In the decade that followed 1972, the journal "boundary 2" consistently published many of the most distinguished and most influential statements of an emerging literary postmodernism. Recognizing postmodernism as a dominant force in culture, particularly in the literary and narrative imagination, the journal appeared when literary critical study in the United States was in a period of theory-induced ferment. The fundamental relations between postmodernism and poststructuralism were being initially examined and the effort to formulate a critical sense of the postmodern was underway. In this...
In the decade that followed 1972, the journal "boundary 2" consistently published many of the most distinguished and most influential statements of an...
Gendered Agents, edited by Silvestra Mariniello andPaul A. Bove, presents essays by influential feminist theorists who challenge traditional Western epistemology and suggest new directions for feminism. By examining both literary and historical discourses, such critics as Gayatri Spivak, Hortense Spillers, and Lauren Berlant assess questions of sexuality, ethics, race, psychoanalysis, subjectivity, and identity. Gathered from various issues of the journal boundary 2, the essays in Gendered Agents seek to transform the model of Western academic knowledge by...
Gendered Agents, edited by Silvestra Mariniello andPaul A. Bove, presents essays by influential feminist theorists who challenge traditional We...
For at least two decades the career of Edward Said has defined what it means to be a public intellectual today. Although attacked as a terrorist and derided as a fraud for his work on behalf of his fellow Palestinians, Said s importance extends far beyond his political activism. In this volume a distinguished group of scholars assesses nearly every aspect of Said s work his contributions to postcolonial theory, his work on racism and ethnicity, his aesthetics and his resistance to the aestheticization of politics, his concepts of figuration, his assessment of the role of the exile in a...
For at least two decades the career of Edward Said has defined what it means to be a public intellectual today. Although attacked as a terrorist and d...