...Emmanuel Bouju This paper argues that the “debt narrative,” quite like the Rosetta Stone, is a historical, symbolic, and aesthetic way for us to decipher the interfaces between the three languages of economy, politics, and ethics. Debt narrative is not a simple figure of speech, literature...

...Odette Lienau This essay argues that issues of sovereign state debt repayment and collection—too often assumed to be free of the contingency and elasticity of narrative—are deeply shaped by historically grounded discourses of sovereignty that delineate boundaries between the public and private...

... . Douglass Frederick . Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave. Written by Himself . Ed. Baker Houston A. Jr. New York : Viking , 1982 . Du Bois W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches . Chicago : McClurg , 1903 . Derrida Jacques...

... , 1987 . 77 - 95 . Butler Judith . Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity . New York : Routledge , 1990 . Carr David . Time, Narrative, and History . Bloomington : Indiana UP , 1986 . Cixous Hélène , and Clément Catherine . The Newly Born Woman...

... of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies . Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1993 . 165 –80. Djebar, Assia. Vaste est la prison . Paris:Albin Michel, 1995 . Erickson, John. “Veiled Woman and Veiled Narrative in Tahar ben Jelloun's The Sandchild.” boundary 2 20.1 ( 1993 ): 47 –64. Fanon, Frantz...

... . REY CHOW Seminal Dispersal, Fecal Retention, and Related Narrative Matters: Eileen Chang’s Tale of Roses in the Problematic of Modern Writing I All students of modern literature are, presumably, familiar...

... . London: Verso, 2000 . Card, Claudia, ed. Feminist Ethics . Lawrence: UP of Kansas, 1991 . Caruth, Cathy. Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative,and History . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1996 . Castle, Terry. Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture . New York: Columbia...

... and History in Freud .” Cornell University . 26 Feb. 1993 . Caruth Cathy . Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins , 1995 . Caruth Cathy . “ Unclaimed Experience: Trauma and the Possibility of History .” Yale French Studies 79 ( 1991...

... . DuPlessis Rachel Blau . Writing beyond the Ending: Narrative Strategies of Twentieth-Century Women Writers . Bloomington : Indiana UP , 1985 . Fuss Diana . “ Reading Like a Feminist .” Essentially Speaking: Feminism, Nature and Difference . New York : Routledge , 1989 . 23 – 37...

...Joshua Falek Previous scholarship has interrogated how transsexual autobiographies recursively construct a gender-coherent subject through travel analogies. Orientalism has been one of the predominant frames through which these trans travel narratives have been interpreted. Through a close reading...

...: A Black Gay Anthology . Boston : Alyson , 1986 . Boone Bruce . “ Gay Language as Political Praxis: The Poetry of Frank O'Hara .” Social Text 1 . 1 ( 1980 ): 59 - 63 . Brooks Peter . Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative . New York : Knopf , 1984...

...Gayle Salamon This essay considers the difficulties of representing poverty, its conditions and phenomenology, in narrative and asks after the relation between language and poverty. Are there unique pressures on narrative when it is asked to describe deprivation? What are the conditions of its...

...) subject. Whether naively eavesdropping at the door, criminally entering an apartment, or tragically exiting the world, the animal is somehow always not yet or no longer in the place of accountable agency that a narrative might bear. This logic can in turn be understood as a function of un-equality...

... to black women’s sexuality in state narratives of black freedom and black freedom-to-secure against the backdrop of the racial makeovers of the late twentieth century, and at the same time turning to black women’s expressive culture as a site that both reflects and troubles those racial makeovers...

... condenses the collapse of narrativity structured by normative, moral, religious, and ideological values, has been accompanied by the elimination of limits on which the social state has always relied. Social engineering, based on the calculated and extreme exploitation of man’s helplessness, has replaced...

...William Lee Hughes While grief is often described as an interpersonal and productive affect, this article reads Charles Dickens’s serialized narrative The Old Curiosity Shop (1840–41) to argue that grief is an impersonal affect. The seriality of the novel figures grief with unique power, especially...

... attachments to the circulation of narratives of trauma. In confronting the harm of another, it also asks how we might imagine forms of justice beyond punitive and carceral impulses. © 2019 by Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2019 testimony social media...

...Jean-Thomas Tremblay This essay traces an aesthetic genealogy of feminist breathing since the 1970s. Deviating from declension narratives that locate in that decade the end of breathing as a means of feminist socialization and politicization, this essay argues that indigenous and black feminisms...

...Peter Szendy Narrativity and indebtedness are inextricably intertwined. Absolvere , in Latin, means both to “pay off” a debt and to “relate” a historical event that has reached its conclusion, that is complete ( absolutum ). In the Arabian Nights , Scheherazade tells many stories about debt...