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R E C H E R C H E L I T T É R A I R E / V O L U M E 2 4 - S U M M E R 2 0 0 8 / L I T E RECHERCHE LITTÉRAIRE R A R Y LITERARY RESEARCH R E S E A R VOLUME 24 - SUMMER 2008 C H ISSN: 0849-0570 Call for Submissions for the Anna Balakian Prize The Anna Balakian Prize, consisting of US$1000, is awarded to promote schol- arly research by younger comparatists and to honor the memory of Professor Anna Balakian. It will be awarded at the 2010 ICLA Congress in Daegu (Taegu), ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALE DE LITTÉRATURE COMPARÉE South Korea for an outstanding fi rst book in comparative literature studies by a INTERNATIONAL COMPARATIVE LITERATURE ASSOCIATION single author under 40 years of age. Books published from January 2007 through December 2009 will be eligible. PRÉSIDENT / PRESIDENT: Rules for submitting books: Manfred Schmeling (Saarbrücken) 1. Books can be submitted if they are a fi rst book in comparative literature studies Vice-président(e)s / Vice Presidents: by an author under forty years of age at the time of the book’s publication. Chung Chung-Ho (Seoul) Eduardo F. Coutinho (Rio de Janeiro) Dorothy Figueira (Athens, Georgia) Chandra Mohan (Delhi) 2. The books must have a literary-critical approach that deals with such areas as the following through a comparative optic: literary aesthetics or poetics, literature Secrétaires / Secretaries: and the arts, literary movements, historical or biographical infl uences on litera- Marc Maufort (Brussels) Steven P. Sondrup (Provo) ture, cross-fertilization of regional or national literatures, or literary criticism on an international plane. Studies that are primarily ethnic or gender-related or that Trésorier(e)s / Treasurers: are restricted to a single literature are not eligible for the Prize. Electronic publica- KANO Takayo (Tokyo) Ross Shideler (Los Angeles) tions are excluded. Micéala Symington (Nice) 3. Books that are not in English or French, the offi cial languages of the ICLA, Président(e)s honoraires / Honorary Presidents: should be accompanied by a summary in English or French of at least 2000 Eva Kushner (Toronto) Douwe Fokkema (Utrecht) words. Maria-Alzira Seixo (Lisbon) Gerald Gillespie (Palo Alto) 4. The author may propose him- or herself for the Prize, preferably with a recom- Jean Bessière (Paris) KAWAMOTO Koji (Tokyo) mendation by a former dissertation or research supervisor or by a senior com- Dorothy Figueira (Athens, Georgia) paratist. Any member of the ICLA may also propose candidates for the Prize. Bureau / Executive Council: However, it is exclusively the responsibility of the author to provide Professor Steven P. Sondrup, Secretary of the ICLA, with three copies of the book—or one Hans Bertens (Utrecht) Vladimir Biti (Zagreb) copy and two photocopies of it—as well as three copies of the accompanying let- Assumpta Camps (Barcelona) CHO Sung-Won (Seoul) ter and of the recommendation before January 2, 2010. In principle the books will Lieven D’hulst (Leuven) Ibra Diene (Dakar) not be returned; they will be donated to a library or be given another appropriate Mario Domenichelli (Florence) João Ferreira Duarte (Lisbon) destination. The author should also provide a permanent mailing address as well Manfred Engel (Oxford) Angela Esterhammer (Zürich) as an email address to the ICLA Secretary. Professor Sondrup’s mailing address is INAGA Shigemi (Kyoto) LIU Xiangyu (Beijing) Box 26118, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602-6118, USA Stéphane Michaud (Paris) Jean-Marc Moura (Lille) Andries Walter Oliphant (Pretoria) Anders Pettersson (Umeå) 5. The winner will be invited to attend the ICLA Congress in order to receive the Luz Aurora Pimentel (Mexico City) ZHAO Xiaoyi (Beijing) award. Travel costs will be reimbursed by the ICLA Treasurer up to a maximum of US$1000. © L’Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée (AILC), tous droits réservés. All rights reserved by The International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA). Website: http://icla.byu.edu/www/ RECHERCHE LITTÉRAIRE LITERARY RESEARCH VOLUME 24, NUMBERS 47-48 (SUMMER 2008). ISSN: 0849-0570 RÉDACTEUR / EDITOR: John Burt Foster, Jr. Assistants du rédacteur / Editorial Assistants: Anastasia Clare, Sophia M. Foster-Dimino. Traductions françaises / French Translations: Paula R. Gilbert, Jocelyn Van Tuyl. Publié avec le concours de / Published with the support of: George Mason University et la/and the AILC/ICLA. TABLE DES MATIÈRES / TABLE OF CONTENTS Présentation du rédacteur / Editor’s Introduction . 1 FORUM Are You the Puerto Rican Girl Who Wants to Learn Sanskrit? Race, Affi rmative Action, and the Study of the Other. Dorothy Figueira . 5 ÉTATS DE LA PROFESSION / STATES OF THE PROFESSION Anne Tomiche and Karl Zieger, eds. La Recherche en Littérature générale et comparée en France en 2007: Bilan et perspectives. Mary Ann Frese Witt . 27 Haun Saussy, ed. Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization. Hans Bertens . 30 Volker Wehdeking. Generationenwechsel: Intermedialität in der deutschen Gegenwartsliteratur. Nicole Mahne. Transmediale Erzähltheorie: Eine Einführung. Evi Zemanek . 35 TOURS D’HORIZON RÉGIONAUX ET NATIONAUX / REGIONAL AND NATIONAL OVERVIEWS Writing a Collaborative Literary History of East Central Europe. Marcel Cornis-Pope . 41 Three Years of Comparative Studies in Spain, 2003-05. Arturo Casas. 45 OUVRAGES COLLECTIFS / COLLECTIVE WORKS Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer, eds. History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume III: The making and remaking of literary institutions. Ileana Orlich. 51 Jean-Paul Engélibert and Yen-Maï Tran-Gervat, eds. La littérature dépliée: Reprise, répétition, réécriture. Elizabeth Richmond-Garza . 58 Anna Guttman, Michel Hockx, and George Paizis, eds. The Global Literary Field. Nina Berman . 62 Assumpta Camps, Jacqueline Hurtley, and Ana Moya, eds. Traducción, (sub)versión, transcreación. Mitizi Gomes . 64 Assumpta Camps, Montserrat Gallart, Iván García, and Victoriano Peña, eds. Traducción y di-ferencia. Joana Bosak de Figueiredo . 67 Astradur Eysteinsson and Vivian Liska, eds. Modernism. Steven Sondrup . 71 OUVRAGES INDIVIDUELS / INDIVIDUAL WORKS Zhang Longxi. Unexpected Affi nities: Reading across Cultures. Eugene Eoyang . 79 Müge Galin. Between East and West: Sufi sm in the Novels of Doris Lessing. Abdullah Al-Dabbagh . 82 Lingaraja Gandhi. Connecting the Postcolonial: Ngugi and Anand. Annie Gagiano . 85 Mineke Schipper. Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet: Women in Proverbs from Around the World. Elaine Martin . 88 Paul Gravett. Graphic Novels. Everything You Need to Know. World Literature Today 81.2: Special Issue on Graphic Literature. Stefan Buchenberger . 91 Ricardo J. Quinones. Dualisms: The Agons of the Modern Era. Gerald Gillespie . 94 Zacharias I. Siafl ekis. La relation comparative: Interférences et transitions de la modernité littéraire. Styliani Kokkali. 96 Gian Balsamo. Joyce’s Messianism: Dante, Negative Existence, and the Messianic Self. Benjamin Boysen . 101 Marina Grishakova. The Models of Space, Time and Vision in V. Nabokov’s Fiction: Narrative Strategies and Cultural Frames. Brian McHale . 105 COMPTES RENDUS BREFS / BOOK NOTES Line Henriksen. Ambition and Anxiety: Ezra Pound’s Cantos and Derek Walcott’s Omeros as Twentieth-Century Epics. Gerald Gillespie . 109 David Damrosch. How to Read World Literature. Paulo Horta . 111 Dolores Romero López, ed. Naciones literarias. Maarten van Delden . 113 Darko Dolinar and Marko Juvan, eds. Writing Literary History: Selected Perspectives from Central Europe. Aleš Vaupotič . 115 Jean Bessière. Qu’est-il arrivé aux écrivains français? d’Alain Robbe-Grillet à Jonathan Littell. Lisa Van Zwoll . 117 Michael Bell, Keith Cushman, Takeo Iida, and Hiro Tateishi, eds. D. H. Lawrence: Literature, History, Culture. John Burt Foster, Jr. 118 COMPTES RENDUS DES REVUES / REVIEWS OF JOURNALS Comparative Critical Studies 4.1, “Empire and Beyond.” Alok Yadav . 120 Primerjalna književnost [Comparative Literature] 29, “On the Dialogue Between Theory and Literature.” Leonora Flis . 122 CONGRÈS COMPARATISTES / COMPARATIVE LITERATURE CONFERENCES Memory in Neuroscience and the Arts. John Burt Foster, Jr. and Suzanne Nalbantian . 125 Patrick Colm Hogan and Contemporary Comparative Literature. Donald R. Wehrs . 127 NOTICES BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHIQUES SUR LES COLLABORATEURS / BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS. 134 Avis aux collaborateurs prospectifs . 139 Information for Prospective Contributors . 140 Call for Submissions for the Anna Balakian Prize . Inside Back Cover PRÉSENTATION DU RÉDACTEUR EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION This issue of Recherche Littéraire/Literary Re search, when viewed according to the units marked off in the table of contents, opens with a forum article that ad- dresses a topic of current professional concern, the issues of otherness and cultur- al diversity. It then turns to the status of our discipline in fi ve national or regional areas, as set forth in reviews of book-length self-evaluations in the case of France and North America, in a review of typical current research with Germany, and in short essays giving overviews of Eastern Europe and Spain. The bulk of the issue consists of traditional book reviews, with collective works placed fi rst—an in- novation for this journal that responds to the greater importance of collaborative scholarship as our discipline seeks to become more truly global in scope. Reviews of individual works come next and fall into two groups, longer re- views with books that merit such treatment, and shorter book notes for works that can be discussed more briefl y. Readers seeking models should compare Brian McHale’s review (pp. 105-09) with the sample book note I provide (pp. 118- 20). Both deal with single-author works, but McHale puts a book on Vladimir Nabokov in the broader context of narratology, while I emphasize only those parts of a D.H. Lawrence collection that will directly interest comparatists. RL/LR’s fi - nal two sections review special issues of journals from Britain and Slovenia, then cover topics addressed at two conferences in the U.S. Since in future issues both of these sections could easily accommodate a greater number of items, I invite members to propose reviews and reports of each type.