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Journal Article
boundary 2 (2015) 42 (1): 19–41.
Published: 01 February 2015
... and the resulting instrumental and mechanistic tendencies of twentieth-century life. Adorno’s fractured and aphoristic Minima Moralia is a reflection on the “damaged” nature of exilic existence; Spanos’s In the Neighborhood of Zero decries the massive destructive potential, on both global and personal levels...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (1): 217–233.
Published: 01 February 2015
...Donald E. Pease This article discusses the importance of Auseinandersetzung to William Spanos’s untimely exile legacies. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Edward Said Moby-Dick New World Order New Americanists American exceptionalism William Spanos’s Exile Legacies: A Ritornello...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (2): 7–39.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Peter Jeffreys The bombing of Alexandria by the British in 1882 forced C. P. Cavafy and his family into temporary exile. Traumatic for the young poet, this displacement produced a set of epistolary exchanges between friends and family that sheds much light on his Western orientation, connecting him...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (4): 179–194.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Gil Hochberg; Shir Alon Santiago Slabodsky's Decolonial Judaism: Triumphal Failures of Barbaric Thinking returns to a history of Jewish persecution, but unlike other attempts to trace the tradition of the Jewish “conscious pariah,” it does not aim to identify an “essence” of Judaism (say, “exilic...
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boundary 2 (2008) 35 (3): 63–97.
Published: 01 August 2008
... in these years of revolutionary promise and failure. After the failed revolution in Japan, he spent almost a quarter of a century in exile in Lebanon and Palestine, often working for Palestinian organizations. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 The following abbreviations are used throughout: PLO...
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (2): 71–74.
Published: 01 May 2012
... assumptions with exilic ones. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Orientalism and the Invention of World Literatures
Introduction
Aamir R. Mufti
“World literature” exercises what seems to be a strange gravitational...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2015) 42 (1): 43–65.
Published: 01 February 2015
...R. Radhakrishnan This essay is a genealogical appreciation of the theoretical legacy of the work of William Spanos as it has evolved from an early and ongoing commitment to the “de-structive hermeneutics” of Martin Heidegger toward Edward Said’s exilic politics of a contrapuntal secular humanism...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (1): 153–177.
Published: 01 February 2015
..., Spanos also throws into sharp relief similar justificatory grounds deployed by the present global powers and the ancient Roman Empire. Spanos’s contribution to postcolonial scholarship shows itself in his analyses of terms such as profane, conscious pariah , and exile vis-à-vis the disciplinary...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (1): 179–194.
Published: 01 February 2015
...Philip Armstrong In the conclusion to Exiles in the City, and drawing from the writings of Hannah Arendt, Edward Said, and Giorgio Agamben, William Spanos refers to an “agonic friendship” that is not “‘friendship’ as such”—that is, friendship premised on “filiation or affiliation...
Journal Article
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 (2002) 29 (3): 91–103.
Published: 01 August 2002
... with
the term diaspora itself, includes, in alphabetical order, exile, identity, lan-
guage, and nationality. Each one of these terms refers in turn to a semantic
field whose intersections and ramifications, whenever possible, I will try...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (1): 67–85.
Published: 01 February 2015
... and international politics.
—William V. Spanos, Exiles in the City: Hannah Arendt and
Edward W. Said in Counterpoint
1. The Status of Destructive Criticism
From its inception, a secular vocation has characterized the work of
William V. Spanos. His goal is to confront the historical...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2006) 33 (2): 129–157.
Published: 01 May 2006
... knowledge of the Chinese language, and
without the community of a Chinatown or a suburban Asian American com-
munity. His condition of exile, however, has proved to be immensely produc-
tive of emotional intensity and imagination, and his poetics derives largely
from his ontological condition...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2012) 39 (2): 161–180.
Published: 01 May 2012
... for political exiles, and its “exotic” Muslim popu-
lation helped shape it as the ideal location for Russia’s cultural produc-
tion of its own Orient. In this essay, I consider the threshold space of the
Caucasus, along the geographic borders of the Kuban River and Cauca-
sian Mountains...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2001) 28 (3): 207–216.
Published: 01 August 2001
... of
the earth The reference is to the dispersion of Jews among the Gentiles
after the Babylonian Exile, or the aggregate of Jews or Jewish communities
scattered ‘‘in exile’’ outside Palestine. Although the term refers to the physi-
cal dispersal of Jews throughout the world, it also carries religious, philo...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2002) 29 (3): 105–119.
Published: 01 August 2002
...
that perpetual mise-en-scène in which the present mixes with memory and
reality with fiction, and in which, to repeat, the politico-ideological operates,
beyond its proper meaning, as a kind of protective shell around the exile...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2019) 46 (4): 31–62.
Published: 01 November 2019
... emblem of virtuous humanist labor, is on the side of usefulness and civility. He is a gentleman scholar rather than a professional author. As readers of Said, 42 boundary 2 / November 2019 we might note that from the spider s perspective, the bee is also a figure of exile, a homeless vagabond...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (1): 115–138.
Published: 01 February 2015
... polity” (AS,
206) of exiles, slaves, barbarians, and, in this case, women ousted from
the sovereignty order of the polis as its rogues and beasts. Despite the
great historical divide between the ancient Greek polis and the American
polis, the reconstellation of these two discrepant histories...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2004) 31 (2): 219–243.
Published: 01 May 2004
... that is based on a totalizing Western view in which the Jew plays the
symbolic role of the displaced outsider. The Israeli sociologist David Ohana
similarly writes about ‘‘the Mediterranean Jew who, unlike the exilic Euro-
pean Jew, is comfortable in his place, ‘‘a natural son to his surroundings...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2001) 28 (3): 133–155.
Published: 01 August 2001
.... In a late essay on the poetry of
Georg Trakl, for example, Heidegger refers to this occasion as die Abge-
schiedenheit, ‘‘the place of apartness and the poet who inhabits it, die Ab-
geschiedene, ‘‘the one who is apart He or she is the ‘‘stranger’’ who is
bereft of language—exiled from a discursive...
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