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boundary 2 (2002) 29 (3): 91–103.
Published: 01 August 2002
...Ambrosio Fornet Duke University Press 2002 6736 boundary 2 29:3 / sheet 95 of 265 The Cuban Literary Diaspora and Its Contexts: A Glossary Ambrosio Fornet...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (2): 213–239.
Published: 01 May 2017
... Emily . 2008 . “Untranslatables: A World System.” New Literary History 39 , no. 3 : 581 – 98 . Brabham Daren C. 2013 . Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press . Brotherston Gordon . 2012 . “‘Native America...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (2): 241–256.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Richard Purcell In “Did the Digital Age Kill the Literary Star?” Richard Purcell looks back on Adam Bradley's Ralph Ellison in Progress: From “Invisible Man” to “Three Days before the Shooting” in light of Edward Snowden's revelations that the White House and the National Security Agency have been...
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (2): 97–136.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Dubravka Djurić Abstract From historical perspectives, this article points to the interactions between official politics, official literary culture, and radical poetry in socialist Yugoslavia and postsocialist post-Yugoslav cultures. The complexity of parallel political and poetically...
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (3): 107–123.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Yin Wang By way of four literary works by Taiwanese writer Lai Xiangyin, this essay examines the contrasting conditions for native Taiwanese of the interwar and postwar generations to view and imagine “China” after 1945 and across four decades of dictatorial rule by the Chinese Nationalist Party...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (3): 103–132.
Published: 01 August 2020
...:3 (2020) DOI 10.1215/01903659- 8524442 © 2020 by Duke University Press The Stateless Novel: Refugees, Literary Form, and the Rise of Containerization Sina Rahmani Halfway through Grant Gee s film Patience (After Sebald ) (2012), Christopher MacLehose, the original publisher of the English...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (2): 107–132.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Jeremy Matthew Glick This essay examines Amiri Baraka's improvisatory, always changing commitment to literary and performative formal innovation in the service of his radical politics. It charts the coupling of romantic longing with radical political prescription in Baraka's career and suggests...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (3): 101–122.
Published: 01 August 2010
... of what might be called “archival desire.” © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Literary Forensics, or the Incendiary Archive Eric Savoy Everything is a burned book. —Roberto Bolaño, 2666 Back in the day when fire...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (2): 155–185.
Published: 01 May 2010
... I am grateful to Brian Lennon, Özge Serin, and three anonymous readers of an earlier version of this essay for their helpful suggestions. Phonocentrism and Literary Modernity in Turkey Nergis Ertürk In an article dated September 2...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (2): 9–23.
Published: 01 May 2013
... and What Was I Thinking? Philosophical Examples and the Uses of the Literary Frances Ferguson The very idea of an example embeds a simple claim: this is one thing that, in representing other things of its kind, enables some aspect...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (2): 41–51.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Helen Small The standard claim made for literary examples in moral philosophy is that they assist moral reasoning by offering appropriately complex descriptions of the conditions under which moral decisions are made or might plausibly be made. This essay offers a critical examination of that claim...
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (3): 75–95.
Published: 01 August 2012
...Emmanuel Alloa If literary avant-garde journals and their communities have been, in the twentieth century, a space for creating, if not sustaining, major political utopias, it should help explain why this “literary communism,” as Jean-Luc Nancy called it, is not a weakened or substitutional form...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (2): 183–213.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Nergis Ertürk This essay traces the legacy of the 1926 Baku Turcological Congress for postcolonial studies and comparative literary criticism. An assembly of 131 delegates, including such prominent figures as the Crimean Tatar Turcologist Bekir Sıdkı Çobanzade, the Kazak revolutionary, linguist...
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Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 2. A caricature by Sopho Antoniadis printed in Egyptiotes Ellin/al-Yunani al-Mutamassir on May 31, 1933, showing the Francophone Egyptian writer Ahmed Rassim, first to the left, among a number of public figures. Image courtesy of the Hellenic Literary and Historical Archive in Athens More
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boundary 2 (2008) 35 (3): 213–221.
Published: 01 August 2008
...Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht For some years now, inside observers have felt that literary studies has arrived at a moment of stagnation. Not only has a fifty-year-long sequence of changing “paradigms” come to a standstill since the final years of the twentieth century; not only are we longing for new...
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boundary 2 (2016) 43 (2): 141–162.
Published: 01 May 2016
... philosophical reflections on the literary, defined as they so frequently are by a small, high modernist European canon? Might Badiou provide resources for a critique of what has become known as “world literature,” with its assumptions about translation and the smooth transportability of literary meaning? How...
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (3): 173–196.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Jing Tsu Amid recent debates on large-scale literary studies (world, planetary, Sinophone, etc.), it is often missed how the smaller players have already been siphoning political capital away from the usual literary and linguistic centers, reforging the terms of discussion even as they are being...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (3): 59–86.
Published: 01 August 2013
... systematically fails to translate non-English works into English, I argue that critiques of the whole literary field, based on the close reading of individual texts, overlook the systemic and institutional grounds of American unworldliness. David Foster Wallace’s 2004 novella, “The Suffering Channel,” offers...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (2): 15–30.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Harry Garuba This essay attempts to locate the work of the Somali novelist Nuruddin Farah within a tradition of African and postcolonial critical thought that privileges “teacherliness” as a measure of value and significance in its discourse and as an aesthetic principle in literary texts...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (4): 157–179.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Kenneth Gross The essay describes Angus Fletcher’s ambitious, often uncanny ways of mapping the nature of literary form and literary knowing. The essay describes how Fletcher himself describes our crucial metaphors of order and disorder, our “cosmic” (sometimes cosmetic) images, how he explores...