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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (3): 45–53.
Published: 01 August 2022
..., whose anti-war poetry he felt had grown shrill and hectoring. At the same time, the poem attempts to draw out Brown's Dionysian, poetic potential. Duncan made Norman O. Brown an unwitting co-conspirator in this effort by attempting to reveal the naked poet beneath the academic robes. Much of the essay...
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boundary 2 (2008) 35 (3): 251–262.
Published: 01 August 2008
...Ben Lerner This essay attempts to take the measure of Robert Creeley's some sixty-year commitment to poetry as a medium for tracking the processes of thinking and speaking, not for the production of finished thoughts. By reading Creeley against Wallace Stevens, I hope to both identify...
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boundary 2 (2011) 38 (1): 77–100.
Published: 01 February 2011
...Kam Louie In the last century, scholars and politicians in China have attempted both in theory and in practice to advocate and carry out radically different social policies and political reforms, often in the name of Confucius. With China's rise and her increasing international power and status...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (1): 91–126.
Published: 01 February 2010
... of contemporary New Asia was curated into “being” in Japanese, Australian, and Singapore museums. A key goal was the attempt to imagine a cosmopolitan-multicultural Asia able to transcend national boundaries, even as there was the awareness that the region's cultural diversity and history of political fractures...
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boundary 2 (2019) 46 (3): 5–22.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Harry Harootunian The essay attempts to present and thus see the literary scholar, activist, and thinker Masao Miyoshi as we constantly saw him crossing the boundaries between the United States and Japan and eventually enlarging his vision to include the world at large. But the act of seeing...
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boundary 2 (2019) 46 (4): 31–62.
Published: 01 November 2019
... at a moment when the humanities are being asked to justify themselves to opponents within and beyond the university. Reading Said’s humanism through Swift’s inhumane satire, this essay both analyzes and attempts a mode of literary engagement that operates “between the world and the archive,” where Said argued...
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boundary 2 (2011) 38 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 February 2011
... to democratization? Thirty years after the reform, China has emerged as a site of paradoxes and contradictions. Contemporary China cannot be fully understood unless some of its most significant new features are identified, analyzed, and comprehended; but our attempt to understand what is unfolding in China requires...
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Democratic Modernism: Rethinking the Politics of Early Twentieth-Century Fiction in China and Europe
boundary 2 (2011) 38 (3): 27–65.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Sebastian Veg This article attempts to bring a new perspective to the debate on Chinese modernism and, in so doing, to reflect on the idea of modernism itself. Rather than opposing European “high modernists” and an early twentieth-century Chinese literature defined by Enlightenment and nineteenth...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (1): 235–246.
Published: 01 February 2015
...” as elaborated by Said in Culture and Imperialism . The essay attempts to understand the motives and significance of this difference. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 William V. Spanos Sacvan Bercovitch Edward W. Said Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (3): 5–13.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Barry M. Katz Abstract An intellectual iconoclast, Norman O. Brown was one of the most imaginative contributors to post–World War II cultural theory. His books, grounded in deep classical erudition, include Hermes the Thief (1947), a pioneering attempt to apply Marxist historiography...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (4): 179–194.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Gil Hochberg; Shir Alon Santiago Slabodsky's Decolonial Judaism: Triumphal Failures of Barbaric Thinking returns to a history of Jewish persecution, but unlike other attempts to trace the tradition of the Jewish “conscious pariah,” it does not aim to identify an “essence” of Judaism (say, “exilic...
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boundary 2 (2019) 46 (4): 63–93.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of rampant subjectivity, exercising total domination over materials, but equally of rampant essences that mold or mock the ego. It is associated no less with heightened subjective expression than it is with the opposite: depersonalization, objectivity, ontology. The essay attempts to theorize this seeming...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (1): 239–250.
Published: 01 February 2020
... alone an epoch in the history of literature. This review is an attempt to respond to North from precisely this point of view: the perspective of literary criticism. It suggests that Kafka’s notations might indeed be part of a longer tradition of aphorisms, a genre that has often been conceived...
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (1): 137–165.
Published: 01 February 2012
... observation in Tunisia and Egypt, personal recordings, interviews, the media, and Internet sites in an attempt to provide a more complex story of culture during and before the wave of revolts, particularly in Tunisia. © 2012 by Mohamed-Salah Omri 2012 A Revolution of Dignity and Poetry...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (3): 37–54.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Sabu Kohso This essay is an attempt to understand what has been happening after Fukushima 3/11 in Japan, in terms of capital's accumulation and sociopolitical formation, from the vantage point of global anticapitalist struggles. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 radiation antinuclear...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (1): 65–95.
Published: 01 February 2020
... for their role in Spain’s economic crisis and why collective attempts at holding them accountable have been limited. Through a comparative analysis, the essay traces the meanings and permutations of the acousmatic and constituent voice through four very different examples from historiography (Santos Juliá), film...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (4): 171–194.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Eugene Ostashevsky Abstract This essay attempts to think through what a “translingual” poetics might be like for contemporary poetry. Its first section discusses the term translingual as it is used in some areas of applied linguistics. The second section constructs an imaginary scenario where...
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (1): 17–42.
Published: 01 February 2012
... political explanations of revolution have become obsolete in the face of the Tunisian Revolution, this essay is an attempt at comprehending its grammars of revolution, beginning with the fact that it has not affected Tunisia’s mode of production, or the overall structure of its society, or even...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (3): 183–202.
Published: 01 August 2009
... special rhetoric tend to riff on a single poem or idiomatic stance, quick-take attempts at posing in a particular ironic position, one abandoned as quickly as assumed. Among contemporary poets whose own writing contemplates Stevens's overall position, however, a larger pattern does emerge—two Stevenses...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (3): 139–161.
Published: 01 August 2013
... to the fore is what contemporary intellectuals are attempting to think when they think postblackness and, for that matter, postrace. What way of understanding race knowledge in our present does postblackness offer us, especially in a postrace era? The answer: both blindness and insight. Through a meditation...
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