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For Wright, lynching is similarly figured as a disciplining spectacle: a political tool for circumscribing racial and psychosexual identities that deconstructs and strives to reconfigure African American subjectivity into its own convoluted image.

Never collected (until now) into anything resembling a Folio, the Middleton corpus has tenaciously resisted totalizing accounts through its sheer physical dispersal (quite apart from its own concern with the local and the particular); to look at any Middletonian first edition is always to be aware of the boundaries circumscribing and defining the individual writer, as Middleton's agency shades off into that of his collaborators, his publishers, or his patrons.

The pieces that he created for this occasion, independent of thematic references, engaged their immediate surroundings; Ruiz allowed the space to act on him before imposing any limits on it, before circumscribing it.

When advising a business on structuring a leasing arrangement, one should consider the following 10-point guide for circumscribing federal employment tax liability.

Most strikingly, she hollows out her large tondos (almost 50 inches in diameter), in such a way that their painterly surfaces--encrusted with webs of floral and animal forms, ribbons, heraldic motifs, and, in some cases, vague remnants of text--become chunky frames circumscribing central voids.