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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 164–168.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Brian Larkin This paper examines the debate between Fredric Jameson and Aijaz Ahmad in articles that appeared in Social Text 15 (1986) and Social Text 17 (1987) over the status of national allegory in third-world literature. It argues that national allegory can be produced not from authorial...
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Social Text (2017) 35 (3 (132)): 17–40.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Laura-Zoë Humphreys This article examines the changing dynamics of censorship and social criticism in revolutionary Cuban cinema in order to make a case for studying allegory not as a mode whose meanings analysts should (or should not) reveal but, rather, as a contested social process. From...
FIGURES
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Social Text (2010) 28 (3 (104)): 119–150.
Published: 01 September 2010
... cinematic allegories. © 2010 Duke University Press 2010 Cinematic Contact Zones
Hemispheric Romances in Film and the Construction
and Reconstruction of Latin Americanism
Adrián Pérez Melgosa
Current debates about the origins and evolution of Latin Americanism
focus primarily...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (2 (107)): 121–127.
Published: 01 June 2011
..., are considered in the light of the figures of turns and returns. Questions of exception, emergency, and suspension of the law are addressed by evocation of the concepts of medical diagnosis and prognosis. The poetics of illness and malaise are explored through the temporal allegory of the eternal recurrence...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (4 (109)): 129–150.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Dai Jinhua This article reads a Chinese blockbuster film, City of Life and Death ([南京! 南京! Nanjing! Nanjing! ] dir. Lu Chuan, 2009), as an allegory of China and the human for contemporary China. This movie illustrates the historical entanglement...
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Social Text (2004) 22 (1 (78)): 1–15.
Published: 01 March 2004
... Ahmad’s unsparing riposte and Jame-
son’s rather morose “Brief Response.”8 Countering Jameson’s avowedly
“sweeping hypothesis” that “all third-world texts” must be read as “national
allegories,” Ahmad criticizes Jameson’s inflexible application of “Three
Worlds” theory, his cryptic proposition...
Journal Article
Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 37–44.
Published: 01 March 2018
... , then, are allegories of collaboration, in the double sense of that term: as cooperative work and as sleeping with the enemy. One is comically pessimistic; the other is jubilantly schizoid. Both share in the neuro-obsessions of the moment: the world is a brain, the brain is a screen, and the world picture is possibly...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 123–127.
Published: 01 September 2009
... and Gregor Benton (New York: Vintage, 1975), 230.
6. Ibid., 221.
Social Text 100 • Fall 2009 16 3
National Allegory
Brian Larkin
In January 2009, Amitabh...
Journal Article
Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 129–133.
Published: 01 September 2009
... and Gregor Benton (New York: Vintage, 1975), 230.
6. Ibid., 221.
Social Text 100 • Fall 2009 16 3
National Allegory
Brian Larkin
In January 2009, Amitabh...
Journal Article
Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 134–135.
Published: 01 September 2009
... and Gregor Benton (New York: Vintage, 1975), 230.
6. Ibid., 221.
Social Text 100 • Fall 2009 16 3
National Allegory
Brian Larkin
In January 2009, Amitabh...
Journal Article
Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 136–140.
Published: 01 September 2009
... and Gregor Benton (New York: Vintage, 1975), 230.
6. Ibid., 221.
Social Text 100 • Fall 2009 16 3
National Allegory
Brian Larkin
In January 2009, Amitabh...
Journal Article
Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 141–146.
Published: 01 September 2009
... and Gregor Benton (New York: Vintage, 1975), 230.
6. Ibid., 221.
Social Text 100 • Fall 2009 16 3
National Allegory
Brian Larkin
In January 2009, Amitabh...
Journal Article
Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 147–151.
Published: 01 September 2009
... and Gregor Benton (New York: Vintage, 1975), 230.
6. Ibid., 221.
Social Text 100 • Fall 2009 16 3
National Allegory
Brian Larkin
In January 2009, Amitabh...
Journal Article
Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 152–153.
Published: 01 September 2009
... and Gregor Benton (New York: Vintage, 1975), 230.
6. Ibid., 221.
Social Text 100 • Fall 2009 16 3
National Allegory
Brian Larkin
In January 2009, Amitabh...
Journal Article
Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 155–157.
Published: 01 September 2009
... and Gregor Benton (New York: Vintage, 1975), 230.
6. Ibid., 221.
Social Text 100 • Fall 2009 16 3
National Allegory
Brian Larkin
In January 2009, Amitabh...
Journal Article
Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 159–163.
Published: 01 September 2009
... and Gregor Benton (New York: Vintage, 1975), 230.
6. Ibid., 221.
Social Text 100 • Fall 2009 16 3
National Allegory
Brian Larkin
In January 2009, Amitabh...
Journal Article
Social Text (2014) 32 (1 (118)): 1–21.
Published: 01 March 2014
... and Allegory
By contrast with the proliferation of the insignia of resistance in English
and other European languages, only in rare instances are Arabic-language
graffti inscribed on Bethlehem’s apartheid wall. This linguistic shift from
the Arabic graffti of the frst intifada to the English graffti...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (2 (127)): 125–141.
Published: 01 June 2016
... of this special issue, the time is ripe to reassess an old materialist, Jameson, in the context of today’s new materialism. Much has already been said about Jameson’s writings on utopia, art, dialectics, allegory, history, and totality. Yet this article explores a different side of Jameson’s work, not new...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (1 (122)): 49–70.
Published: 01 March 2015
.... © 2015 Duke University Press 2015 Pedro Almodóvar The Skin I Live In digital cinema historical allegory posthuman Cinema, Transgenesis,
and History in The Skin I Live In
Carla Marcantonio
Perhaps this moment of accelerated stasis in history, when we feel caught...
Journal Article
Social Text (2008) 26 (2 (95)): 111–112.
Published: 01 June 2008
... of political allegory, into frozen surfaces of
Social Text 95 • Vol. 26, No. 2 • Summer 2008
DOI 10.1215/01642472-2007-032 © 2008 Duke University Press 111
ideological confirmation and affect. Both Karadzic and George...
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