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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (2): 41–57.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Takis Kayalis C. P. Cavafy's position as a British-cultured Greek who lived and wrote in colonial Alexandria has perplexed critics, who often address the poet's commitments either as Anglophile or as anti-imperialist and pro-Arab. Seeking a subtler approach to Cavafy's complex colonial...
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (2): 113–137.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Jeffrey J. Williams Jeffrey Williams interviews the British critic and intellectual historian Stefan Collini about his career as well as his criticism of recent policy shifts in British higher education. Collini discusses the development of his work from more academic histories of British social...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (2): 89–121.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Alexander Kazamias This essay provides an alternative reading of modern Alexandria's social and cultural history as a basis for a better contextualization of Cavafy's poetry. It revisits the watershed year 1882, which marks the city's destruction after its bombardment by the British fleet, using...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (1): 139–176.
Published: 01 February 2021
... advocated for in order to stave off the decline of the British Empire and to shore up a permanent Anglo-American supremacy against all threats. Still, as the English language becomes “global,” English departments today founder for a variety of reasons and convey a persistent sense of crisis. Has the time...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (2): 177–203.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Aamir R. Mufti C. P. Cavafy was a writer of the British Empire whose situation resembles that of other colonial writers and should be examined in that context, as well as in the light of the contradictory logic of Orientalism-Anglicism. In the modern West's interest in the late Hellenistic era...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (2): 161–176.
Published: 01 May 2021
...—all of which reflect Cavafy's engagement with British colonialism in Egypt. The novelist and critic Stratis Tsirkas, also a Greek who grew up in Egypt, has argued that Cavafy's rising aversion to the British occupation regime developed alongside the shifting ideological lines of the Hellenic diaspora...
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (1): 59–90.
Published: 01 February 2018
... the interweave of anti-imperialist nationalism and republicanism which constitutes the essence of political dissent until and through the “Troubles” in Northern Ireland. Legal, civic, and physical nakedness and the prison systems of the British Empire are shocking features of Irish political experience...
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (1): 91–110.
Published: 01 February 2018
... revolution, as its legacy was undermined by a counterrevolution. The Rising should not be viewed through an exclusively Irish lens: it involved several international actors—the British Empire, the protagonists of World War I, the women’s movement, the Catholic Church, and socialism. Ignited by international...
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (4): 103–126.
Published: 01 November 2018
... on Scott’s work and calls for replacing history with “postempiricism,” a possibility he locates in literature. A third contributor, Ananda Abeysekara, proposes a radically dehistoricized present that is forged through the Nietzschean notion of “active forgetting.” In rejecting the legacies of British...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (1): 177–206.
Published: 01 February 2021
..., colonialism, and nationalism, including Nazism, Nichanian sketches a genealogy of the figure of the native. The latter emerges as the eighteenth-century British jurist and linguist William Jones compiles and translates legalistic texts from India to be able to govern the “natives” by their own laws and in so...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (2): 71–87.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Tony Tanner This work by the late British literary critic Tony Tanner, presumably a review essay written in the late 1980s but not published, is a response to the then emerging New Americanist field of literary studies and a cluster of publications in the mid-1980s, in particular, Sacvan...
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (1): 127–142.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Kaneesha Cherelle Parsard Abstract In the British Empire, bastard is a derogatory term for children born outside of the covenant of marriage, ineligible to inherit either status or property. This essay begins with a scene of research into this figure, and it then turns to investigate an unexpected...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (2): 7–39.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Peter Jeffreys The bombing of Alexandria by the British in 1882 forced C. P. Cavafy and his family into temporary exile. Traumatic for the young poet, this displacement produced a set of epistolary exchanges between friends and family that sheds much light on his Western orientation, connecting him...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (1): 127–166.
Published: 01 February 2010
...William V. Spanos In The Question of Palestine and elsewhere, Edward Said locates the “justificatory regime” that Zionism has developed to interpose between its Palestinian victims and itself in the discourse of nineteenth-century British imperialism, by which he means the representation...
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boundary 2 (2006) 33 (1): 123–150.
Published: 01 February 2006
... between recent international military conflicts and the Arrow War (1857–1858, 1860), ‘‘one of the most important, but least known, British conflicts of the nineteenth century The extraordinary amount of vio- lence unleashed and the massive destruction brought about by such a ‘‘pro- gressive answer’’ do...
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boundary 2 (2004) 31 (1): 93–118.
Published: 01 February 2004
...Richard Bourke Duke University Press 2004 ‘‘Imperialism’’ and ‘‘Democracy’’ in Modern Ireland, 1898–2002 Richard Bourke ‘‘Violence in Ireland is the result of British Imperialism, of the British connection and the British...
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boundary 2 (2006) 33 (2): 203–234.
Published: 01 May 2006
.... Profits from opium helped secure the precarious gains of British administration and expansion in India in the late eighteenth cen- tury. They also created the conditions for a more thoroughgoing commercial penetration of Southeast Asia in the nineteenth century. The hero of the Confessions...
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boundary 2 (2004) 31 (1): 179–205.
Published: 01 February 2004
...–1909). He was a visionary educationalist, was involved in the Irish Republican Brotherhood, and signed the 1916 proclamation. He was executed by the British in 1916. 7. Daniel Corkery (1878–1964) was a teacher and writer whose best-known works are The Hidden Ireland: A Study of Gaelic Munster...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (4): 101–138.
Published: 01 November 2020
... Hannah . 1972 . Crises of the Republic . New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt . Burton Antoinette . 2011 . Empire in Question: Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Calloway Colin . 1995 . American Revolution in Indian...
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boundary 2 (2011) 38 (3): 1–26.
Published: 01 August 2011
... into British hands, it was printed in newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic and later bound together with six other letters and printed as a Loyalist pamphlet, Letters Leslie Bow offered generous criticism that improved this essay. Versions were presented at the Futures of American Studies...