...Swimming in the Joint ...

... fishermen in their love of the fish. While the unsustainable value of bluefin tuna is set by Tsukiji (Tokyo’s fish market) and Japanese appetites, the fate of the bluefin, as a truly global commodity, is determined by middle-class tastes around the world. The chapter also considers how swimming with tuna...

... tentacular celluloid subterranean swimming octopus ...

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... The chapter discusses Penny Siopis’s “tentacular art,” beginning with She Breathes Water and considering other cameo appearances of the octopus figure/footage in previous films and well as the significance of water, swimming, and diving in Siopis’s film work. A close reading of Obscure White...

... score. The chapter focuses on several instances where Johnston combined the written and physical in unexpected ways, including her 1970 disruption of a feminist fundraiser in Long Island where she interrupted Betty Friedan’s speech by swimming topless; and her contributions to a 1971 panel where she...

... immigrant narratives wherein characters must navigate the riptides of cultural identity. Because identity construction in Anglo- and Latino/a America is deceptively narrow, Yunior illustrates how one must swim entirely out of them or drown between them. immigration literature Dominican American...

... illustrates how one must swim entirely out of them or drown between them. immigration literature Dominican American identity narrative of loss This chapter explores the links between The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and larger Latin American literary practices. It begins with a critical...