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South Atlantic Quarterly (2015) 114 (4): 827–849.
Published: 01 October 2015
... in the 1970s but is also judged to typify that period by virtue of her (in)famous conceptualization of women as a class. This essay undertakes a close reading of Delphy's writings on gender together with her earlier work on women as social class to elaborate what I term her constructivist materialism...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2013) 112 (4): 697–723.
Published: 01 October 2013
... for the intertextuality of The Second Sex and Black Skin, White Masks as inextricably bound discourses on subject formation and the other. Via close reading, I address the long-standing citational elision of Beauvoir from Fanon’s analysis of alienation, with particular address to the famous “Look! A Negro!” scene...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2023) 122 (3): 591–625.
Published: 01 July 2023
... perspectives on gender dynamics; and the potential queer investment that cis straight men might have in feminist politics, namely the freedom from heteronormative policing. I offer an intellectual genealogy of cis male contributions to feminist thought, followed by a close reading of Mike Mills's Academy Award...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2018) 117 (3): 507–525.
Published: 01 July 2018
.... I provide close readings of black cult figures and texts that I argue combine camp and chitlin circuit elements (the Harlem Globetrotters, Cheech and Chong’s “Basketball Jones,” Gilbert Moses’s The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh ). In exploring the existence of campy sports culture, queer athleticism...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2018) 117 (3): 599–615.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Jodi A. Byrd Close reading Irrational Games’s 2013 BioShock Infinite to consider how notions of the wild circulate at the site of the both absent and present Indian, this essay argues that the ontological turn in technology studies is predicated on the juridical, racial, gendered, and colonial...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2023) 122 (3): 660–669.
Published: 01 July 2023
... of social oppression. This definition is followed by close readings of U je'etsel's communiqués regarding AMLO's 2021 visit to the Yucatán peninsula and the continued role the so‐called “Caste War” plays in attempts to expand nationalized colonization into the region. My final goal is to proffer that “Caste...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2016) 115 (4): 699–714.
Published: 01 October 2016
... literary studies vis-à-vis cultural studies but the politics of cultural studies itself. © 2016 Duke University Press 2016 cultural studies close reading distant reading Stuart Hall Franco Moretti References Ahmad Aijaz . 1992 . In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures . London...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2009) 108 (4): 701–722.
Published: 01 October 2009
... of some scholars who have found themselves under attack by their own universities either for their activism, their scholarship, or a combination of both. By looking closely at the cases of Churchill, Norman Finkelstein, and Nadia Abu El Haj, I conclude that what these cases have in common is that all...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2010) 109 (4): 695–717.
Published: 01 October 2010
... anthropology of Christianity—with Badiou's description of an original first-century Pauline Christian militancy could bring clarity to these issues. Starting with a reading of some key work and ethnography by Joel Robbins (one of the establishing figures in the anthropology of Christianity) and supplementing...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2012) 111 (1): 133–144.
Published: 01 January 2012
... to read the last decade of events in Argentina and Latin America from the perspective of the effects of the movement on the current situation. As this essay attempts to show, this moment is marked by an ambivalent dynamic in which novelties and archaisms stand juxtaposed in a situation best characterized...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2017) 116 (3): 612–620.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Eric A. Stanley This essay opens with a reading of a closed-circuit television scene of Duanna Johnson, a black transgender woman who was brutally beaten by Mississippi police while in their custody in 2009. Through this video, I center the question of representation's form, not just its content...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2017) 116 (4): 727–744.
Published: 01 October 2017
...Martín Bergel In contrast to the hegemonic perspective that in Latin America seeks to read José Carlos Mariátegui as a quintessential figure in the fusion of Marxism and the national question, this essay approaches the Peruvian intellectual as an expression of cosmopolitan socialism. As the essay...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2019) 118 (1): 215–225.
Published: 01 January 2019
..., and beyond them, reflecting on experiences in the student movement, we consider the complex of militarized violence, on one hand, and, on the other, masculinist, physicalized resistance informed by particular readings, interpretations, and embodiments of Afropessimist positions on black people that seem...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1969) 68 (1): 124–125.
Published: 01 January 1969
... not try an entirely new ap proach and read Walden as a poem the transformation of a vision into words, designed so as to contain and reveal it? He presents a close reading in order to make clear the richness and complexity of the poem. He sees the interplay between wit and metaphor as the true...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1969) 68 (1): 123–124.
Published: 01 January 1969
... not try an entirely new ap proach and read Walden as a poem the transformation of a vision into words, designed so as to contain and reveal it? He presents a close reading in order to make clear the richness and complexity of the poem. He sees the interplay between wit and metaphor as the true...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1960) 59 (2): 297–299.
Published: 01 April 1960
..., Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, with the purpose of going con siderably beyond Joseph Wicksteed s study of 1928, the critic attempts a close reading of most of the songs, plus a reading of four other works that were written in the crucial period between the appearance of the two song...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1962) 61 (3): 422–423.
Published: 01 July 1962
... explications, interpreting structural effects or analyzing specific passages. Johnson is very good when he sticks to close reading of specific passages. He is less effective in the general, more theoretical sections of the book. Johnson gets off to a slow start. His first chapter, The Art of Parody...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1980) 79 (1): 119–121.
Published: 01 January 1980
... Swinburne covered earth and sky and Book Reviews 121 man with the dust of the library, Riede discovers in that very dis placement an important access to a Swinburnian poetic. Riede performs some valuable close readings which show Swinburne s preoccupation with negative theological inversions and puns...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1965) 64 (3): 424.
Published: 01 July 1965
... structure in whole cantos, or to see The Cantos as a single poem, or, for the earlier poetry, to discuss whole poems even when they are short. The book is, therefore, neither a close reading of the poetry nor a thorough dis cussion of the translations or the prose. It is what might be called a selective...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1976) 75 (3): 403–404.
Published: 01 July 1976
... constantly underwent revision and changes in viewpoint and effect during the very process of being written. Otherwise, her method throughout is that (not at all new) of the close reading. Her open ing chapter, A Reading of Vertue," is a paradigmatic illustration, at length, of this method. Thereafter...
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