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Congratulations to Nergis Ertürk
boundary 2 congratulates Professor Nergis Ertürk, our editorial colleague on winning the most distinguished professional book prize:
The Modern Language Association of America awards its “19th Annual Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book: For an outstanding literary or linguistic study that is the first book-length publication by a member of the association: Nergis Ertürk, Penn State University, University Park, for Grammatology and Literary Modernity in Turkey (Oxford Univ. Press, 2011).”
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b2 as a Quarterly?
b2 would like the benefit of “the wisdom of the crowd.” Should we expand from a tri-quarterly to a full quarterly? And if so, what new topics and materials should we cover?
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Donald E. Pease — Wins the top award from the ASA — Congratulations!
The Carl Bode-Norman Holmes Pearson Prize honors lifetime achievement
in and contribution to the field of American Studies. Each year’s
prize committee is instructed to consider afresh the meaning of a
“lifetime contribution to American Studies.” The definitions of terms
like “contribution” and even of “American Studies” remain open,
healthily contested, and thus renewed.The 2012 prizewinner is Donald Pease, Dartmouth College.
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The Sovereignty Seminar
see the b2 Face Book page for some running reports on the talks in this event.
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Table of Contents for Volume 39, number 3 Fall 2012
Wlad Godzich / Friedrich Kittler (1943–2011)
E. Khayyat / The Humility of Thought: An Interview with Friedrich A. Kittler
Intervention
Anthony Bogues / And What About the Human?: Freedom, Human Emancipation, and the Radical Imagination
Arif Dirlik / Transnationalization and the University: The Perspective of Global Modernity
Emmanuel Alloa / The Inorganic Community: Hypotheses on Literary Communism in Novalis, Benjamin, and Blanchot
Henry Veggian / Anachronisms of Authority: Authorship, Exchange Value, and David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King
Bradley J. Fest / The Inverted Nuke in the Garden: Archival Emergence and Anti-Eschatology in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest
Intervention
Lindsay Waters / The Recovery of the Literal: Learning from the Renaissance How to Circumnavigate the Globe
Richard Purcell / The Enigma of Arrival; or, When Should We Have Read Ralph Ellison’s Three Days Before the Shooting?
Soyica Diggs Colbert / “When I Die, I Won’t Stay Dead”: The Future of the Human in Suzan-Lori Parks’s The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World
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Ruth Hung Revisiting Woju
“Imagination in the Box: Woju’s Realism and the Representation of Xiaosan,” Television, Sex and Society: Analyzing Contemporary Representations. Continuum; 1 edition (June 14, 2012) Amazon.
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Wolfgang Fritz Haug: High-Tech Capitalism and the Great Crisis
A major part of this book, in English, in the recent b2.
