... This section chronicles some far-reaching results of the ideology of cure. It includes a retelling of the life of Carrie Buck, the poor white woman at the center of the Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell, which ruled state-mandated, involuntary sterilization to be constitutional. This retelling...

... retells stories of the Sufi saint, Madho Lal Hussain (d. 1599), who fell in love with a Brahmin boy, Madho. It does not find in their lifelong relationship signs of a more permissive time. Instead, the chapter recovers the reproach Shah Hussain courted by refusing to conform to the social and gender...

... Looking to Toshi Reagon’s science fiction opera, Parable of the Sower , based on the Octavia Butler book by the same name, this chapter explores escape as a narrative of entanglement. In Reagon’s work, the reader, the listener, and the theater audience are asked to become part of the retelling...

... in which it finds itself. Looking at Sharon Hayes’s reperformance of Patty Hearst’s Symbionese Liberation Army audio ransom screeds, language and speech emerge as key elements of the retelling of the escape story and its refusal. Hayes work brings the listener’s attention to the multivocality of any story...

...Mapping Where it Hurts As a socially committed poet, the author has dedicated her career to telling the truth about what’s wrong with our world and exploring how deep the roots of that wrongness extend. Driven by moments of oppression and exclusion, the pieces in this section retell histories...

... to periodize the past, these texts themselves employ the affective power of their stories to elevate the lives they recount above their own time. The chapter retells stories of the Sufi saint, Madho Lal Hussain (d. 1599), who fell in love with a Brahmin boy, Madho. It does not find in their lifelong...

... retelling—to potentially undo his victimization and disempower the abuser. “Naked” marks a shift from childhood to adolescence and manhood as the author navigates reflection as a necessary affect of the conscience. This is further explored in “Fall” and “Form,” which deal with the author’s understanding...

... retelling—to potentially undo his victimization and disempower the abuser. “Naked” marks a shift from childhood to adolescence and manhood as the author navigates reflection as a necessary affect of the conscience. This is further explored in “Fall” and “Form,” which deal with the author’s understanding...

... This chapter frames this retelling of the early history of American animation as part blackface minstrelsy in order to reconsider some of the classic theories of comedy, humor, and laughter. It argues for the significance of race and racism in the seemingly universal concepts of the laughing...

... retelling—to potentially undo his victimization and disempower the abuser. “Naked” marks a shift from childhood to adolescence and manhood as the author navigates reflection as a necessary affect of the conscience. This is further explored in “Fall” and “Form,” which deal with the author’s understanding...

... retelling—to potentially undo his victimization and disempower the abuser. “Naked” marks a shift from childhood to adolescence and manhood as the author navigates reflection as a necessary affect of the conscience. This is further explored in “Fall” and “Form,” which deal with the author’s understanding...

... retelling—to potentially undo his victimization and disempower the abuser. “Naked” marks a shift from childhood to adolescence and manhood as the author navigates reflection as a necessary affect of the conscience. This is further explored in “Fall” and “Form,” which deal with the author’s understanding...

... retelling—to potentially undo his victimization and disempower the abuser. “Naked” marks a shift from childhood to adolescence and manhood as the author navigates reflection as a necessary affect of the conscience. This is further explored in “Fall” and “Form,” which deal with the author’s understanding...

... retelling—to potentially undo his victimization and disempower the abuser. “Naked” marks a shift from childhood to adolescence and manhood as the author navigates reflection as a necessary affect of the conscience. This is further explored in “Fall” and “Form,” which deal with the author’s understanding...

... Carbon Boom: Chapter 1 analyzes a key component of the effort to make Acrean forest carbon valuable: Acrean rubber history and its retelling. It also presents key components of Acrean history: the rubber boom, the development of the famed rubber tapper social movement, and subsequent state...

... embraces the francophone world and navigates the complexities of a global music market. The emotional connections listeners tell and retell about their reaction to this song illustrate how the song’s power transcends time and language barriers, touching the hearts of listeners across generations...