...Barry Shank Duke University Press 2003 Bliss, or Blackface Sentiment Barry Shank When Senator Sunraider delivers the final speech of his career in Ralph Ellison’s novel Juneteenth, he seems to articulate one of Ellison’s most...

... Sunraider’s past life as an evangelical child preacher—then named Bliss—under the tutelage of Hickman. June- 1. Ralph Ellison, “And Hickman Arrives,” Noble Savage 1, no. 1 (1960): 5–49. Purcell / Ralph Ellison’s Three Days Before the Shooting 171 teenth also included a long section...

..., 2009. Lim, Bliss Cua. Translating Time: Cinema, the Fantastic, and Temporal Critique. A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2009. Books Received 229 Litvak, Joseph. The UnAmericans: Jews, the Blacklist...

... University Press . Haddon Alfred C. 1898 . The Study of Man . London : Bliss, Sands, & Co . Horn David G. 2003 . The Criminal Body, Lombroso and the Anatomy of Deviance . London : Routledge . Jann Rosemary . 1990 . “ Sherlock Holmes Codes the Social Body .” ELH 57...

... be detected. In the novel Juneteenth, Ellison’s main character is Rev. A. Z. Hick- man, a trombone-playing bluesman who has converted and been called to preach. His adopted son, Rev. Bliss, is an unreliable narrator, but he does get it right when he implies that what we need as a nation...

... collections: Bliss to Fill, The Open- ing Question, Infamous Landscapes, and Undergloom. Her recent awards are a Howard Foundation Grant and writing residencies at the Millay Colony, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Hotel Pupik (Austria). She teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University...

..., the loss of eternal bliss. But if I only care for this life, this one fragile, inadequate, ephemeral, but oh so precious, small life, in the midst of other equally inadequate and precious small lives, where is the loss? Even if I may grant that there is a loss, it is irrelevant. If I have chosen...

..., Justin lulu: self-publish or perish, 1998): ‘‘Da kine Chin, Kathy Dee Banggo, Milton is uneven moments for me’’ of mongrel mixture, bliss, outrage, displacement in Murayama, Joe Balaz, Wendy Mi- Waikīkī (11). yake, and Lee Tonouchi (as in his...

... the attunement to its transient or passing quality. The sense of dissolution without compulsion— that is, also without resistance—would itself be the source of the bliss in the colors of fantasy. As it is “free and therefore painless, [it] gently induces feelings of delight” (1996: 281). Such dissolution...

.... That would be the kiss of death for Bill and Ted's band, the Wyld Stallyns, whose music is destined to change the world (for the better) and in fact establish an era of bliss, peace, and many more desirables. Help comes from the Future (year 2688) on board a time machine shaped like a telephone booth. Rufus...

... Consists in mutual and partaken bliss, Unsavoury in the enjoyment of itself, If you let slip time, like a neglected rose It withers on the stalk with languished head. Beauty...

... invisible, entirely out of touch, no longer defined by the eyes of others, unanswering to anyone; to go away with such utterness . . . in the belly of your own being . . . a wholly unpressured seeing; it was bliss. (292) Of course, Kohler will immediately characterize such a bliss...

... have, after all, often experienced life as restriction, punishment, and the absence of bliss. The sections of the book that sketch heaven, though, depend less on argument—as indeed one of its articles of faith is that our current rationality is the manner of thought of hell—and more on faith in things...

... the most intimate scenes of other people’s consumer bliss. Modernity is about visibility: media, market, democracy, science—all are busy presenting to the individual the life of others, their ways of eating, driving, making love, being happy or unhappy. In premodern times, ritual conspicuous...

... with their physical nature, dolphins remained slightly magical, unattainable beings for him. Dolphins to Lilly could be like sirens in Kittler s late work on music and mathematics or angels to theologians transcendent beings between earth, sea, and sky who dwell in sonic bliss, beings who embody the secrets...

... revelatory tensions “[u]nder the guise of a program of historiless familial bliss, of indefinite consumption and euthanasia by way of soft music,” in Logiques des mondes (Paris: Seuil, 2006), 442–45 (translated with the help of Nathalie Stephens). 34. Koolhaas, “Junkspace,” 189. ...

... as an “afterlife,” like the aptrgangr (after-walker) of Old Icelandic sagas, a figure who speaks from an afterlife, not in the sense of a place but as a state of re-becoming, un-dead, so to speak. To view the medieval as this “afterlife,” not as a heavenly bliss or unfathomable hell but as a state of exception...

..., the soaring dizziness of this quartet’s blissful ride across its barely delineated structural divisions, astonishingly rejoined on several levels (temporal, tonal, thematic, and performative), creates an alluring dis- orientation. One does not know what to think: what the composer meant precisely, what...

... or leave the company for a “safe landing” in marriage. Kazue herself does not have a matrimonial backup plan. Men do not find her attractive, and, at any rate, her mother’s life did not inspire her with much confidence in the domestic bliss of homemaking. So she is stuck in a life not very...

... to as the bliss of ignorance: ‘‘For the state 23. Walter Benjamin, Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings, trans. Edmund Jephcott (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978), 227. 210 boundary 2 / Fall 2000 of innocence, the paradisial condition, is that of the brute. Paradise is a park...