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the minnesota review (2019) 2019 (93): 42–43.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Sophia Parnok; Rainie Oet Copyright © 2019 Rainie Oet 2019 Sophia Parnok Translated by Rainie Oet It hits me: oh my God, I ve slept so many years It hits me: oh my God, I slept so many years And missed out on this sinful heaven! Poplars bloom. Cupolas blaze on the boulevard. I sit down...
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the minnesota review (2019) 2019 (92): 58–72.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Robert F. Reid-Pharr This article argues that the contemporary forms of macho populism dominating much of US political and cultural life have their ideological and aesthetic roots in the country’s vexed relationship to the memory of its own violence, particularly the many images of dead...
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the minnesota review (2019) 2019 (93): 126–132.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Sean Grattan; Christian P. Haines; Peter Hitchcock Focusing on the way that ACT-UP actually achieved many of its goals while also creating a commons around belonging, protest, and disability, this article interrogates the displaced position of ACT-UP and AIDS organizing and protest in recent...
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the minnesota review (2020) 2020 (94): 142–156.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., Not Barriers! ) (2017), Diome takes up the many threads of the migritude tapestry so fully depicted in her novels and reweaves them into a portrait of an ideal new multicultural French identity. Copyright © 2020 Virginia Tech 2020 Fatou Diome migritude assimilationism Marianne Works Cited...
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the minnesota review (2020) 2020 (94): 54–66.
Published: 01 May 2020
... of many people. In an era characterized by openly belligerent nationalism and anti-immigrant and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, this special focus section aims to unpack migritude cultural production in an international context to study and combat these violent trends. Copyright © 2020 Virginia Tech 2020...
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the minnesota review (2021) 2021 (97): 77–94.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Margret Grebowicz; Zachary Low Reyna Personhood, language, and voice are heavily culturally overdetermined categories, particularly today, when they appear to many posthumanist critical eyes as saturated with anthropocentrism. But the answer is not to avoid or “overcome” them. The working...
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the minnesota review (2023) 2023 (100): 100–117.
Published: 01 May 2023
... various currencies throughout Europe from the 1990s onward—many of which have been funded by political bodies. Alternative moneys never succeeded in the sense that they never achieved their ambitious goal of creating resilient, localized economies. The article outlines how this rapid rise and fall...
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the minnesota review (2024) 2024 (103): 76–88.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Kirsty Dunn Abstract This essay elucidates how the experiences of the tuna (eels) endemic to Aotearoa, New Zealand, and the many ways they have been represented in narrative form exemplify the dynamism of whakapapa (origins, relationships, genealogical knowledge, and layer-making) in Te Ao Māori...
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the minnesota review (2017) 2017 (88): 96–111.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Marc Kosciejew The document is one of the oldest material objects of all recorded civilizations, one upon which we are, in many ways, still dependent today. Documentation — that is, documents and their associated practices, institutions, and histories — plays an important role in helping...
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the minnesota review (2015) 2015 (84): 60–68.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Stephen A. Nelson Although it has been nearly ten years since the Hurricane Katrina disaster, many misconceptions (myths) still surround the events that took place. Among these myths are that levees failed the day after Katrina made landfall, that the failed levees were on the Mississippi River...
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the minnesota review (2015) 2015 (84): 92–101.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Jennie Lightweis-Goff Within days of the breach of the levees in New Orleans, a second man-made disaster—the “recovery” efforts—began to transform the city’s institutions, leaving many urban partisans afraid that New Orleans would be rebuilt along the model of other, more expensive, less habitable...
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the minnesota review (2016) 2016 (87): 116–138.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Rob Wilkie Video games have become a significant aspect of the technology industry, yet they have also become for many the image of an emerging contradiction said to reside at the heart of digital capitalism, namely that capitalism is no longer based upon the exploitation of workers' labor...
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the minnesota review (2012) 2012 (78): 62–82.
Published: 01 May 2012
... 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...
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the minnesota review (2012) 2012 (78): 130–145.
Published: 01 May 2012
... even more troubling that anthologies of world literature, which include many works in translation, tend to exclude or marginalize Arab writing. Drawing from Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's statement that “such slips become the rule rather than the exception in less careful hands” (1989, 272) and from...
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the minnesota review (2011) 2011 (76): 109–125.
Published: 01 May 2011
... in the humanities, it has also ironically brought many of its arguments closer in form to the positions of the neoliberal and neoconservative orthodoxies it positions itself against. In particular, its tendency to reduce politics to clashes between oppressive state powers and individuals seeking personal freedom...
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the minnesota review (2013) 2013 (81): 79–101.
Published: 01 November 2013
.... Unlike many contemporary thinkers on the academic left, Dean defines politics in terms of fundamental antagonism and advocates a return to party hierarchy and structure, which she is convinced are essential for achieving egalitarian goals. The interview helps connect the ideas threading through Dean’s...
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the minnesota review (2014) 2014 (82): 59–96.
Published: 01 May 2014
... that describe the West during the late twentieth century, particularly those that erupt from Salvador Allende’s brief presidency in Chile and the many confrontations between neoliberalism, indigenism, and political activism. Following the movement of visual representation to sculpture, I trace how Vicuña...
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the minnesota review (2012) 2012 (79): 137–156.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Sheng Anfeng In this interview, W. J. T. Mitchell discusses many issues of concern to his readers. He talks about the relationship between art and environment and between images and words. For him, iconology at its foundation is not just about images but also about words; it is about investigating...
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the minnesota review (2011) 2011 (76): 81–96.
Published: 01 May 2011
... of his work as well as many others, including artistic influences, politics, cinematography, script-writing, and artistic collaboration. © 2011 Virginia Tech 2011 Bert Cardullo A Cinema of Social Conscience: An Interview with Ken Loach Ken Loach (born 1936), unquestionably one of Britain’s...
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the minnesota review (2006) 2006 (67): 129–135.
Published: 01 November 2006
... and ``Bias'' in Higher Education . New York : Norton , 2006 . Burke 129 Timothy Burke The Obligations of Academic Freedom Many academics, including myself, rise to defend “academic freedom” in response to claims...