boundary 2 publishes critical and scholarly materials relating to the study of literature and the humanities in the most important intellectual, literary, and cultural contexts and in a manner fully informed by important developments in theory and method.
Most Recent Issues
María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo / Three Moments of Speculative Freedom in the Age of the Atlantic Revolutions / 1
Jason A¯ nanda Josephson Storm / The Hegemony of Genealogy / 27
Jason Read / Theory of Philosophy or Philosophy of Theory: On Jameson’s The Years of Theory / 85
Robert T. Tally Jr. / The Politics of Criticism and the Criticism of Politics / 103
Contributors / 113
In Memoriam: Fredric Jameson (1934–2024) / 1
Xuenan Cao / Monolingual LLMs in the Age of Multilingual Chatbots / 3
Christian Thorne / Telling Stories about Climate Change: Maritime Fiction and the Global Novel / 29
Russ Castronovo / Frozen Subjectivity: Vulnerability and Aesthetics at the End of the World / 79
Contributors / 105
Arne De Boever / Out on a Limb: Brian Evenson’s Last Days / 1
Allen Chun / All under Heaven; or, The Evolving World Ethos of a New Greater China / 25
Anissa Daoudi / Introduction: Narrating and Translating Sexual Violence in Wartime in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region / 49
Charles Bernstein / Pre-Owned Poems / 65
Jay Garcia / Richard Wright Theorizes Surrealism / 87
Contributors / 105
Tonya M. Foster / Gwendolyn Brooks: Who Ya Talkin’ With? / 1
Jason Fitzgerald / Amiri Baraka’s Humanist Theater: A Reading of A Black Mass / 31
Lynne Huffer / Order and Archive: A Foucault Abecedary / 65
Nadia Bou Ali / The Double Disavowals of Theory’s “Problem Spaces”: Review of Revolution and Disenchantment / 99
Ayça Çubukçu / David Graeber’s Anthropology of Human Possibilities / 115
Michael Gallope / The Politics of Alien Listening / 129
Howard Eiland / Writer and Thinker / 145
Contributors / 159