...Richard Purcell “The Enigma of Arrival; or, When Should We Have Read Ralph Ellison’s Three Days Before the Shooting ?” is a review essay that looks at the context in which we as readers have come to receive Ellison’s posthumously published novel. It is also a provocation that suggests a way...

...Wlad Godzich © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 The Mandela Enigma Nelson Mandela has been an enigma to me. I have read his auto- biography and many of his speeches, listened to him on tape, and watched him on television, all the time wondering how someone becomes Nelson...

.... It veils the enigma of the exigency for sig- nification—which makes society as much as it is made by society—insofar as it imputes to society a signification that would come to it from elsewhere” (ISR, 326). In this respect, to put it bluntly, “society creates itself—and to begin...

... be said on this overfamiliar and probably quite wearisome topic, which has always been at issue in debates over cultural studies, but I don t see any- thing moving us beyond that simple statement. The subject of Mulhern s next section, which treats V. S. Naipaul s The Enigma of Arrival (1987...

... “under the sign of Oedipus” (Agamben 1993b : 138): as a riddle or “enigma” related to the Greek word ainos (story)—a riddle that, in the limit it poses to detection, invites us to let the enigma be. Unlike Oedipus, Kline is not a tragic hero (the implications for literary critical detection...

...- perimental modernist novel because of its pronounced desire to delve into the enigma of temporality and unfold into a ‘‘time romance on the level of reading as well as on the level of plot.16...

...:11 Landy / The Body of/in Todd Haynes’s Films 125 that Karen’s illness is an enigma for the viewer to unravel, since it is pre- sented not merely as a physical problem but as an affront...

... . New York : Anchor Books . Mack Anne Rome J. J. Mannejc Georg . 1991 . “Private Enigmas and Critical Functions with Particular Reference to the Writings of Charles Bernstein.” New Literary History 22 , no. 2 : 441 – 64 . Peterson Tim . 2012 . “Either You're With Us...

... / From the Subaltern to the Precariat 81 sal, but it is now also an encounter with Being’s enigma, via the notion—­ simultaneously trivial and profound—that he exists. So after Shyamji’s death, he leaves to study philosophy in London, which, however—surprise, surprise—rarely seems to lead...

... by even the very best intentioned), as a predicament, is at its origin a pharmakon: pharmacological being is originally mystagogic in that the pharmakon, by its very nature, endlessly returns to what Greek tragedy calls enigma. Enigma was for the Greeks a profane figure of mystery in a society...

..., straightforward recital. For what is so delicate is how Sebald makes Austerlitz s story a bro- ken, recessed enigma, whose meaning the reader must impossibly rescue. Though Austerlitz, and hence the reader too, is involved in a journey of detection, the book really represents the deliberated frustration...

... with this suggestive dreamlike presage, a continuation of the enigma announced on the cover by the fresco by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, taken from Allegory of Asia (1753) in the Würzburg Residence. Moreover, the author knows both artists well, having written about the first in La Folie Baudelaire (2008) and the second...

..., José Oviedo, and Michael Aronna (Durham, N.C., and London: Duke University Press, 1995), 148. 8. Graziella Pogolotti, ‘‘Art, Bubbles, Utopia in Bridging Enigma: Cubans on Cuba, a spe- cial issue of South Atlantic Quarterly 96...

... years. He died during a period of crisis in [his] life and work, full of enigmas, conflicts, and contradictions he chose not to clarify (Hamburger 2004: 7). Sebald dedicated As Day and Night, the culminating piece of his final collection of essays, Unrecounted, to Tripp, a lifelong friend (Sebald...

... the enigma of an accumula- tion that is at once the condition of possibility and the effect of capitalism’s emergence, which is how Marx defines it. I would like to argue that this enigma may be better addressed if the paradoxical temporality of ursprüng- liche Akkumulation is grasped not (only...

..., “Cruel Optimism, Becoming Event,” 2. 80. Berlant, “Cruel Optimism, Becoming Event,” 2. 81. “One might say . . . that to eventilize an occurrence would be to force it from its status as object (use value) to thing (resistant, attractive enigma)” (CO, 275n13). Berlant seems unaware that any...

... suicide by throwing himself into the Kunming Lake. He was fifty years old at the time and left behind a wealth of critical and scholarly work, as well as the enigma of his suicide.2 Why did he decide to conclude his life in such a violent manner? Why did he, a scholar celebrated at the time...

... interests. The enigma of visual experience has become reified and susceptible to forms of domination. The modern-made­ spectator in the figure of the flâneur is “a blockhead”48 standing balanced on the brink of the naturalized system of commodity exchange. Charles Baudelaire gave us...

... particularly, this hysterical message is addressed toward the “big Other” of a “subject supposed to know,” an imagined location of fantastic “knowl- edge” about the enigma of the ego’s desires.17 Numerous leading political theorists of our time, from Louis Althusser to Michel Foucault, incarnated...

... of Duchamp’s work is distinctly retinal, constructed from the pharmacological collapsing of optical illusion, optical allusion, and gloss- ing text: these are the essential ingredients of Duchampian readymades. Duchamp is typically coy about the resulting enigma: the readymade “ulti- mately should...