... of Blackness . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 2014 . Kindle . Yunis Alia . The Night Counter . New York : Three Rivers P , 2009 . Print . THERÍ A. PICKENS Modern Family: Circuits of Transmission between Arabs and Blacks ITHIN CONVERSATIONS...

...Anna A. Berman Adulterous Nations: Family Politics and National Anxiety in the European Novel . By Kuzmic Tatiana . Northwestern University Press , 2016 . 248 p. Copyright © 2018 University of Oregon 2018 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Anna A. Berman Abstract What is a family novel ? Russian literary scholars—who use the term frequently—claim that it is originally an English genre, yet in English scholarship the term has virtually disappeared. This article recovers the lost history of the family novel, tracing two separate...

... by Bengali writer Sumana Roy and The House with a Thousand Stories by Assamese novelist and poet Aruni Kashyap, to show that, despite their crucial differences in form, style, and narration, both novels use a locally inflected English language to tell stories about how rumor and gossip destroy families...

..., homosexuality in opposition to the idea of the family, which represents for Zola the only conceivable foundation of human happiness and social progress, and for Wilde's Nihilists an oppressive structure to be resisted or destroyed. Wilde's play is shown to offer an exploration of the tension between family...

... it is possible to go beyond the familial, fraternalist, and androcentric configuration of politics. Thapa presents the philosophically persuasive case for democracy as dharma —not the claiming of rights but the dispropriative structure of responsibility that sustains collectivities. I demonstrate, however...

... a philosophical tradition such as materialism refuses to run in a straight, unitary line. This is a question of how to understand reception history: either as an unbroken tradition of faithful imitation and replication (a family genealogy, grouped under the name of the father, “Lucretius” for example), or else...

... optimism central to the post-independence works that imagined the nation as a large family with a powerful patriarch and ideal mixed-race children. The novels' spotlight on sexual violence and its results challenges the symbolic overlap between women's bodies and the land. © 2015 by University of Oregon...

...Aileen Forbes In their disparate dramatizations of the legend of the sixteenth-century Cenci family, Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and avant-garde dramatist Antonin Artaud simulate the transmission of a trauma. With reference to trauma theorists Ruth Leys and Cathy Caruth, among others...

... theory as a metaphoric basis for the novel's moral philosophy. Moving beyond his earlier family ideal, he made phagocytes the model for a broader and more impersonal ideal of human unity. Thus, in Resurrection Tolstoy found a way to give moral meaning to science, just as he had called for in his...

...S. Shankar This essay harnesses the use of translation as a critical method to explore affect in a comparative mode. By way of readings of ethnography (Margaret Trawick's Notes on Love in a Tamil Family ), film (the Hindi-language masala film Guide ), and fiction (Chinua Achebe's Nigerian novel...

... “inhabitations” (Mikhail Bakhtin's word) by Wittgenstein's family resemblance, as well as his notion that ethics is a kind of metaphysics. University of Oregon 2009 Bakhtin, Mikhail. Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics . Trans. Caryl Emerson. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1984 . Chandler, James K...

..., and the baroque desire to explore and exhaust the old, to have truck with the murmuring voices he had grown up with in his family's library. Borges, however, was faced with a literary problem that the writer of Ulysses did not have: the precedent of Ulysses itself. On the one hand, Borges seems to have perceived...

... short fiction, Matalon uses the elevated Hebrew of Barthes in translation as a surreal device of linguistic and narrative estrangement from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and from the predictable script of an Israeli journalist's visit to a mourning family in Gaza. Parodying Barthes's discovery...

... indigenismo , the myth of the Vanishing Indian, and the myth of Mexico as an Infernal Paradise. Almanac 's Menardo, by contrast, grows up with a strong sense of Mexican indigenous ideologies but cuts his family ties and conceals his cultural identity after discovering that identification as Indian...

... part brings the insights of this minor text to bear on both the controversial “rule-following” paradox from Philosophical Investigations and the role of skepticism in Wittgenstein's late philosophy. I suggest two related analogies, or what Wittgenstein himself might have called “family resemblances...

... lives of the “crazy rich” Young, T’Sien, and Shang families modeled after “old establishment famil[ies]” like Kwan’s own. Kwan writes, “our family tree goes back to the year 946” and includes “three families [who] intermarried . . . the Kwans . . . the Ohs . . . and the Hus” ( Kwan, “Meet” ). While...

... and Voice as Love Objects . Ed. Renata Salecl and Slavoj Zizek. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1996 . 179 -207. Schor, Juliet B. The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure . New York: Basic Books, 1992 . Stacey, Judith. Brave New Families: Stories of Domestic Upheaval...

... is typical of those commonly found in the antipodes, according to Alice Pung , an Australian writer of Chinese-Cambodian origin. 10 The child’s family was escaping to Europe by sea when their boat capsized, killing the mother and two sons. Today it could be said that the term “boat people” depicts...

... world around him, an “arcadian” environment in which he has taken refuge, is the safe, “semplice e serena” (simple and serene) home of Michetti. Both the general ambiance of the place and its inhabitants—Michetti and his family—encourage D’Annunzio, facilitating his direction, creativity, and artistic...