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Other Renaissances
A New Approach to
World Literature
Brenda Deen Schildgen
Gang Zhou
Sander L. Gilman
With a Foreword by Giuseppe Mazzotta
OTHERRENAISSANCES
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In the wide ocean upon which we venture, the possible ways
and directions are many; and the same studies which have
served for this work might easily, in other hands, not only
receive a wholly different treatment and application, but
lead also to essentially different conclusions.
Jacob Burckhardt
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
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Contents
Notes on Contributors ix
Foreword xiii
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction 1
Brenda Deen Schildgen, Gang Zhou, and Sander L. Gilman
1 Suppressed Renaissance: Q: When Is a
Renaissance Not a Renaissance? A: When It Is
the Ottoman Renaissance! 17
Walter G. Andrews
2 The People’s Entertainments: Translation,
Popular Fiction, and the Nahdah in Egypt 35
Samah Selim
3 Looking Forward to the Past: Nahda,
Revolution, and the Early Ba‘th in Iraq 59
Orit Bashkin
4 How a Cultural Renaissance Preceded a National
Renaissance: The Revival of Hebrew and the
Rejuvenation of the Jewish People 87
Moshe Pelli
5 The Chinese Renaissance: A Transcultural Reading 113
Gang Zhou
6 Sri Aurobindo: Renaissance in India and the
Italian Renaissance 133
Brenda Deen Schildgen
viii ● Contents
7 Irish Renaissance 151
Kathleen Heininge
8 Globalizing the Harlem Renaissance: Irish,
Mexican, and “Negro” Renaissances in The Survey
and Survey Graphic 173
Robert Johnson
9 The Long Maori Renaissance 207
Mark Williams
10 Two Chicago Renaissances with Harlem
between Them 227
Lisa Woolley
11 The Present Confusion Concerning the Renaissance:
Burckhardtian Legacies in the Cold War
United States 243
Jane O. Newman
Epilogue: When the New is Not New 269
Sander L. Gilman
Bibliography 277
Index 299
Notes on Contributors
Walter G. Andrews taught Turkish and Ottoman literature in the
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization at the
University of Washington from 1968 until his retirement to a research
professorship, which he still holds. He has published several books,
translations, and articles on Ottoman literature and literary theory in
English and Turkish, including Poetry’s Voice Society’s Song (University of
Washington Press, 1985), Ottoman Lyric Poetry: An Anthology (with
Mehmet Kalpakli and Najaat Black, University of Texas Press, 1997,
with an expanded reprint from the University of Washington Press in
2006), and most recently The Age of Beloveds: Love and the Beloved in
Early-Modern Ottoman and European Culture and Society (with Mehmet
Kalpakli, Duke University Press, 2005). He is also co-director of the
Ottoman Texts Archive Project (OTAP), an experimental web-based
resource for the archiving and analysis of Ottoman texts.
Orit Bashkinreceived her PhD from Princeton University (2004). Her dis-
sertation “Intellectuals in Monarchic Iraq ‘1921–1941’” looks at the con-
struction of the Iraqi public sphere and the emergence of democratic
discourses in Iraq during the interwar period. She did her undergraduate
work at Tel Aviv University in Middle Eastern History and Arabic
Literature, where she also wrote an MA thesis “Al-Misbah, A Jewish
Newspaper in Iraq,” which focused on Jewish Iraqi intellectuals and their
conceptualization of the “Arab Jew.” She taught classes on political systems
of the Middle East and Islamic and Middle Eastern history at both
Princeton and Tel Aviv University. At Princeton, she also taught Arabic lan-
guage (elementary and intermediate levels). At the University of Chicago
Professor Bashkin teaches classes on Iraqi history and Arab intellectual
history. Her publications include articles on the history of Arab Jews in
Iraq, on Iraqi history, and on Arabic literature. She has also edited a
book, Sculpturing Culture in Egypt, with Israel Gershoni and Liat Kozma,
