... In this chapter Jankélévitch introduces Bergson’s concept of duration. He also insists on the need to read Bergson’s oeuvre as a total and undivided whole that recreates itself in each new book. ...

... and the spiritual from Pakistani and South Asian perspectives. Following Saeed's artistic trajectory, aesthetics, and oeuvre, the chapter proposes to expand the ways in which we theoretically understand and read queer frameworks within contemporary art and so doing, trouble the existing dominant discourse and field...

... This essay looks to J. M. Coetzee’s oeuvre and especially his recent The Childhood of Jesus to examine key features of critique as a method of textual analysis. In so doing, the essay considers how critique-based theory has also shaped recent developments in the novel as a form. Coetzee...

... Through a close reading of the film Testament (1988), about a woman who makes a journey of return to Ghana after years of political exile, this chapter investigates montage strategies that are distinctive to the poetic handling of archival materials in the Black Audio Film Collective oeuvre...

... Adam Sitze’s introduction reviews Anglophone scholarship on Carl Schmitt and clarifies Carlo Galli’s contribution to that scholarship: Galli performs an “immanent critique” of Schmitt’s oeuvre that is until now lacking in English. Sitze then shows how Galli’s systematic reconstruction...

... In this chapter, Alfrey explores the central role that the aesthetic category of the sublime has played throughout Slavoj Žižek’s oeuvre—a role about which literary critics have had surprisingly little to say. As Alfrey explains, contrary to the more traditional romantic sublime of Burke...

..., especially Harry from the model film The Trouble with Harry, return in several corpse-related situations across the oeuvre. Certain props take on added significance in the doubling game, especially the mirror signaling character layers beyond the visible. The chapter analyzes the many doubling mechanisms...

... This monographic study examines the oeuvre of Nigerian-British photographer Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1956–89) in light of his posthumous Communion series. Where the artist’s choice of the black male nude as his primary subject was narrowly interpreted in terms of identity, close reading of Fani...

... uses kinship language during the lesson, and the classroom is her basement studio. The under(-)ground and/or basements are vital to Ellison's oeuvre as he often plots fascinating yet isolated narrativations of a “mother,” utilizing vernacular, sharing said location with her “son.” Juxtaposing his...

... process and his thoughtful juxtaposition of images based on the syntax of jazz improvisation. His way of visually unifying fragments of the Black American experience informs the book’s goal of amalgamating the multidisciplinary oeuvres of Renée Stout, Radcliffe Bailey, and María Magdalena Campos-Pons...

... prerevolutionary Chinese melodramas to art-house darlings. Wong’s recycling of the music from such films as Tony Scott’s Top Gun (1986) and François Truffaut’s Confidentially Yours (1983) points to the mutual implication, in his oeuvre, between musicophilia and cinephilia. Lifting music from another film does...

... as an organic “oeuvre,” and a market for them can be created from scratch. Maier’s identity as an artist has been manufactured by the owners of her work through social media, sidelining the mechanisms of museum, scholarship, and criticism and delivering her work directly to the market. While Maier’s photographs...

... autobiographical imaginings, it focuses on women’s oeuvre, showing how the concept of relational selves seems more appropriate than the idea of autonomous sovereign selves. It asserts that women through different times spoke for themselves, though this could come through in coded or allegorical expression...

... that the notion of “fukú americanus” (the curse of the New World) that opens The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) defines the Caribbean as a postapocalyptic space created through anathema—an abhorrent destruction—that produces otherworldly bodies. Fukú organizes Díaz’s oeuvre, and the narrative...

... of new Latin American cultural practices, as taken up by this U.S. population, places their oeuvres in a new regional context, navigating mass migrations, transnational communities, cultural alterations, and millennial transitions. This chapter frames broader Latined signification in Díaz’s work...

... Collective oeuvre. In view of John Akomfrah’s notion of “black necrophilia,” which unsettles the psychoanalytic distinction between mourning and melancholia so as to address the ghosts of colonial history, the analysis closely engages Walter Benjamin’s philosophy of history, which arose from his reading...

... as ideologically complicit or salutary. Rather, the heaping of cliché in this novel serves to index affects that are otherwise inexpressible. cliché phenomenology affect Roland Barthes Jim Thompson This essay looks to J. M. Coetzee’s oeuvre and especially his recent The Childhood of Jesus...

... for alternative conceptions of imagined community. black bodies Britishness Caribbean multimedia masculinities This monographic study examines the oeuvre of Nigerian-British photographer Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1956–89) in light of his posthumous Communion series. Where the artist’s choice...