...Kelly McKisson Abstract This article focuses on figures of subsidence in Jesmyn Ward’s novels of Bois Sauvage. Subsidence not only describes an actual process of sinking land in the US Gulf Coast bioregion but also refigures how those who study climate change can understand and address its material...

... infrastructures, how, then, might we imagine modes of survival and flourishing for Black lives in worlds that are infrastructured toward their containment and destruction? In “The Subsident Gulf: Refiguring Climate Change in Jesmyn Ward’s Bois Sauvage,” Kelly McKisson reorients our vision away from...

...; it was the relationship of those inputs to global circulations of capital. Early twentieth-century farmers treated debt financing with skepticism and, thus, balked at loans that required stable commodity prices for repayment. Farmers required convincing, but they also wanted state-subsidized credit and crop insurance...

... universities had enough money to offer educational facilities and services that were in the same ballpark as those of their private counterparts. When state fund- ing was sufficient, “cross-subsidy” could take place in which high-cost instruction and research could be subsidized...

... subsidized Riverton Houses for the New York Housing Authority’s Lincoln Houses: “To Baldwin’s eyes, one high-rise complex was no different from another.” That Baldwin acknowledges the subjective perspective of Riverton residents only to dismiss it illustrates a solipsism frequently visible in political...

... a newspaper, the Baltimore American , an understanding of the talismanic term born of the political and health crises of his time: “The insurrection of Nathaniel Turner had been quelled,” he writes, “but the alarm and terror had not subsided. The cholera was on its way, and the thought was present, that God...

... subsides, Norris feels ‘‘as if [he is] recovering from a trance’’ IO 9). We are to understand the pre- possession, the incorporation, the subjection to the machine’s automa- tism, the moment of semiotic vertigo all...

... to do with the inherent instability of binary oppositions than with the geopolitical binary opposition known as the Cold War, and the First World’s com- plaint that the athletes of the Second were in effect fully subsidized...

... of us (Kate) still coughs at home. She is alone, in quarantine but embedded in a vast human and nonhuman assemblage. Her symptoms are subsiding, thankfully. COVID-19 evidently found its way into her circulatory system when she was treated for an emergency appendectomy in April 2020. Kate teaches...

... To Custom Common grown Subsides from its significance The Gem were best unknown— WithinaSeller’sShrine How many sight and sigh Andcannot,butaremadforfear...

... through a limited state-granted monopoly. Libraries help that process by letting the wealthy subsidize informa- tion for the poor. And a thin, leaky copyright system allows people to comment on copyrighted works, make copies for teaching and research, and record their favorite programs...

... the destruction of urban housing, thus subsidizing racial residential segregation between city and suburb. For more on race and housing segregation, see Daniel Fusfeld and Timothy Bates, The Political Economy of the Urban Ghetto (Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1984), 41–46...

... rented vacant space on the sixth floor of its downtown offices to Charles Loring Brace for the establishment of the city’s first Newsboys’ Lodging House, a subsidized boarding house for poor and homeless children to be run by the Children’s Aid Society. The space was supplied with “books, papers, & c...

.... Pollay, “The Subsidizing Sizzle: A Descriptive History of Print Advertising, 1900–1980,” Journal of Marketing 49 (summer 1985): 30. 15 Allen W. Menton argues that Chad performs roles that Strether would have read in the yellow paperbacks from the Paris of his youth; see “Typi- cal...

... redeveloped the nineteenth-century detective, as McCann ( 2000 : 158) notes, to be a figure capable of absorbing the “injuries” inflicted upon the city’s most vulnerable inhabitants by an increasingly powerful state and the consolidated corporations it subsidizes. The infrastructure of relationality forged...

... a philosophy of sentimentality that exists throughout Brown’s work. Once again, the library scene acts as a helpful entry point. After the discussion of novels subsides, Mrs. Holmes suggests an especially useful book for teaching young women proper knowledge about the world: François de La Rochefoucauld’s...

... for’’ the ‘‘more creative fruition’’ of ‘‘making a child out of their love their inability to engender a union through parenthood necessitates a more inspired creativity: To man and woman came their climaxes that subside again...

..., privately held, and all the more valuable for being both. Even intensely painful or pleasurable feelings leave little if any impress on those around her. Her emotions affect her deeply, but they tend to subside before they can spill over; throughout, she alone feels them while also feeling little...

... of the Buddhist deity of compassion and mercy comes to life and transforms itself into the head of a woman. Once the initial shock and surprise at each other’s existence subside, the girl and the Guan Yin statue start a conversation with each other. The girl speaks in Tagalog while the statue head speaks...

... less to social Darwinism than to the court’s enforcement of laissez-faire economics. Among progressive legal scholars, the Lochner case is typically interpreted as a classic example of judicial overreach. The “Lochner era” refers to a period of subsidized industrialization made possible by the court’s...