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...Paul Tulloch © 2007 the minnesota review 2007 13 Poems from the “Being at Work” Poetry Challenge The “Being at Work” Poetry Challenge started off as a small attempt to add to the historical compendium of work poetry a cross...

..., it examines how Unnikrishnan offers an alternative to what is described as the “mythology of migrancy” narrative. As such, the article challenges the dominant paradigm of migration in postcolonial studies, which tends to celebrate hybridity and fluidity of identity. Unnikrishnan responds aesthetically...

...Janell Watson In this interview, Jacqueline Stevens discusses her career and her writings in the field of political theory. Her theories about birth, death, and the state guide her as she boldly challenges patriarchal appeals to genetics and heredity in the politics of immigration, wealth...

...” to depict the unspeakable reality of life in contemporary China. Writers always have the inclination to challenge the parameters of life in various aspects and play against censorship, but due to ideological reasons, censors in China focus more on political issues than on moral ones, and consequently in Mo...

...Peter Hitchcock; Christian P. Haines; Peter Hitchcock This article explores the continuities and schisms between the politics of the commons and communism. Broadly, it aims to challenge the assumption that commons discourse is a subsumption or overcoming of the communist idea. Instead it offers...

..., and migritude, a burgeoning global literary genre and field of scholarship that addresses contemporary discourses of migration and their colonial histories. Scego discusses her resistance to the category of “migrant writer” and the challenge of retelling stories of postcolonial African diaspora to Italy...

.... O’Reilly’s attempt was far more public (and destructive), but Andrews’s political project has remained confined to a small contingent of scholars. This article reexamines Andrews’s claim that the only effective means of political resistance can come from an experimental poetic practice that challenges...

..., and obscure objects, plastic triggers and challenges the imagination and builds a variety of aesthetic affordances. It constructs and inheres in a desire-principle where the material goes beyond consumerism, cultural habituality, economic viability, the eco-catastrophic mandate, and spectrality into the (im...

... to perform across a perceived divide and audiences to make direct comparisons of avian and human musicians. As songbird aesthetics emerge in the concert hall, they challenge hierarchies of creative power. Night Songs folds concepts of multispecies justice into storytelling. This rich, varied, and often...

...Phillip E. Wegner This essay takes up the challenge, issued by Fredric Jameson in a 1976 minnesota review essay, to become attentive to the “presence of some Utopian content even within the most degraded and degrading type of commercial product.” It does so through a reading of the Adam Sandler...

...Phillip E. Wegner I reflect upon the value of Jacques Lacan's 1969–70 Seminar XVII, The Other Side of Psychoanalysis , for thinking about the challenges we face as scholars and teachers working in the contemporary university. As with Lacan's title for this seminar, my title has a range of meanings...

... with the field a sense of how these traditions have developed in relation to key historical shifts. It then moves to consider some of the current challenges to the Left work of Latin American cultural studies, especially as articulated in response to neoliberal forms of capital. The essay argues that Latin...

... ; her advocacy, versus mainstream cognitive science, of an “ecological” or “dynamic” view of human cognition; and her efforts to challenge or complicate familiar but dubious conceptual dualisms, including, most recently, oversimplified views of the relations between science and religion. © 2013...

...Tobias Boes; Kate Marshall This introduction to the focus section on “Writing the Anthropocene” examines the challenges that the entry of our species into a new geological epoch poses for the humanities in general and for literary and media theory in particular. It proposes the hypothesis...

... stopped say- ing the females will come back. “And then what?” Heng  39 I tiptoe, carefully shifting my weight to peer over the heads of those in front of me. The challenger is pushing his way out of the crowd aggressively, all chest and beak...

... of this term. For those whose first encounters with identity politics were within the institutional framework of the university, this book challenges campaigns such as Lynne Cheney’s attack on canon revision in the 1980s by demonstrating how our need for identity discourse has been...

... challenges, claiming that its GAs were not employees, despite the fact that they teach half of all undergraduate classes. Then, when the union was victorious, NYU challenged the validity of that election in order to delay certification and its legal obligation to bargain. Like other corporations, NYU...

... in collective memory even after they were challenged, revised, or repudiated. minnesota review 84 (2015) DOI 10.1215/00265667-2857953  © 2015 Virginia Tech 56 Desai  57 Attention to media coverage, then, is central to the ways in which...

... in a market-oriented culture. Humanities scholars should take pride in being at the forefront of defending the loftier interests of higher education. That said, accounting for the political and economic as well as cultural problems confronting the university poses an analytical challenge...