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The '90s
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (3): 159–182.
Published: 01 August 2009
... do some really interesting thinking at the same time about what it means to be writing in the English language. This article reads these works in the context of the very public debates about the English language that happen in the '90s in the United States. It examines what this literature...
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The Philological Thesis: Language without Ends
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (1): 65–107.
Published: 01 February 2021
... of linguistic and social form—in the poetic writing of Paul Celan and the Arabic-language translations of Celan offered by the Iraqi poet Khālid al-Ma‘ālī; in Walter Benjamin’s essayistic writing on language and the law; in the tenth-century Arabic-language philosopher Abū Naṣr al-Fārābī; and in Aristotle’s...
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NoOnesRose: An Interview with Pierre Joris
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (4): 1–27.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of California Book of North African Literature , volume 4 of Poems for the Millennium ), and the importance of French poet Edmond Jabès. He goes on to address his choice to write in his fourth language, English, and the formative readings of American poetry and his connection to some of the New American Poets...
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The Militarization of Language: Cryptographic Politics and the War of All against All
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (4): 95–112.
Published: 01 November 2017
... to embody at a foundational level a theory of language that some recent philosophers, including Charles Taylor and Philip Pettit, locate partly in the writings of Thomas Hobbes. As in Hobbes's political theory, this theory of language is closely tied to the conception of political sovereignty as necessarily...
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“Number, form, proportion, situation”: The Measure of Racial Comparison in Myung Mi Kim’s Dura
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boundary 2 (2019) 46 (4): 157–180.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of quantitative measure as it transforms over time into a specifically capitalist mechanism of enforced racial comparison.3 1. For a reading of Asian American poetry as and against racially unmarked contempo- rary US poetic avant- gardes like Language Writing, see Yu 2009. For further discussion...
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In the Wake of Disaster: Black Women's Innovative Poetics
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (2): 157–194.
Published: 01 May 2023
... and beauty . . . than in social critique, aesthetic revolution, unbounded exploration of language, and other forms of notable unconventionality.” By emphasizing “radical writing” rather than innovative or experimental poetry, Hunt and Martin eschew the fraught terminology of aesthetic innovation...
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Toward a Literary Communism: The 1926 Baku Turcological Congress
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (2): 183–213.
Published: 01 May 2013
... in his introduc-
tory remarks that “[t]he Communist International wants to unite under its
banners speakers of all the languages of the world” (TSD, 55), congress
1. Karl Marx, “Marx to Engels, October 8, 1858,” in Karl Marx on Colonialism and Mod-
ernization: His Despatches and Other Writings...
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Ways of Working with Language
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (1): 3–15.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Jonathan Arac With reference to the author’s experience with English and other languages, this essay reflects on the problem of American monolingualism and explores modes of learned critical attention to the work language does in society, examining writing by Kenneth Burke, Raymond Williams, Erich...
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The Fate of Philology
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (1): 237–250.
Published: 01 February 2021
... and as groundless ground of things momently transmitted, manifoldly mediated origin out of the deep informs Hamacher s critical writing from the start and helps give it its distinctive stamp of philosophical radicalism. In the effort to sound and fruitfully articulate language s elusive affec- tive potential...
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Marx's “Universal Passport”; or, Critique as a Practice of Translation
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boundary 2 (2016) 43 (3): 105–129.
Published: 01 August 2016
... in the discourse arise because political economists are speaking “the language of commodities.” In this sense, Marx's “science” is the practice of translation. Building on the grounding insight that scientific knowledge descends into ideology by misrecognizing the correct terrain of its concepts, Marx's writings...
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Performance Typing: Larry Eigner’s Selected Poems
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (4): 139–156.
Published: 01 November 2020
... demonstrates this, by a close reading of a number of Eigner poems. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 Larry Eigner disability poetics Language writing projective verse typewriters References Adams Hazard Searle Leroy , eds. 2005 . Critical Theory Since Plato . 3r d ed...
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The Voices of Good and Evil: What Is Enlightenment? Rereading Lu Xun's “Toward a Refutation of Malevolent Voices”
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boundary 2 (2011) 38 (2): 67–123.
Published: 01 May 2011
... context, Wang begins by addressing the convoluted archaic language that Lu Xun chose for his writing, demonstrating that this choice represented the writer's protest against the calcification that he saw as having come to characterize all registers of Chinese written expression—the ordinary classical used...
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Gramsci, Passive Revolution, and Media
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boundary 2 (2008) 35 (3): 99–131.
Published: 01 August 2008
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of language, their innovativeness, and their importance in the formation
of hegemony became a central facet of his writings and his films. In Peter
Ives’s view,
[F]or Gramsci linguistic values and meanings are human creations
that always exist within history. They are subject...
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Violence and the Human Voice: Critique and Hope in Native Speaker
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (2): 55–66.
Published: 01 May 2009
... Walt Whitman and his structural echoes of American first-person narratives such as Moby-Dick, The Great Gatsby, All the King's Men , and Invisible Man , Lee troubles the autoethnographic mode that he employs, in common with other important Asian American writings. Lee's work combines imaginative...
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Phonocentrism and Literary Modernity in Turkey
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (2): 155–185.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Nergis Ertürk This article offers a critical overview of the Turkish Republican language reforms, contextualizing the reforms as part of a discourse of phonocentrism—a programmatic identification of the diglossia of Ottoman Turkish and its writing system as an “inadequacy” and a problem—which...
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The Stevens Wars
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (3): 183–202.
Published: 01 August 2009
....” That edge space he tried to
write into writing—between dawn and day as between language and being,
between thinking and composing, between irony and rumination, between
being here (in the poem) and being displaced—is often, in the stanzas, a
description of the scene of composition that serves...
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L’état Naissant: On Celan's Microliths They Are, Little Stones: Posthumous Prose
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (4): 117–129.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of Celan's poetics and continues to stand as an unmet challenge to poets writing today. Its unfinished state should not be considered a liability but read instead as a formal argument (albeit unintended) that “the alleged thought- or language-scheme of the poem is never ‘ finished ’” (127). 4...
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When Hortense Spillers and Toni Morrison Meet in the Clearing: The Hieroglyphics of Marking and Unmarking
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (1): 77–93.
Published: 01 February 2024
... and Jazz , and Spillers's use of creative writing in her theory and criticism. Crawford reveals the direct and indirect conversations between Spillers and Morrison and their shared commitment to finding language that breaks the boundaries between analysis and experience. [email protected]...
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Touch and Voice in Absalom, Absalom!
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (1): 39–57.
Published: 01 February 2024
... publication. This essay explores that achievement through a double focus: touch and the intricate phenomenology of human sensory experience, combined with voice and the interplay of writing, speaking, and thinking in language. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright ©2024...
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A Poetics of Thingification: Dawn Lundy Martin and the Black Took Collective
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (4): 67–110.
Published: 01 November 2022
...] by the imagination. (Martin 2007 : 11) More than just a question of racial representation, the poem construes writing as an embodied and ongoing negotiation with poetic form. The speaker casts a self-conscious eye toward the ability of written language—“castigating black marks”—to discipline both body...
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