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boundary 2 (2019) 46 (4): 95–117.
Published: 01 November 2019
...–1918) and Alain Locke (1889–1954), the essay returns to “New Negro” and “Young American” writings not only to identify the interplay among them but also to recast key terms from those corpora, especially the “trans-national” (Bourne) and the “American temperament” (Locke), as literary-theoretic...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (2): 93–132.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Lucius T. Outlaw, Jr. Abstract Jeffrey C. Stewart's book on Alain Locke is an unsuccessful endeavor. Stewart characterizes his book as a biography, leading the reader to expect an illuminating, accurate, and truthful account of Locke's life based on and disciplined by adherence to credible evidence...
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boundary 2 (2000) 27 (3): 135–152.
Published: 01 August 2000
..., history, and sociology—all of which are connected with policy related to African American group progress. Locke’s Opposition to Anthropology Almost concurrent with Du Bois’s first book on this topic, The Negro, Alain Locke delivered his NAACP lectures on race contacts and interracial...
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boundary 2 (2001) 28 (2): 21–32.
Published: 01 May 2001
...- ing Thomas, felt to renew again (Pound’s phrase would be makeitnew)yet also to transcend the genteel cultural nationalism of Alain Locke’s essay and anthology The New Negro (1925). With commentary that projects Afrocentric modernism’s interpreta- tions back through modernist reading...
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boundary 2 (2005) 32 (2): 253–255.
Published: 01 May 2005
.... Attridge, Derek. J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading. Literature in the Event. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Badiou, Alain. Handbook of Aesthetics. Trans. Alberto Toscano. Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. Benhabib, Seyla, and Nancy...
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boundary 2 (2000) 27 (3): 153–169.
Published: 01 August 2000
... that by dissolving ‘‘aristocracy and democ- racy into each other, ‘Divine Anarchy’ commemorates Du Bois’s long effort (shared by Alain Locke) to fashion cosmopolitanism into an instrument of democracy 9 it is also possible to look at the text from the other way round, such that Du Bois’s work also allows us...
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boundary 2 (2003) 30 (2): 47–64.
Published: 01 May 2003
... bound- aries. This position reduces in the end to an immutable biological or meta- physical definition of race. Walter Benn Michaels enjoys tracing this reduc- tion in writers as careful as Alain Locke and W. E. B. Du Bois. He seems to take special joy in deconstructing Hurston’s attempts to discuss...
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boundary 2 (2011) 38 (3): 147–164.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Daniel T. O'Hara A review of Michael Wood's Yeats and Violence (2010) and Alain Badiou's Five Lessons on Wagner (2010), this article argues that Wood, by not taking the occult seriously in Yeats, mistakes his general imaginative project, which, as Badiou argues concerning Wagner, is to discover...
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boundary 2 (2007) 34 (1): 17–23.
Published: 01 February 2007
... speech, and now the crisis produced by this “O Level” Chemistry experiment gone mad. If you have somehow missed the stern warnings, hand-wringings, and profoundly contemplative explanations of Nicolas Sarkozy, Bernard Henri-Lévy, Christopher Hitchens, Peter Bergen, Alain...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (1): 43–64.
Published: 01 February 2020
... suggests that freedom can never be strictly a subject question, for freedom is possible only in a political commu- nity (2005: 11).7 It is on this point that Beauvoir differs sharply from Jean- 5. A noteworthy recent exception is Alain Badiou s commentary in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks (2015...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (2): 57–84.
Published: 01 May 2015
... Butler uses the concept of precari- ousness in a rather different, if related, way. Another possibility as a name for this group would be Alain Badiou’s preferred term, the “excluded,” a category that, he insists, now includes large majorities (Alain Badiou, Polemics, trans. Steve Corcoran [London...
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (4): 1–29.
Published: 01 November 2024
... seminal 1926 essay “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain,” recounts the likely apocryphal story of his encounter with “one of the most promising of the young Negro poets,” who said to Hughes ( 1971 : 175), “I want to be a poet—not a Negro poet.” Published one year after Alain Locke's The New Negro...
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boundary 2 (2016) 43 (2): 179–204.
Published: 01 May 2016
... assume different but unstated notions of what translation is, and that even the entry on the term “To Translate [Traduire]” doesn’t help to sort out the muddle. Consider the entry on “Subject,” authored by Cassin, Etienne Bali- bar, and Alain de Libera and translated into English by David...
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (2): 39–68.
Published: 01 May 2024
..., 1978 .” October , no. 112 : 3 – 6 . Lacan Jacques . 1998 . The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis . Vol. 9 of The Seminar of Jacques Lacan . Edited by Miller Jacques-Alain . Translated by Sheridan Alan . New York : W. W. Norton . Mackey Nathaniel . 2010...
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boundary 2 (2000) 27 (3): 1–35.
Published: 01 August 2000
... of thinking, which is, itself, understood to be an attitude in a profoundly geo- metric way. It is not quite correct to state that this attitude, for Du Bois, was just methodological. If we are to follow Alain Locke’s and Rampersad’s engagements with this Du Boisian attitude, then perhaps we would...
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boundary 2 (2016) 43 (3): 1–26.
Published: 01 August 2016
... as well as those of the internees of Digoel and Terezín. Whereas contemporary thinkers from Susan Buck-Morss­ to Alain Badiou have advocated a return to the “idea of communism” as a prac- tice of universalism or a principle of One World, we propose that we revisit communism...
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boundary 2 (2000) 27 (3): 171–197.
Published: 01 August 2000
... as the event of the possible, as the possible event of a truth about a particular subject for a particular political condition. In his reading and critique of Alain Badiou, Slavoj Žižek has recently argued for a specific understanding of the event that is a response to the fragmentation...
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (1): 207–229.
Published: 01 February 2012
... to be collected in her book L’ombre et le nom [1977]; she became a leading figure of the internal opposition to Lacan and especially to Lacan’s son- in- law, Jacques- Alain Miller, which eventually led to the dissolution of the school in 1980, immediately preceding Lacan’s death); and Luce Irigaray (who...
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boundary 2 (2003) 30 (2): 21–45.
Published: 01 May 2003
..., ed. Robert O’ Meally (New York: The Modern Library, 2001), 6. 18. Lester Bowie, interviewed by Alain Le Roux, in Le Jazz 9, 1997. 19. O’Meally, Living with Music, 74. Thanks to Lynn Casmier-Paz for shoring up the acutely sexist bias characterizing Ellison’s statements. Bell...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (1): 115–143.
Published: 01 February 2020
... as cinematic documentaries about the Nazi murder of European Jews by Alain Resnais, Claude Lanzmann, and Jean-Luc Godard. By focusing on contemporary Terezín, Blaufuks also brings to light aspects of memorialization within post-totalitarian societies investigated by filmmakers Petra Epperlein and Chantal...