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Qui Parle (2024) 33 (1): 223–236.
Published: 01 June 2024
..., 307n214. 1. Quoted in Wortham, “Woman Shaping a Generation.” Sharpe’s timely work asks us to reconsider these beliefs. The book’s many notes, surrounded by the peaceful void of an empty page, the obfuscated words, the wide margins, the bare topography of nothing but breath...
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 215–216.
Published: 01 June 2021
... breathe, and my breath holds time. Even if time feels at once dilated and homogeneous, my lungs expand and collapse. Reading this sealed in my room in October, with my overworked air purifier on full blast as the smoke swirled outside, I longed to be able to open up my tired old second-floor window...
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 209–210.
Published: 01 June 2021
... Abstract The all-too-common refrain “I can’t breathe,” in response to obscene incidents of police brutality and the murder of Black people in America, has haunted us through this time where breath is not only dangerous and necessary but also, in this nation, hyperpoliticized at a number of flash...
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 211–213.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Jeffrey Moro Copyright © 2021 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2021 The trick about breath is that what goes in does not come out. Alveoli, dendritic sacs in the lungs, collect oxygen and exchange it for carbon dioxide, the fuel and waste of cells respiring at microscopic scale. Breath mediates...
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 223–224.
Published: 01 June 2021
... canopy shadowing those surrounding fields & fields of heartache recede as the space before me turns social blur the night’s weatherless disruption the night’s letterless dysfunction pneumatic purr of the breathing machine I heard & saw my sister use through childhood episodes structuring breath...
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 225–227.
Published: 01 June 2021
... breath: each word bears the weight of her lungs, none left unarticulated or lost among the bitter poignancy of images made into word. Placing Nina Simone’s rendition of “Strange Fruit” is an effort in trying to place breath. Simone’s interpretation is no wail or cry. Hers is a performance steeped...
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 219–221.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez Copyright © 2021 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2021 My eighty-seven-year-old father cuts holes in his masks. He says he can’t breathe otherwise. The fabric—whether stretchy, cotton, or woven—keeps him from taking full breaths, he protests. When we’re out, he pulls his...
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 217–218.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Maria José de Abreu Perhaps today we find ourselves at a similar temporal threshold when breathing will allow us to see not only what our moment is but also what it is not . Created at the turn of the eighteenth to the nineteenth century, Fourier’s blissful new world was an effort...
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (2): 335–352.
Published: 01 December 2019
... . 2. Wynter and McKittrick, “Unparalleled Catastrophe for Our Species?,” 14 , citing Césaire, “Poetry and Knowledge.” 1. “What should history mean to someone like me? Should it be an open wound and each breath I take in and expel healing and opening the wound again and again, over and over...
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Qui Parle (2012) 21 (1): 71–83.
Published: 01 June 2012
... rst cry of the newborn is voice
and breath: a sonorous, vital announcement of a singular bodi-
ly existence. As each body is always unique, so each voice differs
from all the others. And as is typical of a living being, each voice
develops along a temporal arc of existence and marks the physi...
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Qui Parle (2024) 33 (1): 211–221.
Published: 01 June 2024
... a “realism for the nonsovereign” (169), which, rather than an inevitable script or a dour cynicism, allows space to breathe and think in a different mode in a difficult world. The acts of reading, watching, and writing offer something to us all. The world is full of pain. “And yet” (171). A poignant...
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (1): 19–60.
Published: 01 June 2017
... with—the form of a syllogism at the level of presentation, which is precisely the point. Hence Benjamin shows, in the same breath, how closely he follows the structures that take shape in those texts to be addressed, here assimilating the didactic tone of the tractate and the syllogistic form. This is also...
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (2): 369–394.
Published: 01 December 2023
..., Neoliberalism, and Reactionary Politics .” Critical Inquiry 48 , no. 2 ( 2022 ): 334 – 59 . Hansen Bue Rübner . “ The Interest of Breathing: Towards a Theory of Ecological Interest Formation .” Crisis and Critique 7 , no. 3 ( 2020 ): 108 – 37 . Head Dominic . “ Wrong Kind of Love...
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Qui Parle (2024) 33 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 June 2024
... her expansive white spaces around the printed words provide a reparative space to breathe in the wake of racial violence. Returning us to the questions of language and silence raised in our consideration of Spillers and Wittgenstein, Sweat praises those of Sharpe’s notes that provide “the bare...
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Qui Parle (2010) 18 (2): 291–307.
Published: 01 December 2010
... encumber our moons with ceremonies that lack fi re.
. . . Purify the breath until it reveals the harsh taste of the land:
bring breath to the death of rocks and landscape. (CD, 237)
Under the sun like bagasse, the fi brous remains of sugar cane
drained of their juices, left...
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (2): 307–333.
Published: 01 December 2019
..., repetitive haunting. Locating these interconnections and their falter engages a form of reading that I will call here conspiratorial—a practice of reading for expansive sympathy in both latent and manifest forms, for the travel of shared breath across revolutionary imaginations: to argue...
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Qui Parle (2016) 24 (2): 161–170.
Published: 01 December 2016
... is more placid and the
principle that underlies it is the rather vague unity of feeling. . . .
Women are educated— who knows how?— as it were by breathing
in ideas, by living rather than by acquiring knowledge. (hv, 12)
Finding none of the epistemological hospitality...
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Qui Parle (2016) 25 (1-2): 137–177.
Published: 01 December 2016
... to have carried
irreversibility and human unpredictability into the natural realm,
where no remedy can be found to undo what has been done.
Arendt, The Human Condition
and, when the deed was done,
I heard among the solitary hills
Low breathings, coming after me...
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (2): 391–404.
Published: 01 December 2019
... to the narrative we inherit. The unruly music and antichoreographic dancing that proceed from the window Hartman breaks open indict every spectator as a participant and provokes “a will to unsettle, destroy, and remake that is so forceful it takes your breath away, so palpable it makes you reel with pain” ( wl...
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Qui Parle (2015) 23 (2): 161–184.
Published: 01 December 2015
....” The organization wanted to give prison-
ers “a chance to see something they want to see, used to see, or
may never see.” The resulting requests ranged from “a brown and
white horse rearing in cold enough weather so that you can see his
breath,” to “a picture of my auntie’s house on 63rd...
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