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...Arif Dirlik Duke University Press 2006 Global Modernity, Spatial Reconfigurations, and Global Health: Perspectives from the People’s Republic of China Arif Dirlik The recent tsunami disaster in South...

... advocated for in order to stave off the decline of the British Empire and to shore up a permanent Anglo-American supremacy against all threats. Still, as the English language becomes “global,” English departments today founder for a variety of reasons and convey a persistent sense of crisis. Has the time...

...Robert P. Marzec Duke University Press 2002 Enclosures, Colonization, and the Robinson Crusoe Syndrome: A Genealogy of Land in a Global Context Robert P. Marzec The advantages resulting from enclosures are not to be looked upon...

...Donald E. Pease Duke University Press 2003 y 2 / 30:3 / sheet 5 of 252 6943 boundar The Global Homeland State: Bush’s Biopolitical Settlement Donald E. Pease...

...Rob Wilson; Rob Wilson; Paul A. Bové Crazed with extremity of affect, thriller action, and a cosmopolitical style as befits the Korean-global blockbuster mode of auteur production, Bong Joon-ho’s 2013 film Snowpiercer also prods its audience to confront looming conditions of global warming...

..., writing in 1958 on the periphery of the Soviet Union, and Algerian poet and political leader Malek Haddad, writing a year later amid the Algerian War of Independence. Tracing the relationships between Global Souths, which included institutional and personal networks that persisted despite an often tense...

...Sina Rahmani The introduction to this special issue of boundary 2 examines W. G. Sebald’s rapid and sudden transformation from controversial and curmudgeonly Germanist to literary superstar as a case study in the “global valences of the critical.” The massive success of Sebald’s strange...

...Daniel T. O'Hara Duke University Press 2007 “The Cry of Its Occasion”: On the Subject of Truth; or, The Terror in Global Terrorism Daniel T. O’Hara My essay will skirt the edges of literature. For my primary concern...

...Rob Wilson Duke University Press 2007 Killer Capitalism on the Pacific Rim: Theorizing Major and Minor Modes of the Korean Global Rob Wilson 1. A Post-9/11 Pacific Rim As if overriding...

...Chu Yiu-Wai © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 The Importance of Being Chinese: Orientalism Reconfigured in the Age of Global Modernity Chu Yiu-Wai In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity...

...Daniel T. O'Hara Duke University Press 2006 Toward Global Democracy: James Baldwin and the Stoic Vision of Amor Fati Daniel T. O’Hara One of Michel Foucault’s final lecture courses, published recently as The Hermeneutics...

...Arif Dirlik This article discusses the impact of transnationalization on higher education, drawing primarily on material related to US universities. Transnationalization refers here both to the effort of universities to branch out globally, following corporate models, and to their search at home...

...Ruth Y. Y. Hung The theme of this essay is the immediacy of visuality, the dominant form of experience by which the species thinks itself of and in the world, as continuous with the world. Since the early years of the twenty-first century, a series of global spectacles has emerged and broken away...

...Anita Starosta This essay asks how translation—considered not merely as an interlinguistic procedure but as a practice inherent in every encounter—might come to inform the emergent paradigm of “global humanities.” Even as post-Eurocentric criticism presumes Europe to have been provincialized...

...” into a global economic power with Deng’s “socialism with Chinese characteristics.” Specifically, it lays out how Vogel celebrates Deng’s role as “the general manager” of China’s post-1978 “opening” and in so doing defines the temporal relation between China’s modernity and global capitalist modernity...

... of poetry around the world from beginning to present. It argues that this particular reference work is a “postdigital” creation that makes use of the format of the print codex to suggest that its plethora of authors and entries, whatever their disagreements and failings, have been assembled into a global...

... the name of globalization. This obscurely but palpably unified world is Bolaño’s subject in 2666 , which locates an Auerbachian interpretive provocation on the geopolitical ground of the US-Mexico border (one of the most spectacularly visible dividing lines between global North and South). Bolaño’s...

...Christopher L. Connery Duke University Press 2001 Ideologies of Land and Sea: Alfred Thayer Mahan, Carl Schmitt, and the Shaping of Global Myth Elements Christopher L. Connery The admonition to ‘‘think globally having long outgrown its...

...Arif Dirlik Arif Dirlik 2005 The End of Colonialism? The Colonial Modern in the Making of Global Modernity Arif Dirlik Over the last decade, discourses of globalization and postcoloniality have...

...Ibrahim Abu Lughod Duke University Press 2000 5983 b2 27:1 / sheet 81 of 237 Palestinian Higher Education: National Identity, Liberation, and Globalization...