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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (2): 49–70.
Published: 01 May 2020
... of becoming a fugitive within a carceral state. Morrison confronts readers with a comparably uncanny experience when she deletes from the narrative any trace of the Cold War ideology whose structures of feeling, epistemologies, and military architecture the Korean War was putatively fought to establish...
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (3): 159–178.
Published: 01 August 2014
...Rob Wilson This essay focuses on US/China interactions, uncanny temporalities, and Pacific Rim discrepancies resonating through popular culture and belief systems as embodied in Bob Dylan’s conversion-drenched poetics (aligned to social beatitude) and protest politics (aligned to critique...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (4): 63–99.
Published: 01 November 2020
... is one of the most deeply inscribed modes of silencing the uncanny call of xenoflesh. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 flesh biopolitics meat poetics the uncanny References Adams Carol J . 2010 . The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (4): 157–179.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Kenneth Gross The essay describes Angus Fletcher’s ambitious, often uncanny ways of mapping the nature of literary form and literary knowing. The essay describes how Fletcher himself describes our crucial metaphors of order and disorder, our “cosmic” (sometimes cosmetic) images, how he explores...
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boundary 2 (2003) 30 (1): 105–130.
Published: 01 February 2003
... seeing apparitions. While I don’t want to overstress the contrasting approaches these two works have to their scenes of mediated vision, I do want to empha- size their common theme of uncanny vision, of the sudden appearance...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (3): 133–163.
Published: 01 August 2020
... . Bloomington : Indiana University Press . Eco Umberto . 2008 . Experiences in Translation . Toronto : University of Toronto Press . Ellis John . 1982 . “ The Literary Adaptation: An Introduction .” Screen 23 , no. 1 : 3 – 5 . Freud Sigmund . 1919 . “ The ‘Uncanny...
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boundary 2 (2004) 31 (2): 197–218.
Published: 01 May 2004
..., and recent work; I took the opportunity to voice my uncanny feeling about The Calcutta Chromosome, the sense that the novel drew substantially on Bengali ghost fiction. It was at this point that Ghosh mentioned the two inspirational fragments integrated in the novel—the ghost fiction of Tagore and Renu...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (3): 99–116.
Published: 01 August 2022
... University Press . Wilson Rob . 2016 . “ Reading Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee as Spiritual Dictation: Falling into the Korean Uncanny .” Uncanny: Revista de Estudos e Culturais , no. 3 : 9 – 18 . Wilson Rob . 2019 . “ Tangled Up in Blue Poetics: Timothy Hampton Reads a Bob Dylan...
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boundary 2 (2006) 33 (2): 75–90.
Published: 01 May 2006
... monstrous, uncanny, but also strangely beautiful, ‘‘a terrible beauty as Yeats famously calls it in ‘‘Easter, 1916 The big difference between Leda and Yeats is that the poet, unlike the girl, courts vision’s terror, while she has it literally befall her out of the blue. In this text, Yeats tells...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (4): 97–116.
Published: 01 November 2023
... that designates the location of the encounter between Heidegger and Celan: “Hütte,” which could have been translated euphemistically or trivially as “cabin” or “hut.” Leaving it untranslated marks the specificity of that place, in all its uncanniness: it was exactly this “Hütte,” where Celan was invited...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (2): 155–185.
Published: 01 May 2010
... with the adoption of European military techniques, were extended into other 3. For a reading of the double as the Lacanian “extimate,” see Mladen Dolar, “‘I Shall Be with You on Your WeddingNight’: Lacan and the Uncanny,” October 58 (Autumn 1991): 11–15. 4. For a useful macrosociological analysis...
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boundary 2 (2007) 34 (1): 115–133.
Published: 01 February 2007
...—strange faces at the windows— everything was strange speaks to these shocks of perpetual disruption, de-centering, uncanny displacement, back when (to invoke the Asian- ignoring Baudrillard) “America [was] the original of modernity and Europe is the dubbed or subtitled version.”10 But Rim...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (4): 221–222.
Published: 01 November 2020
...- sia dell esistenza (2018), as well as the edited volume Ovid s Metamorphoses in Twentieth- Century Italian Literature (2018). Kenneth Gross s books include The Dream of the Moving Statue, Shakespeare s Noise, Shylock Is Shakespeare, and Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life, which was co- winner...
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boundary 2 (2001) 28 (3): 117–123.
Published: 01 August 2001
... on the strange heteroglossia and other-voiced cultural uncanny coursing through Faye Kicknosway’s poetry.1 Far from the U.S. apparatus and its lyric fame-making modes, Kicknosway makes a fresh, estranged antivoice and highly original poetry, taking risks in form and de-habituated technique as she goes...
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boundary 2 (2001) 28 (1): 121–151.
Published: 01 February 2001
... Tinfish Network called 4-evaz, in this exploratory essay/polemic Anna; Bill Luoma’s uncanny and and vision of experimental (-cum- playful vision of the global local, local) poetics,9 to examine some Works and Days; a Pidgin-based recent poetic works from...
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (1): 231–232.
Published: 01 February 2012
...: Reading and Writing in Time. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. Gasché, Rodolphe. The Stelliferous Fold: Toward a Virtual Law of Literature’s Self- Formation. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011. Gross, Kenneth. Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press...
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boundary 2 (2001) 28 (1): 75–90.
Published: 01 February 2001
... in the blink of an eye the vu becomes déjà vu. llll Memory that belongs to trauma, to shock, and that is revealed through a disturbing repetition—here we have a characterization of what Freud calls the anxiety of the uncanny. The uncanny as the return of the re- pressed. What Freud sees...
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boundary 2 (2005) 32 (2): 137–149.
Published: 01 May 2005
... definitively ended, sengo has an uncanny life of its own. For Katō (and it should be remarked here that his reflections are by no means unambiguously origi- nal), the tenacity of sengo indexes the fact that Japan’s defeat in the war is the very basis and foundation of contemporary Japanese state and society...
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boundary 2 (2002) 29 (2): 181–184.
Published: 01 May 2002
... University Press, 2001. de Vries, Hent, and Samuel Weber, eds. Religion and Media. Cultural Memory in the Present. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001. Ellison, David. Ethics and Aesthetics in European Modernist Literature: From the Sublime to the Uncanny. Cambridge: Cambridge University...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (4): 57–75.
Published: 01 November 2017
... . ———. 2005 . The Promise of Politics . Edited by Kohn Jerome . New York : Schocken . Asad Talal . 2007 . On Suicide Bombing . New York : Columbia University Press . Bergland Renée L . 2000 . The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects . Hanover, NH...