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boundary 2 (2011) 38 (1): 203–229.
Published: 01 February 2011
...Yunxiang Yan This article reveals that in response to the dramatic social changes since the 1949 revolution, Chinese rural families have undergone a process of profound transformation, which I refer to as the “individualization of the family.” This transformation took place at two interlocking yet...
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Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 4. Greek Necropolis, Ralli Family Mortuary Chapel of Saint Stephen, designed by James Thomas Knowles Sr. Photo by Peter Jeffreys.
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (2): 137–163.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Yi Zheng Abstract This essay explores Fu Lei's Family Letters, 1954–1966 (1981) as an accidental then aborted künstlerroman for the newly established People's Republic of China. It suggests that Fu's private epistolary transformation of the bildungsroman is an important undercurrent of Chinese...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (2): 7–39.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Figure 4. Greek Necropolis, Ralli Family Mortuary Chapel of Saint Stephen, designed by James Thomas Knowles Sr. Photo by Peter Jeffreys. ...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (3): 77–97.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Stephen Carter Abstract This essay explores Norman O. Brown's conception of politics and metapolitics. Brown describes politics via Freud's family romance, as a sphere of conflict between fathers and sons. The first part of the argument focuses on Brown's notion of the fraternal—collectivities...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (1): 61–94.
Published: 01 February 2009
...—and socialism was ambiguous. Martí's work cannot be contained within the formula of bourgeois-democratic nationalism. Rather, as in the case of other thinker/poet/activists of the periphery, who form his legitimate “family,” he represents the case of a maximum possible radicalism , at once aesthetic...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (3): 205–228.
Published: 01 August 2009
... poems, folk songs, letters, and the original lyrics of the “Bed Hangings” sequence—the whole designed to create an elegiac memoir of the poet's mother, Mary Manning Howe, that is also an autobiographical account of the poet's own discovery of her vocation and her place in her maternal family history...
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (1): 55–67.
Published: 01 February 2012
... already taken to the streets after a poor street vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on fire on December 17 in reaction to humiliation he suffered at the hands of the local authorities for simply trying to earn a living for his family. People in Kasserine were enraged by the news of the Sidi Bouzid...
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (3): 203–218.
Published: 01 August 2014
...Daniel T. O’Hara A critical appreciation of Middle C , by William H. Gass, this review essay focuses on the self-reflective ironies of what is likely to be the celebrated author’s last novel, capping a long metafictional career. A story about an immigrant family of fakes, whose scion cons his way...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (3): 129–141.
Published: 01 August 2015
... in this essay. But I also consider another: the emergence of new practices for postmortem care/memorial that relieve social intimates (notably family) of the responsibilities of tending to the dead. In an era where privatization and “self-responsibility” now extend to death, how does sociality get played out...
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (3): 151–167.
Published: 01 August 2012
..., by giving an account of what it was like for him as a person who had grown up in an orthodox Catholic family in America in the second half of the twentieth century to suddenly find himself, in reading Milton, to be living in a world where bitsiness was the rule. He had to learn to read things literally...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (2): 215–238.
Published: 01 May 2013
... of their crafts but is not founded in templates of belonging—national, civilizational, familial, or conjugal. My argument ends with the idea that for Narayan, this conceptualization of love generates critical practice as a function of the kind of curiosity that, armed with the force of fictional possibilities...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (3): 171–184.
Published: 01 August 2015
... on this tension, I claim that critics encour-
aged women to practice photography as a form of social—and, more con-
cretely, familial—reproduction. Critics appreciated in women’s photography
what they saw as young women’s investment in regenerating communities,
the most important of which was the family...
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boundary 2 (2002) 29 (2): 29–43.
Published: 01 May 2002
... character was loosely based
with a scene in which Colonel Tavington, Martin’s antagonist, proposes the
sobriquet the ‘‘Ghost’’ to index Martin’s ability to elude capture and to strike
without warning.
The ‘‘Ghost’’ also indicates that the figure who moved in between the
positions of the family...
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (1): 127–142.
Published: 01 February 2024
.... The irony of searching for such a term in these solitary, distant conditions—rather than part of the family of researchers, a hodgepodge community not unlike the so-called family of the British “Commonwealth of Nations”—was not lost on me. As I continued my search, I could not help but remember what...
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boundary 2 (2004) 31 (3): 1–46.
Published: 01 August 2004
... from her homeland and the
harassment by the Sisodiya family become open texts for generations of
women and subaltern classes to insert their own experience of disempow-
erment and resistance into the Meera poem.
In the religio-folk idioms, the details of Meera’s life are constantly
bio...
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boundary 2 (2004) 31 (2): 219–243.
Published: 01 May 2004
... education that lacks authentic and significant cultural and spiri-
tual stability 7
When the young Egyptian writer Jacqueline (Shohat) Kahanoff, who
was born in Cairo in 1917 to a Jewish family of Iraqi and Tunisian descent,
reintroduced the term Levantinism in her writing published in Israel from...
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boundary 2 (2007) 34 (3): 47–60.
Published: 01 August 2007
..., and as if we readers
had the same motives as a son for reining in our intellectually independent
impulses.
The usual argument against Nussbaum’s version of cosmopolitan-
ism is that we cannot possibly be expected to care about those far away
as intensely as we care about our families. In his...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2004) 31 (1): 49–71.
Published: 01 February 2004
..., the members of the family ‘‘were sitting around their
little fire-side, gloomily awaiting an increase of poverty and misery’’ (2:17).
Several ingredients of the nineteenth-century Emmet legend are present in
the story, and these are effectively mapped onto gothic tropes: the cave in
the Wicklow mountains...
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boundary 2 (2008) 35 (1): 197–215.
Published: 01 February 2008
... that began Against the Day will converge in the
story of the Traverse family (whose very name suggests the various “lines”
that run through it). The convergence, and all the dramatic situations that
follow from it, imparts a genealogical authority to the novel’s figural rhetoric.
Three characters...
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