Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1215/01903659-10300637
R. Young
The complex relations between the Soviet Union and the Soviet states of the Caucasus that were formerly parts of the Ottoman and Persian empires offer examples of complex cultural and political relations of antagonism and appropriation that go beyond simple binaries of resistance or nationalist anti-eurocentrism. Though their work is little known except to scholars in Slavic Studies, in the years following the Russian Revolution of 1917 Soviet Orientologists laid the foundations for the critique of Western Orientalism that would be introduced to the West many years later in 1978 by Edward W. Said. The Soviet critique of the imperialist foundations of Eurocentric culture and academic knowledge formed the basis for the huge World Literature publishing project pioneered by Maxim Gorky, an initiative which has been largely disregarded—both historically and theoretically—in the Western rediscovery of World Literature in the era of globalization. Similarly, Western postcolonial scholars have only recently begun to acknowledge the creative, cultural and political affiliations of Global South writers to internationalist organizations such as the Afro-Asian Writers Association which was supported by the Soviet Union in the Cold War period and the importance of publications such as Lotus magazine. The books reviewed here demonstrate the degree to which histories of “postcolonialism” and the late Western critique of Orientalism have now been rewritten to acknowledge their sources in earlier critiques by Soviet scholars in the first half of the twentieth century.
苏联与前奥斯曼帝国和波斯帝国的高加索苏维埃国家之间的复杂关系提供了复杂的文化和政治关系的例子，这些关系超越了简单的二元抵抗或民族主义反欧洲中心主义。尽管除了斯拉夫研究领域的学者外，他们的工作鲜为人知，但在1917年俄国革命之后的几年里，苏联东方学家为西方东方学的批判奠定了基础，这些批判将在许多年后的1978年由爱德华·w·赛义德(Edward W. Said)引入西方。苏联对以欧洲为中心的文化和学术知识为帝国主义基础的批判，为马克西姆·高尔基开创的庞大的《世界文学》出版计划奠定了基础。在全球化时代西方对《世界文学》的重新发现中，这一倡议在历史上和理论上都被很大程度上忽视了。同样，西方后殖民学者直到最近才开始承认全球南方作家与国际主义组织(如冷战时期由苏联支持的亚非作家协会)在创作、文化和政治上的联系，以及《莲花》杂志等出版物的重要性。这里所回顾的书籍表明，“后殖民主义”历史和西方晚期对东方学的批判现在已经被改写，以承认它们在20世纪上半叶苏联学者早期批评中的来源。
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1215/01903659-10192174
Paul A. Bové
Literary disciplines’ loss of integrity began at the end of the Cold War and accelerated after the financial crisis of 2008–09 because of internal changes responding to external desires along with direct pressures from money and power. Academics follow the desires of moneyed and state interests away from the formation of critical humanists, removing key social values of judgment and self-formation from the ideals of humanistic education. Following the nudges of neoliberal administrations and inventing their own methods and positions congenial to the holders of power and wealth, literary academics in the United States especially have facilitated their own weakness as disciplines with dire political consequences in an era of neo-authoritarianism.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1215/01903659-10192102
D. Pease
How and why have freedom and social hierarchies and exclusions become fused in Trump's America? What causative factors can explain the emergence within twenty-first century US political culture of a movement notorious for its attacks on basic norms of tolerance, civility, and human decency? In their efforts to respond to such questions, prominent historians, political commentators, and theorists have correlated Trump's rise to political power in terms of his transmogrification of a large segment of the American populace into US liberal democracy's fascist totalitarian Other. While Trump's illiberal pronouncements and actions do indeed bear a resemblance to the political behavior of European fascists, the Americanness of Trump's conquest disposition might be better understood as his resurrection of an archaic variant of liberalism practiced by American settler colonists throughout the expansionist era of US history. How did President Trump persuade or provoke a broad swath of US citizens, who were for the most part accustomed to consider the principles and institutions of liberal democracy essential components of American democracy, to regard his settler conquest disposition as representatively American? What enabled Trump to advocate with preemptive impunity the demolition of liberal institutions and principles? How could he serve simultaneously as the president of the world's most powerful liberal democracy and leader of an insurrectionary movement of latter-day settler colonists? In an effort to address these questions, this essay engages Trump's March 23, 2011, endorsement of Birtherism; Trump's unauthorized transfer of power at the January 20, 2017, inauguration; Trump's August 12–15, 2017, statements about the Charlottesville protest; and Trump's role in the January 6, 2021, insurrection as distinct but interrelated moments in Trump's production of this settler-colonist conquest disposition.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1215/01903659-10192159
A. Mufti
This essay focuses on contemporary India and the rise to near hegemony of “Hindutva power,” which works through both the transformation of the exercise of sovereign power and the inculcation of a distinct habitus, or structure of predispositions, in more and more sectors of society. This Hindu supremacist and nationalist habitus marks a far-reaching transformation not only of democratic political culture but of religious belief and practice as well. But despite their sense of inevitability, these developments are part of a scene of contestation and the staging of prodemocracy and anti-fascist dissent.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1215/01903659-10192188
Other| February 01 2023 Contributors boundary 2 (2023) 50 (1): 249–250. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-10192188 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Contributors. boundary 2 1 February 2023; 50 (1): 249–250. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-10192188 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll Journalsboundary 2 Search Advanced Search April Anson is an assistant professor of public humanities at San Diego State University, core faculty for the Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs, and affiliate faculty in American Indian studies. Anson was a Mellon postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, and her work has appeared in Resilience, Environmental History, Western American Literature, and others.Anindita Banerjee is an associate professor of comparative literature at Cornell University. She chairs the humanities division of the Environment and Sustainability Program in the Colleges of Arts and Sciences and Agriculture and Life Sciences and serves on the advisory board of the Atkinson Center for Sustainability at Cornell.Paul A. Bové is the author of Love's Shadow and edited boundary 2 from 1988 to 2023.Leah Feldman is associate professor of comparative literature at the University of Chicago. Her work explores the aesthetics and politics of literary and cultural entanglements... You do not currently have access to this content.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1215/01903659-10192145
A. Anson, Anindita Banerjee
QAnon's rallying cry of “the storm” on January 6 and thereafter articulates a structural taxonomy of planetary scale and apocalyptic eschatology that pervades the environmental imaginaries of contemporary fascism. While they become visible only in times of emergency and states of exception, this essay argues that equal attention needs to be paid to expressions and operations of ecofascism in the mundane places and practices of everyday life. Expanding beyond the geographic and historical specificities of Nazism and its transatlantic dialogue with North American settler colonialism, this essay theorizes everyday ecofascism as an oiko-logics and oiko-nomics across borders, a transversal condition of deeply globalized, inextricably interconnected structures and systems.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1215/01903659-1019208
Leah Feldman, A. Mufti
“The Returns of Fascism” addresses the emergence of New Right political culture on a global scale, attending to the intersections in US, European, Russian, and Indian New Right movements and their relation to the history of fascisms and late capitalist thought forms, as well as their attack on humanist critique. This special issue argues that the topoi of crisis and catastrophe serve the globalization of the New Right's supremacist and majoritarian political culture as it transcends both the academy and the wider world.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1215/01903659-10192117
Leah Feldman
This essay addresses how the collapse of the Soviet Union and the conditions of social, political, and economic precarity that followed gave rise to intertwining strands of global New Right thought. Taking up the Russian Right's revanchist-revolutionary vision of neo-Eurasianism and its attendant imaginary of a white Eurasian statehood comparatively in relation to US and Hungarian New Right thought, the essay exposes how the neotraditionalist (Trad right) generated a global political and intellectual project in counterpoint to the failed leftist internationalist projects of the twentieth century. The essay closes with a postscript reflection on how the invasion of Ukraine constitutes a major step toward the Trad right's reclaiming of a “multipolar” New Right world order.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1215/01903659-10192131
Olivia C. Harrison
In 2009, a nativist association named AGRIF sued antiracist activist Houria Bouteldja for “anti-white racism.” Though unsuccessful in court, the legal proceedings against Bouteldja are illustrative of a decades-long phenomenon that has accelerated in the age of new media: the recuperation of antiracist discourses by nativist activists who claim that white people constitute a minority in France. This article tracks the emergence of French nativist discourses from the nineteenth century to the present, with particular attention to identification with the figure of the colonized in the colonial archive and in the nativist discourses that have accompanied decolonization in France. Anchored in the history of France's prized settler colony, Algeria, the colonial genealogy of French nativism offers lessons for the study of nativism in other (post)colonial contexts.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.1215/01903659-10045146
Sunil M. Agnani
Hannah Arendt's work On Revolution brings into contact two temporalities: the decade of its composition (the 1960s), alongside its understanding of revolution in conjunction with “Enlightenment.” A reader of Edmund Burke who turns to this work will be startled at the degree to which he plays a central role. His ideas and even his temperament seem to guide her profound praise for “the men who made the American Revolution” alongside her shock centered around Robespierre but mingled with her discussion of Rousseau and the French Revolution. This connection between Burke and Arendt is worth tracing because it allows readers to understand her response to the post-WWII age, which witnessed the emergence of manifold diverse “revolutions” in the social and political realm brought by decolonization, both in the European and non-European (i.e., Asian, African, postcolonial) contexts. It also allows readers to question Arendt's view of the role that suffering and poverty ought to play in moments of revolution and to scrutinize her thesis that wherever a solution to the “social” question was sought by “political” means it has led to terror and violence, with the notion of resentment playing a crucial role.
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