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We Deportees: Race, Religion, and War on Palestine’s No-Man’s-Land

Emily Drumsta, Keith P. Feldman

Social Text (2016) 34 (4 (129)): 87–110.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3680882

Published: 01 December 2016

... University Press . Graham Stephen . 2010 . Cities under Siege: The New Military Urbanism . London : Verso . Harlow Barbara . 1987 . Resistance Literature . New York : Routledge . Harrison Olivia . 2015 . Transcolonial Maghreb: Imagining Palestine in the Era...

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The Materiality of Resistance: Israel’s Apartheid Wall in an Age of Globalization

Rebecca Gould

Social Text (2014) 32 (1 (118)): 1–21.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2391315

Published: 01 March 2014

... in the literature on this wall to align these representations homogenously with resistance. More than resisting a specific regime, many of these images enter into global conversations about the circulation of power. Images of resistance scripted and consumed by those who observe suffering from afar are juxtaposed...

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Nation Validation: MODERN PALESTINIAN LITERATURE AND THE POLITICS OF APPEASEMENT

Salah D. Hassan

Social Text (2003) 21 (2 (75)): 7–24.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-21-2_75-7

Published: 01 June 2003

... by Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Harlow, Barbara. 1987 . Resistance literature . New York: Methuen. Hassan, Salah D. 2001 . Undertaking partition:Palestine and postcolonial studies. Journal X 6.1 (autumn): 19 -45. ____. 2001-2 . Terminus...

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Irvine Welsh's Novel Subjectivities

Jeffrey Karnicky

Social Text (2003) 21 (3 (76)): 135–153.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-21-3_76-135

Published: 01 September 2003

.... And the fuckin willpower. So the wey we see is, youse cunts dae as yis ur fuckin well telt and that’s it. Endy fuckin story.”2 This scene seems particularly relevant in general relation to recent developments in Scottish literature and politics and in speciﬁc relation to Welsh’s place within...

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Editors' Introduction

Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 131–133.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3315814

Published: 01 December 2015

... Resistance in the Plantation South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Clifford, James. 1994. “Diasporas.” Current Anthropology 9, no. 3: 302–38. Edwards, Brent Hayes. 2003. The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation...

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Visual and Performance Studies: A NEW HISTORY OF INTERDISCIPLINARITY

Catherine Soussloff, Mark Franko

Social Text (2002) 20 (4 (73)): 29–46.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-20-4_73-29

Published: 01 December 2002

...- ographer, dance historian, and French literary historian, and Soussloff, an art historian, worked with colleagues in the Departments of Anthropology, Art, Art History, History, History of Consciousness, Literature, and The- ater Arts. They consulted with numerous experts in the ﬁelds of perfor- mance...

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Reversible Human: Rectal Feeding, Plasticity, and Racial Control in US Carceral Warfare

Neel Ahuja

Social Text (2020) 38 (2 (143)): 19–47.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-8164728

Published: 01 June 2020

... context in which psychologists designed varied tactics of physical, psychological, and sensory conditioning. These experiments sought to control prisoner resistance to interrogation in situations where interrogators attempted to link the bodies of incarcerated terrorism suspects from South Asia...

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Not Yet Beyond the Veil: Muslim Women in American Popular Literature

Dohra Ahmad

Social Text (2009) 27 (2 (99)): 105–131.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2008-024

Published: 01 June 2009

... that discourage reductive ethnographic readings. © 2009 Duke University Press 2009 Not Yet Beyond the Veil Muslim Women in American Popular Literature Dohra Ahmad In his 1977 essay “An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Dark- ness,” Chinua Achebe tells of receiving a letter from a high...

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Disappointment in the Archives of Black Freedom

Britt Rusert

Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 19–33.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3315874

Published: 01 December 2015

...Britt Rusert This article uses a collection of African American women's friendship albums held at the Library Company of Philadelphia to reflect on scholarly resistance to reading disappointment, and negativity more generally, in the archives of black freedom. Rather than viewing these artifacts...

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I Want to Be Human: A Story of China and the Human

Dai Jinhua

Social Text (2011) 29 (4 (109)): 129–150.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-1416118

Published: 01 December 2011

... proj- ect through and through (approved directly by the central government,2 funded entirely by the China Film Corporation) and its main objective, according to Lu Chuan, the director, was to present a “Chinese style of resistance,” the choice of narrative (the Nanjing Massacre) as well...

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The Recourses of Necessity: REPETITION, SECULAR MOURNING, AND EDWARD SAID'S INVENTORIES OF LATE RETURN

Ana Dopico

Social Text (2006) 24 (2 (87)): 111–123.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-24-2_87-111

Published: 01 June 2006

... articulations of Western philosophy and critique but as the recourses of necessity — Vichian ricorsi remapping and retreading cultural and historical trajectories.1 Tracing the genealogy of culture, of morals, of literature, of politics, of received ideas, that repetition provides ways to challenge...

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Restless Itineraries: Antiapartheid Expressive Culture and Transnational Historiography

Louise Bethlehem

Social Text (2018) 36 (3 (136)): 47–69.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-6917766

Published: 01 September 2018

... that have analyzed public culture at these nodes of intersection. 19 He fails to consider what Nixon’s work so powerfully demonstrates—that the global contest over the meaning of apartheid and of resistance to it occurs on the terrain of culture. This omission invites remedy. If we grant that the Cold...

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Storytelling and the Comparative Study of Atlantic Slavery and Freedom

Edlie L. Wong

Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 109–130.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3315802

Published: 01 December 2015

.... Sommer, Doris. 1992. “Resistant Texts and Incompetent Readers.” Latin American Literary Review 20, no. 40: 104–8. Spillers, Hortense. 2003. “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe.” In Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture...

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Tarrying with the Normative: QUEER THEORY AND BLACK HISTORY

Amy Villarejo

Social Text (2005) 23 (3-4 (84-85)): 69–84.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-23-3-4_84-85-69

Published: 01 December 2005

...- mative: in its most benign form it appears as a bullying insistence toward obedience to social law and hierarchy, and in its most lethal form it carries the punishment of death for resistance to them. In my view, queer theory brings immense resources to the analysis...

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The Question of Recovery: An Introduction

Laura Helton, Justin Leroy, Max A. Mishler, Samantha Seeley, Shauna Sweeney

Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 1–18.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3315766

Published: 01 December 2015

... of slaveholders for narratives of cultural agency and everyday forms of slave resistance.11 In the ensuing decades, an enormously rich body of contem- porary literature has grown from this long-standing, evolving commit- ment to recovering black lives from archives...

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Disciplinarity

Shireen R. K. Patell

Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 104–111.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2009-018

Published: 01 September 2009

....” The absolute singularity of the literary text, its par- ticular idiom, can only partially yield to critical methodologies — for what is “extraneous” in literature, and by what authority would it be so judged? Literature interrupts and resists the grasp of theories built according to the plans...

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Contributors

Social Text (2011) 29 (2 (107)): np.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-29-2_107-np

Published: 01 June 2011

... (Columbia University Press, 2010). Her work on contemporary literature, cosmopoli- tanism, and gender has appeared in Public Culture, Modern Fiction Studies, Meridians, and other journals. Her current research concerns the role of fiction in the age of transitional justice. Joshua Neves is a PhD...

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Decolonizing Corporeality: Teresa Margolles’s Lively Corpses

Krista Lynes

Social Text (2019) 37 (4 (141)): 23–49.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-7794355

Published: 01 December 2019

... of intimacy that entail new forms of relationality, resisting a socially confined “rights-based” subject. Instead of structures of recognition, the decorporealized matter present in Margolles’s work both represents the biopolitical regulation of life and continues to impress themselves on the living from...

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