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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (1): 51–77.
Published: 01 February 2014
...Aleš Erjavec This article focuses on some of the ways in which subjectivization, representation, and self-representation have been carried out in Eastern Europe and on the role that art plays in these processes. The author first points to two related features of the region: an absence of a common...
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boundary 2 (2001) 28 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 February 2001
...Seamus Deane Under Eastern and Western Eyes Seamus Deane ‘‘Eventually we realise that the work is actually constituted by the ex- perience of exile or alienation that cannot ever be rectified 1 This is Edward Said writing about...
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (1): 113–134.
Published: 01 February 2014
...Anikó Imre I argue that postcolonial discourses are essential to unearthing and revising the complicated dynamic of codependence between Western and Eastern European nationalisms, which is haunted by internalized and rarely acknowledged traces of imperialism on both sides. However, the spatial...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (2): 199–208.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Adam Lowenstein In his two most recent films, Eastern Promises (2007) and A History of Violence (2005), the director David Cronenberg turns his attention more specifically than ever before to the conjuncture of violence and globalized geopolitics. The resulting illumination of how violence...
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 February 2014
...Wlad Godzich Epistemology and ontology clash when it comes to “Eastern Europe.” Clashes of this sort try to escape the categories that are at odds and turn toward terminological solutions. But such a move only aggravates the problem while appearing to trivialize it. The terminological instability...
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (1): 79–100.
Published: 01 February 2014
... (as represented by French theory) was taken up by antihumanist trends, while in communist Eastern Europe it began to unfold under the aegis of “man.” By taking up the threads of this problematic divergence, the essay aims to provide a focusing lens that sharpens but also delimits a vast issue which seems...
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (1): 101–112.
Published: 01 February 2014
... thinking in Eastern Europe during the first decade of transition. Spaces of Desire: Consumer Bound and Unbound Ivaylo Ditchev I can remember how, back in 1999, a friend, who had enjoyed the privilege of being allowed to travel even under...
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (1): 203–227.
Published: 01 February 2014
..., however momentarily, the apparently closed language of neoliberal freedom and progress. The essay turns to figurations of Eastern Europe’s contemporary predicament found in Michał Witkowski’s novel Lovetown (2004), which tracks an aging queer community for whom the transition to capitalism and liberal...
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boundary 2 (2011) 38 (1): 135–163.
Published: 01 February 2011
...Wang Ban In understanding rights across cultures, critics tend to view individual or human rights as unique to the West and alien to community-based or authoritarian Eastern cultures. This essay challenges this fetishism of individual rights by tracing social and intellectual movements in the West...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (2): 153–160.
Published: 01 May 2015
... these translations reflect the religious and intellectual life of their communities? Griffith draws carefully supported conclusions on these subjects based on his expertise as a historian of Middle Eastern Christian communities before and after the spread of Islam. Book Reviewed: Griffith Sidney H...
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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 (2021) 48 (4): 231–254.
Published: 01 November 2021
... with intuitive leaps to open up an infinite space. This is to interenact with the endless rhythm of the cosmic dance of energy of the universe to harmonize our relationship with Eastern mystic philosophy of Upanishad/Zen Buddhism as well as modern science. This essay is intended to find the quantum coherence...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (1): 165–193.
Published: 01 February 2022
... documentary and to facilitate the international exchange of films, professionals, and knowledge in the field. I investigate the links between the association and contemporaneous international initiatives, chiefly film festivals and the peace movement, focusing throughout on Eastern Europe, where the World...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (1): 115–143.
Published: 01 February 2020
... Akerman, as well as by scholars of the Holocaust and post-Soviet Eastern Europe. documentary archives architecture cinema Holocaust memory References Abish Walter . 1979 . How German Is It/Wie Deutsch Ist Es . New York : New Directions . Adams Tim . 2018 . “ András...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (3): 185–186.
Published: 01 August 2013
... Contributors Gil Anidjar teaches in the Department of Religion and the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. He translated Marc Nichanian’s The Historiographic Perversion (2009). Ruth Y. Y. Hung is an assistant professor of comparative...
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (1): 233–235.
Published: 01 February 2014
... Games: Globaliza- tion and the Transformation of Media Cultures in the New Europe (2009) and the coedited volume Popular Television in Eastern Europe during and since Socialism (2012). Miglena Nikolchina is a professor in the Department of Theory and History of Lit- erature, Sofia University...
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (1): 31–50.
Published: 01 February 2014
... America. AS: Your book The Secret is a fictional interview between you and an alter ego named Egon Alt. Why is Alt German? YA : I was living in Berlin at the time, so I would often meet German jour- nalists. Germans are very interested in the problematic of Eastern Europe. They are also...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (2): 249–250.
Published: 01 May 2021
... University Press 2021 Stathis Gourgouris is professor of classics and comparative literature and society at Columbia University. His most recent book is The Perils of the One (2019). Hala Halim is associate professor of comparative literature and Middle Eastern studies at New York University. Her...
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boundary 2 (2011) 38 (1): 165–201.
Published: 01 February 2011
... (north of the eastern bend of the Yel- low River, corresponding to modern Zhili and Shanxi); the central east- ern section (south of the eastern bend of the Yellow River and north of the eastern half of the Yangtze River, corresponding to Shandong, Henan, and almost the whole...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (1): 69–104.
Published: 01 February 2023
... on radical locality, he also frames his return to Orthodoxy through a cultural-historical continuity between contemporary Russian and American interests rooted in the rejection of liberal mercantilism and a return to traditionalist medieval civilization centered in the Eastern Roman Empire. Sobornost...