...Margaret Drabble Duke University Press 2007 Writing for Peace: Peace and Difference; Gender, Race, and the Universal Narrative Margaret Drabble When writers are asked to address the subject of “writing for peace,” they assume...

...Etienne Balibar Modern universalism, arising from the generalization of the “right to have rights” (or the access to citizenship for all), produces a paradoxical effect on the recognition and definition of anthropological differences, such as gender and sexuality, race and culture, normality...

...Tyrone Williams © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 On Race and Innovation Dossier / Williams 123 Tyrone Williams The Authenticity of Difference as “Curious Thing[s Carl Phillips, Ed Roberson, and Erica Hunt The question of aesthetic authenticity...

...Gerardo Mosquera Duke University Press 2002 6736 boundary 2 29:3 / sheet 167 of 265 Alien-Own/Own-Alien: Globalization and Cultural Difference Gerardo Mosquera...

...Leo T. S. Ching This essay analyzes two Taiwan differences in East Asia—the presence of an indigenous population and its alleged pro-Japan sentiments— and examines how indigeneity and intimacy offer the potential to rethink questions of reconciliation outside of the state-centric model of political...

...Michelle Speidel Duke University Press 2001 Are We Not Genes? Stanley Shostak’s Deathof Life and The Evolution of Sameness and Difference Michelle Speidel The modern evolutionary paradigm of neo-Darwinism is increasingly...

...David Palumbo-Liu Duke University Press 2002 Multiculturalism Now: Civilization, National Identity, and Difference Before and After September 11th David Palumbo-Liu The events of September 11th and following have been shocking...

...John Kraniauskas Duke University Press 2005 Difference Against Development: Spiritual Accumulation and the Politics of Freedom John Kraniauskas Paul Ricoeur’s account of the end of Hegelianism in his Time and Narrative...

... for the actual crusader, Tancred, that provides Muslim ancestry. 10 Renier's adventures pave the way for the next generation—the Latin Christian heroes of the First Crusade—to claim the Holy Land. Les enfances Renier reconfigures history and genealogy to create connections across different spaces...

... for building a genuine democracy, and for opposing and working against capitalism in its current form? To what extent can anarchism be a resource in constructing new “universals” that are attentive to and open to difference? Building a new society from the bottom up offers the best prospects for a better...

...Susan H. Gillespie Translation, by highlighting the incommensurability of human language, sheds light on essential philosophical insights into the limited, historically and socially embedded nature of meaning while simultaneously offering theoretical and practical tools for overcoming differences...

... the production of what Guy Debord called “spectacles,” I turn to three recent digital games that problematize gamification: SPENT (2011), Third World Farmer (2006), and Thresholdland (2010). Each of these games repurposes a different digital game genre (the role-playing game, the construction and management...

..., it explores the relationship between literature and protests from a relatively broad perspective in an attempt to delineate the poetry of protest. Second, it discusses how Taiwanese poets used poetry to express their dissent when faced with varying social issues in different eras. The overall aim...

...Leo Ou-fan Lee This essay aims to gauge the different receptions of Ang Lee's recent film Lust, Caution between American and Chinese publics and across a cultural landscape of the pan-Chinese regions of Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. It also brings a contextual and historical dimension...

... of the two movements is ascribed to certain key differences in their demographics and strategies. While the New Left took shape as a youth movement, the shestidesiatniki represented a generation that had been through World War II and identified with the reforms undertaken from within the Soviet government...

...Dominic Pettman This article explores the different ways in which the capacity to respond has been figured, and reconfigured, through different technologies over the past century and a half. Beginning with a rather harrowing telephone message, sampled by Glaswegian band Aerogramme, in which...

..., the discourse on phonocentrism took a less ambiguous, and explicitly nationalist, turn by the end of the nineteenth century. Haunted doubly by the external difference of an encroaching “Europe” and by the internal difference of atrophied and mortified Ottoman imperial multilingualism, Turkish Republican...

...Anthony Bogues Arguing that the processes of racial slavery and colonialism were “historically catastrophic,” thereby creating the grounds for different sets of questions about the human and the meanings of freedom, this essay maps some of the ways in which these questions have been posed from...

... stands out for its continuing capacity to engage productively with arguments by his juniors, including some so eminent as Sacvan Bercovitch and Edward Said. This new book arises from Spanos’s recognition that he and Jonathan Arac understand differently the significance of “contrapuntal criticism...

...David Golumbia While Philip Mirowski’s scholarship has been widely read across many of the different academic fields with which it engages, his impact on the direct study of digital media and digital technology has been relatively minimal. This is particularly unfortunate, given that his work...