... . Print . ———. Infancy and History: Essays on the Destruction of Experience . Trans. Heron Liz . London : Verso , 1993 . Print . ———. State of Exception . Trans. Attell Kevin . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 2005 . Print . ———. The Time That Remains: A Commentary on the Letter...

... may be its most comparable trait. This essay explores some of the diverse symptoms and literary manifestations of this perennial hemispheric irony. University of Oregon 2009 Agamben, Giorgio. State of Exception . Trans. Kevin Attell. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2005 . Bhabha, Homi K...

.... The exceptionality of the “state of exception” in which Benjamin lived thus became an article of faith serving to legitimize policies of exclusion and oppression. In many aspects, of course, Zionism and the question of Palestine can be seen as an exceptional case, but it is this exceptionality that can teach...

... by University of Oregon 2016 Roberto Bolaño Teresa Margolles potentiality of the crime scene state of exception Ciudad Juárez Works Cited Agamben Giorgio . The Coming Community . Trans. Hardt Michael . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 1993 . Print . ———. Homo Sacer...

... that, with the exception of the New Vitalism, they do so in an attempt to renew and reaffirm the modern liberal social contract that totalitarian regimes had intended to reverse (in fascism) or supercede (in com- munism) (cf. Stevens). In the United States, on which I focus here, this recapitu- lation occurs within...

... 2017 Child soldiers contemporary African fiction modernity temporality Ahmadou Kourouma Works Cited Abani Chris . Song for Night . New York : Akashic Books , 2007 . Print . Agamben Giorgio . The State of Exception . Trans. Attell Kevin . Chicago : U...

... (that determines bare life) and thereby serves as part of the nov- el’s production of a “real state of exception,” where sovereignty no longer reigns, and the exception is ubiquitous. Having relinquished his quest to save Lucy, about 8 Lest my Agambenian sense of the ending seem predictable, I want...

... is but a matter of exaggeration. 5 England, of course, is a notorious exception to the nationalist rule that nation and state must coincide. Is the nation England or Britain? In this essay I am discussing the nation posited by English novels, a nation best identified, I think, as England. Katie Trumpener...

... of judicial order can be suspended—the zone where the violence of the state of exception is deemed to operate in the service of ‘civilization’” ( 24 ). 5 The full quote reads: “All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts not only because...

... that poetry is not only regularly interacting with established and emerging alien dis- courses, but, in incorporating them, subjecting them to analysis, and transforming them, the genre of poetry is also perpetually in a state of definitional becoming relative to those discourses. “Poems come into being...

... as the transgression and ineptitude of the State Department and CIA were infinite— some money did reach the poor in these areas. With the end of the cold war, however, even this meager beneficence stopped nearly everywhere except for the odd couple of Israel and Egypt. Private corporations have no interest in help...

... of opposing terms: those of individual desire and sovereign will; conventions of ordinary soci- ality (hegemony) and exceptional, order-bestowing violence (coercion); civil soci- ety and the state. While the first members of each of these pairs tend to organize the social imaginary of Western realist...

... to sequester and ghettoize Blackness, to render it exceptional. On the one hand, this exceptionalism makes it impossible to create connections between strug- gles. On the other, it effaces the multiplicity inherent in Blackness itself. Practically, this impulse manifests in the curriculum, when Black...

... platitude. The takeaway from chapter 3 of The Bond could seem to be that Tolstoy’s immanent ethics requires death as a state out of the ordi- nary, and this would be a rather ordinary insight except that death is not a means to con- template life or even provoke a purifying terror, but rather something...

... Argentine President. He figures the triumph of right-wing elements through proper channels at the moment of the first state of exception in the modern era. His presence as a hero can hardly not be read allegorically. In the Liberman story, Jews both retain their exceptionality and are incorporated...

... of the “community of lovers,” the essay examines why Blanchot associates this with the events of May 1968. This association centers on the notion of an “impossible community” that challenges the very structure of the state as the realization of the community’s sovereignty. The essay then turns to Kleist, mentioned...

... and religious, amount to little more than Italian masques. Bajazeth idly computes his “Turks, Arabians, Moors, and Jews” (3.3.134), names that prove incessantly interchangeable in the anarchy of war —​a state of exception that is the rule in Marlowe’s world. His plays enact the ambivalence and ultimate...

...-Shoah) engagement with Agnon, Celan, Laporte, Dostoevsky, and Blanchot, “exceptions,” as Robbins calls them, whose art is not conceived by Levinas as aesthetic but as making an ethical difference. At several junctures in the book’s argument, Robbins suggests that Levinas’s ethics cannot...

...-Shoah) engagement with Agnon, Celan, Laporte, Dostoevsky, and Blanchot, “exceptions,” as Robbins calls them, whose art is not conceived by Levinas as aesthetic but as making an ethical difference. At several junctures in the book’s argument, Robbins suggests that Levinas’s ethics cannot...

...-Shoah) engagement with Agnon, Celan, Laporte, Dostoevsky, and Blanchot, “exceptions,” as Robbins calls them, whose art is not conceived by Levinas as aesthetic but as making an ethical difference. At several junctures in the book’s argument, Robbins suggests that Levinas’s ethics cannot...