... subjects. However, Makumbi’s novel, while defying traditional diasporic narrative structures by focusing on diaspora within East Africa, specifically Gandaland and Uganda, and by rejecting fixed hierarchies of relations for horizontal ones, in which all Black subjects are equally knowing and unknowing...

... the structure and experience of sorrow itself, such that the task of defi ning sorrow seems inherently to demand distinguishing be- tween opposite forms of sorrow. Sorrow is never simply good or bad, but always good or bad in a way that involves the possibility of its opposite...

... - cation, of a personal origin, or of a defi ned genre, they redefi ne it as asignifying, impersonal, and intensive. Nevertheless, there is nothing uncertain or reactive about these subtractive formulations, whose critical impact ignites a creative explosion. Indeed, of what does style consist...

... of which was supplied by his memoir itself. 32 qui parle spring/summer 2014 vol. 22, no. 2 The vague defi nition of moral turpitude (from the Latin turpis, meaning “ugly, foul or disgraceful”) as “base or shameful charac- ter” found a convenient fi t with Horsley’s self-professed...

... tradition has never stopped asking this question—if only because it has never produced a convincing answer. When Carl Schmitt, in his famous essay on the “political,” poses the question explicitly for the fi rst time, he specifi es from the outset that by essence he means neither an exhaustive defi...

... of the forms of “bits of paper” (chiffons de papier) that, Jacques Derrida claims, are defi ned precisely by that “withdrawal” that is “the mode of being, the process, the very movement of what we call ‘paper2 The insistence on the space of the liner, as a process that must withdraw itself...

... (as that which is made and defi ned by the secu- lar). The world appears only once, and this appearance calls attention to the power by which it is made.6 The Analogical Operation Central to the operation of analogy is the twofold appearance of its governing terms...

... an imperialist and racialized conception of “universal humanity” attempted to “humanize” black- ness. In the case of slavery, humanization and captivity go hand in hand. Too oft en, our conception of anti-blackness is defi ned by the specter of “denied humanity,” “dehumanization...

... their engagements. The second argument is that the supposed law recognizes the full sover- eignty of states, and so it is not apparent upon what distinct social basis it claims to construct itself. The law, we say, presupposes the existence of a society whose limits are conclusively defi ned and whose...

... the privileging of humans over nonhumans in networks of actants. (An “actant,” in Latour’s canonical defi nition thereof, Review Essays 181 is “something that acts or to which activity is granted by others7 Mialet’s analysis of the actor- network...

..., not to mention Western lyric reading, is a long and complex one. There is, furthermore, the pressing fact that almost all of lyric’s defi ning features are actually quite diffi cult to defi ne. What do we mean when we speak of a lyric subject, and where do we locate this subject...

...- ing to the emergent phenomenon of climate refugees, however, is obliged to challenge the defi nition of refugee status laid out in 1951 by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, which states that a refugee is any person who, “owing to well-founded fear of being...

... shatter- ing or dramatic than they are impassive or undead, and porn ap- pears less as gratifying sexual representations than as a materialist conceit to think through relationships between sex, queerness, and power. We therefore cultivate defi nitions of zombie porn that are 102 qui parle...

..., which consists of twenty campuses funded by the city and state, is facing severe budget cuts because of mounting city and state budget defi cits. New York State has a $10 billion budget defi cit in 2011. The mayor claims that New York City is facing a $4.6 billion defi - cit...

... human and that the “voice of the wind” is not necessarily a metaphor. Most modern dictionar- ies, however, defi ne “voice” fi rst as human voice, the ensemble of sounds emitted from the larynx and the system of phonation or- gans. They then specify in greater detail that such sounds...

... that a ready-made is something profoundly linked to a moment, a date, an occasion; it’s like a fro- 58 qui parle spring/summer 2014 vol. 22, no. 2 zen instant (Duchamp defi nes the 3 Standard Stoppages as “hasard en conserve,” “canned coincidence Ready- mades are then com- pared...

... leaning on a process of dematerialization that leads the human beings who spread it to consider themselves as severed from their own bodies, from their terrestrial ground. I will then demonstrate that the Anthropocene, defi ned as the historic peri- od at which human beings gain the capacity...

... to represent the views of students to the govern- ment, university leaders, and the general public, as disappointment quickly turned to anger at the prospect of such a seismic shift in our higher education landscape. Much has been made of the need to reduce the government’s defi cit, following a deep...

.... For Dayan, a reconsideration of the possibilities for ethical living necessitates precisely a process of becoming unfamiliar with the nature of one’s being. Moreover, relation to the unfamiliar lies at the heart of her defi nition of ethics: “Ethics . . . has to do with locale...

... (I am like/unlike it internal- ly/physically) yield four human perceptual schemata, each of which is the foundation for “defi ning terms and their predicates” (bnc, 113): Faced with some other entity, human or nonhuman, I can assume either that it possesses elements of physicality...