... Works Cited Anonymous . 1723 . The History of the Blacks of Waltham in Hampshire; and Those under the Like Denomination in Berkshire . London : A. Moore . Anonymous . 1735 . The Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals … from the Year 1720 to the Present Time . 3 vols. London : John...

...Kevin King 2005 the minnesota review 2005 55 Kevin King Obit: Mohammed Mossadeq (The History You Don't Know, Declassified) In '52 Mossadeq got word of his impending assassination...

... (on Walter Benn Michaels' The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History [Princeton: Princeton UP, 2004]) In 1982, Walter Benn Michaels declared himself "Against Theory"; now in The Shape of the Signifier he declares himself against almost everything. Identity politics...

... is happening before our very eyes. The problem of the Anthropocene is not simply one of scale (whether geologic or temporal) but of a change in the very way we order our world. If history is text, then history is over—numbers have replaced text. © 2014 Virginia Tech 2014 Works Cited Chakrabarty...

... ). Steven G. Kellman The Return of the Thirties (on Morris Dickstein’s Dancing in the Dark [New York: Norton, 2009]; Peter Conn’s The American 1930s: A Literary History [Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009]; and David Welky’s Everything Was Better in America: Print Culture...

... . The Brownings' Correspondence . Ed. Kelley Philip Lewis Scott . 12 vols . Winfield, KS : Wedgestone P , 1984 . Ezell Margaret J. M. Writing Women's Literary History . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins UP , 1992 . Gilbert Sandra M. Rev. of Writing Women's Literary History...

...Keith Leonard © 2012 by Virginia Tech 2012 Keith Leonard A Brief History of Fiction If I get the story right my mother’s empty bottles will melt back into sand —​ just enough for a shoreline the size of our driveway. We could hold our shoes...

...Rob Cook © 2012 by Virginia Tech 2012 Rob Cook The History of the Lost Voices He paces the kitchen waiting for the river to empty its boatload of shadows. There’s only water playing at the theaters, people silent and holding hands because of the rain which is how...

...Francescomaria Tedesco In the interview that follows, Timothy Brennan argues that intellectual history is a dimension missing from most cultural theory. He suggests that this weakens theory, since intellectual history is not simply the frame for arguments but part of the substance of statements. He...

...Janell Watson In this interview, feminist historian Joan Wallach Scott discusses her first encounters with critical theory, the early days of teaching women's history, her turn to the history of the present, her work on the history of feminism, her book on the Muslim veil, and her current project...

... of logocentrism and ontotheology, those ancient traditions in which things speak their being and call out yearningly to the observer. This essay contends that scholars working in these areas would recognize these problems if they adopted a more inclusive conception of the history of thought—a history more...

...Florian Zappe Abstract This introduction provides a short survey of the history of academic culture wars as a recurring phenomenon in the history of the modern university. It then outlines the concept of this special section as a nonpartisan and metaperspectival critical discussion of various...

...Courtney Moffett-Bateau Abstract This article offers a history of Black thought as it has been represented or underrepresented in the university by tracing the phenomenon of the US American cultural wars to the Civil War. The article discusses the displacement of Black knowledges from predominantly...

... currencies are continuously created as reinventions upon themselves and upon capitalist practice. The notion of failing forward is key to understanding the creative design of currency alternatives as carrying within itself not only hopes for the future but also the history of prior forms as well...

... thinkers across the disciplines of literature, philosophy, history, ethics, bioethics, and political and biological science, as well as the pastoral and practical occupations of farming and forestry. Galsworthy, a lover of humanity and rarely seen without a dog or horse as a companion, undertook animal...

... queer femininity unsettles a diasporic logic of racial exceptionalism. This logic aids and abets a (black) native/(South Asian) migrant divide in colonial and postcolonial Kenya. Patel’s femme migritude, as I call it, draws on nonequivalent histories of black and Asian racialized dispossession...

..., 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...

..., such as Britain and Italy, as well as South Asian and Caribbean diasporas. This body of work reveals intersections between complex histories of colonialism, immigration, globalization, and racism against migrants and highlights differences in region, class, gender, and sexuality that constrain the movement...

...Andrew Rippeon This article brings together print-material histories (from typesetting and typewriting to Twitter) to consider such seemingly disparate textual practices as concrete poetry, Twitter bots, Insta-poetry, and political tweets. With initial attention to Donald Trump’s infamous “covfefe...