...Mary Jacobus Duke University Press 2007 Mary Jacobus “Distressful Gift”: Talking to the Dead ​How does one honor, or mourn, the dead, if not by talking to them? This is a question posed by the memorial...

...Alison Dundes Renteln 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Alison Dundes Renteln The Rights of the Dead: Autopsies and Corpse Mismanagement in Multicultural Societies...

...Rebecca Comay 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Rebecca Comay Dead Right: Hegel and the Terror Endlessly debated and redrafted in the fateful summer of 1789, the first version of the Declara- tion of the Rights...

.... It identifies the intersection of these two formations as a “dead zone,” that is, a void in practical and theoretical politics, one that reveals central evasions in conventional discourse given its general inability or unwillingness to critique the simultaneous successes and failures of a multiracial democracy...

...Jane Gaines Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 Jane Gaines Dead Ringer: Jacqueline Onassis and the Look-Alike In Ownership of the Image, Bernard Edel­ man shows how nineteenth-century French law originally understood photography as machine-produced, not allowing it to be pro­...

...Cathy N. Davidson Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Cathy N. Davidson Photographs of the Dead: Sherman, Daguerre, Hawthorne The idolatrous mob demanded an ideal worthy of itself and appropriate to its nature. . . . Daguerre was [its] Messiah. . . . Our squalid society rushed...

...J. Brewton Berry Copyright © 1936 by Duke University Press 1936 THE QUICK AND THE DEAD J. BREWTON BERRY WHAT SHALL we do with the dead? is a question that the quick of all times and places have had to ask themselves. Something must be done, and that without delay, for the perishable nature...

...John A. Yunck Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 The Natural History of a Dead Quarrel: Hemingway and the Humanists John A. Yunck Ernest Hemingway s violent death is now some time past, and the vulturi litterarum the suave, sensational necrologers, the illustrated news morgue-men...

...C. Hugh Holman Hemingway and the Dead Gods: A Study in Existentialism . By Killinger John . Lexington : University of Kentucky Press , 1960 . Pp. ix , 114 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 314 The South Atlantic Quarterly And his very virtues sometimes...

..., Los Angeles Review of Books , August 2 . thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-sexual-is-political/ . AGAINST the DAY Amanda Armstrong Certificates of Live Birth and Dead Names: On the Subject of Recent Anti-Trans Legislation During the spring...

... body for a homely death. Arguably this is consistent with related mourning rituals that rely on embodied contact between the living and the dead such as the practice of wearing a lock of hair from a child or loved one. We document some contemporary practices that reconstitute the dead in keepsake form...

...Bruce Robbins “Deadwood: Academic Freedom and Smart People ” offers a reading of the 2008 film Smart People as an allegory of what the humanities “do” as understood by the general public: the remembering of beloved but now distant or inaccessible things, such as the dead wife for whom...

...: the autopbiography constitutes the ruthless, possibly even declamatory, examination of an author's life and work by the author himself. More important, the autopbiography is writing of an imagined dead self by a living self as a means of anticipating, and maybe even liquidating, the criticism of—the criticism...

... renders the act of proclaiming who is dead or alive, free or not, a more complex and reflexive enterprise. It shows that no singular structure or network of structural relations can fully anticipate or explain away black ontology. This calculation is always and everywhere a question of time. flemingj...

... was shot dead along the side of the road in June 2015 while hunting with friends is part of an ongoing process of genocide in West Papua. Race, nationality, and class all help determine who has full personhood before the law. In pursuing the elusive promise of justice in West Papua, indigenous people...

...Kathi Weeks This essay explores the relation between the feminist present, its recent past, and its possible futures using Shulamith Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex (1970) as a point of reference. Rather than conceive 1970s feminism as either a dead relic of a superseded past or a living legacy...

... that “not even the dead will be safe from the enemy, if he is victorious.” Analyzing sixteenth-century German “mourning plays,” he studies the allegorical poetics of the form to explore how a human world that seems inescapably mournful, is, in the end, transformed through a narrative and poetics of redemption...

... the everywhereness found in the proliferation of “dead exchanges”—where discourses of freedom and development become merely aspects of continuous assessment of the exercised efficacies of particular bodies and their trajectories and interactions. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke...

... and in the colony. Melissa Wright has added that the politics of gender is central to the politics of death. She highlights state officials' efforts to assign meaning to the bodies of the slain as critical to the successful operation of necropower and argues that activists can contest attempts to mark the dead...

..., the theoretical tendencies of communist thought, and the current political possibilities of new developments of communism have been revisited and addressed anew. We can only be struck by the degree to which it now seems that communism, far from the dead end of the twentieth century it was long assumed to be, may...