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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (3): 15–24.
Published: 01 August 2022
... of individual and collective selfhood in the figure of Khizr, the author delineates the fault lines that the encounter with this elusive figure portends for bourgeois imperialist regimes of identity. The counterpoint conveyed through the figure of Khizr is one that unveils paths toward practices of self-de...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (1): 69–104.
Published: 01 February 2023
...-Eurasianism and its attendant imaginary of a white Eurasian statehood comparatively in relation to US and Hungarian New Right thought, the essay exposes how the neotraditionalist (Trad right) generated a global political and intellectual project in counterpoint to the failed leftist internationalist projects...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (1): 67–85.
Published: 01 February 2015
... criticism destruction counterpoint Spanos’s Polemos: An Oppositional Intellectual in the Age of Mundialización Sergio Villalobos-­Ruminott The Western onto-­theo-­logical tradition should not be understood as simply a matter of ontological...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (1): 235–246.
Published: 01 February 2015
...). To define the point of view of his reading, Spanos invokes Said’s notion of “contrapuntal” reading. For Spanos the counterpoint is first between an American-exceptional­ point of view and the different perspec- tive of those “like the British of the sixth century.” Here Spanos operates very...
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (4): 129–143.
Published: 01 November 2024
... be discrete elements at all; music can only be built upon relations; musical elements are divided from within and dependent on others. Thus, in the beginning was a pulse—rhythm. Compositionally, rule-driven harmony and counterpoint are set aside in favor of the flexible assemblages of modular units. Music's...
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (2): 195–224.
Published: 01 May 2024
... protect from dissolution. In one the most perceptive recent commentaries on Auerbach's work, Martin Bormuth has noted that Auerbach situates Dante's contribution to European culture as a counterpoint to Montaigne, that skeptical, secular, stoical, detached, cosmopolitan, individualistic thinker who...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (1): 179–194.
Published: 01 February 2015
... will return to the singular ways in which this unusual “reconstellation” of thinkers is extended to the 1. See William V. Spanos, Exiles in the City: Hannah Arendt and Edward W. Said in Counterpoint (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2012), 203; hereafter, page num- bers are cited...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (1): 153–177.
Published: 01 February 2015
... in postcolonial studies as The Legacy of Edward Said (2009), and Exiles in the City: Hannah Arendt and Edward W. Said in Counterpoint (2012). Despite his abiding work, postcolonial scholars have largely left Spanos’s ideas unexplored.5 I argue that Spanos’s corrosive postcolonial critique of Pax Americana...
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boundary 2 (2003) 30 (2): 97–114.
Published: 01 May 2003
... ‘‘a voice without a face to use David Laing’s phrase.5 Now this newly invented technological apparatus stood as the main visual counterpoint to the sounds emanating from its horn, osten- sibly reproducing sonic data without the intervention of human subjects. 4. Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (1): 149–166.
Published: 01 February 2017
... and behaviors” (2010: 36). Moreover, such epimeleia lies at the heart of a conundrum that lives within philo-sophy—­ as the love of wisdom—precisely insofar as they serve as the counterpoint to philosophical dissemination through knowledge (gnosis): “The predica- ment—the aporia—of philosophical teaching...
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boundary 2 (2003) 30 (2): 175–194.
Published: 01 May 2003
... shorthand should serve to bring this excursion to a close. Ellison connected himself to Hemingway and Fitzgerald and their ‘‘lost generation’’ peers partly through a counterpointing sense of novelis- tic mission: ‘‘Ours is a task he wrote, which, ‘‘whether recognized or not, was defined for us to a large...
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boundary 2 (2002) 29 (3): 149–157.
Published: 01 August 2002
... fairy godmother. It is found in the debate between dreams and reality, won through the bitter toll taken by daily labor 8 From this daily labor, counterpointed by the necessary contradic- tions of any process of renovation...
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boundary 2 (2008) 35 (3): 251–262.
Published: 01 August 2008
... pleasures. (CP, 2:609–10) By taking Creeley’s commitment to the occasional seriously, we see how the slight poems mocked by literary journalists in isolation are signifi- cant as counterpoints within a formal system designed to measure a life, to record the mundane and repetitious as much...
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (2): 137–163.
Published: 01 May 2024
... movement form a tale of two musics in the creation of Chinese socialist subjectivity. Their counterpoint is central in understanding the promises and limits of its conception and realization. Chinese novelists became familiar with the narrative structure of the bildungsroman through translated...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (2): 187–198.
Published: 01 May 2010
... be seen as a hopeful counterpoint: they prefigure and fulfill a racially transcendent solidarity that may be extended to the resistant cos- mopolitanisms of the postcolonial present. While more than a degree of utopian socialism informs James’s placement of the crew at the center of his...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (2): 315–328.
Published: 01 May 2022
... preoccupations of his work, everywhere at stake in these essays. Burns's “representational achievement” follows “a long tradition in counterpointing self-conscious forms of colourful eloquence against materially harsh conditions, going so far as to suggest that there might be a causal, complex relation between...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (1): 3–17.
Published: 01 February 2015
..., “Arab Spring 2011: A Symptomatic Reading of the Revolution (To the Memory of Edward W. Said symploke 20, no. 1 (2012): 83–119; Spanos, The Legacy of Edward W. Said (Champaign-Urbana:­ University of Illinois Press, 2009); Spanos, Exiles in the City: Hannah Arendt and Edward W. Said in Counterpoint...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (2): 105–134.
Published: 01 May 2015
... of the book’s form. This ceding of the characterological to the structural has consequences both for the ideology of the novel’s form and for the meaning of its allegorical imagination.22 22. Bolaño’s debt to and depersonalization of the hard-boiled­ genre become evident in counterpoint to Taibo’s...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (1): 217–233.
Published: 01 February 2015
... [1992], America’s Shadow: An Anatomy of Empire [1999], Shock and Awe: American Exceptionalism and the Imperatives of the Spectacle in Mark Twain’s “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” [2013 as a tacit theme (in Exiles in the City: Hannah Arendt and Edward W. Said in Counterpoint [2012...
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boundary 2 (2016) 43 (2): 163–178.
Published: 01 May 2016
... than we think. At the same time, given the globalization of everything, “planetarity” does seems to me an impor- tant counterpoint as we go about unbundling the nation. For me, planetarity has to do not only with a globalized field but also with the fact that we’re all earthbound, tied...