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Browsing Comparative literature by Subject "Asian literature"
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Borderless Fandom and Contemporary Popular Cultural Scene in Chinese Cyberspace
This dissertation introduces the current Chinese internet fan culture, a subculture basing on consumption and rewriting media and literary texts of various national origins. In seven topics and case studies, I discuss the ... -
Fragmenting History: Prostitutes, Hostesses, and Actresses at the Edge of Empire
By exploring various figures of gendered and sexualized female workers, such as street prostitutes, hostesses, comfort women, teachers, idols, and actresses, this dissertation reveals that women's bodies were highly contested ... -
Pacific Crossings: Travel, Writing, and Literary Transition in the Sino-American Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Animated by the goal of drawing substantial comparisons between the transitions to literary modernity in China and the United States, Pacific Crossings explores the beginnings of Sino-American transpacific travel in the ... -
Tao Yuanming and William Wordsworth: A Parallel Study
The dissertation conducts a parallel study of a prominent Chinese poet from the early medieval period named Tao Yuanming and William Wordsworth, one of the founding figures of British Romanticism, with the aim to suggest ... -
"This Humble Work": Puerto Rican and Philippine Literature between Spanish and United States Empires
“‘This Humble Work’: Puerto Rican and Philippine Literature between Spanish and United States Empires” interrogates the concept of value that underpins contemporary theories of world literature, arguing that this field of ...