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The Cultural Work of Recovering Palestine
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (4): 187–219.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Joseph Massad This article examines the Palestinians' psychological and cultural response to the loss of Palestine and their plan of recovering it. By examining Freud's psychoanalytic understanding of how people cope with loss, especially Freud's work on mourning and melancholia, the author...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (3): 177–184.
Published: 01 August 2020
... as the work of French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty to argue for the centrality of the human gaze in Sebald’s imagination. The human gaze forges a unique form of realism in Sebald, playing a central role in revealing the “metaphysical underside” of objects, which in turn provokes an ethical response...
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Come Softly, Darling, Hear What I Say: Listening in a State of Distraction—A Tribute to the Work of Walter Benjamin, Elvis Presley, and Robert Christgau
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boundary 2 (2003) 30 (1): 199–212.
Published: 01 February 2003
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Come Softly, Darling, Hear What I Say: Listening in a State
of Distraction—A Tribute to the Work of Walter Benjamin,
Elvis Presley...
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On the Psychic Work of Reading
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (2): 31–60.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Valerio Amoretti Abstract This essay argues that reading involves a form of unconscious psychic work that has the potential to deeply affect and transform the reader. Recent discussions about the practice of reading shunned psychoanalysis because of its alleged reliance on a suspicious epistemology...
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Pierre Joris and “The Whole Celan”—a Life's Work
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (4): 97–116.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Christine Frank Abstract Pierre Joris is one of the most distinguished translators of the poetry of Paul Celan into English. He is the only person to have translated Celan's complete poetic works and prose over the course of more than fifty years, creating a life's work. His translations, begun...
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Braised Cucumbers, Maps, and Surprises: Materialist Narratology and Political Theology in the Work of Hortense J. Spillers
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (1): 143–178.
Published: 01 February 2024
... and problematics. Focusing primarily on Spillers's mapping of novels by Paule Marshall, Ralph Ellison, and William Faulkner, the essay examines how her work consistently brings history into play alongside mobilizations of myth-criticism, narratology, and religious thought—fields that have notoriously evaded...
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Transcendentalism, Ethnicity, and Food in the Work of Li-Young Lee
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boundary 2 (2006) 33 (2): 129–157.
Published: 01 May 2006
...Wenying Xu Duke University Press 2006 Transcendentalism, Ethnicity, and Food in
the Work of Li-Young Lee
Wenying Xu
Li-Young Lee is an ethnic Chinese without the birthright to an ances-
tral culture, without a grounding...
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SOFT INDEX (OF repeating PLACES, PEOPLE, AND WORKS)
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (3): 235–240.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Tan Lin A “SOFT INDEX (OF repeating PLACES, PEOPLE, AND WORKS)” comprises, hors-texte , a generic document, where the generic is understood to be a frequency of the unpublishable. As anecdote, it forms one of the unwritten limits (i.e., poetry) to the published, on a spectrum that includes...
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Imagination Sterilized: The Workings of the Global Spectacle
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (3): 101–137.
Published: 01 August 2013
... and their complementary relations with the global spectacle. Imagination Sterilized: The Workings of the Global Spectacle
Ruth Y. Y. Hung
For the passionate spectator, it is an immense joy to . . . be away
from home and yet to feel . . . everywhere...
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Ways of Working with Language
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (1): 3–15.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Jonathan Arac With reference to the author’s experience with English and other languages, this essay reflects on the problem of American monolingualism and explores modes of learned critical attention to the work language does in society, examining writing by Kenneth Burke, Raymond Williams, Erich...
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This Working Title Will Be Replaced: Charles Bernstein's Forever Forthcoming
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (4): 279–297.
Published: 01 November 2021
..., the repeatedly over-typed poem “Veil” (1987), which Craig Dworkin avers “[does] not so much prevent reading as redirect and discipline usual reading habits,” and favorites of my own, the books Rough Trades (1991) and Dark City (1994), Bernstein has allowed both more emotional content into his work—poems...
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Working Outside Criticism: Thinking Beyond Limits
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boundary 2 (2005) 32 (1): 71–93.
Published: 01 February 2005
...Anthony Bogues Duke University Press 2005 Working Outside Criticism: Thinking Beyond Limits
Anthony Bogues
Thinking involves not only the flow of thoughts, but their arrest as well.
Where thinking suddenly stops...
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Dialect and Dialectic in “The Working Day” of Marx's Capital
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boundary 2 (2016) 43 (1): 219–248.
Published: 01 February 2016
...Rosalind C. Morris The rhetorical virtuosity of “The Working Day” chapter in Marx's Das Kapital consists in its staging of two distinct registers of political vocality. On the one hand, the transparent subject of a future scene is given form as that voice which arises to confront capital in its own...
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Gwendolyn Brooks: Who Ya Talkin’ With?
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (4): 1–29.
Published: 01 November 2024
... weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom‐tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.” Through textual analyses of the language of several of Brooks's poems alongside interviews with Brooks and critical essays about Brooks's work, this essay points...
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Rakim's Performativity
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (3): 49–61.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Tracie Morris “Rakim's Performativity” considers the influence and relevance of pioneering Rapper Rakim's influential track “Follow the Leader” through the lens of J. L. Austin's theory of performativity presented in his philosophical work How to Do Things with Words . The author reflects...
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Homo Profanus : Giorgio Agamben's Profane Philosophy
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boundary 2 (2008) 35 (3): 27–62.
Published: 01 August 2008
...Leland de la Durantaye Giorgio Agamben's work first achieved international recognition—and notoriety—through his study of the sacred in Homo Sacer . This recognition and notoriety grew with the subsequent installments in this still ongoing series, Remnants of Auschwitz ( Homo Sacer III ), State...
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Dark Fields of the Republic: Seamus Deane's Sundered Provinces
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (2): 1–68.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Joe Cleary One of the most brilliant and controversial critics to emerge in Ireland in the twentieth century, Seamus Deane has produced a significant body of work that traces with insight and verve the development of modern Irish literature from the eighteenth century to the contemporary moment...
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (2): 69–95.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Robert P. Marzec Abstract Critical work theorizing the nature of immigration imprisonment in relation to anthropogenically influenced ecological phenomena is in its infancy. Scholars have productively made sense of the modern carceral state's expansion by locating it within the framework of race...
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Imperial Eclecticism in Moby-Dick and Invisible Man : Literature in a Postcolonial Empire
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (3): 151–165.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Jonathan Arac Drawing on Edward Said's method of “contrapuntal” criticism relating culture and empire, and also on Frank Kermode's understanding of the “classic” in relation to empire, this essay addresses two major American works a century apart to suggest a pattern that joins important American...
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King Kong in America
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (2): 139–163.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Arif Dirlik The essay critically engages two recent works on the Confucian revival in the People’s Republic of China published by Princeton University Press, the one advocating a Confucian monarchy for the PRC, the other arguing for the universal relevance of Confucianism as a “world religion...
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