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... and inclusive conceptualization of the discipline. These efforts were perceived as threatening—and so were the advocates. This essay offers an account of their “diversity work,” which the author theorizes through Sara Ahmed's critical frameworks, in order to share the greatest lesson they learned: aside from...

...Dawn Lundy Martin This dossier on race and innovation collects a diverse group of poets who engage the following questions in their work: Is there perhaps something about innovation or experimentation that gives race a new name, a new dimension? Is there room for black-hand sides, coon play, other...

... appreciation of human diversity, and at other times against it. Understanding the history of philology is critical to understanding our present, but there remains significant work to do to reconstruct its liberatory aspects in the service of a more egalitarian future. Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press...

...Sunil Agnani Abstract Hannah Arendt's work On Revolution brings into contact two temporalities: the decade of its composition (the 1960s), alongside its understanding of revolution in conjunction with “Enlightenment.” A reader of Edmund Burke who turns to this work will be startled at the degree...

...Anne Allison; Harry Harootunian; Christopher T. Nelson The essays collected in this dossier focus on the diverse ways that temporalization is rescued, remade, or renounced in the crises and catastrophes that have transformed everyday life in contemporary Japan. As a rhythmanalysis of both crisis...

..., producing an ecology of music and sound that reaffirms the term and, along with it, a multicultural account of diversity that takes the Western notion of culture as a viable concept for all peoples. This essay, rather, seeks to acknowledge a historical lineage of ethnomusicology and its relation...

...Manisha Basu This essay reads exemplary instances of the fictional work of Indian novelist R. K. Narayan (1906-2001) as expressions of critical anachronism in a world literary marketplace that, despite claiming diversity as a global, even transcendental, value, remains committed to both...

...Frank Pasquale Though artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare and education now accomplishes diverse tasks, there are two features that tend to unite the information processing behind efforts to substitute it for professionals in these fields: reductionism and functionalism. True believers...

... of world literature be revalued and refunctionalized for a radical critique of our world?” The contradiction of making the “medieval” global exposes its walls, to use Sara Ahmed's metaphor for the phenomenological practice of diversity work. This exposure undoes the “medieval,” and this undoing can help...

... of the best. So I’ve learned from what people have said about my work. I certainly have been surprised by the diversity of people who have been engaged in my work and for whom it’s been important in multiple ways. But what I really care most about is when it helps them do their own work...

... inter- course with diverse populations from other geographic regions over this same period of time, there is a recognizable continuity of African thought and cultural expression among them up until today. It is not so much the case that the work of African Diaspora studies I’ve cited here...

... to the most athletic extremes. Such writers might even delegate their creativity to a diverse variety of prosthe- ses, all of which might compose work without intervention from the self at all. Works of conceptual literature have primarily responded to the his- torical precedents...

... of knowledge production, which would violate equally fundamental premises of the modern university that pertain to its public obligations, the pursuit of critical intellectual work, and attentiveness to place-based­ concerns, all of which are indispensable to a life-affirming­ educational agenda...

... ‘‘diverse interests for a common civilizational pur- pose 16 The United States, Western Europe, and Japan were its constituent states, and Zbigniew Brzezinski its first director. That key word, civilizational, comes up again and provides a foreshadowing of one of the most impor- tant works by one...

... with Gould.3 He ac- Book Reviewed: Stephen Jay Gould, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002). This work is cited parenthetically. 1. See David B. Wake, ‘‘A Few Words about...

..., then, according to the person, either to the symbolic field of a period of transi- tion or to the symbolic field of a resistance to that change—linked, that is, to diverse affects, needs, interests, or sensibilities. A quantitative...

...Christine L. Marran This essay analyzes Masao Miyoshi’s “turn to the planet” in his later work. In articulating this turn, Miyoshi critiques the logics of difference that has dominated comparative literary and area studies and offers the concept of “planetarianism” as a way of articulating the need...

...Mary N. Layoun “‘To Relearn the Sense of the World’: A Call to Arms” rereads the work of Masao Miyoshi and the legacy of that work in attending to his imperative to “relearn the sense of the world” (or worlds) in which we reside and cohabit with others. The role in that relearning of higher...

... projects, will concentrate primarily on his writings on partition. Though it remains one of the least discussed aspects of his work, partition was a recurring preoccu- pation in Ó Faoláin’s nonfiction publications. His thinking on partition will be linked here to more frequently discussed aspects...

... of “authenticity” might well be “diversity.” But if this is so, then such work undermines even the possibility of something like “diversity within African-­American poetry” since it is precisely those objects—“African-American”­ and “poetry”—the work calls into question. What would it mean, though...