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
Hala Halim and Ziad Dallal / Introduction: Bandung’s Cultural Afterlives / 1
Mahmoud Zidan / Richard Wright on the Question of Palestine at Bandung: The Aesthetic of Difference in The Color Curtain / 17
Elizabeth Bishop / Tashkent Postcards: Algeria’s Literature of Liberation in Languages of the USSR / 47
Hala Halim / Vignettes of Afro-Asia, 1962: After-Hours Routes and Intertextual Afterlives / 63
Ziad Dallal / The Third-Worldist Foundations of Mahdi ʿAmil’s Thought / 97
Haider Shahbaz / The Dream of a Dark Citation / 119
Elizabeth Benninger / Anti-Imperialist Struggle and the Production of Third-Worldist Solidarity in the Political Theater of Yūsuf al-ʿĀnī and Kateb Yacine / 145
Stathis Gourgouris / Off-Screen Vision: The Legacy of Teshome Gabriel / 167
Vijay Prashad / We Are Children of the Nonaligned: Walking with My Friend Samia Zennadi in Algiers / 187
Naeem Mohaiemen / “Everyone Works Their Own Way” (Revisiting Samia Zennadi) / 197
Roshan Abbas / Postcolonial Futures, Archival Pasts: Bandung as Cold War Disruption / 205
Contributors / 221
Bruce Robbins / Report from Columbia / 1
Alex Dubilet / Foucault, Our Contemporary / 7
Bradley J. Fest / Grateful and Generous Reading: An Interview with Robert T. Tally Jr. / 49
Roy Kay / “We Want Cornbread! Give Us Cornbread!”: Reviewing Andrea Swensson’s Deeper Blues / 81
Contributors / 93
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