...Francine Witte © 2010 by Virginia Tech 2010 Francine Witte Why Kiley Roberts Left Me for Dead Maybe the moon knows why. Moon sits all night in the sky and watches and watches and sees everything. I know the moon saw the last of Kiley Roberts as he edged himself into the pickup round...

.... Livingstone Rodney . Harmondsworth : Penguin in Association with New Left Review . 1992 . 421 – 23 . Marx Karl Engels Friedrich . The Communist Manifesto . New York : International , 1935 . Puchner Martin . Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes...

...Sophia A. McClennen This essay focuses on the role of the Left—as idea, as subject, as method, and as political praxis—in Latin American cultural studies. It briefly traces some of the key connections between Latin American cultural studies and Left politics to give readers less familiar...

... of solidarity on the left, Dean laments the contemporary Left’s inability to say “we,” a reluctance that, she argues, makes political action impossible. She finds that leftist currents such as radical democracy and radical pluralism have lost the conviction that capitalism must be overturned. However, her...

... (2012), and Alan M. Wald’s American Night: The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War (2012). Whereas Schryer and Szalay address the fiction of and for the emerging professional-managerial class, Wald considers the transformation and suppression of the pro-Communist literary Left during the forties...

...Lauren J. Roberts © 2016 Lauren J. Roberts 2016 Lauren J. Roberts Report in Left Desk Drawer I whipped a bush with my jump rope, and all of the birds flew out to a tree. First day home. I’m asked to stop drinking. Dollhouse, meltwater sound from the heater, melt, my hand...

...Rachel Michelle Hanson © 2016 Rachel Michelle Hanson 2016 Rachel Michelle Hanson Left in the Ground At the take-out on Hualapai land I lie down in the creek bed, let warm water wash Colorado silt from my skin, loosen my week-old braid, stretch sore fingers...

...Victor Cohen © 2009 the minnesota review 2009 Victor Cohen The Left Coast: An Interview with Mike Davis When he was a guest in 2009 on the PBS program Bill Moyers Journal, Mike Davis was introduced by Moyers as “a real, live socialist” from “the People’s...

...Stevie Edwards Stevie Edwards What I Left An old oak dresser bought on consignment I couldn’t squeeze into the moving van. A liberal man from Alabama firing slurs into the dizzy heart of the house, not because he’s racist or has a problem with homosexuals...

...Francine Witte Copyright © 2020 Francine Witte 2020 Francine Witte When he left me I went circle. Lost my shoulders and folded into a ball. I rolled around the living room. I turned bruisy and blue as I bumped up the couch. I got splinters from the unpolished floor. When he left me I went...

...Sarah Taban Copyright © 2021 Sarah Taban 2021 Sarah Taban suppose I had left then with creatures I loved draped around me, begging a bird to stay from flight, a cat from its prey contorted under my shirt. It is almost as if I am still there, paused in my childhood, a bigger animal than...

... (from Marx and Engels to Bloch and Jameson), I nevertheless (with utopians of the Left such as Ruth Levitas) step into the warm stream of a “militant optimism,” in Bloch's words, that aims to set free “the repressed elements of the new, humanized society.” I therefore examine the dialectical tension...

... relations of their class content by making social transformation into an affective and spontaneous action. In this sense, Jameson's celebrated reading of Wal-Mart is indicative of the general reading of global capitalism on the “radical” Left today, which spiritualizes Marx's materialist dialectic...

... like the “discursive regime,” the “body-without-organs,” or the “Real” to be the work of mostly French intellectuals of the Left, Brennan suggests that many of these ideas are variants of concepts from the interwar German philosophical Right. Testing the thesis that the history of these concepts casts...

...-left establishment voices. However, she has not abandoned her powerful interest in the complexities of migritude’s pains and difficult opportunities. On the contrary, in Marianne porte plainte! Identité nationale: Des passerelles, pas des barrières! ( Marianne Complains! National Identity: Gangways...

... valorizations of individual property and personhood, which have mired and limited recent debates on “bodily autonomy” and have allowed the phrase my body, my choice to be wielded by both the Left and the Right for very different purposes. The entirety of the sequence is published here, preceded by an exegetical...

... and intellectual protocols. The academic humanist Left's promotion of theory, for instance, facilitated the formation of the “university” as a theater for culture war conflicts, shifting attention inside and outside the academy away from underlying changes in capitalism. [email protected]...

... of literary studies. Though I also pursued a degree in political science, it was in my literature classes that I learned about left politics. And no wonder— in spite of their Arnoldian framework, these classes trained me in a unique form of empathy that could be carried on throughout a lifetime...

...? Denning Yes, though Sacvan Bercovitch, Werner Sollers, and Ann Douglas were among the Americanists then, and were trying to move the department in a kind of American Studies direction. Bercovitch and Sollers left for Harvard almost immediately after I arrived. I was at Columbia for only five years...

... collection of his essays on the Sokal hoax and the science wars, the state of academe, and the academic left, Rhetorical Occasions: Essays on Humans and the Humanities (U of North Carolina P). Against the call for a return to the pleasures of literature, he also edited the collection The Aesthetics...