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Abstract: This paper investigates the forms of dialectical thinking embedded within the syllogism through the writings of the late imperial Chinese anarchist and philologist Zhang Taiyan. It seeks to understand the relationship between how Zhang conceives of logical practices and its relationship to the government of self and others. I end with a brief consideration of Zhang’s philosophy in relation to Foucault and contemporary analytic philosophy.
Abstract: This chapter identifies and theorizes a novelistic strategy for comparison that I term transplantation in Banjo by Claude McKay and Ulysses by James Joyce. I argue that transplantation is the creation and placement of an anomalous character—an Irish peasant in Black Marseille, and a Zulu chief in Dublin—as a narrative resource to broaden discursive horizons and challenge the insularity of “national literatures” that were solidifying for Black and Irish writers in the interwar period.
