...Ruth Y. Y. Hung © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Nelson Mandela F. W. de Klerk is the first president of South Africa whom I knew from TV and remembered. As it turns out, he became the last in the long list of white presidents of South Africa. It was late 1989; I was ten...

...Anthony Bogues © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Nelson Mandela: Decolonization, Apartheid, and the Politics of Moral Force Nelson Mandela was one of the world’s most important twentieth-­ century political prisoners. At a moment when world politics was in the throes...

... © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Erratum 223 Erratum for Anthony Bogues, “Nelson Mandela: Decolonization, Apart- heid, and the Politics of Moral Force,” boundary 2 41, no. 2 (2014): 34–36. The first full sentence on page 36...

...Colin Dayan © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Nelson Mandela on Nightline; or, How Palestine Matters Mandela’s funeral was on December 15, the same day that final votes were cast for the American Studies Association resolution answering “the call of Palestinian civil society...

...Paul A. Bové Nelson Mandela died on December 5, 2013. Tony Bogues, a member of the boundary 2 Collective, was in South Africa, watching the endless coverage of the news and of Mandela’s life. Bogues had met Mandela during his time with the Jamaican government of Michael Manley, and he has spent...

...Anne Allison; Harry Harootunian; Christopher T. Nelson The essays collected in this dossier focus on the diverse ways that temporalization is rescued, remade, or renounced in the crises and catastrophes that have transformed everyday life in contemporary Japan. As a rhythmanalysis of both crisis...

...Christopher T. Nelson In the aftermath of the Battle of Okinawa, the American military turned its efforts toward fortifying its new strategic outpost in the Pacific. Okinawan survivors were left to rebuild their lives in the ruins of their farms and villages. The dead were buried deeply and quickly...

...Bruce Nelson Duke University Press 2004 Irish Americans, Irish Nationalism, and the ‘‘Social’’ Question, 1916–1923 Bruce Nelson By the end of the nineteenth century, Irish America had come a long way since the days when...

...Victoria Nelson Duke University Press 2007 Faux Catholic: A Gothic Subgenre from Monk Lewis to Dan Brown Victoria Nelson “God is dead. Meet the kids.” —Neil Gaiman, The Anansi Boys We’ve seen it on the big...

...: Michael Bérubé, The Employment of English: Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies (New York: New York University Press, 1997); Cary Nelson, Manifesto of a Tenured Radical (New York: New York University Press, 1997); and Susan...

...Jim Merod © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Or, The Whale Nelson Mandela’s incarceration in 1964, under a life sentence threat- ening two decades of work and his personal well-being­ as a forty-­six-­year-­ old South African political activist, coincided with the escalation...

... of inter- nal civil violence. Nelson Mandela joins the rank of the genuine heroes we have inherited from unbroken confidence in national liberation. As Fer- nand Braudel has taught us, we cannot ignore the longue durée—the old perennial structures that continue to operate beneath, beyond, and above...

... behavior from what it is right now? At the rebirth of the South African state, Nelson Mandela’s determination to pursue a course of peace rather than vengeance stunned the world as forcefully as the violence that maimed it had kept him imprisoned on Robben Island for over two decades. The new South...

...Sobia Saleem © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Mandela’s Gift In every era, there are several men and women born who make the unthinkable thinkable, but rare and far in between are those who make the once thinkable utterly unthinkable. Nelson Mandela was one...

.... Throughout this period, three years now, I kept thinking that what we needed was a Nelson Mandela of our own. We missed having a national hero, a father figure, a reassuring face, a man of consensus able to forgive and inspire feelings of genuine leadership in reconciliation and healing. Mandela...

...Wlad Godzich © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 The Mandela Enigma Nelson Mandela has been an enigma to me. I have read his auto- biography and many of his speeches, listened to him on tape, and watched him on television, all the time wondering how someone becomes Nelson...

... the kampongs and relocate their residents to HDB flats where people of all ethnicities would live together. It was also around this time that I began to hear the word apartheid more frequently. Nelson Mandela’s imprisonment for his fight to end apart- heid was very much in the news. The newsreels...

... by Goshgarian G. M. . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press . Originally published as L'Oeuvre de l'art: Immanence et Transcendence (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1994) . Goodman Nelson . 1984 . Of Mind and Other Matters . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Goodman Nelson Elgin...

... . “The Fight and the Fiddle in Twentieth-Century African American Poetry.” In The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry , edited by Nelson Cary , 369 – 404 . New York : Oxford University Press . Frost Robert . 1928 . West-Running Brook . New York : Henry Holt...

... . Guerrilla Parties, Considered with Reference to the Laws and Usages of War . New York : D. Van Nostrand . Mandela Nelson . (1964) 1990 . “The Rivonia Trial.” In No Easy Walk to Freedom: Articles, Speeches, and Trial Addresses of Nelson Mandela . Oxford : Heinemann . Zedong Mao...