... This chapter takes Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments as a launchpad. Instead of offering a “reading” of or a conventional scholarly response to Hartman’s text, this track, as the name states, takes the shape of a remix that emphasizes certain aspects surely present...

... that if homoeroticism in this context surely belongs to the realm of colonial fantasies about the “sexy terrorist,” it nevertheless also serves as a means of challenging the otherwise fixed power relationship between the Israeli gaze and the Palestinian who is subjected to it. Sharif Waked homoeroticism...

... This chapter explores the relationship between water infrastructure and political authority in Mumbai. Given that no one is quite sure who or what makes the water come, but everyone knows that it comes “because of politics,” much effort is made by local-level knowledge brokers (who tend...

... vision of the development of the model writer-activist. Yunior, as a budding writer and intellectual not yet sure of his place in the world but desperate to try to narrate the story of the de León and Cabral family, consumes and embodies their stories as a way to write Dominican Americans into history...

..., suggesting that if homoeroticism in this context surely belongs to the realm of colonial fantasies about the “sexy terrorist,” it nevertheless also serves as a means of challenging the otherwise fixed power relationship between the Israeli gaze and the Palestinian who is subjected to it. Sharif Waked...

... of age, his Künstlerroman, arguing that what emerges in his narrative is an aesthetics of artistic consumption, which reflects Díaz’s vision of the development of the model writer-activist. Yunior, as a budding writer and intellectual not yet sure of his place in the world but desperate to try to narrate...

... the phone’s contact list. The manager and a cleaning lady assisted David and Max in whatever small way they could: they pointed to a bathroom, they helped put things back in their original place, they nodded in different directions to make sure David and Max checked everything possible. The work was done...