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differences (2022) 33 (1): 60–91.
Published: 01 May 2022
... policy. To investigate the reverberations of such contemporary political and academic investments in drug-war-fueled repair, the article focuses on a recent wave of black fiction and film that reenvisions the 1980s War on Drugs in the era of the opioid epidemic, with particular attention to Barry...
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differences (1993) 5 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 April 1993
..." as a narcotic (to use the legal terminology of the articles defining the War on Drugs). The (secular) prohibition of alcohol, if I'm not mistaken, will be seen as a brief and unique interlude in the history of mankind; and, for well-known reasons, more unthinkable in France than anywhere else. This should...
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differences (1992) 4 (2): 1–15.
Published: 01 July 1992
... was immediately reached. The Rodney King event was articulated as a metonymy of the war on drugs; this war, I have argued elsewhere (Crack Wars), constitutes an act of ethnocide by hallucinating mainstreamers. But the Rodney King event is also an eruption of the effaced Gulf War. When television collapsed...
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differences (2005) 16 (2): 138–166.
Published: 01 September 2005
...- covers a Soviet capital mired in corruption, drug and arms trafficking, prostitution, and pornography, at the center of which is the object of her affection, a handsome policeman named Alexander. The Glasnost-era war of the sexes she...
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differences (2023) 34 (3): 175–200.
Published: 01 December 2023
... that was the source of drugs used in lethal injections against an advocacy group that had posted an image of an exploding head immediately after naming the pharmacy that had supplied such drugs (see fig. 1 ). The legal issue was whether the image could be said to expose the pharmacy to “a substantial threat...
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differences (2020) 31 (3): 59–75.
Published: 01 December 2020
... ],” according to the afterword. The fact that the novel is “written on credit” creates a “debt to the truth [ un debito da pagare alla verità ]” that the author wishes to repay ( Resistere 316 ), and he does so by waging a war of detail and precision against the mob democracy—black on black, fiction against...
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differences (1989) 1 (1): 83–100.
Published: 01 February 1989
... ofKinshasa, the exhausted doctors of war-shattered Uganda, the folk-healers of Guinea-Bissau, and the plague-ridden smugglers of Lake Victoria. Is this a nightmare vision of our own future? (94) And set against a photograph of a vast expanse of water we read the caption: "Lake Victoria, deep in the heart...
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differences (1989) 1 (1): 3–43.
Published: 01 February 1989
... . Blalock J. Edwin . “ The Immune System as a Sensory Organ .” Journal of Immunology 132 . 3 ( 1984 ): 1067 - 70 . Brewer Maria Minich . “ Surviving Fictions: Gender and Difference in Postmodern and Postnuclear Narrative .” Discourse 9 ( 1987 ): 37 - 52 . Bryan C. D. B...
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differences (2023) 34 (2): 58–83.
Published: 01 September 2023
... birth control. We witness racialized legal fictions in their active process of performative manufacture and discursive consolidation. The decision and the dissent enact competing, and ultimately complementary, visions of religious freedom within a pluralistic nation governed by putatively secular...
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differences (2024) 35 (1): 43–73.
Published: 01 May 2024
... Athletes: Fact and Fiction , had read the usa Today series “Race and Sports: Myths and Realities,” and had encountered every conceivable twist on the title of the 1992 movie White Men Can’t Jump . Bannister had his defenders in the United Kingdom. He found an audience in the United States...
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differences (1993) 5 (1): 51–72.
Published: 01 April 1993
.... It cannot be an accident that Carmen, in the story by Merimee from which the libretto was taken, is the first woman in fiction to smoke a cigarette, nor that, since 1910, the two most popular brands of French cigarettes have been Gauloises and Gitanes. No accident, since the paradoxical qualities Nietzsche...
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differences (2023) 34 (3): 1–20.
Published: 01 December 2023
... or entirely lacking health insurance, economic misery, drug addiction, crumbling and quickly disappearing government support, devastation of American cities and towns, zero new infrastructure and infrastructure maintenance) precisely for the blue-collar white working class that blindly and unshakably supports...
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differences (2001) 12 (2): 86–97.
Published: 01 September 2001
..., 1960 . Edwards, Lee R. Psyche as Hero: Female Heroism and Fictional Form . Middletown: UP of New England, 1984 . Eliot, T. S. Collected Poems,1909–1962 . New York: Harcourt, 1963 . Freud, Sigmund. The Interpretation of Dreams . Trans. James Strachey. New York: Basic, 1965 . Higonnet...
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differences (2018) 29 (2): 96–125.
Published: 01 September 2018
... to his defense—his real wife, Camille Cosby, and his television wife, Phylicia Rashad—when dozens of women came forward to accuse him of drugging and sexually assaulting them. As Cosby’s story continued to unfold in 2016, the actor-director Nate Parker was heralded as making an important intervention...
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differences (2001) 12 (3): 69–100.
Published: 01 December 2001
... Wars: The Behind the Scenes Story of Competitive Bodybuilding . New York: St. Martin's P, 1985 . Wennerstrom, Steve. “Proper Perspective.” Flex . (July 1992 ): 112 +. Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own . New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1929 . Žižek, Slavoj. The Fragile Absolute...
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differences (1992) 4 (2): 72–99.
Published: 01 July 1992
... Fiction of Sara Jeanette Duncan and Rudyard Kipling .” Ariel: A Review of International English Literature 21 . 1 ( 1990 ): 3 - 19 . Kincaid Jamaica . Annie John . New York : Penguin , 1986 . Kincaid Jamaica . Lucy . New York : Penguin , 1990 . Kincaid Jamaica...
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 194–223.
Published: 01 December 2009
... itself as one continuous movement without clear distinctions between day and night, as Okwe’s drug-induced insomnia sustains the present of the unfolding action. It is as if the film itself, as a lens on insecure refugee lives, were...
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differences (2023) 34 (3): 106–128.
Published: 01 December 2023
... with the passage of time. Part of the challenge was an effect of time’s impact on memory. In the forty years between the end of the war and his presumed suicide in 1987, Levi, the aging survivor, watched as the destruction of Europe’s Jewish civilization was being transformed into “a repository of ‘lessons...
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differences (2020) 31 (1): 163–180.
Published: 01 May 2020
... claims, take on even greater significance in the time of Trump and the rise of white nationalism. Scientists, humanists, theorists of all stripes have long argued that race is a socially constructed fiction rather than a biological fact. If we really believe this is the case—that race is socially...
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differences (1993) 5 (1): 92–128.
Published: 01 April 1993
... ( 1992 ): 3 - 7 . Deleuze Gilles , and Guattari Félix . A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia . Trans. Massumi Brian . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 1987 . Derrida Jacques . “ The Rhetoric of Drugs .” 1-800 2 ( 1991 ): 34 - 39 , 65 - 68...