... mainstream debates about the legacy of the Troubles. Drawing on the work of Judith Butler and Bonnie Honig, this essay reads Heaney's play within a series of critical debates about representations of female victimhood, the role of women in transitional justice, and the ongoing importance of tragedy within...

... “passion + urgency” of Kleist’s text, which Coetzee felt the times called for but his own writing lacked. While Michael Kohlhaas became a guerrilla out of his “passion for justice,” Michael K, despite the incessant provocations of the state, does not join the guerrillas but emerges instead as a very...

..., Beckmann’s desire to find a home, where his home used to be, is both a painful reminder of a palpable past and an attempt to find peace and justice in a world torn apart by war. In terms of style, genre, plot, character, motif, medium, and language, these three works are fundamentally different. They do...

... of Responsibility . Stanford : Stanford UP , 1997 . Print . Laplante Lisa J. “Outlawing Amnesty: The Return of Criminal Justice in Transitional Justice Schemes.” Virginia Journal of International Law 49 . 4 ( 2009 ): 916 – 82 . Print . Laplante Lisa Theidon Kimberly . “Truth...

... of “multiculturalism” as the governing sociopolitical imagination of racial justice sponsored by U.S. global power. It reads the production of blackness and antiblackness in the Ferguson protests through a concept of “imperialism's racial justice” and reviews W.E.B. Du Bois's 1899 development of a theory and method...

...Hannah Scott Deuchar Abstract Through comparative readings of a single violent event, this article argues that translation functions simultaneously as a technology of imperial governance, a ground for the critique of legal justice, and a practice through which to theorize alternative forms...

... justice protests in the summer of 2020 and completed amid the invasion of Ukraine in 2022—two events with global reverberations that decisively punctured the illusions of a post-imperial, post-socialist, and post-racial world order homogenized by the unfettered spread of neoliberal capitalism—the articles...

... to the discourse of passes, passports, and licenses. The protagonist struggles in his quest for justice, because he cannot win the right to pass from one place to the next until he has first won the right to pass from one verbal element to the next. The second part of the essay considers how Jacques Derrida’s...

...Lucas H. Harriman A transcultural adaptation of a literary work often reveals aspects of the original that had previously been obscured in its native context. In a similar vein, a creative reading that truly attempts to do justice to its object might be said to betray it, both in the traditional...

... fiction, centrally concerned with social justice, to launch an effective critique of neoliberal capitalism in present day South Africa. Because South Africa's entry onto the global stage in 1994 was conditioned by the pivotal moment of globalization in which its Rainbow Nation democracy was forged, I...

..., this article shows that aesthetic reflection, which stages the difficult balance between the particular and the general, is at the heart of Barthes's and Adorno's conceptions of the role of criticism in doing justice to the individual. Beginning by comparing Adorno's and Barthes's divergent views on Brecht...

... of Oregon 2019 Justice humanities untranslatability Aufhebung relever THE IMPETUS to explore critical grounds for “justifying the humanities” grows out of a feeling that many share; the sense that as students and professors of Comparative Literature we are increasingly called...

... in the traditional sense of social and legal compact is not the main focus of Kohlhaas’s insurrection. Kohlhaas’s doesn’t aim to rectify the law through a justice beyond law, nor to produce a new law in and through righteous violence. If one were to give a name to the form his insurrection takes, one might be able...

... that “reconciliation is constructed and not inherent” and that this construction takes place through the narration of past events within a larger narrative of restorative rather than retributive justice (7–8). Molora, however, suggests that the recounting of past deeds may lead to either violence...

... Amrouche’s reflections on her mother’s precarious circumstances when, unmarried, she gave birth to Fadhma in Kabylie in 1886: “Avant la domination française la justice était expéditive; les parents menaient la fautive dans un champ où ils l’abattaient. . . . Mais en ce temps-là, la justice française luttait...

...-realism: Toward a Political Ecology of Nigerian Literature.” Postcolonial Studies 9 . 4 ( 2006 ): 449 – 64 . Print . “Yes Men Inspire Nigerian Activists.” Pipeline Dreams . Web. May 2010 . < http://www.pipelinedreams.org/tag/nigerian-justice-league/ >. Leerom Medovoi...

... categories of winner and loser only to restore them in the end, it permanently disables these categories and offers new possibili- ties for societal remediation. 2 Lost City Radio  explores the role of stories in attempts to secure social justice by depicting a fictional country in the aftermath...

... that was to eschew “the problem of suffering” could not “stand upright before justice” ( “Commitment” 313 ). In his Frankfurt lectures of 1965, he clarified that “it could equally well be said, on the other hand, that one must write poems [after Auschwitz], in keeping with Hegel’s statement in Aesthetics...

..., and Corrective Eco-Justice in Ruth Ozeki's My Year of Meats and Judith Helfand and Daniel Gold's Blue Vinyl.” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. 34 . 2 ( 2009 ): 43 – 62 . Print . COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 238 monologism arises as that “faith in the self-sufficiency of a single...

.... But, closely read, Barthes’s account of his own life shows “a consistent com- mitment to an expressivist morality of the sign” (38) and more generally to transgression and fluidity for the sake of equality and justice (31). Despite himself, Barthes “intuitively grasps his life . . . as a history...