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Dead Tired
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Qui Parle (2024) 33 (1): 79–104.
Published: 01 June 2024
... “giving up” as unimaginable for her; however, Anyanwu’s immortal durability puts her in touch with the very ordinariness of it. Finally, this essay asks whether we can care for the dead, those who were too tired of living, without insisting on their renewal of their labor for the alive and their causes...
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Poetry, Ghosts, Mediation
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (1): 7–26.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Jack W. Chen Abstract This essay takes the example of a poem composed by a ghost in the Tang dynasty—one of many preserved in literary anthologies and treated as actually having been authored by the dead—as an entry point to ask broader questions of ghostly haunting and poetic presence. What...
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Zombie Porn 1.0: Or, Some Queer Things Zombie Sex Can Teach Us
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Qui Parle (2013) 21 (2): 101–125.
Published: 01 December 2013
... as it does the fi gure of the
walking dead (“dl,” 182).4
Up with Dead People
This project draws heavily on LaBruce’s 2008 gay zombie fi lm,
Otto; or, Up with Dead People. LaBruce gained subcultural and
academic attention5 in the 1990s and early 2000s with fi lms like...
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Derrida's Ouija Board
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Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 85–101.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Christopher Peterson Derrida’s Ouija Board
Christopher Peterson
In M. Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense, the aptly named Cole
Sear (Haley Joel Osment) discloses to his therapist the now-infa-
mous words: “I see dead people.” Only at the end of the film does
Malcolm Crowe (Bruce...
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Mad Raccoon, Demented Quail, and the Herring Holocaust: Notes for a Reading of W. G. Sebald
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Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 31–58.
Published: 01 December 2009
... alone sees that greenish
annihilated body, and he alone sees the shadow in the half-open
mouth and over the dead man’s eyes. (RS, 17)
Sebald places Descartes in the operating theater and hypothesizes
that the anatomical atlas is of the kind that Descartes “envisaged”
for the sake...
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Our Things: Thoreau on Objects, Relics, and Archives
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Qui Parle (2014) 23 (1): 157–181.
Published: 01 June 2014
... is capable of
assuming. On Thoreau’s understanding, then, there are either liv-
ing things— objects having meaning through their vital relations—
or dead things, passive objects excluded from the circulation of life,
Arsić: Thoreau on Objects 165...
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What Is Trauma to the Future?: On Glissant's Poetics
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Qui Parle (2010) 18 (2): 291–307.
Published: 01 December 2010
....
Trauma, on this account, is as much about the living as it is
about the dead. Indeed, it is about thinking the living and the dead
at once, thinking within that mute space of intersection that we
call both disaster and survival. He survives. She survives. They sur-
vive. We...
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Possum Hunting
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (1): 143–153.
Published: 01 June 2017
..., and got her in the house. When I went back out, I saw eyes looking at me like stars. I took a photo. It was a possum. But as soon as I saw it, it flopped on its side, teeth bared, eyes staring fixedly into the dark. I thought for a moment that it had died. But it was just playing dead, “playing possum...
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Pattern beyond Form
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Qui Parle (2025) 34 (1): 303–314.
Published: 01 June 2025
... “the dead body” to “the demonstrator,” “the supine narrator,” “the recumbent meditator,” and “the dreamer”—Dowling contests dominant figurations of uprightness. The book’s central ideas, figure and ground, are at once embodied and material, formal and representational. A figure may be defined through...
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Wordsworth's Dream of Extinction
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Qui Parle (2013) 21 (2): 61–68.
Published: 01 December 2013
...], the subject of philoso-
phy must also recognize that he or she is already dead, and that
philosophy is neither a medium of affi rmation nor a source of
justifi cation, but rather the organon of extinction.1
This scene of “adequation without correspondence” of thought
and (non...
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The Death of Freud: What Is to Be Preferred, Death or Obsolescence?
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Qui Parle (2010) 19 (1): 37–63.
Published: 01 June 2010
... that are discarded but functional are fi gures of
a stubborn non-death; they are muter than ghosts, those who do
not know that they are dead, or vampires, who derive strength
and powers from being dead. Obsolete machines are still alive in
a sense, but are cold and dusty because left unused. This is why...
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Read Yourself!: The Griffin Condition on the Day before the Last Day
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 77–98.
Published: 01 June 2018
... typology posits the theological supersession of the Christian church over Israel. The Hebrew Bible and the Jew become a “type,” fulfilled by the “figure” of the Christian Gospel and Christ. Jews thus become the “dead letter”—zombies that can only be vivified by their fulfillment in Jesus Christ...
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Lyric Disaster: Poetic Voice and Its Lacanian Other
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Qui Parle (2012) 21 (1): 185–201.
Published: 01 June 2012
...
nation.1 This symbolic role Whitman partially assigns to literary
precedents that the poet both appropriates and revises; the other
part he assigns to the fi gure of the dead Lincoln summoned to au-
thorize poetic speech by guaranteeing that it tallies the occasion
which it is called forth...
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Proust’s Natural History Museum
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (1): 103–135.
Published: 01 June 2019
... of Sodom and Gomorrah, its wrecked cities are said to lie at the bottom of the Dead Sea and presage a fate whose return is eternal—a millennium or so later, its wrath would return for the thousands turned to ash beneath Vesuvius, buried eighty feet deep, and forgotten for fifteen hundred years. The names...
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The Prisoner's Dream: Queer Visions from Solitary Confinement
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Qui Parle (2015) 23 (2): 161–184.
Published: 01 December 2015
... argue that the photos document the
violence of the carceral state by pointing to a utopic time and place
beyond the grasp of the prison— a place toward what I’m calling
“the prisoner’s dream” draws us.
Captured Vision, Queer Dreams, and the Time of the Dead
Photo...
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Furia
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (2): 491–512.
Published: 01 December 2017
... plane of existence. It is instructive to think of black elegies, particularly black women’s elegies for other black women , as not just honorific or formal, but haptic, textual, and visual. For they must suture the space between the living and the dead, the present and a possible foreseeable black...
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The Magic Skin; Or, the Franco-European Accident of Philosophy After Jacques Derrida
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Qui Parle (2009) 18 (1): 97–110.
Published: 01 June 2009
... desire and the will are dead in me, slain
by thought. . . .
Yes indeed, I wish to live in excess, said the stranger, picking up
the magic skin.
Honoré de Balzac, La Peau de chagrin
98 qui parle fall/winter 2009 vol.18, no.1
“It was the counterfeit coin,” he...
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The Commerce of Anonymity
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (1): 101–142.
Published: 01 June 2017
... that the signature has been forged? Is it that kind of a copy, imitation, or lie? As Derrida has argued, the other is the one who is left to do something with my remains. 10 Those remains include not only my dead body, the corpse I leave behind, but also any number of other relics, vestiges, and traces...
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“Curiosity! Wonder!! Horror!!! Misery!!!!” The Campanha de Canudos , or the Photography of History
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Qui Parle (2005) 15 (2): 139–169.
Published: 01 December 2005
.... A photograph therefore
speaks . . . as the trace of what passes into history. . .. At once dead
and alive, it opens the possibility of our being in time. . . . [The
event of photography] tells us that the truth of history is to this day
nothing but photography. Nevertheless, the photograph — as what...
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Speculum of the Other Cene
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 233–250.
Published: 01 June 2018
... closes. At the end of the five generations that Haraway narrates, each generation bringing about a more ecologically robust (and less populous) world, the fifth Camille becomes a “Speaker for the Dead,” communing with the “lost lifeways” that have departed from the earth and letting no one forget...
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