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...-Strauss would later turn into the vast introduction to Tristes Tropiques. Sad tropics in stories about the poor world, silent tropics, drunk with sun or fog...

... exposition of the modes through which words depart from their origins. And just as literal canals compen- sate for the lack of navigable rivers, ‘‘tropical’’ canals are created for want of available words. The nonnatural character...

... . Avenge But One of My Two Eyes . Israel/France : Les Films Du Losange . Nandy Ashis . 2003 . The Romance of the State and the Fate of Dissent in the Tropics . Delhi : Oxford University Press . Neer Robert M. 2013 . Napalm: An American Biography . Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press...

... are more difficult to obtain because the deities of the tropics don’t know where evil comes from in winter. I am sure that María Elena Cruz [a dissident journalist] remembers him. She remembers him as being magnificent...

... Exoticism: Western Music and the World. Refiguring American Music. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. Thompson, Krista A. An Eye for the Tropics: Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque. Objects/Histories: Critical Perspectives on Art, Material Culture...

... that. Tropic of Cancer ! You don't have an excuse. The tropics. Let's not go into why they're called turnings, but it's based on the notion of the turn of the sun, trop is the—maybe there are other words, anyway, it's a sun turn. It's got the feminine ending. Huh? Like most of those Muses, that ê in Greek...

..., 2000. Scott, Allen J. The Cultural Economy of Cities. Theory, Culture, and Society. London: SAGE Publications, 2000. Şenocak, Zafer. Atlas of a Tropical Germany: Essays on Politics and Culture, 1990– 1998. Trans. and ed. Leslie A. Adelson. Texts and Contexts. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press...

...) to the theorist of nothingness who makes us think with fecundity (in Jerome Sala’s “The Model Summer”14), from the fussy middle-aged man with the tropical imagination (Lisa Steinman’s “Wallace Stevens in the Tropics”15) to the atomistic language philosopher in Michael Palmer’s lyric on “linear inquiry...

...-china . Wiens Harold J. 1954 . China’s March toward the Tropics . Hamden, CT : Shoestring Press . Wilkinson Endymion . 2000 . Chinese History: A Manual . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center . Wolfe Patrick . 2006 . “ Settler Colonialism...

... . 2001 . Adventures in Pataphysics . Edited by Brotchie Alastair Edwards Paul . London : Atlas Press . Kenner Hugh Hartman Charles . 1984 . Sentences . Los Angeles : Sun and Moon Press . Lagapa Jason . 2012 . “To Think Figuratively, Tropically: Charles Bernstein's...

... own their labor), black laboring nonetheless linked to the “Negro spirit,” whose unique qualities amplified and extended the power of a newly conceived, modern black subjectivity that informed a greater American way of being: “a tropical product with a sensuous receptivity to the beauty...

..., Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978), 193. I am indebted to Kelvin Santiago-Valles for this reference and for the following reference to Stoler. 24. Ann Laura Stoler, Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault’s ‘‘History of Sexuality...

... . In The Complete Works , edited by Harbage Alfred . New York : Viking . Vico Giambattista . 1988 . On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians , translated by Palmer L. M. . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press . White Hayden . 1978 . Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural...

... tradition in a way that begins to account, among other things, for the iconic, tropic power of guns, knives, and other blues weapons within that tradition. I use my articulations of Ellison’s theory, in turn, as a way of glossing Ellison’s master blues text, Invisible Man. Throughout this endeavor, I...

... that it is not for the love of sport that these Cuban bicycles keep rolling. The 6736 boundary 2 29:3 / sheet 186 of 265 precious energy of many people is squandered under the same tropical sun that puts the satisfied tourist to sleep on our beaches. Covering dozens...

... years of exploitation Edged the blade 32 boundary 2 / Summer 2001 And black Toussaint exposed The rent in white imperial veils As the tropic sky burst with Dark thunder and the lightning Of the saints. Orisha from Guinee. Ogoun unchained...

... place’’ (i.e., stereotypical sayings and situations that recur in certain kinds of literature), and (b) Tropos, meaning both ‘‘Tropic’’ (in the geo- graphical sense) and a literary figure trope 28. See Gustav Landauer, Revolution (Berlin: Karin Kramer Verlag, 1974), 11–18. 214 boundary 2 / Fall 2006...

.... It creates “glocal” assemblages of desiring bodies, vectorized time- space modules, and lifestyle ideas, in a manner by which these ensembles can “zap” instantaneously from dust to snow, from tropical shores to the alps, from signatures of third world poverty to a profusion of consumer...

... along- side the volunteers during the day, and his nights were troubled by the 17. Nakazato Isao, Fotoneshia: Me no Kaikisen—Okinawa [Photonesia: The tropics of the eye—Okinawa] (Tokyo: Miraisha, 2009), 59–90. 18. A war museum on the grounds at Yasukuni Shrine. 19. Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney...

... is an artistic equivalent of Marsden’s violent a-muck: Under the connecting feeling of tropical heat and vertical sun-lights, I brought together all creatures, birds, beasts, reptiles, all trees and plants, usages and appearances, that are found in all tropical regions...