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Renseignez-vous auprès de / address inquiries to: Marc Maufort, Rédacteur / Editor, RL / LR Email: mmaufort@ulb.ac.be ISSN: 0849–0570 Table des matières / Table of Contents E ditorial Comparative Poetics: A Path towards Renewal? ................................ 17 É ditorial La poétique comparatiste : un chemin vers le renouveau ? ................ 23 articlEs dE rEchErchE / a rticlEs Post-ID: Five Lessons in Post-Identity Politics from the Postcolony ........................................................................................ 29 Chantal Zabus Kunene and the Swan: Two Approaches to Biography, History and Shakespeare in South African Theatre ........................................ 65 Chris Thurman Boom and Bust: The Global Novel of Ireland (2007) and India (2008) .............................................................................. 97 Janet M. Wilson Joseph de Guignes et John Barrow face à la Chine impériale, ou les illusions des hommes du lointain (1793–1812) ...................... 119 Jacques Marx 10 Table des matières / Table of Contents Essais critiquEs / r EviEw Essays Comparative Gender Studies: Where We Are Now ......................... 151 Liedeke Plate From Climate Crises to Crises of Language: Redefining Magical Realism in the Anthropocene. Ben Holgate. Climate and Crises: Magical Realism as Environmental Discourse. New York: Routledge, 2019. Pp. 236. ISBN: 9781138553484. ................................................................. 179 Eugene L. Arva comptEs rEndus / Book rEviEws Ulrika Maude and Mark Nixon, eds. The Bloomsbury Companion to Modernist Literature . London: Bloomsbury, 2018. Pp. 545. ISBN: 9781780936413. ......................................... 191 David O’Donnell Eugene Eoyang. East-West Symbioses: The Reconciliation of Opposites. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2019. Pp. 224. ISBN: 9781527525016. ................................................... 199 Gang Zhou Bernard Dieterle and Manfred Engel, eds. Historizing the Dream / Le Rêve du point de vue historique. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2019. Pp. 463. ISBN: 9783826067389. ................................................................. 205 Caius Dobrescu Gerald Gillespie. Living Streams: Continuity and Change from Rabelais to Joyce. Bruxelles: Peter Lang, 2018. Pp. 207. ISBN: 9782807610217. ................................................................. 211 Lucia Boldrini Jón Karl Helgason and Marijan Dović, eds. Great Immortality. Studies on European Cultural Sainthood. Table des matières / Table of Contents 11 Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2019. Pp. 353 + xxv. ISBN: 9789004364295. ................................................................. 219 Sándor Hites Wieslaw Krajka, ed. Some Intertextual Chords of Joseph Conrad’s Literary Art . Lublin: Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Press / New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. Pp. 272. ISBN: 9788322791868. ......................................... 227 Dong Yang Frédéric Regard et Anne Tomiche, dir. Genre et Signature . Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2018. Pp. 309. ISBN : 9782406074755. ................................................................ 233 Haun Saussy Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu and Takayuki Yokota-Murakami, eds. Policing Literary Theory . Leiden: Brill / Rodopi, 2018. Pp. 218. ISBN: 9789004358508. ......................................... 237 Christophe Den Tandt Lorna Fitzsimmons and Charles McKnight, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Faust in Music . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. 648. ISBN: 9780199935185. ............................... 243 Anne Williams Kitty Millet and Dorothy Figueira, eds. Fault Lines of Modernity: The Fractures and Repairs of Religion, Ethics, and Literature. New York: Bloomsbury, 2019. Pp. viii + 258. ISBN: 9781501316654. .......................................... 249 Jenny Webb Harri Veivo, Petra James and Dorota Walczak-Delanois, eds. Beat Literature in a Divided Europe. Leiden: Brill / Rodopi, 2019. Pp. 320. ISBN: 9789004364110. ......................................... 257 Oliver Harris Claude De Grève. La Réception de Gogol en France (1838–2009). Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2018. Pp. 628. ISBN : 9782406061946. ................................................................ 263 Catherine Depretto 12 Table des matières / Table of Contents Nicholas Birns and Juan E. De Castro, eds. Roberto Bolaño as World Literature . London: Bloomsbury, 2017. Pp. 229. ISBN: 9781501343698. ................................................................. 269 Karen-Margrethe Simonsen Dan Ringgaard and Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, eds. Danish Literature as World Literature. New York: Bloomsbury, 2017. Pp. 286. ISBN: 9781501344695. ......................................... 275 Julie K. Allen Eduardo F. Coutinho, ed. Brazilian Literature as World Literature. London: Bloomsbury, 2018. Pp. 357. ISBN: 9781501323263. ................................................................. 281 Helena Carvalhão Buescu Jüri Talvet. Critical Essays on World Literature, Comparative Literature and the “Other.” Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2019. ISBN: 9781527538689. ........................................ 285 Jean Bessière Nicholas Meihuizen. Yeats, Otherness and the Orient. Aesthetic and Spiritual Bearings. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019. Pp. x + 352. ISBN: 9781787078062. ................................... 293 Gerald Gillespie Cyril Vettorato. Poésie moderne et oralité dans les Amériques noires. « Diaspora de voix » Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2017. Pp. 744. ISBN: 9782406065197. ......................................... 297 Chloé Chaudet Jean-Claude Laborie, Jean-Marc Moura et Sylvie Parizet, dir. Vers une histoire littéraire transatlantique . Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2018. Pp. 344. ISBN: 9782406077459. ........................... 303 Kathleen Gyssels Yves Clavaron. Francophonie, postcolonialisme et mondialisation . Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2018. Pp. 258. ISBN: 9782406069751. ................................................... 307 Nikki Fogle Table des matières / Table of Contents 13 Elleke Boehmer. Postcolonial Poetics. 21st-century Critical Readings . Cham: Springer / Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Pp. 220. ISBN: 9783319903408. ................................................... 313 Theo D’haen Danielle Perrot-Corpet et Anne Tomiche, dir. Storytelling et contre-narration en littérature au prisme du genre et du fait colonial (XXe-XXIe s). Bruxelles : Peter Lang, 2018. Pp. 217. ISBN: 9782807608924. ................................................................. 321 Yves Clavaron Charlotte Baker and Hannah Grayson, eds. Fictions of African Dictatorship. Cultural Representations of Postcolonial Power . Oxford: Peter Lang, 2018. Pp. vii + 262. ISBN: 9781787076815. ........................................... 327 Brahim El Guabli Wiebke Sievers and Sandra Vlasta, eds. Immigrant and Ethnic- Minority Writers since 1945: Fourteen National Contexts in Europe and Beyond. Leiden: Brill / Rodopi, 2018. Pp. 542. ISBN: 9789004363236. ................................................................. 333 Jopi Nyman Aleksandar Stević and Philip Tsang, eds. The Limits of Cosmopolitanism. Globalization and its Discontents in Contemporary Literature. London: Routledge, 2019. Pp. 198. ISBN: 9781138502048. ................................................... 341 S Satish Kumar Iva Polak. Futuristic Worlds in Australian Aboriginal Fiction. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2017. Pp. xx + 274. ISBN: 9781787072008. Lynda Ng, ed. Indigenous Transnationalism: Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria. Artarmon: Giramondo, 2018. Pp. 248. ISBN: 9781925336429. ................................................................. 347 Jessica Maufort Lisa Warrington and David O’Donnell. Floating Islanders. Pasifika Theatre in Aotearoa . Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2017. Pp. 288. ISBN: 9781988531076. ............................... 355 Vanessa Byrnes 14 Table des matières / Table of Contents Robert T. Tally, Jr. Topophrenia. Place, Narrative, and the Spatial Imagination. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. Pp. 193. ISBN: 9780253037664. ............................... 363 Judith Rauscher David Farrier. Anthropocene Poetics: Deep Time, Sacrifice Zones, and Extinction . Minneapolis & London: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. Pp. 184. ISBN: 9781517906269. ................................................................. 371 Dong Yang Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey. Allegories of the Anthropocene Durham: Duke University Press, 2019. Pp. 280. ISBN: 9781478004711. ................................................................. 377 Michelle Keown Notes biographiques / Notes on Contributors ............................. 383 Brève présentation de l’AILC ....................................................... 391 ICLA Mission Statement .............................................................. 393 Comités de recherche de l’AILC / ICLA Research Committees .. 395 AILC / ICLA ................................................................................. 399 E ditorial Comparative Poetics: A Path towards Renewal? It is a small miracle that the 2020 issue of Literary Research could be compiled at all in the stressful days of the COVID-19 global pandemic. At the outset, then, I wish to sincerely thank all our authors for their strong determination. This allowed us to assemble a volume of contributions spanning a vast range of geographical, historical and disciplinary areas related to the field of comparative poetics. The first section of this issue comprises four scholarly essays emphasizing the nuances of cultural diversity in our contemporary world. In her essay, “POST-ID: Five Lessons in Post-Identity Politics from the Postcolony,” Chantal Zabus astutely examines the multiple reconfigurations of identities in the (post)colonial world, as they undermine the assumed superiority of the English language. Drawing from diverse African, Asian and middle-eastern material, Zabus convincingly dissects what she calls the cultural “striated allegiances” of diasporic identities (49). She subsequently extends her linguistic argument to include non-binary conceptions of sexual and gender identities. The Calibanistic rejection of the father / Prospero language Zabus alludes to at the beginning of her essay is echoed in Chris Thurman’s article about the problematic reception of the Bard’s works in contemporary South Africa. In his essay, “Kunene and the Swan: Two Approaches to Biography, History and Shakespeare in South African Theatre,” Thurman contrasts John Kani’s Kunene and the King , a play strongly indebted to King Lear , to Swan Song , a solo-performance piece by a young female South African playwright, Buhle Ngaba. The latter contains references to Julius Caesar and, through the figure of Ophelia, Hamlet . While Kani’s work, performed both in England and South Africa, offers a rigid view of South Africa as predicated on a neatly defined black / white divide, Swan Song foregrounds a more subtle depiction of fluid female identities in post-apartheid South Africa. In “Boom and Bust: The Global Novel of Ireland (2007) and India (2008),” Janet Wilson examines two novels from countries that are rarely compared: she provides insightful close-reading analyses of The Gathering (2007) by Irish writer Anne Enright and of The White Tiger (2008) by 18 Comparative Poetics: A Path towards Renewal? Indian novelist Aravind Adiga, two works that won the Booker Prize. As she puts it in her conclusion, these two novels invite us to reconsider the “transnational global imaginary” (113), as “the displacement of crucial images of nationhood associated with the pre-neoliberal economy and postcolonial nation in these novels reflects their particular moment in time” (113). In his essay « Joseph de Guignes et John Barrow face à la Chine impériale, ou les illusions des hommes du lointain (1793–1812) », Jacques Marx explores the differences that typified British and French cultural relations with China at the turn of the eighteenth century, through the lens of travel guides and the literary reactions they triggered. The second section of the journal contains two review essays, exploring markedly different topics. In her capacity as the Chair of the ICLA research committee on comparative gender studies, Liedeke Plate surveys the recent trends of this vast field in her review essay entitled “Comparative Gender Studies: Where We Are Now.” As she points out, gender is now increasingly considered intersectionally, i.e. “as always intersecting with other social categories” (150). In this, she recalls Chantal Zabus’s discussion of gender outside the traditional male / female binary template. In her erudite essay, Plate considers advances in gynocritical scholarship and masculinist studies. She also deals with the necessity of queering translation to reflect nuances of gender in different cultures, as well as transgender issues. In “From Climate Crises to Crises of Language: Redefining Magical Realism in the Anthropocene,” Eugene Arva discusses Ben Holgate’s recent publication on ecocriticism and the magic realist aesthetic. Holgate elucidates the ways in which magical realism, as a mode of writing, can powerfully express the magnitude of environmental crises. In doing so, Holgate extends the postcolonial corpus generally associated with magical realism to include Chinese material. As Arva concludes: “...precolonial cultures have something to teach industrial and post-industrial societies: that refusing to acknowledge the agency of the non-human and the environment, as well as their interdependence, will come at the West’s own peril” (185). The third section, assembling some thirty book reviews, spans a similarly wide geographical and temporal terrain. David O’Donnell’s review of The Bloomsbury Companion to Modernist Literature opens this section by focusing on a literary movement generally associated with the early decades of the twentieth century. However, as the editors of this companion indicate, modernist elements survive in today’s age. The section ends at the dawn of our new century with Michelle Keown’s