.... Hall Reference Guides . Boston : G. K. Hall & Co. 1980 . Bret Harte . Edited by Barnett Linda Diz . Pp. xix , 427 . $38.00 . J.-K. Huysmans . Edited by Cevasco G. A. . Pp. xv , 155 . $24.50 . Sinclair Lewis . Edited by Fleming Robert Fleming Esther . Pp. xvii...

...T. Swann Harding Copyright © 1936 by Duke University Press 1936 WHAT FRAME OF REFERENCE, PLEASE? T. SWANN HARDING NOT SO many years ago it was one of the functions of a good host skilfully to prevent arguments about religion and politics. If these dangerous topics were approached...

...Newman I. White Studies in the Literary Backgrounds of English Radicalism. With Special Reference to the French Revolution . By Adams M. Ray . Franklin and Marshall College Studies, Number 5 . Lancaster, Pa. , 1947 . Pp. 330 . $3.75 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press...

...Theodore Ropp Commerce and Conquest in East Africa, with particular reference to the Salem Trade with Zanzibar . By Brady Cyrus Townsend Jr . Salem : The Essex Institute , 1950 . Pp. xxi , 245 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 458 The South Atlantic...

...Frederic B. M. Hollyday The European Powers and the German Question 1848-1871: With Special Reference to England and Russia . By Mosse W. E. . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1958 . Pp. ix , 410 . $9.50 . Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 Book Reviews 321...

...Wightman F. Melton Copyright © 1912 by Duke University Press 1912 Some Autobiographical References in Poe s Poetry Wightman F. Melton, Professor of English in Emory College In the study of any literary production, the student is interested in the author, in the specific work in hand...

... that the exceptional politics aligned with the U.S. war on terror has put this notion of humanitarian war into crisis, this essay argues for a more nuanced reading that moves beyond limited sovereign frames of reference. Not only has the history of the liberal encounter been marked by violence in a manner in which...

...Verónica Gago The article criticizes the way in which the perspective of trafficking employs the label of “slave labor” in Argentine to refer to migrant workers in textile workshops. This label constructs the figure of the migrant as the perfect victim and moralizes migrants’ action, while...

... implications? The contributors pay close attention to the nonsynchronicity and the discordance of times that constitute the present. The contributors ask how contemporary crisis can be better understood with reference to long-term and ongoing colonial and racial histories. This article functions as both...

...Sara Edenheim Abstract To refer to Sweden as a good example of care and welfare reforms has been common among many US scholars all through the 1990s until today. In this article, the author tries to understand why the Swedish pandemic strategy during 2020–21 was met with surprise and confusion...

... in Nigeria. Postcolonial modernism, the essay argues, refers to a set of formal and critical attitudes adopted by African and black artists at the dawn of political independence as a countermeasure against the threat of loss of self in the maelstrom unleashed by Western cultural imperialism and its aftermath...

...Berni Searle Humanity ceaselessly seeks sites of refuge and reference points for values in territories offering possibilities for identifications and putting down roots. It is within this context that I would like to consider the relationship among three bodies of my work, namely, Seeking Refuge...

... afterlives. This essay offers some reflections on this philosophical trajectory on its own terms but attempts to consider the effort to reclaim Paul for arguments about universalism and messianism in relation to the emergence of the notion of global Christianity , a term that, with its empirical referent...

.... Their practices mapped local and regional referents together, and by sidestepping direct political motifs their work contributed to the rise of broader Muslim aspirations by furnishing aesthetic and affective templates. Having enacted textuality in pointedly “nonpolitical” articulations, the calligraphic...

... of state, nation, society, and people as referent objects through which concrete form is given to factical finitude, modern biopolitics of security and war exemplify the political eschatology of modern times. © 2011 Duke University Press 2011 A G A I N S T the D A Y Michael Dillon Specters...

.... Mario Tronti's theory of the autonomy of the political, which took Carl Schmitt as a fundamental point of reference, is briefly discussed and presented as a possible polemical target of Foucault. His critique of the shift to the political is presented as a symptom of his enduring fidelity to the legacy...

... on the streets by working, begging, or stealing, and why they label the whole range of such activities as “work.” In examining the various kinds of labor the children engage in as they try to make a living in Rio’s destructured, largely informal economy, I use “child street labor” to refer to these varied forms...

... contemporaries. Given that Du Bois’s argument goes so thoroughly against the grain of the scholarship of his day and yet lacks references to any alternative archival or other sources to support his startling insights, the author speculates that his earlier sociological and literary endeavors were the likely...

... extensive contributions to black literature in general and black queer literature and politics more specifically, she and her work remain “seen but not seen because of what the eyes did not wish to behold.” What Shockley is referring to as undesirable here is a charismatic black leader who is a woman...

... as the conceptual object of what I refer to as Du Bois’s hermeneutic historiographic praxis. © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 References Agamben Giorgio . 1999 . Potentialities: Collected Essays on Philosophy . Translated by Heller-Roazen Daniel . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press...