...Sophia Parnok; Rainie Oet 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 on the bench. And breathe. And wipe my eyes...

...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 to...

... 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...

.... 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...

... 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... of his work as well as many others, including artistic influences, politics, cinematography, script-writing, and artistic collaboration. Bert Cardullo A Cinema of Social Conscience: An Interview with Ken Loach Ken Loach (born 1936), unquestionably one of Britain’s most impor- tant...

...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 by...

... 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...

... 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 the...

... movement 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. Ashna Ali, Christopher Ian Foster, and...

...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 and...

...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...

..., 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...

... embers died down into white ash —​and then you came over the hills. I did not pray for your arrival but I should have guessed that God would send a messenger. Tell me. How many wars, how many children, how many new stars have you named? You ask what I will do when...

... wondering    who the mixers who the servers        who the stirrers I kept wondering   about the path how many steps how   long the lines how many children how many   thought they were waiting for something good at...

...Verónica Reyes © 2014 Verónica Reyes 2014 Verónica Reyes Bad Flower What a bad flower I am Tsk, tsk, bad florecita So many bad florecitas Blooming out in callejoncillos Blossoming in glittery jardines Blooming out in dusty fronteras Blossoming in...

... experiences of working people. To enhance accessibility, the contest was divided into two streams, one for beginning and emerging poets and another for experienced poets. At the close of the contest, over 700 poems were submitted by poets coming from as many as nineteen different...