...John M. Clum John M. Clum Something Cloudy, Something Clear : Homophobic Discourse in Tennessee Williams Throughout his career, Tennessee Williams was attacked from all sides for his treatment or nontreatment of homosexuality in his work. During the early years of gay liberation, gay critics...

...James T. Fisher Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 James T. Fisher Clearing the Streets of the Catholic Lost Generation uring the summer of 1993, I attended the wedding of a close relative at the Chapel of the Choirs in St. Peter s Basilica, Vatican City. It was my first trip...

... draws on the writings of George Steiner and Bertolt Brecht on modern tragedy, appears to extend to tragic theatre generally. My argument, I should make clear, is not with Richards s assessments of individual works, nor indeed with his strictures against fatalistic or catastrophic conceptions...

.... It is clear and incontestable that there is a sectarian as well as a state divide within Ireland, but it cannot simply be inferred from this that partition is a mere epiphenomenon of a more primal sectarian divide.17 If the 1925 partition merely affirmed, as is so often alleged nowadays, a long-standing...

... of prejudice. Fascism depends on affective attachments, magnified by prejudice (a magnification that takes place through identification with a leader). This is a clear theme in Adorno’s critical theory. In his previous work in The Authoritarian Personality , Adorno set out the task to discover differential...

... civil society, Abraham argues that there are clear analogues between Palestinian and Jewish suffering. After completing a theoretical survey of the arguments informing defenses of, and apologies for, Israel's occupation of the West Bank and destruction of Gaza, Abraham turns to the ways in which...

... not, following Heidegger, know when we are thinking (but are clear when we are not engaged in the work of thought), it has become necessary to attend precisely to what kind of thinking can, or cannot, take place within the strictures of the discipline or “liberation” implied by inter- or transdisciplinarity. ©...

... faithful to a set of strong and clear principles for political action that distances us from the shell of politics in the electoral arena while simultaneously engaging in and affirming a new politics of emancipation. © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 Grupo Acontecimiento The Affirmation...

...Carolyn J. Dean Michel Foucault’s shift to “biopower” away from his earlier conception of power as a form of constraint from which there is no clear path to liberation is the subject of the essays in this issue. In the context of this shift, these essays address from fresh perspectives Foucault’s...

..., a lesbian, and a self-proclaimed feminist but also a self-serving, womanizing alcoholic. A close examination of Shockley’s novel and the discourse surrounding it illuminates how social movements must have a clear grasp of the workings of race, class, gender, and sexuality as they structure our material...

... on the immediacy of our moment's core logics, For an order that envisions itself as perpetually deviant vis-à-vis its own protocols is one in which any clear distinction between an intolerable present and a possible, perhaps more just or alive, future has been dangerously deactivated. © 2015 Duke University...

... and equal time, the effect is to normalize particular pro-Israel political positions and to silence dissenting viewpoints by policing the boundaries of acceptable or recognizable discourse on the topic of the Israel-Palestine conflict, with the clear implication that any discourse of Palestinian self...

... considers how neoliberal governance arrangements pioneered post-truth autocratic politics/policies in articulation with the imposition of market rule and, in doing so, cleared the way for the present-day nativist populisms. The second part considers the institutional configuration through which...

...” that prevents a clear-eyed assessment of the recent past and limits the imagination of future possibilities. The South Atlantic Quarterly 119:3, July 2020 doi 10.1215/00382876-8601350 © 2020 Duke University Press Rodrigo Nunes From Trance to Vertigo: Images of Political Defeat in Brazilian Cinema Glauber Rocha...

... larger posters were wheat-pasted on walls in Black communities, creating advertising for psychological liberation as the struggles for complete liberation continued on several fronts. Through textual and visual analysis of BP newspapers from 1968, clear visual strategy and intentions are deconstructed...

... on the minority community and why these moves were seen as precursors to their possible political disenfranchisement. It will examine the manner in which anti-CAA/NPR/NRC protest sites came up spontaneously across the country, how these protests were organized, and their lack of a clear leadership. It will also...

... and circulations, rather than consolidations, that engender dispositions beyond clear apprehension or capture. Thinking of such extensions through the lens of Blackness, the South becomes a mode of exposure to a wider world that both unsettles the ruling calculus of what counts as lives worth living and pieces...

...Lisa Guenther The 2022 Freedom Convoy in Ottawa, Canada, raises questions about the meaning and tactics of decolonial abolition. To call for the police of a colonial state to crack down on unruly settlers on stolen Indigenous land is both hypocritical and ineffective. And yet, it isn't clear how...

...Jennifer C. Nash; Samantha Pinto In this introduction, we reconsider how we can tell the stories of Black feminist thought and institutional feminist study through uncertainty and incommensurability rather than clear reproducibility of good and bad objects. We then consider the speculative place...

...Majd Al-Shihabi Abstract The two-month encampment at the University of Toronto struggled to reach a deal with the university's administration. Despite its clear demands, based on the Palestinian civil society call for boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS), confusion abounded about the goals...