...Jackie Braje Jackie Braje Home Recordings A woman stands in the wedding dress her mother made, icing the angel food, waiting for the marriage to start. On the television Elvis is a freebird, Elvis is a housewife, Elvis is wearing a shirt his mother made and her crystal is full of sherry...

...Kimiko Hahn © 2012 by Virginia Tech 2012 Kimiko Hahn Ode to Home Snails are such a pick-me-up and Darwin thought so also though he was “greatly perplexed” by the existence of the Roman land snail: how could salt so readily kill creatures that arise...

...Bert Cardullo This interview with Ken Loach took place in July 2009 at his home in Bath, England. Unquestionably one of Britain's most important filmmakers, Loach is best known for his gritty and compassionate portrayals of working-class life. Early in his career, a series of socially conscious...

...-interpretation and poetics of materiality, the article brings home a fresh realm of plastic-art with plastic-desire. Copyright © 2021 Virginia Tech 2021 plastic art materiality aesthetic collection imagination Works Cited Ardenne Paul . 2019 . “ Ecological Art—Origins, Reality...

...Marguerite Nguyen This article weaves together interviews, cultural studies scholarship, and a personal experience of New Orleans to interpret narratives of Vietnamese Americans in the city pre- and post-Katrina. New Orleans is home to one of the densest concentrations of Vietnamese Americans...

... am once again feeling a soft hand on my back, a whisper grazing my neck, chanting, You're home, you're home, you're home . When I was a child and you were stuck in the wrong country, you told me you missed the roosters crowing at four in the morning and greeting shirtless men playing cards...

...Virginia Reeves [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Virginia Reeves 2024 We were on our way home from the dairy when the Keenan house caught fire. There'd been heat lightning overhead for at least half an hour, but no rain. When the lightning struck, the house went up quick...

... of the Panthéon by the Gilets Noirs, a collective of undocumented migrants who con- test their legal and social invisibilization and stake their claim to space and home in France. The occupation of the Panthéon is happening on the heels of a dramatic standoff between the Italian border police and a humanitarian...

... and you could cross your eyes at the same time to see your tongue moving when you moved it right much. You had a good memory full of jokes then. Plus peo- ple who has heard you says you could talk more like Donald Duck than Donald Duck could. When she brought Delgado home, Joy Ann brought...

... can fix her. I cradle her in my palm and hum and hush until sure enough she slowly comes to and sits up and sees me and smiles. When I carry her out into the sunshine, she rubs her eyes, blinks, shades her face with her hand. I’ll take her home with me. I start out carrying her carefully...

... migrant and closer to Frenchwoman. These recent changes prompt questions: Can you grow out of migritude? Or abandon it? Or reinterpret it? Chevrier (2004: 96) suggests the second of these possibilities by noting that some authors in useful possession of a return ticket go back home. And what s next, after...

...Tyler McMahon © 2009 the minnesota review 2009 Tyler McMahon The King of All One-Liners It was a Tuesday when I came home from school and found Grandma lying on the living room floor with a black eye. Dad was working tens, and wouldn’t be back for hours. A half-empty bottle of Gallo...

... like little claws. Carla's baby. Her first? her second or third? How long has she been married? and to whom? Lucky man. But I'm not bitter. Not now. Only, disoriented. Back home in Chile. My country again after fifteen—no, sixteen years. Unsure which streets connect with which. Which lives...

... and leaning homes —​until somewhere in the middle night the sound of the fair will become one constant chord, like the interstate heard in the distance or the sound of light rushing through glass bulbs —​if light made sound. This afternoon, most the game booths are as empty as the stores in town...

.... Only today had he gone outside—first to the deli on 73rd and York for a pack of Camels and some rolling papers, then to the East River where he walked slow and talked to the pigeons until he found what he was looking for, sitting on a bench in old sneakers and a red skirt. Now back home...

... and around another corner is the boyhood home of Lee Harvey Oswald; one block up that street is the school where a six-year-old Ruby Bridges bravely climbed the steps to enter an all-white elementary school, amid the screeching jeers and taunts of a racist mob, to actualize the court- ordered...

... burned your toast getting ready to go to work for the collection agency, meaning you actually go somewhere to work? Or do you conveniently call these unfortunate people who can’t pay their bills from your home phone? Right. There’s no place like home. So —​you burned your toast getting ready...

... are over. Nantat scowls. Oh shoo, she swats him away, and leave me and my balancing stick alone. Mayor Yorkie is always hanging around the old people s home. Today he is talking to Wil and Dr. Dot. They form a tall, full-bellied triad. All three slowly raise a hand to wave at Kaju. minnesota review 98...