...Ronald A.T. Judy Introduction: On W. E. B. Du Bois and Hyperbolic Thinking Ronald A.T. Judy The idea for this special issue of boundary 2 has a complicated genealogy. Its beginnings go back to the summer of 1985, when I had been...

...Philip Rosen Duke University Press 2003 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. y 2 / 30:1 / sheet 5 of 224 6808 boundar Introduction...

...Arif Dirlik © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Introduction Arif Dirlik The idea of putting together...

... and support. Special thanks go to John Beverley, sixties man, not only for his work as author, editor, translator, and facilitator for this issue, but for an exemplary and inspiring career of committed, critical, and self-critical scholarship. Introduction: The Still Vacillating Equilibrium of the World...

...Bruce Robbins Duke University Press 2009 American Novel Dossier Introduction Bruce Robbins “A screaming comes across the sky.” The first line of the Call for Papers...

...Daniel T. O'Hara On the Philological Imagination: A Brief Introduction Daniel T. O’Hara The inspiration for this special issue, “On the Philological Imagi- nation,” was twofold. I wanted to bring together as many critics as pos...

...Aamir R. Mufti This introduction explains the structure of the special issue “Antinomies of the Postsecular,” which is divided into two discrete parts. It also briefly summarizes the contributions included in the issue. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 This content is made freely available...

...David Buuck; Juliana Spahr Duke University Press 2006 Poetry and Other Englishes: A Forum Edited by David Buuck and Juliana Spahr Introduction David Buuck and Juliana Spahr A literature that is self-aware of and concerned with the material...

...John Beverley Duke University Press 2002 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. 6736 boundary 2 29:3 / sheet 5 of 265 Introduction...

... an acknowledgment of the inadequacies of the accepted views and formulations about the country. By foregrounding some of those problems that this special issue of boundary 2 seeks to identify, analyze, and understand, the introduction urges for the need to move beyond the existing theoretical paradigms...

...Ted Huters © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Introduction Ted Huters Lu Xun’s unfinished 1908 essay “Toward a Refutation of Malevo- lent Voices,” the subject of the article by Wang Hui translated here, has...

.... Introduction: For Dignity; Tunisia and the Poetry of Emergent Democratic Humanism R. A. Judy Looking at what is happening in Tunisia now, one cannot help but ask how revolutions, or revolts, uprisings, and insurrections...

...Aamir R. Mufti The introduction to this dossier situates the concept of world literature as potentially challenging and intellectually productive, on the one hand, and susceptible to easy commodification, on the other. It argues for an incontrovertible link between the Orientalist philological...

... blocks of a renewed sense of everydayness. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 temporality rhythm conjuncture space Japan Crisis of the Everyday/Everyday Crisis: Across Time in Japan Introduction Anne Allison, Harry Harootunian, and Christopher T. Nelson...

... reserved. music sound value Introduction Gavin Steingo and Jairo Moreno The question of value might seem beyond the pale in cases of sound and music. Sound and music are objects of immense accumulation, appre- ciation, exploration, and investment...

..., including his writings on radio, film, children’s literature, and children’s theater, as well as his studies of Franz Kafka and Bertolt Brecht. The introduction provides brief summaries of the ten articles comprising the dossier and their relation to one another, and it addresses the question...

... Introduction to Ends and Means of Student Pedagogic Groups Translated in the following pages is the text of an address deliv- ered by Walter Benjamin at the First Student Pedagogic Conference, held at the University of Breslau on October 6 7, 1913. The text was published the following year...

...Nor Hall Abstract This introduction to the Book of Ours tells stories of the processes of its production and the efforts made regarding its publication. The Book of Ours , a handwritten and hand-drawn workbook, was designed by Norman O. Brown and Nor Hall to accompany eight labyrinthine lectures...

... historical present. Marxism, Communism, and Translation: An Introduction Nergis Ertürk and Özge Serin The political Right in the United States and elsewhere has always found it convenient to imagine Marxism and communism as movements...