... reading, and other methodological developments, these works offer methods for illuminating the relationship between form and feeling: neo-phenomenology, retelling, and close reading. By analyzing the relationship between affect and aesthetics across genres of art, this essay argues, we can expand...

... the stories of the migrants for them in her coveted role as a translator. Her stories are mediated by her ambivalence toward the migrants, for whom she feels shame and disgust, and her own tentative attempts to assimilate Frenchness as a normative ideal. This article offers a contrapuntal reading of Sinha’s...

... torso and he feels his feet deflating inside his black wingtips. The watch slips off his wrist and only his outspread fingers keep it from falling to the floor. The small wooden desk in front of him is now massive. Since he was a teenager David has been tall. Now he is a foot shorter than...

... feel like I have to go again.” “Open wide.” He has me sit on the white crinkle paper after all, but with my pants on, depresses my tongue, feels my throat, looks in my ears, my eyes, up my nose, takes my pulse, my blood pressure, listens to my lungs, my heart, my cough, then has me...

... Walk Away from Omelas .” In The Wind’s Twelve Quarters: Stories , 275 – 84 . New York : HarperCollins . Love Heather . 2007 . Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Ngai Sianne . 2007 . Ugly Feelings . Cambridge...

... that explained you should tell a girl you just want to make her feel good if she hesitates when you first slip your fingers beneath her waistband.) Every time I see him, I tell Dr. Jerome he’s the sickest dude I know, and he says that’s an unfortunate way to describe an oncologist. When I...

... Feeling . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Freire Paolo . 1971 . Pedagogy of the Oppressed . New York : Herder and Herder . Gutiérrez Gustavo . 1973 . A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation . Translated by Sister Caridad Inda Eagleson John . New...

...Melinda Wilson © 2014 Melinda Wilson 2014 Melinda Wilson Dance for Me You Six-Plumed Bird of Paradise So I take off even my socks, climb onto the countertop and mimic beauty like I’m not a bag stuffed with gizzard and bone. But it doesn’t feel right...

..., community is defined by the expulsion and destruction of a kind of monster. What seemed “literary” about these narratives (though of course they’re films) was the impossibility of not identifying with the monster, the impossibility of feeling good about belonging to the community that expelled...

... in Cullowhee, NC. The interview was conducted and transcribed by Laura Wright, a scholar of postcolonial literature and an assistant professor of English at Western Carolina. Wright I was wondering how it feels to be from Iran, in the United States, at the moment. Moshiri It has never been...

... accused of intentionally doing to others. But in this case, for me and dad, it feels right. It had been nearly a decade since I d started my transition and he d faded out of my life. I found him late one night on Instagram when sleep wouldn t come. I m not sure what prompted it but I suddenly felt...

...Michael Chang © 2020 Michael Chang 2020 Michael Chang area code 604 . . . . . . Ed. Note #1: this poem could really be about anything you want. Ed. Note #2: how do you feel about a time-traveling consort finding love in a hopeless place? . . . . . . A whiteboy asks me to interpret his dreams...

..., while my ex-husband just stuffed his hands in his pockets and walked away. I reach for the soft pack of Marlboro Lights on my nightstand and tap one loose for Ivan, feeling like I’m handing out consolation 34 the minnesota review medals at the end of a race. He doesn’t seem...

... fight would be going a lot smoother.” It’s an old lecture, and JK just hangs up. He curls up on the couch and reflects. His first armed action against another nation. He acquitted himself well, he feels. He pours another Mudslide and toasts to no one. They’ve...

... easy to read whenever he got annoyed. He talked about how much he missed me again, which led me to wonder why I d kept the relationship going for so long when he made me feel nothing. I d just finished my first week at a new lycée. It was in Sartène. There were these two bigger girls in my grade who...

...Lauren Berlant © 2009 the minnesota review 2009 Lauren Berlant Affect Is the New Trauma Here’s a tale about a time an accident led to an incident that is still shaping up as an event. Once I was at a conference. The conference was on feelings—on how the dynamics of their circulation...

... and screams to be taken home. Cods are prone to homesickness, Kaju reminds himself, even though this feels excessive. Shut it, he thinks. Hey is that your fish that smells bad? the butcher asks. Takes away customers. Either it goes or you go. Kaju puts the fish outside so he can buy some pork fat, rice...

... feeling the world deeply with the ballpoint pen in your pocket and though a tad abnormal to discuss all humans want to understand everything and for everyone to understand us. What I can’t understand is what makes me feel a difference between me and any three...

...Cole Depuy cole.depuy@gmail.com Copyright © 2022 Cole Depuy 2022 Cole Depuy Whippets we inhale nitrous oxide from balloons think: this is how . . . mntns . . . leave the body gas = mass think: it makes us feel dizzy to ^ peak isn t that enough? being born w/ multiplying brain cells...

.... Could be how empty the house feels and what or who his wife spends her time with, the taste of wine on her lips, how cold it feels for him to be the sober one at two in the morning, wondering who else has sampled from the woman he married, and he can see...