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... to the exploitations of the unscrupulous. THE NAMING OF JACK STRAW AND PETER OCHELLO IN TENNESSEE WILLIAMS S CAT ON A H O T TIN ROOF In view of the range of critical responses to the polyphonic treatm ent of homosexuality in Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, it seems strange that relatively little has been said about the Straw...

... and vital task would have been to replace the lining o f cooking vessels to pre­ clude chronic copper poisoning, affecting the liver; cf. tinker glossed with crustator one who covers with a layer or coating. 4 But the OED makes no reference to tin, a principal com ponent in the alloy so used. T he MED...

...), and "D ark R oom " (h e ifa n g ) (a bout an in te n se ly plea sura ble a n o n ym o u s sexual e n c o u n te r in a d a rk ro o m ) c o n tin u e to p o rtra y a sp ects o f q u e e r liv e s th a t have n e v e r even been expressed p u b licly, let a lo n e in such p ro fo u n d v iv id n e s s...

... ral and c iv ic le g ib ility in ta rg e tin g L a tin o m en fo r ra cia l re m o va l,2 w h ile id e n tify in g an estim ated 5 m illion m illen nials w o rth y o f deferred actio n . A n n o u n ce d on Ju n e 15 2 0 1 2 , O bam a's D eferred A c tio n (D A C A) p o lic y provid e s u n d o c u...

... it occurs twice: in the nar­ rative voice, describing a pear tree outside Miss Q u en tin s win­ dow,2and five pages later when Luster tells Dilsey th at Q uentin has been climbing down the pear tree every night.3W hat made Faulkner designate the tree as a p ear tree in his belated intro­ duction...

... ver neutral: th e y are in e v ita b ly te n d e n tio u s, dida ctic, c o m p e titiv e , and p re s crip ­ tive. B ehind the seem ing ge ne ro sity o f co m p a riso n , the re alw ays lurks the ag gression o f a thesis." A n d yet, he co n tin u e s, " if c o m p a ra tiv e stu d ie s are to re su...

... is th e a u th o r o f The E x tin c t S c e n e : L a te M o d e rn is m a n d E v e ry d a y L ife (C o lu m b ia UP, 2 0 1 6 ). He is c u rre n tly a t w o rk on tw o b o o k p ro je c ts : The C u ltu ra l L iv e s o f C lim ate C hange and F o ssils o f T o m orrow : The L ite ra tu re a n d C u...

... tra d ic to ry . In p a rticu la r, e c o lo g ica l re a lity is c o n tra d ic to ry , and if w e hum ans w a n t to go about "saving," "p reserving" or as I'd prefer to say, "cu ra tin g " it, w e had b e tte r allo w some th in g s to c o n tra d ict them selves, or else. W h a t do I mean...

... " to "e ffo rts to escape in s titu tio n s o f carcerai health c o n tro l" (24). D ivided in to an in tro d u c tio n , e p ilo gue , and fiv e g e o g ra p h ic a lly d is tin c t ch a p te rs, B io in s e c u ­ ritie s tra c k s im pe rial e xp ansion s across H a w a i'i, Panam á, P uerto R ico, Cuba...

... resonance in urban centers th o u sa n d s o f m ile s apart. S q u in t s lig h tly and it seem s th a t these d iffe re n t nam es and d e sig ns are on the m o ve , im p e rc e p tib ly cha n g in g place, c irc u la tin g fro m one c o n te x t to another. Here is the Te m pe rance S ociety Hall...

... cultural analysis by id e n tify in g active, "p ra ctica l consciousness o f a pre se n t kind, in a liv in g and in te rre la tin g continuity."4 Rather than being restricted to the purview of the subjective and the personal, affects in m an y w a ys structu re the social w o rld , as th e y flo w th ro...

... p a riso n is ne ver n e u tra l; it a lw a y s c o n ta in s a w ill to p o w e r/ know ledge. In d e e d , R a d h a k ris h n a n 's e x a m p le o f c o m p a ris o n n o t flo a tin g fre e is a m o d e rn is t o n e : E. M . F o rste r's fa m o u s cave scene in A Passage to India. W h e n a m...

... zone con ju res the sp e cte r o f its o p posite: unsafe spaces and, esp ecially, th o se bodies th a t p u r­ p o rte d ly m a ke su ch lo c a tio n s u n safe. S afe spa ces, in o th e r w o rd s , d e pend upon tw o re la ted th o u g h u ltim a te ly d is tin c t idea s. F irst, th e use o f th e...

..., press release, m aintained, fo r example, that the "U.S. governm ent should reverse its deci­ sion to c o n tin u e m ilita ry assistance to g o ve rn m e n ts using child soldiers," In breach, once m ore, o f the 2008 Child S oldiers Prevention A ct.2 HRW's a d m o n itio n w as reiterated by Foreign...

... science, cu ltu ra l studies, w o m e n 's studies, so cio lo g y, French and Italian, S panish and P ortuguese, c o m p a ra tiv e lite ra tu re , and E nglish, and in lo ca tio n s th a t span three c o n tin e n ts.T h e se tra n s n a tio n a l and tra n s d is c ip lin a ry sch o l­ a rly a llia n ce...

... h o m e la n d to ris in g sea le ve ls. In a 2 0 1 5 open le tte r to th e w o rld , K atoa tau d e scrib e d th e in s e c u rity th a t his people fa ce "e ve ryd a y [. . .] as th e ir h o m e s are lo s t to th e ris in g sea le v e ls " a n d b e g g e d fo r a s s is ta n c e , n o tin g t h...

... agency" enabled Hughes to d isrup t "the heterosexual co m p u lsio n " behind the DuBoisian v e il.2 N ow ju m p eight thousand m iles away to M exico, w here Sergei Eisenstein stayed from 1930 to 1932 sh o o tin g his n e ver-com pleted film / Que viva M e x ic o ! Influenced by the m urals o f D iego...

... co nventionally h isto ricist readings Ferguson's reading seeks to com plicate. A s M arjo rie Levinson s u c c in c tly p u ts it, "th e re 's so m e th in g s c re w y a b o u t n u m b e r in W o rd ­ s w o rth ."4 Her w o rk, like Ferguson's, accounts fo r the screw iness by tre a tin g...

... bition o f Caravaggio's fin a l years, held at the National G allery in London betw een February and M ay 2005. Its p o sitio n sig n a lle d th a t th e p a in tin g w as to be taken both as the ultim ate achievem ent o f Caravaggio's career and as an indirect signi­ fie r o f the painter's death...

... th e o d d s, and a c t w ith re ckle ss a b a n d o n , are a tte m p tin g to lay claim to a h ig h e r liberal s ta tu s th a n people like Irene, w h o d e vo te th e m se lve s e x c lu ­ sive ly to th e m ore tra d itio n a l bo urge ois values o f ra tio n a lity and ca re fu l risk m a nage m...