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The Figure of the “Intellectual” in the Early Reform Period
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boundary 2 (2019) 46 (2): 121–137.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Dai Jinhua; Lennet Daigle The logic behind the fluctuating fortunes of Chinese intellectuals in the early PRC—from hero to scapegoat, prisoner to honored guest—is clarified by examining both the representations of intellectuals in literary and cinematic fictions of the period, and the writing...
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Messages in a Bottle: An Interview with Filmmaker Masao Adachi
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boundary 2 (2008) 35 (3): 63–97.
Published: 01 August 2008
... of his first film in Japan after years of imprisonment in Lebanon and Japan. Adachi's career and activities spanned the crucial decades of the 1950s and 1960s, perhaps the most intense period of radical protest in Japan's postwar period. His experimental work constituted a significant intervention...
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The Philosophy of Restoration: Alain Badiou and the Enemies of May
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (1): 27–46.
Published: 01 February 2009
...-explored aspect of Badiou's theory of the subject with a historical contextualization and periodization, touching on the importance of the theory of “revisionism,” the development of an account of reactive subjectivity, the humanism and antihumanism debate, and Badiou's cartography of a “philosophical...
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The Liberal Form: An Interview with Jonathan Franzen
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (2): 31–54.
Published: 01 May 2009
..., character, the novel versus the short story, and contemporary politics, but it was centered on the social and political capacity of the modern novel, the form's ability to reflect on or respond to its times, the novel's relationship to society, and the nature of politics in the current period, a period...
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The End of the Sixties
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (1): 183–210.
Published: 01 February 2009
... consequences, and seeks to consider, through an examination of ways in which the energies of the period were transformed, a new way of approaching the temporal politics of the period. © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Thanks to Antonis Balasopoulos, Alberto Toscano, Lin Chun, Gail Hershatter, Wang...
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Afterword: In and beyond the Boundaries of Medievalism
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (3): 233–246.
Published: 01 August 2023
...-standing role in promoting an Anglocentric paradigm of time and history. The implications reach beyond the 1500s, into the settler and colonial periods of early America, serving as a reminder that Western-derived divisions of time—that is, periodization—have anchored white-centered epistemologies. Rooted...
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Toward a Refutation of Malevolent Voices
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boundary 2 (2011) 38 (2): 39–62.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Lu Xun “Po e'sheng lun” (Toward a refutation of malevolent voices) is an essay from the formative period of the famous Chinese writer Lu Xun (1881-1936), penned in Tokyo in the classical Chinese language, and first published in December of 1908 (issue no. 8 of Henan , a soon-to-be-banned journal...
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Reading for the Stimmung ? About the Ontology of Literature Today
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boundary 2 (2008) 35 (3): 213–221.
Published: 01 August 2008
... in which texts can evoke a material impression (the “lightest” possible material impression, however) through effects of prosody. “Reading for the ` Stimmung '” can connect us with unusual immediacy to the Stimmung of a past historical period and a different cultural environment. “Reading...
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Rethinking the Armed Struggle in Latin America
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (1): 47–59.
Published: 01 February 2009
...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...
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1960s East and West: The Nature of the Shestidesiatniki and the New Left
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (1): 95–104.
Published: 01 February 2009
.... They shared common sources, ideals, and objectives, drawing on Marxist tradition and striving for “socialism with a human face.” Both movements took shape in the relative prosperity of the postwar period, when frustration grew over the betrayal of democratic and socialist ideals. The mutual unintelligibility...
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“Long Time”: Last Daughters and the New “New South”
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (1): 149–182.
Published: 01 February 2009
...Hortense J. Spillers This essay looks at aspects of new southern culture against the backdrop of the 2007 Supreme Court ruling on school desegregation and its impact on our understanding of the sixties. Incorporating two book reviews, the essay argues that the “long” perspective on the period...
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The Right to Translation: Deconstructive Pedagogy in Comparative Literature, 1979/2009
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (3): 29–56.
Published: 01 August 2010
... and technics that lent self-assurance to literary education in the 1970s and 1980s. In the memos, letters, seminar notes, and texts written in this period, what emerges is a “right to translate” as the covenant of a deconstructive comparative literature. Drawing on the transcript of Derrida's 1979 seminar...
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Is Zarathustra No Longer a Scholar? The Future of Philology
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (3): 79–89.
Published: 01 August 2010
... colleague and friend Erwin Rohde defended the book, as did the composer Richard Wagner. In this essay, I examine the major issues underlying the ideological assumptions of the classicists in the German tradition of the period. I also address the unprecedented originality of Nietzsche's work as it still...
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Poetry Animal
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (3): 97–103.
Published: 01 August 2009
... are “thoughts on things,” like the plumage of Lorine Niedecker's “Mergansers,” that “fold unfold / above the river beds.” In voicing the meandering pitches of Maggie O'Sullivan's “Starlings,” do we undergo kinship with animals? Poetry animals lose sight of teleology and move with periodic, inhuman intensities...
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History’s Restless Ruins: On Socialist Public Monuments in Postsocialist Bulgaria
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (1): 171–201.
Published: 01 February 2014
... political and everyday life is hard to imagine. This essay focuses on two particularly contested monuments from two distinct periods of Bulgaria’s socialist era, Plovdiv’s Monument to the Soviet Army, or “Aliosha,” from 1957, and Sofia’s Monument to 1300 Years of Bulgaria, from 1981. It offers a historical...
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The World Union of Documentary and the Early Cold War
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (1): 165–193.
Published: 01 February 2022
... of the period but also by complex political, administrative, and generational dynamics within the documentary community and the international Left. [email protected] Copyright ©2022 by Duke University Press 2022 documentary Joris Ivens internationalism Cold War film festivals A photograph...
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Processes of Destitution in Spain: Unavowable Communities between the Regime of ’78 and the Total State
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (3): 191–213.
Published: 01 August 2021
..., truth, and historical agreement toward those central to a new destituent process: dissent, divergence, and plurality, among others. Over the course of this essay, I carry out a genealogical review of the two intersecting social movements of the period which drove that change: first, the anti-austerity...
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The Soviet Invention of Postcolonial Studies
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (2): 133–156.
Published: 01 May 2023
... was supported by the Soviet Union in the Cold War period and the importance of publications such as Lotus magazine. The books reviewed here demonstrate the degree to which histories of “postcolonialism” and the late Western critique of Orientalism have now been rewritten to acknowledge their sources in earlier...
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Different and Familiar: Les enfances Renier and the Question of Medieval Orientalism
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (3): 189–209.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Anne Le Abstract Some medievalists use “medieval Orientalism” to address critiques of Edward Said's engagement with the Middle Ages in Orientalism. However, the author of this article argues that “medieval Orientalism” entrenches a divide between the Middle Ages and other time periods, which...
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Race, Medieval Studies, and Disciplinary Boundaries
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (3): 107–121.
Published: 01 August 2023
... to their respective disciplinary boundaries. While trying to globalize medieval studies, medievalists have remained in disciplinary silos, especially in regard to a transnational and transtemporal understanding of race. This article's author argues that a comparative approach to periodization, rather than holding...
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