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Genre (2024) 57 (3): 201–233.
Published: 01 December 2024
... injustices. However, in Marshall's novel, this critique unfolds through the Bildung of a protagonist whose rebellious growth ultimately connotes the geopolitical value of freedom trumpeted abroad by the US state at midcentury. The political energies the article's reading discerns in the novel are thus...
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Genre (2005) 38 (3): 211–230.
Published: 01 September 2005
... 213 platitudes (endlessly mediatized, to be sure) was surprisingly successful in effect- ing the elision of other kinds of speech in this nation where the idea of freedom of speech is otherwise canonized as a basic reflex ideology. But (as De Tocqueville was always fond of repeating...
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Genre (2006) 39 (3): 57–82.
Published: 01 September 2006
... mountains, a library, a castle, an immense spider-web, a garden gate, the 'sad sea waves,' peaceful meadows, a staircase, a base of some massive columns, or simply dark clouds grouped around a light circular spot. (114) By contrast, street photography symbolized freedom...
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Genre (2022) 55 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 April 2022
... conclusion “freedom with,” a form of freedom that “arises when other forms of freedom become impossible.” As opposed to “freedom from,” which imagines atomistic individuals struggling to achieve an impenetrable wholeness immune to impinging forces, “freedom with” is “a freedom based on the normality of our...
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Genre (2022) 55 (1): 79–83.
Published: 01 April 2022
... striking conclusions emerge from this insight. Two paths, according to Zitin, branch outward from the impenetrability of objects: down the first is a celebration of our imagination's freedom from matter, and down the second is practice, feeling our way toward objects we cannot know (38). Addison pursues...
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Genre (2013) 46 (3): 393–418.
Published: 01 December 2013
... support the idea that the USA disseminates freedom [and] self-­determination . . . while men like Hussein merely wish to exploit oth- ers for personal gain” (ibid., 9). The movie is endemic of what Cheung (ibid., 10) considers Hollywood’s tireless summoning of America’s “glorified, anticolonial...
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Genre (2001) 34 (1-2): 33–62.
Published: 01 March 2001
... on a rhetorical level is neither the struggle for freedom nor the struggle to be heard, but a struggle for dissociation—dissociation from ihe voice speaking, from the incidents related, from the subject posed, and, yes, from Jacobs herself. Harriet Jacobs wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl...
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Genre (2024) 57 (3): 259–281.
Published: 01 December 2024
.... A prison anthology constitutes an existential statement that incarcerated people cannot be hidden and forgotten, that they have voices and a right to speak. Whereas general literature anthologies presume this right, prison anthologists realize that states can render freedom of speech contingent...
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Genre (2017) 50 (3): 297–317.
Published: 01 December 2017
..., in compelling new ways, the risks and perils of satire’s unstable power in our heterogeneous societies. Copyright © 2017 University of Oklahoma 2017 satire theory Charlie Hebdo murders Salman Rushdie affair freedom of speech Capital Offenses: Public Discourse on Satire after Charlie Hebdo...
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Genre (2023) 56 (1): 15–31.
Published: 01 April 2023
... but unprecedented power and freedom. As Auerbach sees it, such an aristocrat could engage fully, immediately, and enthusiastically in the politics of court life in ways that upset the distinction not so much between high and low as between the everyday or the trivial and the profound. Saint-Simon could write up his...
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Genre (2003) 36 (1-2): 81–106.
Published: 01 March 2003
...- sciousness" and the source of new collective ritual: "The Poet wants to be alone and detached, but his inner freedom is the inner necessity of a return to and communion with his native element. He invents something new and achieves something ancient."7 The individualistic lyric was thus a temporary...
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Genre (2007) 40 (1-2): 191–196.
Published: 01 March 2007
... in the Information Age. Tizianna Terranova. London: Pluto Press, 2004. Tizianna Terranova's book offers a timely and trenchant analysis of network culture that effectively interrogates the work of those who would champion the freedom offered by open, self-organizing networks while failing...
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Genre (2001) 34 (3-4): 219–241.
Published: 01 September 2001
... Arendt: Twenty Years Later . Eds. May Larry Kohn Jerome . Cambridge, MA, and London : The MIT Press , 1996 . 147 - 78 . —. “Freedom: The Priority of the Political.” The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt . 113 - 29 . McHale Brian . “Change of Dominant from Modernist...
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Genre (2006) 39 (3): 21–38.
Published: 01 September 2006
.... In the face of the African American struggle for something beyond mere formal freedom and equality, the rise to dominance of this very specific legal formalism, of formal-race analysis, served to protect white supremacy in general, and, in particular, served, in Justice Gray's phrase, to "control...
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Genre (2002) 35 (3-4): 407–428.
Published: 01 September 2002
... foregrounds the prison's pedagogical capacities. The specificity of 410 GENRE the punitive carceral regime is its social formation as civil society's underside, the institutionalization of civic freedom defined against juridical unfreedom, social peace secured through...
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Genre (2004) 37 (1): 129–150.
Published: 01 March 2004
... of Jazz . New York : Pathfinder , 1998 . Litweiler John . The Freedom Principle: Jazz After 1958 . New York : Da Capo , 1984 . —. Ornette Coleman: A Harmolodic Life . New York : Morrow , 1992 . Lock Graham . Forces in Motion: The Music and Thoughts of Anthony Braxton...
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Genre (2005) 38 (1-2): 71–94.
Published: 01 March 2005
... or those of scientific inquiry, but staunchly maintaining its indepen- dence: The essay, however, does not permit its domain to be prescribed. Instead of achieving something scientifically, or creating something artistically, the effort of the essay reflects a childlike freedom...
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Genre (2011) 44 (2): 181–204.
Published: 01 June 2011
... . Castle Gregory . 2006 . Reading the Modernist Bildungsroman . Gainesville : University Press of Florida . Cheah Pheng . 2003 . Spectral Nationality: Passages of Freedom from Kant to Post-colonial Literatures of Liberation . New York : Columbia University Press . Dash J...
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Genre (2016) 49 (3): 331–357.
Published: 01 December 2016
... if we commit to a freedom that is the undefined and undefinable trajectory of a radical otherwise in our world’s scenes of abandonment?” (129 – 30). This critical alternative resonates with how I read the longue durée (long-­term view) of Rich’s career: “This otherwise may lie in shattering...
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Genre (2005) 38 (3): 231–256.
Published: 01 September 2005
... for literary critics, cul- ture is a non-coincidence with economic or political rationality, or freedom from those rationalities. At the same time, Ong's objection to other, competing treatments of transnationalism is that these other treatments allow for too much freedom. Rather than "unstructured flows...