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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (4): 31–63.
Published: 01 November 2024
... community. The play therefore pairs its critique of racialization with a warning against an idealist notion of creative practice, challenging its spectators to consider the ethical stakes of the relation between what we make and who we are. At opening night for the 1972 production of A Black Mass...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (2): 107–132.
Published: 01 May 2010
... socialist and Black radical movement. This essay presents an immanent critique of Richard Poirier's categories as it applies to recent scholarship on Baraka's poetics, including Andrew Epstein's book-length study Beautiful Enemies: Friendship and Postwar American Poetry . It attempts to theorize a critical...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (2): 329–330.
Published: 01 May 2022
... in the fields of political thought and critical theory, Caribbean intellectual history, and Caribbean art. He is currently working on a book titled Black Critique and a book/sonic project on politics and music in Jamaica during the 1970s. He joined the boundary 2 editorial collective in 2000. Arne De...
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (1): 3–37.
Published: 01 February 2024
..., in a way, constitutes the context for this conversation, both for the questions and comments Hortense Spillers was responding to and reflecting on and for how it will be read, for the responses and reflections on her exacting critique and singular contributions to radical Black thought, feminist theory...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (2): 3–83.
Published: 01 May 2022
... Copyright ©2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Black radical tradition C. L. R. James Black Critique Black Britain Black Power Walter Rodney Postcolonialism Jamaica Michael Manley People's National Party (PNP) Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Achieving this interview took a moment. It began...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (3): 179–205.
Published: 01 August 2010
... the academic disciplines. More sig-
nificantly, he has explained the significance of this crisis by drawing upon
genres of analysis developed within the field of literary criticism. The object
text in both of Scott’s monographs was C. L. R. James’s postcolonial clas-
sic The Black Jacobins; Toussaint...
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boundary 2 (2008) 35 (3): 189–212.
Published: 01 August 2008
...
by W. E. B. Du Bois in the wonderfully evocative essay “The Sorrow Songs,”
in his 1903 classic The Souls of Black Folk. In a charged political moment
that witnessed the consolidation of global white supremacy in the name of
God, country, and capital, Du Bois not only renders the songs performed...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (4): 123–138.
Published: 01 November 2015
... Of course, much has been
made of the fact that Baldwin succumbed to the very object of his critique
when he too turned to “protest writing.” However, since Baldwin was moti-
vated, in part at least, by his desire to remain “relevant” within the con-
text of the developing Black Power movement and its...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (1): 191–222.
Published: 01 February 2013
... and queer theorists in
a number of ways.4 While in the eighties and nineties, most critical feminists
2. Kobena Mercer, “Decolonisation and Disappointment: Reading Fanon’s Sexual Poli-
tics,” in The Fact of Blackness: Frantz Fanon and Visual Representation, ed. Alan Read
(London: Institute...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (3): 107–121.
Published: 01 August 2023
...- specific (the before and after of arrival in the metropole), but in each instance, comparison is constitutive of the process of racialization. Second, the black man from the colony is the same man that goes to the metropole, which shows that the two processes of racialization are contiguous...
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boundary 2 (2003) 30 (2): 5–19.
Published: 01 May 2003
... crisis of leadership that breaks over the
republic of the United States in the heartrending misstep of Vietnam. But
from the point of view of this essay, none of that ever happened, just as,
strikingly, Richard Nixon and Watergate did not, though the essay is scored
by the eventualities of ‘‘Black...
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (1): 95–106.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Calvin Warren Abstract There is much in Hortense Spillers's work to celebrate—from black feminism to literary criticism. One of her crucial contributions, however, has received little, if any, scholarly attention. Calvin Warren calls this a black discourse theory . Although we've focused...
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boundary 2 (2001) 28 (3): 207–216.
Published: 01 August 2001
... of this work
are The African Diaspora, edited by Alusine Jalloh and Stephen E. Maizlish
(1996); Africans in the Americas: A History of the Black Diaspora, edited by
Michael L. Conniff and Thomas J. Davis (1994); and The Black Diaspora,
by Ronald Segal (1995). These are rich descriptive analyses that seek...
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (2): 221–242.
Published: 01 May 2018
..., eds. 2016. Reading Heidegger’s Black Notebooks
1931–1941. Boston: MIT Press.
Felski, Rita. 2015. The Limits of Critique. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Fluck, Winfried, Donald E. Pease, and John Carlos Rowe, eds. 2011. Re-Framing
the Transnational Turn in American Studies...
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boundary 2 (2000) 27 (1): 121–133.
Published: 01 February 2000
...
The current overtly pronounced concern with the crisis in Black intel-
lectual leadership is grounded in an old familiar theoretical conundrum of
sociological thinking: the subject. This requires considerable elaboration...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (2): 223–224.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of English at Michigan State University. His research focuses on race, science, and technology in US literature. His current book project examines racialized automaton figures in the modernist era; a second project focuses on racial objectification in contemporary experimental Black poetry. His essays have...
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (4): 129–143.
Published: 01 November 2024
... Deleuzian) company with music's late modern ineffability and its variously dialectical modes of critique: unearthing music's latest utopian perplexities in electronic dance music (say, in the writings of Kodwo Eshun), thinking Black sonic freedom (with Fred Moten and Fumi Okiji), analyzing vocal grain...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (4): 67–110.
Published: 01 November 2022
... that resists expectations of racial authenticity and legibility—as when a poem about African cannibalism results unexpectedly in an excoriating critique of the libidinal white consumption of Blackness in the media. The poetics of thingification is organized around a resistance, in Martin's words...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (4): 1–4.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Dawn Lundy Martin This dossier on race and innovation collects a diverse group of poets who engage the following questions in their work: Is there perhaps something about innovation or experimentation that gives race a new name, a new dimension? Is there room for black-hand sides, coon play, other...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (3): 139–161.
Published: 01 August 2013
.... You can fight the power but I want us to be
the power” (WA, 200–201). But what is this postblack power and how is it
made? It is not Derrida’s “counter-conjuration” or a critique of international
law, State, or nation. Instead, blackness is the end of experience and his-
tory that could recall...
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