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... literature has much to tell us about our most pressing social, cultural, and political issues. This article takes as its starting point the racist backlash over Disney’s 2019 casting announcement for its 2023 feature film and the 2020 antiracist graffiti on The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen...

... journey from Senegal to Italy and bears witness to the discrimination he faces there. Mademba’s testimony responds to duress , which Ann Stoler defines as the “colonial entailments” that shape contemporary spaces, institutions, and relations. Produced by a small Tuscan press, the memoir circulates via...

...José Felipe Alvergue This article examines Chilean poet and artist Cecilia Vicuña’s aesthetic practices from the 1970s to today. The recent republication of Vicuña’s Saboramí by Chainlinks Press (2011) permits a new generation of readers to experience her paintings from the 1970s and to read...

... on specific books. For examples, check the review essays in this or recent past issues. —​Janell Watson, Editor Andrade, Susan Z. 2011. The Nation Writ Small: African Fictions and Feminisms, 1958–1988. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Belletto, Steven. 2012. No Accident, Comrade: Chance...

... on specific books. For examples, check the review essays in this or recent past issues. —​Janell Watson, Editor Balsamo, Anne. 2011. Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Berlant, Lauren. 2011. Cruel Optimism. Durham, NC: Duke University...

... on specific books. For examples, check the review essays in this or recent past issues. —​Janell Watson, Editor Ari, Waskar. 2014. Earth Politics: Religion, Decolonization, and Bolivia’s Indigenous Intellectuals. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Beckman, Karen Redrobe, ed. 2014. Animating Film...

.... For examples, check “Surveying the Field” in this and past issues. —​Janell Watson, Editor Arac, Jonathan. 2010. Impure Worlds: The Institution of Literature in the Age of the Novel. New York: Fordham University Press. Bewes, Timothy. 2011. The Event of Postcolonial Shame. Princeton, NJ...

... on specific books. For examples, check the review essays in this or recent past issues. —​Janell Watson, Editor Barrett, Ross, and Daniel Worden, eds. 2014. Oil Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Bhandar, Brenna, and Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller, eds. 2015. Plastic Materialities...

... to reports on specific books. For examples, check the review essays in this or recent past issues. —​Janell Watson, Editor Anker, Elisabeth R. 2014. Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Politics of Freedom. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Chase, Martin, ed. 2014. Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond...

... of the nonfiction book Cerulean Blues: A Personal Search for a Vanishing Songbird (Ruka Press, 2011), which was a finalist for the Southern Environmental Law Center’s Reed Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment. Fal- lon’s essays have appeared in a variety of literary journals and maga...

... to reports on specific books. For examples, check the review essays in this or recent past issues. —​Janell Watson, Editor Berger, Jason. 2012. Antebellum at Sea: Maritime Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century America. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Comentale, Edward P. 2013. Sweet Air...

... second book of poems, Salvinia Molesta (2008), was published by University of Georgia Press. Her first book, Circle (2005), was published by Southern Illinois University Press. Her poems have appeared in various publications. She lives in Southern California and works as a business writer...

... on specific books. For examples, check the review essays in this or recent past issues. —​Janell Watson, Editor Agamben, Giorgio. 2013. The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life. Translated by Adam Kotsko. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Badiou, Alain. 2013. Cinema. Cambridge...

... on specific books. For examples, check the review essays in this or recent past issues. —​Janell Watson, Editor Erjavec, Aleš, ed. 2015. Aesthetic Revolutions and Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Hamza, Agon, ed. 2015. Repeating Žižek. Durham, NC: Duke University...

... Copyright © 2019 Virginia Tech 2019 Ankerson Megan . 2018 . Dot-Com Design: The Rise of a Usable, Social, Commercial Web . New York : NYU Press . Bahng Aimee . 2018 . Migrant Futures: Decolonizing Speculation in Financial Times . Durham, NC : Duke University Press...

... Copyright © 2019 Virginia Tech 2019 Desjarlais Robert . 2018 . The Blind Man: A Phantasmography . New York : Fordham University Press . Haidarali Laila . 2018 . Brown Beauty: Color, Sex, and Race from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II . New York : NYU Press...

... on specific books. For examples, check the review essays in this or recent past issues. —​Janell Watson, Editor Abdur-Rahman, Aliyyah I. 2012. Against the Closet: Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Belletto, Steven, and Daniel Grausam, eds. 2012...

... finalist, University of Arkansas Press, 2011), Fres­coes (Idaho Prize for Poetry, Lost Horse Press, 2009), Masaccio’s Expulsion (MARGIE/Intuit House book prize, 2006), and Rorschach Art (Red Hen, 2001). The poem in this issue is from a book in progress called “The Garden of Earthly Delights...

.... In Praise of Theatre. Malden, MA: Polity. Brown, Kimberly Juanita. 2015. The Repeating Body: Slavery’s Visual Resonance in the Contemporary. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Cheah, Pheng. 2016. What Is a World? On Postcolonial Literature as World Litera- ture. Durham, NC: Duke University...

... Poetry and Society .” Telos 20 : 56 – 71 . Agamben Giorgio . 1995 . The Idea of Prose . Translated by Sullivan Michael Whitsitt Sam . Albany : State University of New York Press . ———. 1999 . The End of the Poem . Translated by Heller-Roazen Daniel . Palo Alto, CA...