...Chelsea Lemon Fetzer Chelsea Lemon Fetzer Even the Far-Out Songs Emily’s drunk on three-dollar wine. Backbones crooked again, her tower of fists, so she has to lie flat on the floor, says I could spend ten years in someone’s lap them...

... the acceptance of alternative, even enchanted realities; like certain strains of modern analytic philosophy and science fiction, it posits possible worlds and builds them out from within by acts of intellection, extended metaphorical conceits, and provisional bids for our faith. More than the result of a loose...

... horizon in even this strategy of containment and neutralization. © 2016 Virginia Tech 2016 Daybreakers Great Recession biopolitics dystopia vampire Works Cited Agamben Giorgio . 1998 . Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life . Translated by Heller-Roazen Daniel...

...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...

... in her analysis of the Muslim head-scarf controversies in French schools, and it plays an even more prominent role in her forthcoming book, The Fantasy of Feminist History . She recently led a seminar on secularism at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where she is on the faculty. She...

... a religion of the state. But did Christian communism actually exist in earliest, first-, or even second-century Christianity? The evidence is exceedingly slender if not nonexistent. And so I take a dialectical line, arguing that the probable nonexistence of early Christian communism is precisely the basis...

.... Arguably, it is only with the onset of modern politics in the West, from the French Revolution onward, that this conceit has been partially undermined and that violence and terror have become central to theoretical discussions. But even in these discussions, violence is presented as accidental...

...Rita Raley This essay first considers global English in relation to the contemporary sociotechnological milieu. It examines machine translation applications, particularly Google Translate, and suggests that they globalize English in their de facto articulation of it as a normative default. Even...

... and transformational forms of discourse. Understanding literature as transformational requires us to consider, however, the fundamental question of whether “criticism” itself is even compatible with the kinds of surface, pious, generous, intensive, mutual reading imagined as alternatives. The essay explores several...

... even more troubling that anthologies of world literature, which include many works in translation, tend to exclude or marginalize Arab writing. Drawing from Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's statement that “such slips become the rule rather than the exception in less careful hands” (1989, 272) and from...

...Dean Young © 2015 Dean Young 2015 Dean Young Three-Hearted Poem There’s a slight knock at the door and when I open it, there’s a mailman- sized moth. That’s how I know I’ve shrunk even more than the last time when a blue cloud told me I was drunk, I...

... in Louisiana,” they’d say, “not the Bronx.” Or “Anna-Sophie does like people…but only seniors.” Even when the dog wasn’t outed as crippled, dangerous, or hundreds of miles away, Jean gave up after a few exchanges. She asked for additional photos and information, gave them an improved picture of her own...

...Mariem Khaled [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Mariem Khaled 2024 Saadeya was pregnant. It was a blistering hot day; the sun hung over their heads, and even the horses looked like they were a minute away from collapsing from the heat. But Saadeya didn't care, she...

... were telling people not to talk to me even though I d never said a word to either of them. Sam was much older. I never romanticized the age difference because I was too busy thinking about his ears. He had detached earlobes. They were round and fat and unpierced. We d met last year when I still worked...

... a construction of the subject’s transcendental categories of understanding is largely responsible for this. Even Nietzsche —​ minnesota review 87 (2016) DOI 10.1215/00265667-3630856  © 2016 Virginia Tech 76 Nikolopoulou  77 whom we might consider...

...Nancy Ford Dugan © 2009 the minnesota review 2009 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Nancy Ford Dugan GPS for the Car-less Don’t even think of giving up your job in this economy, even if it bores you...

...Scott Nadelson © 2016 Scott Nadelson 2016 Scott Nadelson A Lonely Voice Under the pear tree, he’s thinking about a matchmaker. It’s late evening, mid-summer, 1953. The sun has dipped behind an oak in his neighbor’s yard, the sky lit up a crazy orange-pink. The moon, nearly...

...- tend to sleep each morning. I lost my tech support job because I am the kind of girl who loses nice things. Even though I can go home at any time, even though I can call my mom and go back to New Lon- don and watch her date men she’ll never trust, and even though she will protect me and provide...

..., I wound up 138 the minnesota review thinking—for at least the next few years—that I was, or should be, in the business of defending every variant of theory from every kind of attack. In my defense (which I can’t help but undertake, even at this late...

... and we went to the same kindergarten, a small room in our church, full of sunflowers and praise. Carolyn was seven, I believe, and Cleo was just a baby, not even one year old. My father ran for the phone in the back office of the farm market (known always as the Strawberry for the large, smiling...