...John Beverley Representation of the period of armed struggle in Latin America, which extends from the early 1960s to the mid-1980s, has been dominated by a paradigm of disillusion that equates the armed struggle as a political strategy with an excess of youthful idealism or voluntarism. Waning...

...Mary N. Layoun “‘To Relearn the Sense of the World’: A Call to Arms” rereads the work of Masao Miyoshi and the legacy of that work in attending to his imperative to “relearn the sense of the world” (or worlds) in which we reside and cohabit with others. The role in that relearning of higher...

... of their crafts but is not founded in templates of belonging—national, civilizational, familial, or conjugal. My argument ends with the idea that for Narayan, this conceptualization of love generates critical practice as a function of the kind of curiosity that, armed with the force of fictional possibilities...

... stadium to which he is admitted after having answered a ritual question. The topography of his itinerary is matched by the topology of his memory, as he sees a forlorn lover working on the 112th page of a draft letter, various lovers sleeping in each other’s arms, and the train stations that were...

..., meanwhile, analyzes a trope of sixties containment practiced by veterans of Latin American armed struggle who have rejected armed struggle from a standpoint of “maturity.” Sober reflections on youthful idealist abandon—a trope that Beverley traces to the Baroque picaresque novel—risk more than...

... the dramatic shift in the means of political economy that we’ve seen over the past seven years—the United States’ spectacular resort to arms, conquest, and colonization—as a new stage of primitive accumulation. A solution (however temporary) to the crisis of overaccumulation, it marks a step back...

... Mandela angĩathikirwo njeera gacigĩrĩra ka Robben, tene? The Cry of Hypocrisy: The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale (translated from Gĩkũyũ) While they hated Mandela as a commie and terrorist They hailed Verwoerd Vorster and Botha as freedom fighters While they armed apartheid to defeat the struggle...

... of reaching to remove the gold crown from a wooden statue of Mary that then stands by a side altar, feels his arm become paralyzed, as if held by the statue. Unable to tear himself loose all night, he slumps before dawn across the stool he had used in his attempted theft, gibbering...

...: Technology, Armed Force, and Society Since A.D. 1000 (Chicago: Uni- versity of Chicago Press, 1982), 192. 120 boundary 2 / Spring 2005 military involvement in civilian society in the last two centuries. But in addi- tion to the links between economic, political, and military institutions brought...

..., Discipline and Punish, 195–96. 4. William H. McNeill, The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982), 129. 16 boundary 2 / May 2015 scale so characteristic of twentieth-­century big business, while simulta- neously losing...

..., surrounded by armed and hostile people who are about to realize that they don’t want these photos to get out, but seize the moment, if he dares, and run? The photograph that made the young Haviv famous was taken in Panama in 1989, six months before the United States invaded. It puts...

... with its positions since the early days of the Cold War, that this somewhat robust encryption algorithm was a weapon. As such, it was subject to the Arms Export Control Act and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, and so Bernstein was required to submit his program to the government...

..., reading a Swedish paper reporting on how Midsummer celebrations had turned out. Among other things, one article described how an inebriated man at night had walked down to the bank of a Lapland river where he had discovered a steel wire stretching across the rushing waters: hanging by his arms, he...

...) to devolve the state’s monopoly on violence to well-armed local militia, which were then deployed in a general warfare against numerous populations of the national constituency. The devolution itself has an involved genealogy going back to the British policy of native administration. Specifically...

... such questions with Ralph Ellison’s theories of com- edy as a guide. In so doing, I also hope to see how understanding Arm- strong’s manifold art can shed light on the world according to Ellison’s own art as a writer. How can Louis’s sound and smile make us see and perhaps hear Ellison’s writing more clearly...

.... Once, on our way from Shexuon to Huangcheihuan, we saw several people hitting and trying to strangle each other. Suddenly, one of them ran to the 6736 boundary 2 29:3 / sheet 19 of 265 edge of the mountain (cliff), opened his arms, and threw himself...

... their relationship as an exchange of arms. Mandelstam removes each of his arms at the shoulder and replaces them, one by one, with Celan s arms, and Celan s arms are given to Mandelstam. Everything is otherwise Es ist alles anders, Everything is otherwise than you think, than I think, the banner still waves...

..., a member of the South African Communist Party, an advocate of peaceful confrontation, then of armed struggle. In his early political life, Mandela was an African nationalist with a radical anticolonialist outlook who belonged in the late 1950s and ’60s to that historic cluster of African...

... and hugged features You had to lift your arms out for the poster photograph You had to leave your arms out to show your Circus Daring to say you chose this To say you are flying flying  fucking flying on the small French motorbike  Hair also flying and a glamour shot smile I ask Diệp to tell me...

... exceptional and perceptive readers of Arm- strong’s art and career. 170 boundary 2 / Fall 2011 esting, if true. But nearly fifty years of Armstrong’s constant letter writing reveals a cheerful, complicated, and open-hearted,­ self-­reflective life. Arm- strong was a man as prone to personal...