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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (3): 121–122.
Published: 01 August 2009
... for the future. In Barry Bonds I See the Future of Poetry Kenneth Goldsmith The inevitability of Barry Bonds serves notice to all poets invested in the Humanist tradition: your tenure is doomed. Bonds is not only the future of athletics, but he’s...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (1): 47–59.
Published: 01 February 2009
... of the revolutionary movements, particularly around questions of race, gender, and ethnicity, and sexual preference. But the very fact that these questions can be raised is due in part to the fact that the revolutionary movements put them centrally on the agenda of modern Latin American life. Rather than seeing...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (2): 199–208.
Published: 01 May 2009
... circulates in a global era where we are shown so much but see so little represents a crucial political turn for Cronenberg. Analyzing this turn invites consideration, through a particularly ambitious case, of how commercial narrative cinema might imagine globalized geopolitics after 9/11. These two films...
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boundary 2 (2019) 46 (3): 5–22.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Harry Harootunian The essay attempts to present and thus see the literary scholar, activist, and thinker Masao Miyoshi as we constantly saw him crossing the boundaries between the United States and Japan and eventually enlarging his vision to include the world at large. But the act of seeing...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (4): 111–123.
Published: 01 November 2022
... thought. Her Thoreau is a prophet with a freshly thought‐out message about how perpetual mourning drives the perpetual renewal of life, about the importance of disindividualizing, and about the persistence of life at its most basic and elemental level. Arsić shows how, once we learn to see and hear...
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boundary 2 (2008) 35 (3): 213–221.
Published: 01 August 2008
... “master thinkers” who do not appear; but, epistemologically, we seem to be stuck in the extreme (and unfruitful) tension between seeing literary texts as “allegories” of the impossibility of language to refer to any outside referent (following the dogma of “deconstruction” and the linguistic turn...
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boundary 2 (2008) 35 (3): 239–250.
Published: 01 August 2008
...Anustup Basu This essay is a critical evaluation of contemporary urban Hindutva in the light of Carl Schmitt's famous assertion that all liberal political concepts are transposed theological ones. Without agreeing with Schmitt's hard-right nationalism, one can see that from the discursive...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (1): 61–94.
Published: 01 February 2009
... American Left. Martí was one of the first thinkers of revolutionary anticolonial struggle, and in that sense it is legitimate to see him as the main ideological inspiration of the Cuban Revolution itself some sixty years after his death. Yet Martí's own relation to Marx—his near contemporary...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (2): 155–175.
Published: 01 May 2009
..., and necessarily, opposed ways of seeing. Thus, far from solving problems of testimony by displaying hard evidence of death, the memorials reveal anew the necessity of an impossible testimony, that is, a testimony of the dead. Duke University Press 2009 Rwanda’s Bones...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (2): 217–228.
Published: 01 May 2009
... of the group, Waters sees the individual as a countervailing force. Confucianism, Humanism, and Human Rights I went to China for the first time in 1996 at the invitation of the French Department at Nanjing University, which was working with the Fondation pour le Progrès de l’Homme to build...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (2): 187–198.
Published: 01 May 2010
... an ordering of the globe along racial lines. Though these flashes contain hope for a world-to-come, the essay calls for a corresponding cosmopolitan vision that is not blinded by this global promise, but is willing to see through it to confront the fractured local ground of the postcolonial present...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (3): 235–240.
Published: 01 August 2009
... an author, bibliographic and textual materials, biographical details, and the scholarly apparatus of a journal, including page references and index. See boundary 2 . All poetry herein is the apparatus (ambience) of an index to its publication, i.e., all poetry is generic in its [publishable or unpublishable...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (1): 7–19.
Published: 01 February 2013
... as an unmediated and unproblematic return to the tradition of (Sunni) Islam, making it difficult to see that political Islam is in fact a result of the great transformation of Muslim societies under colonial rule. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Part 1: Why I Am Not a Postsecularist...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (1): 55–76.
Published: 01 February 2013
... supernatural beings are routinely assumed to intervene in earthly events, this essay rejects the term and asks how the scholarly community has come to see it as plausible. It answers this question by pointing to the cultural disciplines and their risky, though perhaps inevitable, respect for the concept...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (2): 9–23.
Published: 01 May 2013
..., and Candace Vogler to treat their various suggestions about moral problems and how literature might serve them. In particular, she observes that each of these philosophers suggests how modern moral thought, which Williams sees as dominated by a progressivist account of its own history, arrives at less...
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (3): 151–167.
Published: 01 August 2012
..., not allegorically, to circumnavigate his world just as Renaissance scientists, poets, and explorers had. Renaissance humanism gave him tools, spiritual exercises, for learning to train his attention to the words on the page and to stop seeing them through a distorting haze. This essay is based on a talk I...
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (1): 17–30.
Published: 01 February 2014
... stadium to which he is admitted after having answered a ritual question. The topography of his itinerary is matched by the topology of his memory, as he sees a forlorn lover working on the 112th page of a draft letter, various lovers sleeping in each other’s arms, and the train stations that were...
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (2): 227–239.
Published: 01 May 2014
.... The book nonetheless nicely accomplishes what it is trying to do. Scalia is one of the authors, to be sure, but he is also the protagonist of a narrative. The author’s preeminent concern is seeing to it that you perceive the protagonist as the author intends: as the champion of judicial restraint, against...
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boundary 2 (2011) 38 (1): 101–134.
Published: 01 February 2011
... monolithic official discourse. While the party-state continues to closely supervise the public sphere, the introduction of markets, the relative diversification of media producers, and the increasing volume of media introduce a degree of dynamism and unpredictability. Seeing important change but recognizing...
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boundary 2 (2011) 38 (2): 1–38.
Published: 01 May 2011
..., and in so doing he rearticulates the concepts of empire vs. imperialism. He sees transnational high-tech capitalism as having arrived at a crossroads. One path from this crossroads, he argues, leads to rival imperialisms; and the other path leads to the formation of a regulated world market flanked by world...