... of the ANC during my visit to South Africa, while a guest of the Congress of South African writers, who had invited me to talk at various community cen- ters to share ideas and experiences in the unfolding postapartheid demo- cratic process. Mandela had just resumed the presidency of the ANC after...

... domination, death, and murder that Mandela began his political life. During that life, he was a radi- boundary 2 41:2 (2014) DOI 10.1215/01903659-2686043 © 2014 by Duke University Press Bogues / Intervention / Mandela’s Reflections 35 cal member of the ANC Youth League...

... minorities that might resist the creation of an Arabized Algeria. Of the situations cited above, only Mandela and the ANC managed to wrest a new state from the clutches of a dying colonialism without either expelling the settler population or conceding to ethno-­territorial partitions...

... remembered other “colored” people, too—young ones who asked me if I knew Peter Tosh and Bob Marley, who spoke about Steve Biko. And then there was the young African Nationalist Congress (ANC) comrade with whom I became very friendly. His political mentor was Chris Hani, the assassinated black...

... and then flicker before adjusting to the “real world.” It is not that Mandela did not adjust. (For example, after his trip in the 1990s to Davos and the world economic conference, he proposed changing the ANC’s economic trans- formation program to a market-based­ one.) Rather, it is that no matter what...

... is no. Despite the laudable intentions of the African National Congress (ANC) of transforming the higher-educational system into one that would eradicate all traces of apartheid division and promote access, redress...

... a health care system that could provide all citizens with access to basic health care services at an affordable price. In urban areas, the health care finance system consisted of two schemes: (1) the Government Insur- ance Scheme (GIS), for all governmental employees (including retirees), disabled...

... of Visuality. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. Nair, Parvati. A Different Light: The Photography of Sebastião Salgado. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. Povinelli, Elizabeth A. Economies of Abandonment: Social Belonging and Endur- ance in Late Liberalism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press...

.... This collection of poems and other utter- ances brought together for this boundary 2 dossier begins with premises of bias. I assume that poetry in this historical moment that takes up race as a concern or poetry written by racialized subjects must, almost by necessity, step outside of conventional...

..., to redress a perceived gender imbal- ance in awards made for the older and more traditional literary prizes.) Is the Orange Prize a Ghetto Prize, which encourages rather than discourages discrimination? This is a fair question, but it is the kind of ques- tion that will continue to be asked until...

..., as if it did not form part of Cuba’s history. Meanwhile, abroad, new Cuban writers, about whom we knew nothing—nor did they, if truth be told, know much about us—were making their appear- ance, and by the end of the 1980s, one...

... are you dialoguing? TGA: As you know, the film does not deal directly with the theme of intoler- ance in relation to homosexuals. In reality, what it’s about is a much wider intolerance. It’s centered on the homosexual, but it can...

... well encapsulates that bal- ance of hope and trepidation invested in the economic migrant as Etienne Balibar s ambivalent yet awkwardly celebrated statement that immigrants are today s proletarians (2004: 50). In contemporary Europe, the theoretical allure of the refugee among the radical Left...

...: it leads, it drives, it conducts (from the Greek More than teach- ing us a determinate something, its iterations always leave room for differ- ance. Even when mystagogy leads us toward mystery, it cannot make us think. Thus, the conduct that mystagogy proposes acts upon our actions to induce us...

... States possesses unprecedented—and unequaled—strength and influence in the world’’ and ends with ‘‘The great strength of this nation must be used to promote a bal- ance of power that favors freedom’’ (1)? Perhaps...

... / Summer 2012 ance in Dostoevsky’s poetics provides a compelling interlocutor to Said’s comparative (contrapuntal) mode of reading. Contrapuntalism situates the text between “both processes, that of imperialism and that of resistance to it A dialogic reading of Said aims to understand...

...- ance.” Lu Xun believed that maxims like “Do not take revenge” or “Forgive past injuries” are but the strategies of assassins and their stooges, which is why he said, “I shall not forgive a single one of them!” And so we know, because Lu Xun considered forgiveness as a tool for those...

..., the disenchanted Liberals disengaged. They won in the 1906 gen- eral election and won again in 1910 but by a lesser margin, the latter event forcing them into a renewed courtship of the Irish Party, who held the bal- ance of power. Their combined political weight forced Home Rule through Parliament in 1913...

... maintains that Hindu toler- ance “is not as unproblematic and benign as the Hindus like to think,” pointing to hier- archy, the logic of “absolute relativisation,” and a prominent “assimilationist tendency” as aspects of Hinduism that dilute tolerance. See Bhikhu Parekh, “Some Reflections on the Hindu...

... individuation and mimetic emulation, even though such congruence also leads to the Johnsonian sublime of inimitable singu- larity. Harpham’s characterology is cathected with admiration and annoy- ance, and intellectual infatuation as well as professional envy. Very different from this individuated...