...Eleanor Paynter; Ashna Ali; Christopher Ian Foster; Supriya M. Nair Migritude literature, or the literature of postcolonial migration, is often autobiographical and thus productively read through the lens of life writing. How authors position the immigrant self as subject sheds light on narrative...

... zines independent media life writing creative industries Works Cited Anderson Benedict . 2006 . Imagined Communities: Reflecting on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism . Rev . ed. London : Verso . Barthes Roland . 1977 . Image, Music, Text . Translated by Heath...

... life. The emergence of social media poetics — and, specifically, what I term digital realism — demonstrates the use of the confessional mode in social media. Digital realism gives name to a process of literary production that obscures the lines between life and writing. In this essay, I explore how...

...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...

...Bo Earle; Margret Grebowicz “By doing we forego”, Nietzsche writes in The Gay Science ; specifically, we forego what he calls the “consolation of conclusions.” Accordingly, Nietzsche’s signature concept of overcoming is not a proper concept but a meta- or super-concept that allows purposive action...

... literature and visual arts should be “connected with real life” and the world, “not clustered in the library where they have no communication with the experience of ordinary people.” He points out that different from the previously insular, Eurocentric world, the international art world now has produced...

... Strange (2020) and the forthcoming novel Pleasure Beach. Anna Poletti is an associate professor of English language and culture at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. They research contemporary life writing, with a focus on mediation and materiality, youth cultures, and independent media. Véronique...

...?” and people said, “Geoffrey Hartman, without a doubt.” So I went to Geoffrey Hartman and proposed to write a dissertation about Ralegh—not just about his poetry because it seemed to me it would have to be about his life in some sense, about what it meant that this poetry came out of someone who...

... movements of his time, writing memoirs and novels, and ended his life writing biographies. It redraws our view of Shklovsky and informs us. I suppose this is one way of saying that, while I was trained in the last wave of the theory years, I have come to value literary, cultural, and social...

... a way of thinking about the lower division and general education, and about the relationship between writing and ordinary language and the possibilities of an intellectual life that doesn’t rely on specialized language. At a certain point, a distinction was made that we now take for granted...

... della speranza (My Voyage of Hope emphasizes the significance of life writing, which functions as both memoir and testimony in migritude narratives. Paynter notes that life writing foregrounds the self-representation of migrant subjects (as against having their stories told or translated by middle-class...

... was in an apartment building. I had to look at the physiologies people were writing about Parisian life broken down by new character types rather than spaces. That’s when I found that people were talking about the concierge, which you would only find in an apartment building. So I had to do a lot...

... Time: Twenty-Five Years of Prison Writing . New York : Arcade , 1999 . Dlamini Moses . Hell Hole, Robben Island . Nottingham, England : Spokesman Books , 1984 . Genet Jean . Thief's Journal . New York : Bantam , 1964 . Ghose Sri Aurobindo . Tales of Prison Life...

... but a doing over and over, a being done over. In a world of antiblack racism, the materiality of black life composes itself, in part, out of death. Smith may be sick of writing this poem, but the poet still goes on to mourn, still writes, but bring the boy. his new name his same old body. ordinary, black...

... of fools is both allegorical and metaphoric. These “fools” are life’s maskers and possess the privilege to be different, to be other in the actual world, and to make public what is usually hidden or guarded. His writing represents how Chinese writers are trying to find a way to articulate...

... emergence from the dynamic and vibrant margins? The event of writing a short story related to the life of the peasant is a form of historical narration, extending and reorienting the character of historical consciousness; importantly, it cannot be outside the reality of a social history that historians...

... testimony to Polly s bereft state ( by a hair and as an heir), in strange anticipation of his separation from himself and all the world. In the same breath I ve said twice now, with a thought to mark how writing and reading come to life in a doubling or multiplication of voices, how a word...

...Jeffrey J. Williams © 2009 the minnesota review 2009 Jeffrey J. Williams The Capability of Philosophy: An Interview with Martha C. Nussbaum “Philosophy should not be written in detachment from real life,” Martha Nussbaum declares in her 1997 book, Cultivating Humanity...

..., to the general history of anti-capitalist resistance from below.1 Consider Ted's short biography a little more carefully and you begin to see an extraordinary intermingling of life, of writing, and most importantly, of work. On all these fronts, Ted worked, you could say, "commonly." He worked...

... it with Art Spiegelman’s Maus as I traveled across Germany and into Poland to see Auschwitz for the first time in my life. A few years later I brought it with me in a small library I set up while writing a maîtrise thesis on Lévinas and studying at the University of Paris, X. Now, while working...