... spaces, William S. Burroughs, Jean Genet, Hubert Selby Jr., and John Rechy. He exceeds their example by mourning the burdens of gentrification, normativity, and the gay marketplace of desire — variations on what other scholars have similarly critiqued...

... that communicate our sense of history’s possibilities. —Vincent Brown, “Mapping a Slave Revolt” In the 1770s, Captain John Stedman, while traveling through Suriname, happened upon three “slaves” being taken in chains to be killed. One was Neptune, a free man of color, a carpenter, “young and handsome.” He...

... . The Kingdom and the Glory: For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . Allen James Lewis John Litwack Leon F. Als Hilton . 2007 . Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America . Santa Fe, NM : Twin Palms . Anderson...

... Andrew Ross, Sohnya Sayres, Bruce Robbins, Randy Martin, John Brenkman, and Anders Stephanson discuss the venues where the collective met face-to-face: conversations and debates at manuscript reviews and formal meetings, but also the role of reading groups, conferences, and the soirees held...

... Stanley Aronowitz, Toby Miller, John Brenkman, Randy Martin, and Bruce Robbins discuss the cycling of leadership and their own responses to leaving the journal or changing their role in the collective. © 2009 Duke University Press 2009 Departures...

... Stanley Aronowitz, Randy Martin, John Brenkman, and Toby Miller examine the journal's aim at understanding culture and politics without excluding certain topics or certain kinds of work. The journal offered a space for negotiating between different disciplines and their view of politics and what...

... John Brenkman, Anders Stephanson, Sohnya Sayres, and Bruce Robbins discuss the changing role of journals. In light of the Internet, changing reading practices, and financing, doing a journal is an uphill struggle. However, magazines do sustain a kind of culture and chains of connection. © 2009...

... placing under erasure the very contact zone that makes their existence possible. Through analysis of the recurrence of the Anglo-Latin romance theme in a wide range of films produced across the Americas—including The Americano (dir. John Emerson; 1917), Doña Bárbara (dir. Fernando de Fuentes; 1943...

... John Brenkman, Stanley Aronowitz, Fredric Jameson, Andrew Ross, and Sohnya Sayres discuss the self-reliance and independence of the journal in the early days and the eventual move to the university press. Being tied to a university press offered editorial support, finances, and regular help...

... Reflecting on the role of literature in Social Text , John Brenkman, Stanley Aronowitz, Sohnya Sayres, and Andrew Ross discuss the vision of the journal as a hybrid between a political review and a literary magazine. They touch on literature as a form of social knowledge, the relationship between...

... Discussing the inaugural issue of Social Text , John Brenkman, Stanley Aronowitz, and Anders Stephanson emphasize the quality of the articles in terms of theoretical sophistication and the versatility of genres and questions tackled. The first issue aimed at making a political intervention...

... Three founding editors, John Brenkman, Stanley Aronowitz, and Fredric Jameson, discuss the origins of the title Social Text . Aronowitz argues that it comes from Henri Lefebvre's Critique of Everyday Life , while Jameson claims he did not know Lefebvre at the time and the phrase social text just...

... representation of the Nanjing Massacre in relation to two other texts, The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe and The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II , and examine the intricate power relations revolving around these contemporary discourses of the human in representations...

... of contemporary cultural materials (classics like the movies of John Waters and the early performances of Bette Midler, as well as such recent works as Zadie Smith’s novel White Teeth , the television show Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! , and music videos by Fergie, Nicki Minaj, and Psy) and show how...