...Ivana Ancic Abstract The article reads The Stone Virgins as a text underlined by an Indigenous poetics that situates the land as a speaking subject and an archive of memory. Its critical foci are African feminist conceptions of the entanglement of human and nonhuman matter and their implications...

... complex histories and conceptions of homelands. This essay adopts a fresh focus on Indigenous/colonial remembrances through the lens of materiality, considering the wider historiographical and theoretical implications of recentering tangible objects and landscapes as conduits connecting past, present...

...Yolanda Padilla Abstract Angel Rama’s concept of the letrado refers to Latin American lettered individuals who used writing to consolidate the nation. But what might it have meant to be a letrado in the geopolitical context of the US-Mexico border in the early twentieth century, one that combined...

...Benjamin Breen Abstract An impostor who claimed to be a refugee from Formosa (present-day Taiwan) named George Psalmanazar (1679?–1763) embodied two key aspects of addiction in eighteenth-century Europe: its connections to globalization and imperialism, and the complex interplay between the concept...

... a capacious concept of drunkard as someone who simply liked drinking, rather than became demonstrably drunk, and confirmed the consumption of tobacco and alcohol as an appropriate subject for the burgeoning printed “public sphere.” The article suggests that the separation of drunkard from drunkenness proved...

..., the red reading methodology has been most noticeably used to decentralize a Eurocentric reading of Indigeneity in North American literature, though as this article illustrates, the concepts of red reading can be expanded to analyze texts from across temporal and cultural periodization, which allows us...

..., Hanley’s text ironizes the literary trope and geopolitical concept of the “free sea” from an interwar perspective. The novel’s particular mode of hydro-criticism manifests in its formal challenges to both the war optics of the British state and the optics of a major modernist writer of the seas, Joseph...

...—as communities separated. The article analyzes Jesmyn Ward’s response to this evisceration and dispersion of Black memory in Salvage the Bones . She develops “salvaging,” which is a new form of memory and which this article juxtaposes to Toni Morrison’s concept of “rememory.” Instead of rememory’s traumas, Ward...

... of an Anthropocene ocean. In this scholarly turn to the ocean, the concepts of fluidity, flow, routes, and mobility have been emphasized over other, less poetic terms such as blue water navies, mobile offshore bases, high-seas exclusion zones, sea lanes of communication (SLOCs), and maritime “choke points.” Yet...

...Penelope Kelsey Abstract This essay brings Zayin Cabot’s concept of “ecologies of participation” into conversation with contemporary Mohawk- and Seneca-language films and language revitalization movements. For Indigenous peoples, these participatory events are often interactive storying of worlds...

...Marla Segol Abstract This essay brings a fresh approach to the early kabbalistic work, the Sefer Bahir (the Book of Clarity , tenth to twelfth century, Hebrew). It does a close reading of its imagery, focusing on water, to illuminate its contested provenance and to challenge prevailing conceptions...

...Aymê Okasaki Abstract This article discusses the concept of Afro-Brazilian fashion in Candomblé, considering their transatlantic symbolic exchanges in an aesthetics of dress, based on the four vectors proposed by Cunnington—fabric, color, shape, and mobility—through which fashion is expressed...

... that this is an ontoepistemological substitution and the foundation on which the current 1980 Chilean constitution is based, and on which the majority rejected the proposed 2022 constitution. The essay critiques both the 1980 and the recently rejected constitutions through consideration of what a Mapuche cosmological conception...

... of these pieces, Grue and Mitchell explain, we are asked to revisit some of the fundamental concepts that have structured our world, including normalcy and pathology. Revisiting these concepts, moreover, has resulted in a call for rethinking what we know of history, human experience, and epistemology and has...

... dictio speech. I invoke the Latin etym ology of this crucial legal concept to highlight the connection between tw o of the three term s that concern us in this special issue of ELN language and the law. The law is made through and by language.The law is speech and, perhaps less obviously but no less...

... the m anagement of biological life. Foucault dates the emergence of biopolitics as bound-up w ith the emergence o f political-econom y in the eighteenth century and, in The Birth o f Biopolitics, presciently argues that the neoliberal concept of "hum an capital" becomes a central technology...

... on “substance-use disorder” and “non-substance use disorder.” The debate over whether addiction is an appropriate label or not speaks to the ongoing desire and challenge associated with defining this common and complex concept. Words matter. But while it is true that “we all know how to use the term...

... hat Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer firs t named "the Anthropocene," Our interest is not in providing a substitute for this concept, but in offering an alternative way of approaching the vast political-ecological w ork currently being attributed to it. We w ant to question the images of impending...

..., DEBATES, AND RECONFIGURATIONS T e r e s a A . T o u lo u s e , M ic h a e l E. Z im m e rm a n , J a s o n G la d s t o n e A trajectory in physics is m ost broadly defined as "the path described by an object under the influence of a force." The concept is a com pelling one for addressing developments...

... to remember and comprehend details such as key term s and concepts, m ajor literary figures, works, and ideas in order to be able to understand and adopt m ore hypothetical goals, such as intellectual developm ent and think­ ing, appreciation o f literature as art, and knowledge o f significant aspects o f...