Showing papers in "South Atlantic Quarterly in 2006"
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TL;DR: Coetzee as mentioned in this paper observed that once in every generation, without fail, there is an episode of hysteria about the barbarians, and that women living along the frontier who have not dreamed of a dark barbarian hand coming from under the bed to grip her ankle.
Abstract: Of this unrest I myself saw nothing. In private I observed that once in every generation, without fail, there is an episode of hysteria about the barbarians. There is no woman living along the frontier who has not dreamed of a dark barbarian hand coming from under the bed to grip her ankle, there is no man who has not frightened himself with visions of the barbarians carousing in his home, breaking the plates, setting fire to the curtains, raping his daughters. These dreams are the consequence of too much ease. Show me a barbarian army and I will believe. —J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
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TL;DR: A democratic citizen must deal here first of all with the question, Who is this "we"? It is not the "we" of the Declaration of Independence, which referred to a small group of signatories bound by the conviction that "governments [derive] their just powers from the consent of the governed" as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: A democratic citizen must deal here first of all with the question, Who is this "we"? It is not the "we" of the Declaration of Independence, which referred to a small group of signatories bound by the conviction that "governments [derive] their just powers from the consent of the governed." And it is not the "we" of the Constitution, which refers to " the people [my emphasis] of the United States."
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors look at the new division of scholarly labor among academics in the context of the shift from Eastern (communist) to Western (neoliberal) ideological authority and the pending European "integration".
Abstract: While overall social scientific attempts at pinpointing the origin of Europe’s East-West divide range from awarding the imagined border near-timelessness to viewing it as barely over a century old, Eastern European intellectuals are currently more concerned with the resurgence of discourses about the “otherness” of their geocultural location(s) in the post-Cold War era. Focusing on Romania, the article looks at the new division of scholarly labor among academics in the context of the shift from Eastern (communist) to Western (neoliberal) ideological authority and the pending European “integration”. Caught between the struggle to overcome the defining power of old and new stereotypes (“Balkanism”) and the effort of restoring to collective memory those approaches to the specificity of Romanian social reality that had been banned during Communism, Romanian intellectuals address the more general issue of a peripheral country’s entitlement to shape the imaginary of the core.