Paul A. Bové / Editor’s Note / 1
Dossier: The Work of Hortense J. Spillers
Denise Ferreira da Silva / Sending Language into Battle: Interview with Hortense J. Spillers / 3
Hortense J. Spillers and Jonathan Arac / Touch and Voice in Absalom, Absalom! / 39
C. Riley Snorton / On Thon; or, Thinking Gender in the Interstice / 59
Margo Natalie Crawford / When Hortense Spillers and Toni Morrison Meet in the Clearing: The Hieroglyphics of Marking and Unmarking / 77
Calvin Warren / Interior Intersubjectivity: Hortense Spillers’s Theory of “the One” / 95
Shoniqua Roach / To Put Afoot a New Black Woman: On Hortense Spillers and the Possibilities of Gender / 107
Kaneesha Cherelle Parsard / Bastard Sugar: Hortense Spillers and Paradoxes of Value in New World Thought / 127
Jeremy Matthew Glick / Braised Cucumbers, Maps, and Surprises: Materialist Narratology and Political Theology in the Work of Hortense J. Spillers / 143
General Essays
Seo Hee Im / Fathers and Daughters; or, Social Reproduction in the Anthropocene / 179
Review Essays
Stefan Tanaka / From the Margins: There Must Be More to History than Logic / 203
Aurélie Vialette / “You Said Independence?” The Case of Scotland’s and Catalonia’s Nationalisms: A Discussion of J. H. Elliott’s Scots and Catalans: Union and Disunion / 223
boundary 2 is a Duke University Press Journal.
Contents
Sierra Lomuto / Belle da Costa Greene and the Undoing of “Medieval” Studies / 1
Part 1. Cui Bono: Who Is the “Medieval” For?
Raha Rafii / Making Islam (Coherent): Academic Discourse and the Politics of Language / 33
Julie Orlemanski / What Is “Postmedieval”? Embedded Reflections / 57
Michelle R. Warren / The Medieval of the Long Now / 83
Part 2. Disciplinary Dilemmas
Adam Miyashiro / Race, Medieval Studies, and Disciplinary Boundaries / 107
Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh / Fighting for the Middle: Medieval Studies Programs and Degrees within Higher Education / 123
Christopher Livanos and Mohammad Salama / A Bridge Too Far? Ludovico Marracci’s Translation of the Qurʾan and the Persistence of Medieval Biblicism / 145
Part 3. Critical Possibilities
Mariah Min / Undoing Medieval Race Studies / 173
Anne Le / Different and Familiar: Les enfances Renier and the Question of Medieval Orientalism / 189
Shoshana Adler / Spoiled History: Leprosy and the Lessons of Queer Medieval Historiography / 211
Elizabeth J. West / Afterword: In and beyond the Boundaries of Medievalism / 233
Contributors / 247