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...Jake Pyne The desire for transgender futures has grown exponentially in recent years, but many of these futures are traps, concealing a demand to assume normative and neoliberal priorities in exchange for citizenship and belonging. This article argues that some of these traps might be undone...

... form of a mountaineer striding hastily away through the tangled undergrowth ? Many a tale like that have I heard. I remember walking home from the Moonlight School one night with Uncle Jake, a tall spare man with the easy shambling gait of the born mountaineer, whose lantern cast fantastic shadows upon...

... his next moment, and a malfunctioning prostate gland. Billy Barrett of Mississippi and Jake Horner of Maryland periodi­ cally suffer blank-out; Billy fugues as well. Binx Bolling of Lou­ isiana is an insomniac and victim of general malaise. All of these young men, plus Ebenezer Cooke of Maryland, have...

... space within the self, the frightening realm of the personal. This is the space Shepard has recently begun to explore. Jake uses the word personal in A Lie of the Mind (1985) to describe the part of himself he would never tell. It is a space he can conceive, yet one he refuses, consciously...

... an ascetic; Mick Kelly, the twelve-year-old girl who hears music in what she calls her inside room ; Jake Blount, a half-mad anarchist; the Negro Dr. Copeland, who struggles for his race; and Biff Brannon, the impotent and frustrated cafe pro­ prietor. The last four find their God-image in Singer, who...

... interesting work to date by this talented author is her first, Under the Net, which has as its artist protagonist the peripatetic James Donaghue. Jake is a hospital orderly, judo expert, translator, poet, and would-be novelist, who tells his own story of rootlessness and vagabondage. Although not explicitly...

... on other Hemingway figures. For example, Wouk s characterization of Noel Airman is a composite mainly of Robert Cohn and Jake Barnes, but he shares affinities with Frederick Henry (A Farewell to Arms Francis Macomber ( The Short Happy Life . . and Harry Morgan (To Have and. Have Not). These will be seen...

... Congress. In 1922 came Nigger, by Clement Wood. It gives us a long sweep in the life of a Negro family from before the Civil War to the present. Jake, the key character of the book, in the 32 The South Atlantic Quarterly beginning is awakened from his sleep by bloodhounds, and, in the end, is left...

... ever-evolving labor movement. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 China logistics workers platform economy References Alimahomed-Wilson Jake Ness Immanuel , eds. 2018 . Choke Points: Logistics Workers Disrupting the Global...

... into Spanish and French and reissued in 2017 in an expanded version for its tenth anniversary. In 2019 she was awarded the Kessler Award from the Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies, given yearly to scholars and activists whose work has significantly impacted scholarship and organizing. Jake Pyne...

... colleagues who shared their work with us during the seminar in addition to those whose work appears in this volume: Andrew Aisenberg, Timothy Campbell, Stephen J. Collier, Joseph Dumit, Kim Fortun, Michael Hardt, Donna V. Jones, Ranjana Khanna, Jake Kosek, Jacques Lezra, Stephanie Lloyd, Becky...

... by Duke University Press 2020 antagonism class struggle logistics New Economic Policy planning References Alimahomed-Wilson Jake Ness Immanuel . 2018 . Choke Points: Logistics Workers Disrupting the Global Supply Chain . London : Pluto Press . Allen R. C. 2003...

.... 10. Hemingway s The Green Hills of Africa 149 The Hemingway who speaks above in his 1926 guise as Jake Barnes in The Sun Also Rises makes the same proposition to an erstwhile sportsman named Cohen that nine years later Hemingway under his own name makes to the readers of The Green Hills ofAfrica. He...

... is the head, to his loyal relatives. The middle brother among five always addresses his elders as Honorable First Brother and Honorable Second Brother, but may properly address the youngsters as Bill and Jake. The members of a family clan contribute to the building and maintenance of an ancestral home...

... machine. Why are they swirled? Because they lack specific gravity. Unlike Jake Barnes or Nick Carraway, they exert no pressure against the universe; they do not impose upon flux a moral form. They are almost weightless; they are like those stick figures chil­ The Cosmic Comedies of Evelyn Waugh 539 dren...

..., but wished seriously he could have gone to the priest s high cold country rather than to the brothel in Milan. And Jake Barnes in The Sun Also Rises also offers the prayers of an unbeliever I knelt and started to pray and prayed for everybody I thought of, Brett and Mike and Bill and Robert Cohn...

... that Swede in The Killers and wait to be bumped off. Deep down they are afraid of death, scared stiff. They want to live and they think that life is very important. They even pity themselves a bit. And they always hope; even Jake Barnes may go on hoping that some way, somehow the sun will rise again even...

...-born blacks reflected contempt for things foreign or strange. Claude McKay, a former Jamaican, in Home to Harlem captured this sentiment in Jake, the central figure of the novel: Jake was very American in spirit and shared a little of that comfortable Yankee contempt for poor foreigners...

... also proves illusory, when Catherine asserts her own indi­ viduality by the very individual act of dying, there is nothing left Death and Cojones: Hemingway s A Farewell to Arms 87 of manhood at all. Frederick Henry takes his final walk into the rain as a sort of Jake Barnes, who in The Sun Also Rises...

... looking though possessing no romantic glint or cast, given to orderly habits, more than commonly inquisitive, . . Styron s narrator, as you can see, is a model of Jamesian central intelligence, refined by such successors as Hemingway s Jake Barnes and Fitzgerald s Carraway. The older convention...