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...Marianne Constable The use of the saying “Actions speak louder than words” renders problematic both political and legal judgments. With its often excruciating attention to language, law in particular insists on maintaining relations between speech and reality or between words and the truths...

...Cho Haejoang; Ueno Chizuko Copyright © 2010 Qui Parle 2010 Speaking at the Border/Will These Words Reach . . . cho haejoang and ueno chizuko Translated by Teresa K-Sue Park and Miki Kaneda Translators’ Note The following letters are selections from an exchange between Cho...

... to speak differently? A Race So Different , by Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson, and The Racial Mundane , by Ju Yon Kim, suggest that performance studies offers alternatives. Chambers-Letson’s book organizes itself around the law, while Kim’s book is organized around the everyday, but both use...

...Samuel Moyn Copyright © 2000 Qui Parle 2000 METAPHORICALLY SPEAKING: HANS BLUMENBERG, GIAMBATTISTA VICO, AND THE PROBLEM OF ORIGINS' Samuel Moyn "To speak of beginnings is always to be suspected of a mania for returning to origins," the contemporary German philosopher...

...Patrick Lyons; Simone Stirner Copyright © 2018 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2018 It’s our thirtieth anniversary here at Qui Parle . Wondering how to honor this milestone—in a year that gave more reason for outcry than celebration—we turned to our title as a guiding frame: who speaks...

... , that is, prosopon pros prosopon . Prosopon , the Greek word for mask, gave rise to the rhetorical figure of prosopopoeia ( prosopon poiein : to confer a mask or a face). A striking occurrence of prosopopoeia is found in the eighteenth-century British genre called “it-narrative,” in which inanimate things speak...

... of an antidisciplinary approach to historical inquiry. It engages the historiography and archives related to the Houston Police Department’s attack on Texas Southern University students in 1967 and in doing so exposes the incoherence of historiography that speaks of peace in an anti-Black world and that relies...

...Divya Dwivedi Abstract Jean-Luc Nancy was concerned with commencement at several levels, of several kinds, in several senses, because he could speak of commencement with affirmation, which means with audacity. From the hospital in July 2021 he completed his last essay, which was intended...

..., this essay resists the total absorption of enslaved Black women’s suicidal thoughts and actions into the collective political motivations of the living, even as it resists their banishment. Rather than speak authoritatively about an action ultimately undertaken alone, the essay feels for the ordinary edges...

... (wood and wire), used to explore archives of excess and mess; plastics, used to speak about the temporality of diaspora; and discarded food containers (SPAM cans and sauce mixes), used to theorize the politics of the brown body. These objects, like the brown subjects that signify them, are testaments...

... language, the anti-modernist poets succeed best in unearthing shards of "lan- guage itself."4 Paradoxically, it is the restorative, conservative poets who come closest to approximating language speaking in its own voice. Their linguistic conservatism is their progressivism...

... in another era? I don’t think so, or at least I don’t discern it. Is there a particular motif or motive today that leads to teaching? I don’t see it. Furthermore, such questions would demand, it seems to me, that one specify of what sort of teaching we speak: that is to say, at what level, in what discipline...

... Board, Qui Parle 2019 Paul Celan Jorie Graham Lucretius Who knows the revolutions of dust? John Donne Dust and literature have always gone hand in hand. Roberto Bolaño In describing beginnings and ends, Western science speaks the venerable language of dust. The Hebrew Bible...

..., ecological, pro-LGBTQ+, feminist, and promigrant struggles. What can a journal of critical theory do in such times? Who speaks here? What change might this speech effect, especially in times of precarity and transition? For more than thirty years some iteration of Qui Parle has existed as a space...

... from cerebral anatomy. It might be said to wear it awry. —Sigmund Freud2 The word is available as the sign for, so to speak, inner employment; it can function as a sign in a state short of outward...

... believe in ghosts and thus hinges on a rigid distinction between the living and the dead. Spiritualism claims that only those who are very much alive can speak to the dead. As in The Sixth Sense, spiritualism professes that one can speak to ghosts without ever having “to be” a ghost...

... captured and carted off to the pound. Everyone speaks at once, lines of dialogue are end- lessly repeated, and the entire closing sequence is of a man (un- known, unidentifi ed) trying to put some groceries into a bag while holding onto a squirming baby. The only break from the visual and auditory...

... to English-speaking readers as well, however different the universes of discourse may be. Samuel Weber 172 qui parle spring/summer 2009 vol.17, no.2 Dear Sir: We are quite pleased to be writing you on the occasion of the publication of the Japanese version...

... Chizuko’s dialogue across the postcolonial border between Korea and Japan, “Speaking at the Border/Will These Words Reach . . . ,” which is featured here. Taking my cue from their discussion of Miwa Yanagi’s artwork My Grandmothers and Ueno’s sixth let- ter, I say, “[l]et us embark...

... is legal and who illegal on a territory and the thresholds of tolerance that ensure security and harmony in a country. Again, speaking of fiction has nothing to do with any form of so-called relativism. Fictions are solid realities that bring about hardness and violence. That is why they should be taken...