... friendship letter-form clarification ...

... This is the introductory letter that serves as a general orientation to the intellectual project of the book as a whole. It makes the case for an epistolary way of continuing an intellectual relationship with Stuart Hall in the wake of his passing. The letter-form, it argues, is one way...

... is the nonfictive literary form that best embodies the ethos and style of Hall’s voice. Against the background of this discussion the letter then engages one of Hall’s best-known essay interventions, “The Great Moving Right Show,” his influential analysis of the rise of Margaret Thatcher, and his critique...

.... And this device has been deployed precisely because it is imagined to render Black loss knowable in a distinct way. The chapter turns to Julietta Singh’s The Breaks to think about Black feminist letter writing that centers forms of nonspectacular, durational, and ordinary loss and to reimagine loss...

... of the thought of Betty’s Case , the nonsingle erosion of criticism, history, and law by another erotic law of fugitivity is pursued through writing in and at the edges of desire and form. Each letter, an invocation of the name Betty, materializes another order of contract with and promise to that unforeseeable...

... Romain Tiquet, “Precarious Families, ‘Danger,’ and Psychiatric Internment in 1960s Dakar: An Archive of Kin Letters”: This chapter sheds light on a collection of previously unexplored letters written by family members to the governor of the Cape Verde Peninsula in the 1960s, asking...

... The second set of seven letters of Mu marks the movement of the daughter’s desire in a terrain of oedipal sexuality structured by partus sequitur ventrem . In this revision of a previously published article, “Poetics of Mu,” unconscious desire is approached with the author’s own hysteric...

... place through multiple genres of self-expression including diary, memoir, and letter. The chapter argues that the diverse modes of writing were not just personal decisions of the writer but engendered by events in Nazr’s life occurring outside the test and often beyond Nazr’s control. The chapter...

... The prologue takes the form of an intimate “Dear Reader” letter from Johnnetta Betsch Cole to her audience of readers. She discusses the origins of the term “speechifying,” as well as memories of giving her first speech during a church service in Florida. She also discusses a bit of her process...

... In May 2020, scientists at the World Health Organization named COVID variants via letters of the Greek alphabet. Penny Siopis conjoins diseased celluloid with Greek mythology and the science of the viral in her film Celluloid Body to craft a figuring of an ill world in need of re-enchantment...

...Unexpected Archives and Ethnographic Investigations Romain Tiquet, “Precarious Families, ‘Danger,’ and Psychiatric Internment in 1960s Dakar: An Archive of Kin Letters”: This chapter sheds light on a collection of previously unexplored letters written by family members to the governor...

... of the “lettered Indian”? The Indigenous drive for lands, literacy, and schools was tied to their cultural defense of tradition, law, and autonomy. Hence, the movement to educate the Indian quickly devolved into an ideological battleground among elites and a ground war among peasant activists, rural teachers...

... in the form of labor servitude. Juan Ayemoti Guasu was an older man who lived on the Santa Rosa mission. After falling sick, he had been cured by the young Apiaguaiki, who was also an ipaye (shaman). Ayemoti left the mission and became one of the rebel leader’s principal counselors. His letter below...

...Stationary Carousels and Chain Letters<subtitle>The Ego-Technic Media of the Official World</subtitle> This chapter sets out the infrastructure of the official world: its staging media and anthropotechnics. It sets outs the “vicarious life” of the official world and the interactive...

... Track six is a story-form narration of the author’s acquisition of a huge cache of material associated with the musician and thinker Sun Ra. The material, which was being discarded from the house of Ra’s manager, Alton Abraham, on the South Side of Chicago in 2000, would eventually form the core...

..., and constructions of rigor, by performing an access audit on one of the author’s prepandemic syllabi. The chapter examines faculty pedagogical responses to the pandemic, which at times reveal an increased investment in these forms of ableism. The chapter then explores what it looks like to disinvest in these forms...

... including diary, memoir, and letter. The chapter argues that the diverse modes of writing were not just personal decisions of the writer but engendered by events in Nazr’s life occurring outside the test and often beyond Nazr’s control. The chapter highlights the nature of “interrupted stories” in Nazr’s...

... and therefore should form the basis for national culture and political life. But the following passage represents the contradictory “ indigenista ” aspect of his thinking. Although Tamayo’s use of simplistic racial categories seems antiquated or worse in historical perspective, it was novel at the time to argue...

... etched a romantic vision of peoples and landscapes. This provided material for a new, positive view of national identity, and d’Orbigny was a formative influence in the nineteenth century and beyond. For example, the prolific production of the Bolivian artist and autodidact Melchor María Mercado included...