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in How to Grow out of Nothing: The Afterlife of National Rebirth in Postcolonial Belarus
> Qui Parle
Published: 01 December 2017
Fig. 1. Throughout the essay I use images from the series Tabula Rasa (2001–16) by the Minsk photographer and artist Sergei Zhdanovich, who accompanied his series with the following description: “An empty billboard may become an esthetic construct when we care to reflect on its significance
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (1): 37–65.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Delali Kumavie Abstract This essay argues that Lesley Nneka Arimah’s collection of short stories, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky , evokes para-worlds that reveal and contend with the world and its norms. Examining the collection’s entwinement of magical, mythical, and animist modes...
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 137–161.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Alya Ansari Abstract This essay foregrounds the hermeneutic purchase of totality in contemporary literary criticism. Responding to the recent proliferation of the “gig work” novel, the essay takes up two interrelated lines of inquiry: How might we rethink the conceptual affordances of “totality...
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (2): 249–291.
Published: 01 December 2021
...-level organic objects, such as plants, within the Aristotelian hierarchy of beings. Rather than accept at face value their categorizations as passive or deficient in comparison to the human subject, critical scholarship has reformulated the place and role of nonhuman entities in culture. This essay...
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (2): 219–240.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Michelle M. Wright Abstract This essay interrogates rising interest in the concept of “entanglement” by Black studies scholars. Beginning with its definition in theoretical physics, the essay moves to Karen Barad’s “agential realism” to explore how diasporic ways of knowing are used to define...
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (2): 321–354.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Laura U. Marks Abstract This essay brings a process approach to the One-Many problem as treated in Gilles Deleuze’s thought, by focusing on the work of Ṣadr al-Dīn Muhammad al-Shīrāzī (Shiraz, 1571–1640). First acknowledging Avicenna’s concept of the univocity of being (attributed to John Duns...
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (2): 293–335.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Ronald Mendoza–de Jesús Abstract Although Walter Benjamin anticipated a confrontation with Martin Heidegger regarding the theory of historical knowledge, this confrontation was never fully elaborated. This essay contributes to filling out this lacuna by arguing that Benjamin’s concept...
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (2): 159–188.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Philip Balboni Abstract This essay works to clarify Edward Said’s writings on religion, criticism, and the secular, arguing that this clarification has serious implications not only for Said’s project of “secular criticism” but also for understanding the workings of what he called the “critical...
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 163–197.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Filippo Menozzi Abstract This essay proposes a reading of the American photographer Allan Sekula’s 1995 essay “Dismal Science” alongside The Forgotten Space , an essay film he directed with Noël Burch in 2010. These works are still resonant today because they suggest the possibility of picturing...
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (2): 341–367.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Katja Perat Abstract This essay examines how Stanisław Lem mobilizes the genre of science fiction to portray regional Central European concerns as structural conditions of semiperiphery. The essay centers on Lem’s interest in illegibility, which defines him as a novelist and a critic, showing how...
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (2): 369–394.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Ian Fleishman Abstract This essay theorizes an addiction to ecological anxiety that is characteristic of cultural reactions to climate change and made especially palpable in a time of pandemic. Borrowing from J. M. Coetzee’s identification in Franz Kafka of an epistemology of ever-evolving crisis...
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Qui Parle (2024) 33 (1): 79–104.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Ianna Hawkins Owen Abstract This essay concerns the descriptions of exhaustion connected to the suicidal thoughts and actions of Anyanwu, the protagonist of Octavia E. Butler’s novel Wild Seed (1980). Expanding the disability studies concept of desirelessness to graze Black diaspora studies...
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (2): 189–229.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Liron Mor Abstract This essay explores visual reading and its colonial aspects by analyzing the novel Ze ʿ im ha-panim elenu ( The One Facing Us , 1995), by Ronit Matalon, an Israeli Jewish author of Egyptian descent. In this novel Matalon displaces the dramas of Mizrahi Jews (Jews originating from...
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Qui Parle (2024) 33 (1): 63–78.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Nicholas Baer Abstract This essay examines the role of rumors in F. W. Murnau’s films as well as in later writings about his life and career. While Murnau perpetuates long-standing figurations of gossip as a frivolous or even malicious activity, he also grants unverified information a truth value...
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Qui Parle (2020) 29 (2): 309–342.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Anna Feuerstein Abstract This essay analyzes two late Victorian texts by white women colonists in South Africa—F. Clinton Parry’s children’s book African Pets (1880) and Annie Martin’s memoir Home Life on an Ostrich Farm (1890)—to nuance understandings of animality as racialization. By reading...
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Qui Parle (2020) 29 (2): 247–283.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Tyrone S. Palmer Abstract This essay thinks through the centrality of the concept of “the World” to theorizations of affect and the presumed correlation between feeling and world—that is, the notion that affective experience is necessarily generative of world(s)—that operates as an uninterrogated...
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 121–155.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Dora Zhang Abstract This essay argues that we do not yet fully recognize and attend to the importance of atmospheres as social and political phenomena of everyday life, and draws on a range of approaches to examine these ordinary and ubiquitous sites of affective charge. First charting how creating...
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 157–197.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Daniel Katz Abstract This essay examines the contradictions of Robert Duncan’s 1960s political poetry by way of his reading of the legacy of modernism, notably as expounded in The H.D. Book . Drawing on the work of Daniel Tiffany, the essay first argues that here Duncan constructs a kitsch Ezra...
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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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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 75–104.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Roy Chan Abstract Nikolai Chernyshevsky (1828–89) is best known for his utopian realist novel What Is to Be Done? (1863). However, he was perhaps most celebrated as a literary thinker in China as a result of the Soviet canonization of the nineteenth-century “democratic critics.” This essay...
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