... projects vary from each other, or maychange within themselves over time. ¹² Rather than dispense entirelywith the terms and the tools, or disavow the perspectives that theoretical work can provide, ... Myeffort to reconfigure the questions that we pose, and how we pose them,constitutes the basis for the way in which the arguments of the bookunfold; in what follows, I sketch some of these scholarly ... ‘‘Beat at your borders’’ (),this angry child of Union punishes its mother from within and threatensits father, too, ‘‘across the water’’ (). The ‘‘legacy’’ () of force andviolence, the poem...