...Magnus Fiskesjö Until the mid-twentieth century, the written Chinese names for China's “barbarian” others included components that purposefully classified such people with animals. This long-lived official definition of ethnic others as subhuman was accomplished by using a range of standard...

... memory: a 2000 graphic novel, a 2008 biopic, and a 2014 performance by the art collective My Barbarian. © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 In Finitude Being with José, Being with Pedro Tavia Nyong’o Like many suburban queers of my generation, my point of entry into the work of José...

.... These range from the contemporary repre- sentations in global media of China’s human rights abuses (Gloria Davies, Ackbar Abbas) to the borderland regions of China’s “barbarian” tribes and its liberal overseas counterparts (Magnus Fiskesjö, Petrus Liu); from its coeval existence in seventeenth-century...

... populations—the aristocracy, merchants, and the “better breed” of apparently self-regulating workers—are Black and Brown, while the “ ‘barbarians’ from the [Global] South,” and, consequently, the vast majority of slaves in Nevèrÿon, are “blond and blue eyed.” 49 This inversion emphasizes the structural...

.... It is found in all modern representations of the subhuman or substandard human, the inferiorized, the deviant, the degenerate, the immature from whom (from which) society must distance itself, must (as Foucault formulates it) be defended. It is in defense against the barbarians at the gate and the barbarians...

..., neofascism . Princeton, N.J.:Princeton University Press. Malkki, Liisa H. 1995 . Purity and exile:Violence, memory, and national cosmology among Hutu refugees in Tanzania . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Seremetakis, C. Nadia. 1998 . In search of the barbarians: Borders in pain...

... race.”11 They migrated with the Molossi, a once-­barbarian Greek group, from Thes- saly to Epirus and later became part of the Roman Empire. Molossian is also the breed-­type for what are called in English mastiffs, descendants of ancient guard and war dogs from Asia or the Middle...

... tried to figure out what costume to wear. This was before Arnold Schwarzenegger had made the first Conan movie with Grace Jones playing a barbarian. This was way before Tina Turner as Auntie Entitie in Mad Max beyond Thunderdome and Grace Jones again in the campy vampire film Vamp. Not that it’s...

... Writings, 328. 31. Tagore, “Modern Poetry,” 290. 32. Chakrabarty, 167. 33. Peter McDonald, “The Writer, the Critic, and the Censor: Waiting for the Barbarians and the Question of Literature...

... owe a lot to Joshua Lund’s theorization of the term with regard to the Latin American context in a seminal essay, “Barbarian Theorizing and Latin American Exceptionalism,” Cul- tural Critique 47 (winter 2001): 54–90. Lund defines his project thus: “I aim to signal the ways in which exceptionalism...

... American Area Studies and Latino Ethnic Studies: From Civilizing Mission to the Barbarian’s Revenge,” American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Hispanic/ Latino Issues in Philosophy, no. 2 (2001), www.apaonline.org/publications/news...

... a marketing consultant, who rede- fines the college’s image with whatever he finds out from focus groups. But in fact these commercial barbarians decide that the college’s values are Freedom + Guidance = [Personal] Growth, which could best be expressed in the slogan Reflecting America, Engaging the World...