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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (1): 3–37.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Denise Ferreira da Silva Abstract In this conversation with Denise Ferreira da Silva, which unfolded over a period of twelve months, Hortense Spillers comments on critical political events and moments, which coincide with major markers in her academic trajectory. Each of these historical...
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (1): 95–106.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Calvin Warren Abstract There is much in Hortense Spillers's work to celebrate—from black feminism to literary criticism. One of her crucial contributions, however, has received little, if any, scholarly attention. Calvin Warren calls this a black discourse theory . Although we've focused...
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (1): 107–125.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Shoniqua Roach Abstract This essay maps Hortense Spillers's figurations of the black woman across three essays published in the 1980s—“Interstices,” “An Order of Constancy,” and “Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe”—to illustrate the myriad ways in which Spillers imagines black women as vital symbolic...
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (1): 127–142.
Published: 01 February 2024
... of Hortense Spillers and her interlocutors, the essay concludes that “bastard sugar” showcases the paradoxes of value in financial markets, and as such is the condition of New World thought. In this way, Spillers's insights have been a great influence on my own work. In my ongoing project, “An Illicit Wage...
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (1): 143–178.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Jeremy Matthew Glick Abstract This essay is an impressionistic account of Hortense J. Spillers's materialist synthesis of narrative theory, political theology, and expository logic that foregrounds people-centered histories and surprise in a proliferation of critical and theoretical paradigms...
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (1): 77–93.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Margo Natalie Crawford Abstract This essay uncovers the ties between Hortense Spillers's theory and criticism and Toni Morrison's literature. Crawford's analysis of representations of “flesh” in “Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe” (1987) and Beloved (1987) becomes a springboard for her analysis of other...
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (1): 39–57.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Hortense J. Spillers; Jonathan Arac Abstract William Faulkner constructed Absalom, Absalom! with techniques that allowed him to reach beyond his time and place to a historical grasp of problems that arise from a long past and that continue to shape our world nearly a century after the novel's...
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in Braised Cucumbers, Maps, and Surprises: Materialist Narratology and Political Theology in the Work of Hortense J. Spillers
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Published: 01 February 2024
Figure 1 Drawing by Hortense J. Spillers. Feminist Theory Archive, John Hay Library, Brown University. Courtesy of Hortense J. Spillers.
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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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boundary 2 (2006) 33 (3): 21–34.
Published: 01 August 2006
...Hortense J. Spillers Duke University Press 2006 ‘‘Democracy in America
Notes of a Native Daughter Two Centuries On
Hortense J. Spillers
I would bet that America’s Democratic National Committee carried
out some very sustained soul...
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boundary 2 (2002) 29 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 February 2002
...Hortense J. Spillers Duke University Press 2002 Inauguration Day 2001
Hortense J. Spillers
Saturday, 20 January, was a day from hell, and if you are among the
fifty million or so American voters, as I am, who think of the past...
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boundary 2 (2003) 30 (2): 5–19.
Published: 01 May 2003
...Hortense J. Spillers Duke University Press 2003 ‘‘The Little Man at Chehaw Station’’ Today
Hortense J. Spillers
It would not be an exaggeration to say that I have known something
about the ‘‘little man at Chehaw Station’’ virtually...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 February 2009
...Christopher Connery; Hortense J. Spillers © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. We would like to thank Paul Bové and the editors of boundary 2 for their encouragement...
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (2): 6–7.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Hortense Spillers © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Discomforts
Some things rest uneasy on the mind: In a pinch, how prepared
would I be, for instance, to live by the protocols of nonviolence? And if you
extirpate the pinch, how would a commitment to such principles alter my...
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (2): 3–32.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Hortense Spillers “Destiny’s Child: Obama and Election ’08” interrogates the election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States as a historically ordained event. This essay not only addresses the question of whether we might plausibly read it as the fulfillment of telos but also...
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (1): 59–75.
Published: 01 February 2024
...C. Riley Snorton Abstract This essay takes “Interstices: A Small Drama of Words” as an opening for thinking about the impact of Hortense Spillers's thought on Black feminist, queer, and transgender studies. In a reflection on the interstitial, the essay engages Spillers's approaches...
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (2): 1–2.
Published: 01 May 2012
... of President
Obama. His historic ascendency to the White House created ripples and
then waves of different political feelings in the United States and the world.
As Hortense Spillers puts it in her contribution to this issue, this ascen-
dency was a moment in which “the beginning marks the end...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (1): 207–248.
Published: 01 February 2023
... was work of a certain kind. “The aim was a synthesis of Western culture in which the synthesis itself was matched in importance by the very gesture of doing it” (Said 1978 : 258–59). What had Auerbach achieved? He had brought into history, as Hortense Spillers insists critics must do, an object created...
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boundary 2 (2005) 32 (3): 139–168.
Published: 01 August 2005
... magazine.
In this correspondence, he urged the NAACP and ‘‘all the organizations who
would compel immediate and unconditional integration’’ to ‘‘Go slow now.
Stop for a time, for a moment 2 As one might expect, such a seemingly con-
Thanks, as usual, are more than due to Hortense Spillers.
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boundary 2 (2000) 27 (3): 249–286.
Published: 01 August 2000
... Law Center, I thank Austin Sarat, Ken Mack, and Brooks Thomas. This
essay was also presented on 28 January 2000 as part of ‘‘A ‘National Treasury of Rhe-
torical Wealth’: A Symposium on the Work of Hortense Spillers sponsored by the Center
for the Study of Black Literature and Culture...
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