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Journal Article
boundary 2 (2022) 49 (2): 213–241.
Published: 01 May 2022
... effects and how Prince engages and extends the blues idiom. [email protected] Copyright ©2022 by Duke University Press 2022 the blues idiom counterphrase deterritorialization Isolatoes Minneapolis Prince sonic I come from north Minny / And I never run from any / And I...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2001) 28 (2): 9–12.
Published: 01 May 2001
... years or so’’ (19).
By way of some basic data, Lu grew up in what she herself calls a
‘‘provincial region of Southern California received a degree in math at the
University of California, Berkeley, moved to San Francisco, where she co-
edits Idiom (www.idiomart.com), the ‘‘occasionally...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2016) 43 (4): 127–145.
Published: 01 November 2016
... and alterity, of advance
and retreat, is at work generally in addressing such images: it is only by
virtue of a liberating consciousness of “tawdry” ideologies that one can
ever fruitfully submit to the picture, to what is discoverable and undiscov-
erable there, and allow the picture’s idiom to inhabit...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2021) 48 (1): 35–47.
Published: 01 February 2021
..., Language, Thought . Translated by Hofstadter Albert . New York : HarperCollins . Horkheimer Max Adorno Theodor W. . (1944) 2002 . Dialectic of Enlightenment . Translated by Jephcott Edmund . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . Kafka Franz . 1991 . The Blue...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2021) 48 (2): 59–87.
Published: 01 May 2021
... character changed”). Interestingly enough, what that moment inaugurates is (according to the Cavafian critical idiom, at least) not Cavafy's modernity but his “maturity,” a kind of truth and a public acceptance of a private passion—in Yeatsian terms, a notoriety; in Cavafian terms, “an exercise in sincerity...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2021) 48 (4): 184–214.
Published: 01 November 2021
... in a cupboard in my forehead it had blue sheets” (Weiner 2010 : 155). 3 Bernstein hears something in Weiner's late work that many listeners/readers would almost certainly miss: that is, that the image, or vision , of the cupboard on Hannah's forehead, with a bed inside laid with blue sheets, brings up...
FIGURES
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2003) 30 (2): 5–19.
Published: 01 May 2003
...
that invisible man ‘‘loves’’ and ‘‘hates’’ at the same time. Confronting, then,
the bare blues of the American symphony, Ellison is flexed between what
is and what might be, fundamentally wed to the notion that ‘‘one fine morn-
ingthough it will likely fructify no time soon. Before rereading the
essay...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2010) 37 (3): 57–68.
Published: 01 August 2010
... structuralist jargon that would have
driven off the essentialist Eliot, Arrowsmith’s formulation of translation is
implicit in the modernist/New Critical idiom.
There are also the obvious and time-honored distinctions among
translators, adapters, and writers of imitations (or the adaptation...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2001) 28 (2): 21–32.
Published: 01 May 2001
... poetic manifestos, simply by citing the rhetorical question answered by
Richard Wright’s ‘‘Blue Print itself an updating of Du Bois’s Crisis ‘‘Sympo-
sium on the Negro in Art Shall Negro writing be for the Negro masses
moulding the lives and consciousness of these masses toward new goals,
or shall...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2003) 30 (2): 97–114.
Published: 01 May 2003
... humanities might benefit from
consulting Hortense Spillers’s magisterial ‘‘The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Post-
date boundary 2 21, no. 3 (1994): 65–116. For Sylvia Wynter’s arguments, see ‘‘Columbus,
the Ocean Blue, and Fables That Stir the Mind: To Reinvent the Study of Letters in Poet-
ics...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2024) 51 (4): 1–29.
Published: 01 November 2024
.... (Brooks 1963 : 73) Hearing Brooks's remarkable music, what she later calls blackblues , coming out of the mouth of a ten-year-old Black child can be both beautiful and jarring. The recitation, coming as it did from an ebullient boy, made apparent the poem's blues aesthetic, proffering a difficult...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2003) 30 (2): 21–45.
Published: 01 May 2003
... of structural dislocation as those thought and
sounded in the music of Andrew Hill and others, practices that figure uncer-
tainty and mobility into the fabric of composition and performance, offer this
7. Andrew Hill, quoted by Nat Hentoff, in his liner notes to Hill’s Point of Departure, Blue
Note CDP 7...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2024) 51 (1): 107–125.
Published: 01 February 2024
... this paradox, Spillers sifts through myriad discourses around black female sexuality, finding that there had been no black woman-authored sexual discourse outside of blues music, and that premier feminist theoretical and visual texts such as Shulamith Firestone's 1970 The Dialectic of Sex and Judy Chicago's...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2017) 44 (3): 165–195.
Published: 01 August 2017
... actu-
1. Kreymborg’s list is rich with titles undeservedly forgotten, including Letters to Women
by Joseph Auslander, Deep South by Carl Carmer, Blue Juniata by Malcolm Cowley,
Astrolabe by S. Foster Damon, The Tall Men by Donald Davidson, Sonnets from the
Patagonian by Donald Evans, Notations...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2018) 45 (1): 201–229.
Published: 01 February 2018
... through the dream logic of her daughter’s imagination and
in the poem’s mode of address, its lulling repetitions and rhymes (“true” /
“you” / “curlew”) prove a rhythmic strange comfort: “Your daughter dreams
the soundless blue” (Gamble 2014: 65). But this final line sits adjacent to
the last line...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2012) 39 (2): 181–199.
Published: 01 May 2012
... of the Caribbean
Aegean or the post- Bernal idiom of Afro- Greeks, Natalie Melas has cre-
atively but aptly thrown in the mix the corrective description of Walcott as
“Afro-Saxon.” ²¹ His own characterization of “black skin, blue eyes reso-
19. Axelos’s book, whose subtitle is significantly La...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2010) 37 (1): 201–213.
Published: 01 February 2010
... been supplanted by the text at hand
is furthered by Ashbery’s frequent use of one critical language or another
within his poetry, whether, say, the mock-Marxist idiom of “Definition of
Blue” (“The rise of capitalism parallels the advance of romanticism / And
the individual...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2016) 43 (4): 71–125.
Published: 01 November 2016
... and in truth telling: “If the
phrase ‘the truth in painting’ has the force of ‘truth’ and its play opens onto
the abyss, then perhaps what is at stake in painting is truth, and in truth
what is at stake (that idiom) is the abyss.”51
This is suggestive, but it remains (surprisingly) figurative...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2017) 44 (3): 129–157.
Published: 01 August 2017
... of this pronouncement, which has proved nearly impossible to over-
come. Cavafy’s presumed anti-poeticity in Greek letters is often linked to
an understanding that his poetic language is idiosyncratically culled from
an array of quotidian idioms, which Forster, who may be said to initiate lit-
erary criticism...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2006) 33 (2): 3–5.
Published: 01 May 2006
... girlfriends
I’ve been trying to convince myself dat what I really need is a
Sun bed
A mortgage
Sum hair spray, de kind of hair spray
Dat will wash my grey blues away,
I waz trying to convince myself dat I shouldn’t care about
Anyone else
But myself,
I waz trying to convince myself dat I could ease my...
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