... and military actors who seek to promote specific forms of knowledge—statistical versus qualitative—about war. This essay points to the sedimentation of colonial practices around affection and disaffection, and of colonial intimacy in these counterinsurgency practices. By drawing on the writings and memoirs...

... mother even before she can exchange her mother for her father, and where the daughter is exchanged precisely not to extend kinship ties between the biological and adoptive families. Through a reading of Jane Jeong Trenka's 2003 The Language of Blood , a memoir of growing up as a Korean adoptee...

... Indian father's unpublished memoirs as he journeyed from India to Pretoria, stresses the role of misremembering and the tangibility of an archive contained in pillowcases and written in fading ink. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 salvage archive...

...Ioana Luca Edward Said’s Lieux de Mémoire Out of Pl ace and the Politics of Autobiogr a phy The contemporary theoretical scene on autobiography, or “life writing” Ioana Luca (a term preferred by many...

... Black feminist theory's multiple conceptions of subjectivity. 5 The Black feminist archive I assemble mobilizes poetic writing, memoir, and lyrical prose to represent and imagine the metaphysical dimensions of Black female subjectivity, the places where time and space work on and alongside race...

... the imagery of Muslim women presented in American popular literature, particularly the wildly proliferating subgenre of first-person “oppressed Muslim women” narratives. Multiple examples across the cultural land- scape, whether “serious” nonfiction, children’s book, or pulp memoir...

... and symbolic ritu- als of mourning and burial as part of humanist practice, to Said’s lifelong, seldom melancholy, dialogue with the work of Giambattista Vico and Gramsci. In the closing essay, Iona Luca considers Said’s more recent exer- cise in autobiography, Out of Place: A Memoir (1999...

... histories, The Romance of American Communism (1977), and Kim Chernin’s In My Mother’s House (1983)—and one son’s memoir, Carl Bernstein’s Loyalties (1989). In 1976 Professor Paul Buhle found a home for the Oral History of the American...

..., or troubles assimilation.2 Benderson’s literary works in English include Pretending to Say No (1991), User (1994), and Pacific Agony (2009), and the memoir The Roma- nian (2006). He has also published critical essays on dissident artists...

... in Contemporary Pakistan and Its U.S. Diaspora,” of which this essay is a part, and is working on a memoir, “Sahelian: Growing Up with Girlfriends, Pakistani-Style.” Samantha King is an assistant professor of physical education at the University of Arizona, where she teaches and researches the cultural...

... relationship to documentary truth is mirrored in the runaway popularity of Elliott Burns's memoir, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang! Like Spivak, Burns had also written for the lowbrow market, selling parts of his story to True Detective Stories in 1930 to get attention and support for his own case. 37...

... their respective times in Jerusalem. In his memoir, Out of Place , Said details the fate of his extended kin network in the waning years of British colonial rule. He and his sister Jean Said Makdisi, in her own illuminating memoir, Teta, Mother, and Me , have noted that the house in Talbieh was where...

.... 1. Central Coast Climate Justice Network (C3JN) Letter . 2. See, for example, BLM cofounder Patrisse Khan-Cullors's book When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir . 3. Central Coast Climate Justice Network (C3JN) Letter. 4. See, for example, Sarah...

... of Necessity: Repetition, Secular Mourning, and Edward Said’s Inventories of Late Return  Ana Dopico 111 Edward Said’s Lieux de Mémoire: Out of Place and the Politics of Autobiography  Ioana Luca 125 Contributors...

... and England. She is Distinguished Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Hunter College, New York, and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her poems and prose works, which have been widely anthologized and translated, include the memoir Fault Lines (The Femi- nist Press at the City...

... normative national history and to suggest a different path to understand the country’s past and possibly its future. In following the debates around Manto’s writings, this essay relies on research in public and private archives, newspaper reports, and memoirs of key participants in the debates...

... in multiple representational outlets, including written sites where it is not usually or easily located — such as newspaper coverage, readers’ letters, film, and memoir.14 Once located, I use close- reading strategies to distill what Richard Cullen Rath...

..., allegedly predatory female teacher sexuality does to traditional Western gender binaries governing the modern organization of heterosexuality. 112 Sheila L. Cavanagh Methodological Memoirs: Entry Number One I...

... him to Luis Zapata’s works and gave him excerpts from Salvador Novo’s then-unpublished memoirs. Ley- land then collaborated with Erskine Lane, who had been living in Guatemala since about 1973, on the first anthology, Now the Volcano, published in 1979. As a title, Now the Volcano was fully...

..., for the continuing appeal of representations of the 100-hour Gulf War of 1991, like David O. Russell’s film Three Kings or Anthony Swofford’s celebrated memoir Jarhead, which focus obsessively on the traumatizing effects of war as a nonevent...