
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The Pointless Ecology of Renaissance Cynicism

Pauline Goul
pp. 159-172
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2019.0009
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General Articles

Creolizing the Canon: Manuel Puig, Junot Díaz, and the Latino Poetics of Relation

Charles H. Geyer
pp. 173-193
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2019.0010
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Judas, My Brother: Nikos Kazantzakis' The Last Temptation of Christ with Slavoj Žižek

Virginia Nickles Osborne
pp. 194-208
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2019.0011
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Pataphysical Assemblages: Fascist Spectacle in Paul Grimault's Le roi et l'oiseau

Thomas L. Cooksey
pp. 209-227
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2019.0012
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An Autobiography of Her Own—Matalon's The Sound of Our Steps

Tammy Frade Galon, Adia Mendelson Maoz
pp. 228-251
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2019.0013
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The Dissolution of Walls: Trauma, Healing, and the Sufi Way in Lessing's The Memoirs of a Survivor

Lidan Lin
pp. 252-260
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2019.0014
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Towards a Fanonian Poetics: Cultural Decolonization as Translation

Richard L. W. Clarke
pp. 261-312
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2019.0015
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The "Annabel Lee" Blues: Re-Reading Edgar Allan Poe's Rhythm and Rhyme Scheme

Jacky W. Dumas
pp. 313-323
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2019.0016
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Latinxs in the Attic: (Erasing Latinx Presence and the) Policing (of) Racial Borders in Faulkner's Light in August

Paul M. Worley, Melissa Birkhofer
pp. 324-340
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2019.0017
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Reading as Resistance: Practicing Literacy and Interconnection in Nadeem Aslam's The Golden Legend

Beth Miller
pp. 341-355
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2019.0018
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Reviews

Publisher for the Masses, Emanuel Haldeman-Julius by R. Alton Lee (review)

Jeffrey R. Di Leo
pp. 356-364
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2019.0019
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Kreativität und Hermeneutik in der Translation by Larisa Cercel, Marco Agnetta, and María Teresa Amido Lozano (review)

Mohammad Ali Kharmandar
pp. 365-369
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2019.0020
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The End of American Literature: Essays from the Late Age of Print by Jeffrey R. Di Leo (review)

H. Aram Veeser
pp. 369-372
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2019.0021
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Outsider Theory: Intellectual Histories of Unorthodox Ideas by Jonathan P. Eburne (review)

Robert T. Tally Jr.
pp. 372-375
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2019.0022
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Monsters in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching What Scares Us ed. by Adam Golub and Heather Richardson Hayton (review)

Lydia McDermott
pp. 375-380
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2019.0023
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Worlds of Hungarian Writing; National Literature as Intercultural Exchange by András Kiséry, Zsolt Komáromy, and Zsuzsanna Varga (review)

Enikő Molnár Basa
pp. 380-382
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2019.0024
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Samuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature by Christopher Langlois (review)

Andre Furlani
pp. 382-385
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2019.0025
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Lacan and Fantasy Literature: Portents of Modernity in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Fiction by Josephine Sharoni (review)

Helena Gurfinkel
pp. 385-388
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2019.0026
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Metamodernism. Historicity, Affect, and Depth After Postmodernism ed. by Robin van den Akker, Alison Gibbons, and Timotheus Vermeulen (review)

Alex Ciorogar
pp. 388-394
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2019.0027
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Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation by Calvin L. Warren (review)

Patrice D. Douglass
pp. 394-396
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2019.0028
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Romanian Literature as World Literature ed. by Mircea Martin, Christian Moraru, and Andrei Terian (review)

Dragoş Ivana
pp. 396-398
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2019.0029
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American Literature as World Literature ed. by Jeffrey R. Di Leo (review)

Herman Rapaport
pp. 398-401
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2019.0030
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Mythologies postcoloniales. Pour une décolonisation du quotidien ed. by Étienne Achille and Lydie Moudileno (review)

Nicole Simek
pp. 401-405
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2019.0031
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