... while matter is figured as passive and immutable?” With this shift toward the material, bodies began to be seen in a different light and their materiality understood as something that follows its own laws and movements, which cannot be understood exclusively in terms of social-cultural codes. Instead...

...Jennie Lightweis-Goff Within days of the breach of the levees in New Orleans, a second man-made disaster—the “recovery” efforts—began to transform the city’s institutions, leaving many urban partisans afraid that New Orleans would be rebuilt along the model of other, more expensive, less habitable...

...Janell Watson In this interview, Talal Asad discusses his career, his ideas, and his future plans. An Oxford-trained cultural anthropologist, Asad began with fieldwork, studying the effects of colonialism on the political life of a nomadic tribe in northern Sudan. Asad was born in Saudi Arabia...

...M. L. Krishnan M. L. Krishnan Six Steps Toward Consecration 1. Once Full It began when she was seen that afternoon. But perhaps it began even earlier, when she survived her own infanticide, when the milky latex traveled down the conch of her baby throat and she swallowed it hun- grily, gurgling...

... began fiddling with his genitals. “Cut it out,” Melody whispered. “Jeez.” She went over and slouched down in a chair opposite Carolyn, a doctoral candidate in psychology whose dissertation hinged, in part, on her observations of Melody, who was a documented genius. The institution...

... of a needle tracing vinyl. My eyes began to water. I felt the blood drip down my chin, and that was when I saw them fall onto the floor. They fell in one piece, floating down easy like a feather, the ends meeting at their corners, the lips pressed together at their seams. I bent down and picked them up...

... prolific writing, he has influenced the shape of contemporary criticism, investigating existentialism, poststructural theory, American studies, and the politics of the American imperium. Spanos began his career in a relatively traditional way, with his first book...

... he k new. He began with his Southern California radio favorites, then the hymns they had been learning in class, before moving into the beginning of his mother s favorite Erik Satie record the one she sometimes played while she folded huge piles of laundry on the couch. It began to dawn...

... review 76 (2011) DOI 10.1215/0026 5667-1222056  © 2011 Virginia Tech 65 66 the minnesota review Godard’s oeuvre. What began as an article for an exhibition catalog became a published monograph, James Coleman (Hatje Cantz, 2002). Her...

.... At these times it seemed that her eyes were the source of her voice, though after a t ime I g ot used to it. The mask accentuated her eyes, which sometimes looked large and round and sweet and other times, when her voice was adamant for instance, when she began to talk about her father her eyes simply bulged. I...

... for an emphasis on wild theatrics), so what he was singing was barely audible, but as he sang, his instincts kicked in and a trans- formation took place: he began to dance and shake, his voice rose and spread like atmosphere, the pain he’d been ignoring was temporarily extinguished, and the entire house...

... about string theory at all. One man burst into tears when someone mentioned the tenth dimension. He began relating this lost memory —​he was four years old, at a carnival with his father. A man in a lion suit pranced around, his fur matted with sawdust. He smelled of stale...

... there silently, in clothes two sizes too large for his thin frame, delicate hands at his sides and legs spread as though expecting to receive a blow. I began to squirm, as did a couple others in my group—fidgeting with our pants, checking shirt buttons, making...

... paragraphs, each ending with the refrain: It s complicated . . . The first paragraph began, As you may have noticed . . . , and detailed how humanity had overloaded Beelzebub s power grid with an astronomical wattage of self-preservation, self-promotion, self-delusion, self-inflation, and all those other...

... 53 54 the minnesota review . . . One summer I coached my son’s t-ball team. Before the season began I imagined once a week at the park with all the best drills I would turn those boys down the road to manhood and that leading them would be my son, my...

... through the pines, and the voices, those mournful howls, began talk- ing to us. We would turn around and around in the forest, trying to locate the sound’s origin, not knowing which two or three pines were rubbing together just then, until we were half out of our heads and convinced that the voices...

... in Oklahoma, I asked the moon to go inside its canyons. I asked the moon to swallow itself in the sky. And when it did —​          still I did not die. Where was the death I was promised, the heartless ticking I know I knew before my life began? minnesota review 85 (2015) DOI 10.1215...

... into overdrive. All he wanted to do was study, driving his party-prone friends crazy. These fears subsided drastically after David got married and began his teaching career. By the time Alex was born three years later, he was the very picture of tranquility, a model of self-assurance. He carried...

... I'd lose count. After two years of this, I began to run out of legitimate lost and found bins. The hollow husks in thrift stores didn't do it for me. I had exhumed the libraries and excavated the parks. I was getting lazy. Careless. I got caught calling the same place twice on the same day. I soon...

... he began reading the works of Marx and Engels. Shaken by the effects of the depression, he decided to become a writer and dramatize the economic and social injustices he saw all around him. At the Yale School of Drama he met George Sklar, and they co-authored Merry Go...