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... contemporary poetry, Diedrich offers, in Indirect Action , a guide to problematize contemporary narratives of medicine. Diedrich uses the trope of indirection to get at the ways in which illness cannot be wholly understood “through discrete disciplines and categories” (3). For her, indirection is also...

..., present, and future this is the synchronism of archipelagic time. Taken together, spiral and synchronous time work to refuse the ability of the past to be passed. False Starts in Archipelagic Time Colonial linear time relies on discrete beginnings of course, all linear time must. However, the beginning...

... of their basic cultural techniques, they extrapolate futures from “discriminatory abstractions”—discrete, unchanging categories that in some cases take the essentialist form of naturally occurring “races.” 4 Both eugenics and data analytics “sought to make the future repeat a highly selective...

... that does not originate in the individual, but rather passes through it as a tumultuous state of uncoded feeling. 6 Equipped with these two discrete terms, critics are currently reconsidering how feeling functions in fiction, with particular interest being paid to those late modernist and postmodernist...

... chapters—on the writings of Sui Sin Far, Onoto Watanna, and Mary Austin—offer discrete analyses of each author’s work. Lape ar- gues that these women perpetuated but also challenged stereotypes of Chi- nese...

... chapter of Henry Book Reviews 189 James and the Suspense of Masculinity functions as a discrete study of the problem of manhood in one of the novels. Particularly satisfying is a chapter on The Bostonians, which historicizes Basil Ransom within...

... a historical configuration not circumscribed by a discrete slice of historical time. Locating in Cooper’s novel an inchoate discourse of privacy rights, the contours of which continue to define present-day philosophical and legal under- standings of the relations between privacy and personhood, my read...

... Jr.’s seminal book The Signifying Monkey (1988), the theory of Signifying is derived from a discrete black tradition that dates back to the divine trickster figure of Yoruba mythology in Africa, which transmuted itself into its African American descendant, the Signifying Monkey. In common parlance...

... studied by Vincent, was a more discretely contained enterprise undertaken by nation-state actors, Ganguly shows the emergence of narratives of geopolitical conflict in which subnationalism, terrorism, liberation movements, and cyberwarfare shape the way global actors clash. In turn, the new global novel...

..., method for this breakdown of figures into discrete parts, such that ‘‘a drawing of an en- tire character could be cut apart and traced onto different cels Oddly anticipated, perhaps, by the activation of isolated body parts tear- ful eye ‘‘heaving breast in Garrison’s account of the reader ‘‘ani...

... not as “discrete representation in general” but as “the cultural logic of contemporary capitalism” (3). What is crucial in this analysis is that racial differentiation and hierarchy organized by operations of “abstraction, abjection, and differential integration” are never treated as effects of digitality...

... of the gossip” about the General, not the content, generates his mystery and celebrity (55). The many opinions about him, much like his discretely dismembered body, create unity out of multiplicity. Margolis forebodingly acknowledges that opinion echo chambers can dangerously polarize citizens, but, she asserts...

...” of commonality— the notion of commonality as the drawing together of discrete objects— Common Things provocatively glosses familiar topics, such as, for example, the relationship between feeling and reason in constructing Enlightenment subjectivity in Henry Mackenzie and Thomas Jefferson, and the co...