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...Philip Deloria Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Philip Deloria I Am of the Body : Thoughts on My Grandfather, Culture, and Sports Like his father before him, my grandfather, Vine Deloria, Sr., was an Episcopalian minister. A powerful orator, his sermons moved people...

...Thomas Pfau Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Thomas Pfau Beyond the Suburbs of the Mind : The Political and Aesthetic Disciplining of the Romantic Body He disposes the world in categories, thus: The peopled and the unpeopled. In both, he is Alone. But in the peopled world...

...David M. Halperin Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 David M. Halperin The Democratic Body: Prostitution and Citizenship in Classical Athens You see these people here, the ones who occupy the brothels and admittedly practise that activity well, even they, whenever it happens...

...Harry Berger, Jr Harry Berger, Jr. From Body to Cosmos: The Dynamics of Representation in Precapitalist Society For David Schneider Loves mysteries in soules do grow, But yet the body is his booke. John Donne body is also culture s book: culture, like love, has designs on the body. The social...

...Jack Stillinger BOOKS The Romantic Body: Love and Sexuality in Keats, Wordsworth, and Blake. By Jean H. Hagstrum. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985. Pp. xvi, 177. Ulus. $14.95. Jean Hagstrum s Romantic Body, which began as the Hodges Lectures at the University of Tennessee, consists...

...Bruce Buchan This paper explores the figurative significance of Niccolò Machiavelli's lurid account in The Prince of the death scene of Remirro de Orco in Cesena in 1502. This death scene represents a fundamental challenge to the ancient metaphor of the body politic whose health consisted...

...Horst Ruthrof Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Horst Ruthrof Deleuze and the Body: Eluding Kafka s Little Death Sentence Gilles Deleuze has made a major contribution to the critique of conceptuality. Yet unlike Der­ rida, who treats concepts as formal and so rejects the very...

...Michael J. Baxter 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Michael J. Baxter Dispelling the ‘‘We’’ Fallacy from the Body of Christ: The Task of Catholics in a Time of War...

...Amal Amireh 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Amal Amireh Between Complicity and Subversion: Body Politics in Palestinian National Narrative I would like to begin...

...Annie Paul Duke University Press 2006 Annie Paul Body Wisdom: The Way of Karate Why do I learn karate? In this essay I want to answer that question and to convey a reasonably vivid sense of the way karate is less...

...—an archaeology in our bodies, in what we are, there is that which we were. We cannot negate that. But it's this something that we were that dies, that dies every instant. Just as in this very moment we die. . . . I think sometimes we have such a fear of death because, on the one hand, we've been educated...

... of that exposition, but never its final destination or the legal body in which the revolt could have been hosted and translated. It was not the demands of the revolt that put the established legal‐political order in check but the constitution without Constitution of a collective and vital political power ( potencia...

...Julia Hell Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Julia Hell Soft Porn, Kitsch, and Post-Fascist Bodies: The East German Novel of Arrival Perhaps a dead father would have been A better father. The best father Is a stillborn father. Heiner Muller, 1959 iA few months before the German...

...Steven A. Jervis Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies, and the Younger Generation Steven A. Jervis When Walter Outrage, the muddled, philandering prime minister in Evelyn Waugh s Vile Bodies (1930), castigated the young, he was voicing a common complaint...

... of the Urban Project in Contexts of Poverty) , edited by Castro Javier Fernández , 23 – 63 . Buenos Aires : Instituto de la Espacialidad Humana . Federici Silvia . 2004 . Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation . New York : Autonomedia . Federici Silvia...

... microcosmic nature; hence, it is the resurrected body that will enjoy the fullness of the beatific vision. Hence also, grace comes to us in sacramental modes of worship and not in isolated solitude. It reaches us through our individual bodies and within the collective body. Beyond the heightened reach of mind...

... to challenge the (in)visibility and (un)knowability of the Anthropocene beyond geological strata and planetary boundaries. As the Capitalocene, the Anthropocene has left its traces in the bodies of people upon which the new epoch has been created. The traces of the Capitalocene are not only in geological...

...Shatema Threadcraft Achille Mbembe coined the term necropolitics as a corrective to Michel Foucault's concept of biopolitics to account for “those figures of sovereignty whose central project is … the material destruction of human bodies and populations” most evident on the plantation...

...Margo Natalie Crawford This essay explores the temporal differences between the lived experience of black flesh and the black body. The author uncovers an aesthetics of the open body that differs greatly from the ongoing naturalizing of the always already marked black body. There is an emerging...

...Michele White Contemporary wedding cultures, in Western heterosexual forms, tend to perpetuate normative femininity, women's visual accessibility, and women's position as clean and mannered bodies. Trash the Dress (TTD) postwedding sessions repeat and trouble these cultural conceptions...