...John Beverley Representation of the period of armed struggle in Latin America, which extends from the early 1960s to the mid-1980s, has been dominated by a paradigm of disillusion that equates the armed struggle as a political strategy with an excess of youthful idealism or voluntarism. Waning...

... of the kinship of Turkic languages. It is perhaps best remembered for the resolution to adopt the Latin alphabet, defended ardently by the congress’s Azerbaijani organizer and president, Samedağa Ağamalıoğlu, who followed Lenin in his belief that Latinization promised “revolution in the East.” A reading...

...Roberto Fernández Retamar This essay on Cuba's national poet, José Martí, written originally in the early 1960s for a non-Cuban audience in the wake of the victory of the Cuban Revolution, acquires a new context with the neo-imperialism of the Bush regime and the recent resurgence of the Latin...

... Marracci's 1698 Qurʾan commentary was both the culmination of the medieval polemic tradition and the blueprint for subsequent Western engagement with the Qurʾan. Though few Qurʾanic scholars have the proficiency in Latin necessary to read Marracci's work, Western Qurʾanic studies continues to overemphasize...

.... Les enfances Renier reveals the way that Latin Christian ambivalence toward Muslims can be negotiated through a complex management of difference; in turn, the text expands our understanding of Orientalism and its deployment in medieval French literature. Orientalism functions through the ambivalent...

... . Avelar Idelber . 1999 . The Untimely Present: Postdictatorial Fiction and the Task of Mourning . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Baeza Cecilia . 2006 . “Les Identités Politiques À L’épreuve De La Mobilité. Le Cas Des Palestiniens D’Amérique Latine” [“Political Identities...

... Jerome’s motive for writing the letter is to justify his translation prac- tices. He had, he explains, rendered a text from Greek to Latin solely for the use of a fellow monk, but his translation was stolen and circulated widely outside the monastery, provoking criticisms that he made errors and omis...

... Autónoma de México; at the 2013 MLA in Boston; and at Williams College. boundary 2 42:2 (2015) DOI 10.1215/01903659-2866611 © 2015 by Duke University Press 106 boundary 2 / May 2015 has become the most translated Spanish-­language novelist since the Latin American Boom generation...

... are making discoveries by placing the body in a place where discovery is really possible. One will not find in textbooks the experiences that one has undergone. This is so true— I would never have discovered what it means to be a Latin American solely from textbooks. Quite the contrary: It was sitting...

...: Actually, Derrida made similar claims, not about writing in general but about literature. He is quite insistent in a number of his works on how litera- ture should be considered a modern European phenomenon, a phenome- non of the European 1800s/1900s—with all due respect, he adds, to Greek and Latin...

... and Latin rhet- oricians, in the modern classic How to Do Things with Words (1962) by the philosopher J. L. Austin, and in David Bromwich s new challenging, How Words Make Things Happen (2019). Kenneth Burke from the 1930s through the 1980s helped to transform Western criticism by inventing and elaborat...

... centuries. Her research interests include representations of interfaith contact across the medieval Mediterranean, conversion narratives, and genealogy. Christopher Livanos is professor of comparative literature at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has published on medieval Latin literature...

...—there's marvelous secrets in that word. Noun . Of course, it's from Latin, nomen , a name. But if your minds are beginning to dance, you should have no difficulty in finding no one there, and none . And what else? Naming is naming gods and only gods. Man is speech. But speech is naming gods...

... of Mississippi, 2001. Kristeva, Julia. Hannah Arendt. Trans. Julia Boss. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. Lange-Churión, Pedro, and Eduardo Mendieta, eds. Latin America and Postmoder- nity. Amherst, N.Y.: Humanity Books, 2001. Li-Hung, Hsiao. A Thousand Moons on a Thousand Rivers. Trans. Michelle...

... Writing the Republic: Racists, Race Rebels, and Transformations of American Identity. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2009. Biron, Rebecca E., ed. City/Art: The Urban Scene in Latin America. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2009. Bishop, Ryan, ed. Baudrillard Now: Current...

... adopted the Greek alphabet to express itself phonetically in English.”1 The nineteenth and twentieth centuries each generated many and various projects of linguistic modernization. Among these, the Turkish lan- guage reforms, which included the replacement of Ottoman Turkish script by Latin...

....: Princeton University Press, 2007. Giunta, Andrea. Avant-Garde, Internationalism, and Politics: Argentine Art in the Sixties. Latin America Otherwise. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. Glowacka, Dorota, and Joanna Zylinska, eds. Imaginary Neighbors: Mediating Polish-Jewish...

....: Duke University Press, 2005. Grosz, Elizabeth. Time Travels: Feminism, Nature, Power. Next Wave: New Direc- tions in Women’s Studies. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. Grzegorczyk, Marzena. Private Topographies: Space, Subjectivity, and Political Change in Modern Latin America. New York...

..., Kent. The Modern Age: Turn-of-the-Century American Culture and the Invention of Adolescence. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2008. Blake, Debra J. Chicana Sexuality and Gender: Cultural Refiguring in Literature, Oral History, and Art. Latin America Otherwise: Languages...

... in the tradition of cultural studies in a way that abandons its conservative, static, and functionalist origins in political science. I will be drawing on the way it has been used in a branch of Latin American anthropology. In their introduction to the edited volume Cultures of Politics/Politics of Cultures...