Wai Chee Dimock
Biographic Data
| ID | 355393 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wai Chee Dimock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wai Chee |
| FAMILY NAME | Dimock |
| SIGNATURE | DIMOCK W C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University [email protected] |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Survival of the Unfit
Is there room for weaklings in Darwin's theory of evolution? The “survival of the fittest”–that muscular phrase taken from Herbert Spencer–would seem to suggest not. A more nuanced and counterintuitive picture emerges, however, when fitness is remapped: as a form of mutuality between the human and the nonhuman, rather than an exclusively human attribute vested in a single individual. I explore that possibility in the contemporary novel, a genre e…
Weak Planet: Literature and Assisted Survival
Shades of the Planet: American Literature As World Literature
Introduction to American Literature in the World
Author(s): Dimock, Wai Chee | Abstract: Wai Chee Dimock, introduction to American Literature in the World: An Anthology from Anne Bradstreet to Octavia Butler, ed. Wai Chee Dimock et al. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017), 1–18
Recycling the Epic: Gilgamesh on Three Continents
Research Article| March 01 2013 Recycling the Epic: Gilgamesh on Three Continents Wai Chee Dimock Wai Chee Dimock Yale University [email protected] Wai Chee Dimock is the William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. She experiments with close readings across different widths of space, and across a range of time-scales. Her book, Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time (2006), received…
Weak Theory: Henry James, Colm Tóibín, and W. B. Yeats
ILow Epic
Internationalizing the Curriculum: Nations, Languages, Religions
Research Article| March 01 2009 Internationalizing the Curriculum: Nations, Languages, Religions Wai Chee Dimock Wai Chee Dimock Yale University [email protected] Wai Chee Dimock is William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. Among her recent publications are Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time (Princeton University Press, 2006), and a collaborative volume, Shades of the Planet: …
Hemispheric Islam: Continents and Centuries for American Literature
Journal Article Hemispheric Islam: Continents and Centuries for American Literature Get access Wai Chee Dimock Wai Chee Dimock [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Literary History, Volume 21, Issue 1, Spring 2009, Pages 28–52, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajn043 Published: 20 August 2008
The Egyptian Pronoun: Lyric, Novel, the Book of the Dead
How many continents can we realistically embrace, what time frames be come necessary, and do these yield a new morphology of genres, along with new longitudes and latitudes? What is the relation between scale and scope in this exercise, between details observable at close range and patterns discernable from afar? In what follows, I propose to go back to the ancient world?to Egypt? to make a case for a literary history with just this broad compass…
World History according to Katrina
wai chee dimock is the William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. She is the author, most recently, of Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time (Princeton University Press, 2006) and coeditor, with Lawrence Buell, of Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature (Princeton University Press, 2007
Aesthetics at the Limits of the Nation: Kant, Pound, and the Saturday Review
Research Article| September 01 2004 Aesthetics at the Limits of the Nation: Kant, Pound, and the Saturday Review Wai Chee Dimock Wai Chee Dimock Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 525–547. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-3-525 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools …
Planetary Time and Global Translation
Research Article| August 01 2003 PLANETARY TIME AND GLOBAL TRANSLATION: "Context" in Literary Studies Wai Chee Dimock Wai Chee Dimock Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2003) 9 (3): 488–507. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-9-3-488 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Wai Chee Dimock; PLANETARY TIME AND GLOBAL TRANSLATION: "Context" in Literary Studies. Common Knowledge…
Nonbiological Clock: Literary History against Newtonian Mechanics
Research Article| January 01 2003 Nonbiological Clock: Literary History against Newtonian Mechanics Wai Chee Dimock Wai Chee Dimock Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2003) 102 (1): 153–177. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-102-1-153 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Wai Chee Dimock; Nonbiological Clock: Literary History against Newto…
Rethinking Space, Rethinking Rights: Literature, Law, and Science
Does the radius of the interdisciplinary extend so far as to encompass literature, law, and science? Do these three fields meet in any meaningful ways, in ways that bear on all three, clarifying the claims, the limits, and the premises of each? In answering yes, this essay argues, not for a necessary, determinate relation between these fields, but for a dynamic continuum evolving through them, tracing a deeprooted genealogy among some of their op…
Non-Newtonian Time: Robert Lowell, Roman History, Vietnam War
Research Article| December 01 2002 Non-Newtonian Time: Robert Lowell, Roman History, Vietnam War Wai Chee Dimock Wai Chee Dimock Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2002) 74 (4): 911–931. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-4-911 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Wai Chee Dimock; Non-Newtonian Time: Robert Lowell, Roman History, Vietnam War.…
Statement: Ethics of Care in Law and Science
Residues of Justice: Literature, Law, Philosophy
Residues of Justice: Literature, Law, Philosophy
Cognition as a Category of Literary Analysis
Cognition is a word that seems suddenly to have found its way into our vocabulary from several directions at once. Especially in the past year, the word has gained a kind of involuntary notoriety because it is used with great frequency and relish by conservative theorists Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray in their much-debated book, The Bell Curve (Free Press, 1994). Herrnstein and Murray argue that America is fast becoming a lopsided nation,…
Residues of Justice: Literature, Law, Philosophy
Weak Theory: Henry James, Colm Tóibín, and W. B. Yeats
ILow Epic
World History according to Katrina
wai chee dimock is the William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. She is the author, most recently, of Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time (Princeton University Press, 2006) and coeditor, with Lawrence Buell, of Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature (Princeton University Press, 2007
Nonbiological Clock: Literary History against Newtonian Mechanics
Research Article| January 01 2003 Nonbiological Clock: Literary History against Newtonian Mechanics Wai Chee Dimock Wai Chee Dimock Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2003) 102 (1): 153–177. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-102-1-153 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Wai Chee Dimock; Nonbiological Clock: Literary History against Newto…
Non-Newtonian Time: Robert Lowell, Roman History, Vietnam War
Research Article| December 01 2002 Non-Newtonian Time: Robert Lowell, Roman History, Vietnam War Wai Chee Dimock Wai Chee Dimock Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2002) 74 (4): 911–931. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-4-911 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Wai Chee Dimock; Non-Newtonian Time: Robert Lowell, Roman History, Vietnam War.…
Cognition as a Category of Literary Analysis
Cognition is a word that seems suddenly to have found its way into our vocabulary from several directions at once. Especially in the past year, the word has gained a kind of involuntary notoriety because it is used with great frequency and relish by conservative theorists Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray in their much-debated book, The Bell Curve (Free Press, 1994). Herrnstein and Murray argue that America is fast becoming a lopsided nation,…
Residues of Justice: Literature, Law, Philosophy
Residues of Justice: Literature, Law, Philosophy
Statement: Ethics of Care in Law and Science
Rethinking Space, Rethinking Rights: Literature, Law, and Science
Does the radius of the interdisciplinary extend so far as to encompass literature, law, and science? Do these three fields meet in any meaningful ways, in ways that bear on all three, clarifying the claims, the limits, and the premises of each? In answering yes, this essay argues, not for a necessary, determinate relation between these fields, but for a dynamic continuum evolving through them, tracing a deeprooted genealogy among some of their op…
Non-Newtonian Time: Robert Lowell, Roman History, Vietnam War
Research Article| December 01 2002 Non-Newtonian Time: Robert Lowell, Roman History, Vietnam War Wai Chee Dimock Wai Chee Dimock Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2002) 74 (4): 911–931. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-4-911 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Wai Chee Dimock; Non-Newtonian Time: Robert Lowell, Roman History, Vietnam War.…
Planetary Time and Global Translation
Research Article| August 01 2003 PLANETARY TIME AND GLOBAL TRANSLATION: "Context" in Literary Studies Wai Chee Dimock Wai Chee Dimock Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2003) 9 (3): 488–507. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-9-3-488 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Wai Chee Dimock; PLANETARY TIME AND GLOBAL TRANSLATION: "Context" in Literary Studies. Common Knowledge…
Nonbiological Clock: Literary History against Newtonian Mechanics
Research Article| January 01 2003 Nonbiological Clock: Literary History against Newtonian Mechanics Wai Chee Dimock Wai Chee Dimock Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2003) 102 (1): 153–177. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-102-1-153 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Wai Chee Dimock; Nonbiological Clock: Literary History against Newto…
Aesthetics at the Limits of the Nation: Kant, Pound, and the Saturday Review
Research Article| September 01 2004 Aesthetics at the Limits of the Nation: Kant, Pound, and the Saturday Review Wai Chee Dimock Wai Chee Dimock Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 525–547. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-3-525 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools …
Hemispheric Islam: Continents and Centuries for American Literature
Journal Article Hemispheric Islam: Continents and Centuries for American Literature Get access Wai Chee Dimock Wai Chee Dimock [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Literary History, Volume 21, Issue 1, Spring 2009, Pages 28–52, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajn043 Published: 20 August 2008
The Egyptian Pronoun: Lyric, Novel, the Book of the Dead
How many continents can we realistically embrace, what time frames be come necessary, and do these yield a new morphology of genres, along with new longitudes and latitudes? What is the relation between scale and scope in this exercise, between details observable at close range and patterns discernable from afar? In what follows, I propose to go back to the ancient world?to Egypt? to make a case for a literary history with just this broad compass…
World History according to Katrina
wai chee dimock is the William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. She is the author, most recently, of Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time (Princeton University Press, 2006) and coeditor, with Lawrence Buell, of Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature (Princeton University Press, 2007
Internationalizing the Curriculum: Nations, Languages, Religions
Research Article| March 01 2009 Internationalizing the Curriculum: Nations, Languages, Religions Wai Chee Dimock Wai Chee Dimock Yale University [email protected] Wai Chee Dimock is William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. Among her recent publications are Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time (Princeton University Press, 2006), and a collaborative volume, Shades of the Planet: …
Recycling the Epic: Gilgamesh on Three Continents
Research Article| March 01 2013 Recycling the Epic: Gilgamesh on Three Continents Wai Chee Dimock Wai Chee Dimock Yale University [email protected] Wai Chee Dimock is the William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. She experiments with close readings across different widths of space, and across a range of time-scales. Her book, Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time (2006), received…
Weak Theory: Henry James, Colm Tóibín, and W. B. Yeats
ILow Epic
Introduction to American Literature in the World
Author(s): Dimock, Wai Chee | Abstract: Wai Chee Dimock, introduction to American Literature in the World: An Anthology from Anne Bradstreet to Octavia Butler, ed. Wai Chee Dimock et al. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017), 1–18
Shades of the Planet: American Literature As World Literature
Weak Planet: Literature and Assisted Survival
The Survival of the Unfit
Is there room for weaklings in Darwin's theory of evolution? The “survival of the fittest”–that muscular phrase taken from Herbert Spencer–would seem to suggest not. A more nuanced and counterintuitive picture emerges, however, when fitness is remapped: as a form of mutuality between the human and the nonhuman, rather than an exclusively human attribute vested in a single individual. I explore that possibility in the contemporary novel, a genre e…
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