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Journal Article
boundary 2 (2015) 42 (4): 73–76.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Sueyeun Juliette Lee On Race and Innovation Dossier / Lee 73
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restarting as “incomprehensible (5/6
a rare symbol of cooperation
that was shut down indefinitely
what are two separate matters, anyway...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2023) 50 (4): 75–96.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of Joris's translation project lies in its rare ability to hold and behold in English the mutilated music of Celan's umfarshtandlekh (incomprehensible) poetics, itself a form of German reimagined through a post‐Holocaust expanded Yiddish. [email protected] Copyright ©2023 by Duke University...
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Journal Article
boundary 2 (2008) 35 (2): 93–106.
Published: 01 May 2008
....
This conundrum is left to the future.
Conclusion: The Cultural Revolution—
Not Incomprehensible to Reason
Simplistic narratives of the Cultural Revolution are almost too
ingrained by now to be cast aside. Many members of the new generation
and many foreigners, after having...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2021) 48 (1): 35–47.
Published: 01 February 2021
... . 1971b . “ On Incomprehensibility .” In Lucinde and the Fragments , translated by Firchow Peter , 259 – 71 . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Shakespeare William . 1982 . Hamlet . London : Methuen . Stern Alexander . 2019 . The Fall of Language: Benjamin...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2020) 47 (2): 91–118.
Published: 01 May 2020
... with the incomprehensibleness of the universal applicability of black study. 98 boundary 2 / May 2020 All said and done, the revolutionary black asserted by the 1805 Hai- tian Constitution connotes what is emergent in the event without synthesis, the nonsynthetic that does not so much point to the so- called Negroid Afri- can...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2006) 33 (2): 75–90.
Published: 01 May 2006
... faces of the doctors bent over him. The glance swept over
everyone in a second. Then something incomprehensible and ter-
rible happened that to this day I can’t forget and don’t understand.
He suddenly lifted his left hand as though he were pointing to some-
thing up above...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2001) 28 (2): 203–228.
Published: 01 May 2001
... atrocity in human history is figured as the emblem
of this history’s incomprehensibility. While we would like to think that the
sheer magnitude of the destruction (in Poland alone: 500,000 by mobile
operations, 550,000 in the ghettos, 1,950,000 in the camps, three million
all together) 2 would require...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2009) 36 (2): 155–175.
Published: 01 May 2009
..., or incomprehensible oversight. However, a
preliminary report of the “Commission pour le Mémorial du Génocide et des Massacres
au Rwanda” explains, “A l’intérieur de l’Eglise, juste à l’entrée, des ossements qui ont
été ramassés sur les collines environnantes ont été recueillis dans des sachets” (174)—
giving...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2020) 47 (2): 71–89.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., that s all there was to the dream, he said to himself. But why was it so horrible? He vividly recalled the peasant again and the incomprehensible French words the peasant had uttered, and horror sent a chill down his spine (355 56). Thinking like a man, Vronsky associates the figure in his dream...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2002) 29 (1): 14.
Published: 01 February 2002
....
Björling was an outcast partly on account of his homosexuality, the prac-
tice of which was legally a crime throughout his lifetime. Though his poetry
was seen as obscure and incomprehensible by the general public, he had
many friends and supporters, not least a number of younger poets and other...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2002) 29 (1): 15–24.
Published: 01 February 2002
... and incomprehensible by the general public, he had
many friends and supporters, not least a number of younger poets and other
The work of Gunnar Björling is printed with permission of Finlands Svenska Författare-
förening — Society of Swedish Authors in Finland. The Society of Swedish Authors in
Finland (FSF...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2015) 42 (3): 63–77.
Published: 01 August 2015
..., 1988), 76–106.
Kawashima / Japan Dossier / The Voice of Interpellation 73
in the political uses of the voice in various societies. For example, anthro-
pologist Junzo Kawada writes of how in the Mosi tribe in Burkina-Faso the
chief or king always speaks in an incomprehensible...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2014) 41 (1): 153–170.
Published: 01 February 2014
... calls
the Russian people’s dysfunctional relationship to reality. No matter what
we try to do, it never turns out the way we want, he confesses in despair. To
quote Pavlovsky’s characteristic muttering:
It turns out that one of the most incomprehensible aspects of contem-
porary...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2006) 33 (1): 77–98.
Published: 01 February 2006
... that the
incomprehensible is incomprehensible. But then, where and what could be
the ‘‘idea’’ of such works? Perhaps there is none, and we are wrong to ask
for one.
In our own period, we readily see that if one wants allegory with-
out dubious ideas, one must go in for Chinese boxes, the famous mise en
abyme...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2009) 36 (1): 95–104.
Published: 01 February 2009
... this likeness? Why
didn’t they notice the similarity? Why were the events in Paris and West
Berlin alien and incomprehensible to them? This seems all the more strik-
ing given the sharp interest in everything Western that captivated Soviet
society by whatever measure the iron curtain was opened...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2016) 43 (3): 253–286.
Published: 01 August 2016
... incomprehensible to con-
temporary vernacular speakers; and divinatory, philosophic, and religious
ritual manuals. The state and its national and regional social elites sus-
tained political dynasties of unusual duration because the examination sys-
tem reauthorized these changing orthodoxies every three...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2002) 29 (1): 35–64.
Published: 01 February 2002
... and prose emerged. Transla-
tions proliferated and varying writing practices related to early French and
Anglo-American modernism were integrated into the works of such Swedish
writers as Erik Lindegren and Karl Vennberg. Even though some poetry was
accused of being incomprehensible (and actually caused...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2024) 51 (2): 39–68.
Published: 01 May 2024
..., Walking to the subway station after school, I used to look up at this building almost every day, trying not to listen to the terrible noises spilling from the windows. They were coming from the women locked behind bars, looking down on the people passing in the streets, and screaming incomprehensible...
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Journal Article
boundary 2 (2024) 51 (1): 95–106.
Published: 01 February 2024
... text that confronts the author as incomprehensible”), repression/reflection (“the translation of what is unconscious into what is conscious”), resistance (“knowledge withheld from the consciousness”), and muteness (“communication excluded from the public sphere”) (Habermas 1971 : 214–45). Variations...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2003) 30 (2): 21–45.
Published: 01 May 2003
... it. The fundamental incompatibility between these
two levels of communication performs the social imperative toward the inver-
sion of incomprehension embodied by Norton. At the same time, it localizes,
in the form of Trueblood’s utteranceI feels all rightthe always already
relinquishment of comprehension...
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