abstract
Achebe, Chinua
ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association)
activism
African Americans
agency
Ahmad, Aijaz
alterity, planetarity and
“Ambiguous Universality” (Balibar)
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
Anderson, Benedict
Anderson, Perry
androgeny
Animal Farm (Orwell)
Anthony, Susan B.
anthropology
anxiety
aporias
areas
Area Studies; boundaries; collaboration; Comparative Literature and; linked with Cultural Studies; origins of
“Area Studies after 9/11” (Volkman)
Aristotle
“Arms and the Arts” (Soyinka)
Asian America
Asia-Pacific
Attic Chorus
Baer, Benjamin Conisbee
Bahti, Timothy
Balibar, Étienne
banality
Bangladesh
Bedouins
Beloved (Morrison)
Bernheimer, Charles
Beton, Mary (character)
binary oppositions
Birmingham model
body
Boineuf of Martinique
Brecht, Berthold
Britain
brotherhood
capital
capitalism
Castro, Fidel
cave, allegory of
Chatterjee, Partha
city/nation
City University of New York
class issues
classroom; text vs.
Coetzee, J. M.
Cold War
collectivities; alternatives to; fragility of; future anteriority; gender and; globalization and; politics and; as undeterminable; women’s conferences as; in Woolf
colonial discourse studies
colonialism; see also postcolonialism
colonizer/colonized binary
Comparative Literature; Area Studies and; boundaries; depoliticization of; English language; globality and; nation-region divide; origins; planetarity and; polarity with Cultural and Ethnic Studies
Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism (Bernheimer)
comparative social studies
Condé, Maryse
Conference Report for the Appropriations Act
Congo
“Contemporary Feminist Scholarship and Middle East Studies” (Kandiyoti)
continentalism
Crews, Frederick
“Crossing Borders” (Volkman)
Cuban
cultural difference
Cultural Studies; English language; linked with Area Studies; metropolitan base; see also Ethnic Studies; metropolitan multiculturalism
culture, assumption of
curvature, law of
cyber-literacy
Dabashi, Hamid
decidability; see also undecidability
decision making
defamiliarization
democracy
Democracy Begins Between Two (Irigaray)
demographic frontiers
depoliticization, of Comparative Literature
Derrida, Jacques
development
Devi, Mahasweta
Dimock, Wai Chee
discipline to come
Disgrace (Coetzee)
Djebar, Assia
Doctors Without Frontiers
dominant mindset
Du Bois, W. E. B.
Earth. See planetarity
education
Elster, Jon
Eltit, Diamela
empires. See imperialism
ethics
ethnicity, literature of
Ethnic Studies; see also Cultural Studies
ethnikos
ethnos
Etiemble, René
European language
exceptionalism
experience
Fanon, Frantz
feminism: comparativist impulse in; generality and; literary; transnational; see also gender issues
fiction
fieldwork
figuration; see also uncanny
Ford Foundation
“The Fourth World” (Eltit)
France
Freud, Sigmund
friendship; future; institutionalized; politics of thinking; women and
“From Russia to Soviet Union to Eurasia” (von Hagen)
frontiers
Frye, Northrop
future anteriority
Gandhi-Irwin pact (1930)
gender issues; transnational feminism; see also feminism
gender training
generalizability
ghost dance metaphor
Gilbert, Sandra
Gilroy, Paul
global encyclopedias
globalization; collectivities and; Comparative Literature and; feminism and; planetarity and; rural and
global South
Greene, Tom
Gubar, Susan
Guillén, Claudio
Guillory, John
health-care groups
Heart of Darkness (Conrad); unheimlich and
Hegel, G. W. F.
Hegemonic Comparative Literature
Heremakhonon (Condé)
Hispanics
human, other of
human capital
humanism
humanities
human rights
hysteron proteron
identity
identity politics
imagination; training of
immigrants
Immigration Act of 1965
imperfect rationality
imperialism; language and
India
Indian National Congress
infantile psyche
information technology
inter-diction
International Civil Society
International Comparative Literature Association
internationalism
Internet
interpreters
interruption
ipseity
Irigaray, Luce
Islam
istoria
Jakobson, Roman
Jameson, Frederic
Johnson, Lyndon
Kandiyoti, Deniz
Klein, Melanie
knowledge
Kritika
language; European; imperialisms; of other
Language and Area Centers
Latin America
leftism
Le Thé Au Harem d’Archi Ahmed (Charef)
Levin, Harry
Levinas, Emmanuel
linguistic attention
Lispector, Clarice
literacy, transnational
literary competence
literary criticism
literary feminism
literary studies
literary training
literature; of ethnicity; subaltern; see also Comparative Literature
logic
“The Madwoman in the Attic” (Gubar and Gilbert)
male bonding
Martí, José
Marx, Karl
meaning: other and
memory
metropolitan multiculturalism
Meyer, Bernard C.
Middlebury College
Miller, J. Hillis
modernity
modes of thought
Moretti, Franco
Morrison, Toni
The Mother of Us All (Stein)
multiculturalism; metropolitan
Nairn, Tom
Nandy, Ashis
National Defense Education Act of 1958
nationalism
nationality
nation-region divide
Nature
“The Negro Mind Reaches Out” (Du Bois)
New Immigrant groups
Nietzsche, Friedrich
nomad image
nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)
ontopology
open-plan fieldwork
orality
Orwell, George
other; as community; language of; meaning and; see also unheimlich
Other Heading (Derrida)
Others (Miller)
paradox
Pease, Donald
people’s alliances
performativity
periphery
permeability
Philcox, Richard
planetarity; alterity and; Comparative Literature and; pluralization and; postcolonialism and; ruralism and; unheimlich and; United States minorities and
Plato
pluralization
poetic function
poiesis
politics; of friendship; of friendship to come; law of curvature and; of sexual difference
Politics of Friendship (Derrida) “The Politics of the Governed” (Chatterjee)
popular culture
possibility
postcolonial criticism
postcolonialism; planetarity and; Soviet breakup and
Postcolonial Studies
Pratt, Mary Louise
praxis
precapitalist formations
preemergent
productivism
psyche
psychoanalysis
Pterodactyl, Puran Sahay and Pirtha (Devi)
pterodactyl figure
rationality, imperfect
reading
redistribution
remedial classes
Report of the Mayor’s Task Force on the City University of New York
representation
response
responsibility
restricted permeability
rhetoric
A Room of One’s Own (Woolf); as essay on women’s collectivities
ruralism
Russian Language
Saatchi brothers
Said, Edward W.
Salih, Tayeb
Sarkar, Sumit
Sawyer, Diane
Schmitt, Carl
Season of Migration to the North (Salih)
“Second Essay: Ethical Criticism” (Frye)
self
self-sameness
sex-gender system
sexual difference; reproductive politics of; traditions and
sexuality
Shakespeare’s sister metaphor
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
six-point Platform of Action (Beijing)
social sciences
The Souls of Black Folk (Du Bois)
Southern Hemisphere
Soviet Union
Soyinka, Wole
spectralization of the rural
Spivak, Gayatri
standards
Staten, Henry
Stein, Gertrude
structure
structure of feeling
subalternity
subaltern cultures
sudaca race
Taliban
teacher training
teleopoiesis
text: classroom vs.; recoding; as unverifiable
textuality
“Third World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism” (Jameson)
thought, modes of
Title (National Defense Education Act)
To the Lighthouse (Woolf)
tradition, sexual difference and
translation; body and; impossibility of; readers of
transnational feminism
transnational literacy
Tronto, Joan
uncanny
“The Uncanny” (Freud)
undecidability; see also decidability
unheimlich
United Nations
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
United States marginalities
vagina image
violence
Volkman, Toby Alice
Von Hagen, Mark
Wahabis
Waiting for the Barbarians (Coetzee)
“Wandering Teachers” (Martí)
weather
West Bengal
Williams, Raymond
woman: as term; as vagina
women
women’s conferences (UN)
Woolf, Virginia; collectivity in
world systems theory
writing
Wu Hung