...Jessica Plante © 2015 Jessica Plante 2015 Jessica Plante Slow Parting I lie down in the dry grass before each winter and rise to meet the rain. Together we begin to skirt the cedar trees, drive the red-winged blackbirds out of the cattails where they’ve crazed...

...Wang Jinghui As the first Chinese citizen to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Mo Yan shows how a writer in a socialist country successfully internalizes censorship. Censorship in China is part of Mo Yan’s professional and psychic environment and generates two major results in his works, one...

...Gabriele Dürbeck This essay discusses the value of the Anthropocene concept for the environmental humanities and in particular for the analysis of contemporary environmentally themed literature. The first part of the essay considers the culturally relevant consequences of the originally geographic...

... cities. In the decade since Hurricane Katrina, debates about gentrification have emerged to frame nativity—rather than class—as the chief indicator of pernicious neighborhood change. Part memoir, part polemic, this essay seeks to unsettle and critique that framing. © 2015 Virginia Tech 2015 New...

..., the two met and discussed on national television the nature of politics and higher education, with predictable obtuseness on the part of O’Reilly. Nothing was concluded or conceded, and arguably nothing was learned. Yet both did portend a fundamental change to the operation of American political life...

... advocacy through several communication modes, all of which involved writing and careful research. Fiction, poetry, letters, essays, and talks all played a part in his lifelong support of the animal world. When scrutinized, Galsworthy’s views not only are consonant with much modern thought but also...

... migration, identity, language, translation, and geography, both rooted in France and routed along treacherous seaways. Shumona Sinha’s novel Assommons les pauvres also focuses on the experiences of the privileged immigrant narrator whose story is a core part of the novel. Sinha has the privilege to narrate...

... of urban life applaud the city as a space that is hospitable to encounters with difference; they fail to consider the ways in which processes of bordering and differentiation are part of economies that exploit migrants. This article focuses on Hage’s portrayal of migrant mobility in the city. By bringing...

...Marie-Luise Angerer Throughout a large part of the twentieth century, the body was interpreted as a field of signs, the meaning of which pointed to an unconscious dimension. At the height of the popularity of structuralism, Jacques Lacan deemed the unconscious to be “structured like a language...

... directions in modern art and continental aesthetics. I argue that Nietzsche's anticathartic reading can be explained in terms of his critique of natural causation. Though this critique is often considered part of Nietzsche's naturalism, it contributes to the post-Kantian eclipse of nature and offers...

... but grew up mostly in India and Pakistan. His mother was a Saudi Muslim and his father an Austrian Jew who converted to Islam and became a Muslim scholar. Although he was no longer a believer, Asad became interested in religion and involved in Middle Eastern studies, at least in part in reaction...

...Francescomaria Tedesco In the interview that follows, Timothy Brennan argues that intellectual history is a dimension missing from most cultural theory. He suggests that this weakens theory, since intellectual history is not simply the frame for arguments but part of the substance of statements. He...

... collection Internationalizing Cultural Studies: An Anthology (2005) is designed to open up North Atlantic–dominated cultural studies to approaches to the study of culture from other parts of the world. “Internationalizing” names a process (motivated by epistemic and political caution) that the editors see...

... homology, the mythographic mode is a central idiom within these schools of thought, accounting in part for their allure to literary scholars, whose attachments to otherworldly stories are similarly inherited from the mythographic tradition. © 2013 Virginia Tech 2013 Works Cited Bennett Jane...

... as a world-making activity. Beginning with the first of these approaches, the essay identifies a renewed interest in world-systems theory and Immanuel Wallerstein’s thought, in part as a corrective to theories of alternative modernities. It then looks at recent books by Jon Hegglund, John Marx, and Elizabeth...

... argues that Ahmed’s substantial investigation focuses necessary attention upon the ways in which both the work ethic and, agreed-upon, “acceptable” levels of injustice for some members of a given population form a part of the genealogy of happiness as critical keyword. The concept of “care”—for a future...

... different from perceptions in the United States. International frames of the US response to this natural disaster not only highlight different underlying sources for the tragedy but also shift attention away from material conditions to subjective perceptions that produce trauma, and they chart the part...

... there, if you weren’t part of an academic program? Denning I had been working in Boston, as a museum guard and as a package wrapper, for the Museum of Fine Arts. I was right out of college, trying to make it as a freelance writer, and trying to get a job...

... to disintegrate. Those high-art folk like to talk about decay these days. Painting in blood. Horseshit, I say. We been doing this down South ages. Yard show part land, part weather, part human, part not. It jump together up in you and you can’t shake it. There’s codes in things, maybe you don’t know...

...Darren Donate © 2020 Darren Donate 2020 Darren Donate All Boys with Cut Tongues share a mouth a broken jaw the part in the story when someone said: let s make a man out of the boy. some boys make it difficult. hold still they say. no one ever wants to get their tongue plucked but why didn...