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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (1): 91–126.
Published: 01 February 2010
...C. J. W.-L. Wee Rapid economic development in East Asia in the 1980s–1990s saw a revivification of the idea of “Asia,” a region no longer regarded as backward. This article examines the East Asian visual arts scene, one of the most visible sites of cultural interaction in which the idea...
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boundary 2 (2025) 52 (1): 49–63.
Published: 01 February 2025
...: The Birth of the Prison . Translated by Sheridan Alan . New York : Random House . Gana Nouri , and Häting Heike . 2008 . “ Introduction: Narrative Violence; Africa and the Middle East .” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 28 , no. 1 : 1 – 10...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (4): 231–254.
Published: 01 November 2021
... between the voices/processes/thoughts of different poets, scientists, and philosophers of the East and West. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 Charles Bernstein pataquericalism Barin Ghosal Expansive Consciousness theory Upanishad Pataquericalism , the magical word coined...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (1): 95–104.
Published: 01 February 2009
...Boris Kagarlitsky Boris Kagarlitsky examines the rise of political dissent in the East and West during the 1960s. The shestidesiatniki (sixties' generation) in the Soviet Union, he argues, have much more in common with the New Left than was realized at the time, or has been acknowledged since...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (2): 199–216.
Published: 01 May 2010
... has been frustrated by the apparent inability of liberalism to take root despite rapid capitalist economic development in East Asia. This is partly because the countries in East Asia are newly minted nations that emerged after the end of the Second World War and were immediately plunged into the cold...
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (1): 135–152.
Published: 01 February 2014
...Balázs Trencsényi The essay gives an overview of the rise of radical neoconservative discourses in East Central Europe in the wake of the seemingly successful completion of the transition agenda, culminating in NATO and EU accession. It describes the main directions of criticism aiming...
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (1): 203–222.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Stefan Tanaka Abstract This review opens a conversation with Japan's Russia on hierarchy and hegemony in modern history. The goal declared in the volume's subtitle is ambitious: to challenge the East-West paradigm. The East-West binary is an old one and has been subject to many important...
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (3): 27–44.
Published: 01 August 2018
...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...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (2): 153–160.
Published: 01 May 2015
... East: When, where, and by whom was the Bible translated partially or fully into Arabic? Were such translations made from the original Hebrew and Greek, or from the Septuagint or the Syriac versions? Why did Christians, Jews, and Muslims make translations? For what purposes did they use them? How did...
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boundary 2 (2016) 43 (3): 133–157.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Rudolf Mrázek Boven Digoel was a camp in colonial Dutch East Indies where Indonesian communists were exiled for their participation in a failed revolution in 1927. Terezín was a Nazi-built camp in Bohemia for the European Jews. Lenin was read and quoted in both camps—in Dutch, German, Czech...
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boundary 2 (2025) 52 (1): 25–48.
Published: 01 February 2025
... views of the latter in East Asia from the context of literary postcolonial theory, while Carlos Rojas and Lisa Rofel's volume surveyed the interdisciplinary landscape of China's globalist political economy, perhaps in light of recent history. Despite the mutual thematic overlap, each work interprets...
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boundary 2 (2019) 46 (3): 153–179.
Published: 01 August 2019
... of “liberating” Tibet. Wang Hui’s article “The ‘Tibetan Question’ East and West: Orientalism, Regional Ethnic Autonomy, and the Politics of Dignity” analyzes the March 2008 “riots” in and around Lhasa in order to understand the impediments to a real solution to the crisis in Tibet. This piece suggests...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (2): 41–57.
Published: 01 May 2021
... circumstances, this essay looks at the poet as a diaspora Greek who wrote of Eastern Hellenism through concepts, facilities, and resources made available by the British Empire. Among the issues explored in this venture are: the widespread use of the Hellenistic East as code for the British Empire in Cavafy's...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (1): 165–193.
Published: 01 February 2022
... Union was headquartered for most of its existence. Indeed, the association's history is inextricable from that of Ivens's 1949 film about the East European “new democracies,” The First Years ( Pierwsze lata ). Both projects, I argue, were impeded not only by the polarized political atmosphere...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (1): 21–39.
Published: 01 February 2013
... Right in the United Kingdom, the United States, the Middle East, and India, it argues that the postsecular posture of anticapitalist critique testifies at best to a misunderstanding of the constitutive relationship between the neoliberal and the neopaternal. Returning to Marx, the essay posits (contra...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (1): 223–243.
Published: 01 February 2013
... engagement with Byzantine iconoclasm and argues that by appropriating elements of Byzantine Aristotelian theology in order to undergird a postsecularist argument, the modern critic dehistoricizes ideas that were firmly rooted in East Roman social, political, and cultural contexts in a manner that ultimately...
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (3): 47–73.
Published: 01 August 2012
... attractive to foreign students, hailing mostly from the wealthier classes of East and South Asia. The People’s Republic of China holds a particular fascination as a source of students, who also bring with them the promise of commercial links. Notable among accommodations of the PRC is the compliance of US...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (2): 183–213.
Published: 01 May 2013
... of the kinship of Turkic languages. It is perhaps best remembered for the resolution to adopt the Latin alphabet, defended ardently by the congress’s Azerbaijani organizer and president, Samedağa Ağamalıoğlu, who followed Lenin in his belief that Latinization promised “revolution in the East.” A reading...
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (1): 31–50.
Published: 01 February 2014
.... East Central Europe, for him, is the ever-shifting terrain of struggle over and for Europeanness and, at the same time, a place where ruins are still uncertain and thus full of creative potentiality. Andrukhovych’s own influences, which include Franz Kafka, magical realism, and the Polish O’Harists...
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (1): 51–77.
Published: 01 February 2014
... persuasive artistic achievements that facilitated Eastern Europe’s progressive proximity to Western Europe. This special position of art in the region diminished with the historical developments that followed, which no longer necessitated or supported such an extraordinary place of art in the former East...