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... of death that constructs commonality through dissonance, disruption, passion, and power. Copyright © 2019 Virginia Tech 2019 the commons African American poetry social death Afro-pessimism Michael Brown riots Works Cited Bogues Anthony . 2010 . Empire of Liberty: Power, Desire...

... : Hermann . Nancy Jean-Luc . 2008 . “Prayer Demythified,” translated by Smith Michael B. . In Dis-Enclosure: The Deconstruction of Christianity , 129 – 38 . New York : Fordham University Press . Prozorov Sergei . 2012 . “The Prayer of Pussy Riot: From Parody to Profanation...

... but also by a capitalist logic of Asian economic hegemony and black social devaluation. In a letter titled Maasai Women Rioting, Patel s mother tells her daugh- ter that she is pleased to learn that Patel is really and seriously work- ing towards buying [her] own property despite not having settled...

... Journal, and Word Riot. A singer and guitar player from Atascadero, California, Ephraim Scott Sommers teaches creative writing while completing his PhD at Western Michigan University. G. C. Waldrep’s most recent books are a long poem, Testament (2015), and a chapbook, Susquehanna (2013...

..., and Women’s Studies Quarterly. Her fiction has been published in Word Riot, Alarmist, and various anthologies. She was runner-up in the 2016 Fish Publishing Poetry Prize. Carol V. Davis teaches English and creative writing at Santa Monica College and Antioch University Los Angeles. She is the author...

.... Sean Towey has work published or forthcoming in Hobart, Word Riot, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. He was a semifinalist for the St. Lawrence Book Award at Black Lawrence Press. He is working on a PhD in English/Creative Writing at Florida State University, where he was recently the recipient...

... : Continuum . Adorno Theodor . 1974 . Minima Moralia , translated by Jephcott E. F. N. . London : Verso . Anonymous . 2011 . Desert . theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-desert . Bartolovich Crystal . 2010 . “ A Natural History of ‘Food Riots’ .” New Formations...

... country. Cricket matches, riots, the deaths of politicians, murders as well as mergers, the release of Bollywood films, literary gossip, everything that was happening in India acquired an immediacy again. It became easy for me to write for the Indian newspapers and magazines that I was regularly...

... on the presumptions of theory, Literary Criticism: An Autopsy (U of Pennsylvania P, 1997); a revision of pragmatism, The Pragmatic Mind: Explorations in the Psychology of Belief {Duke UP, 1997); and an engaging retelling of early twentieth century race politics, Negrophobia: A Race Riot...

... Republic reviewer Martha Gruening complained that the novel amounted to little but a “chamber of horrors,” while (in a particularly hostile misreading) the New York Times essentially accused Endore of cheerleading for race riot. Newly married and a young father...

... by curiosity. They'd come down during the day and leave at sunset, conversation centering around the chances for next year's high school teams (the Riots, the Blue Blazes), whether the cannery should stay open, and the recent governor's scandal (he'd been caught buck naked in his car with his...

... chances of getting out without a headache. We’re ordered up against the wall; our escort officer unsheathes his nightstick and runs toward the melee. Fights in the mess hall have the potential to turn into riots in the mess hall, so the ten...

... arrived there was the Martin Luther King killing, Kent State, the eruption of riots and protests. The shit was hitting the fan. The university was in complete turmoil. Williams And Vietnam was in the background. So, at the time you were developing what some have called the paradigm of subversion...

... on the Eastside and became active in Teamster United Rank and File, a predecessor of today’s Teamsters for a Democratic Union. A volcanic wildcat strike rocked the LA freight locals in 1970, and for a while the thirties seemed to have returned. There were Teamster riots...

...- rate the previous story about the birth of twins to a celebrity couple. The discord between the pictures and words confuses you, momen- tarily, into thinking that the children somehow started the riot, the unrest a violent consequence of their delivery. The thought is too much for your hangover...

... of the funeral and brings them back that after- noon. I can tell you’re good church kind of people and I hate telling it to you, but it’s true.” In the first riot, the warden turned off power and water for ten days. When light shined again, they carried dead men to the corner of the prison yard...

... things were usually ignored or devalued. At the time that I was thinking about these issues, I happened across a collection of zines because a friend of my daughter's had gotten very involved in riot grrl culture. One summer, we were visiting her family and she gave me her zine collection...

..., the theory of the capitalist world system, if it is to ever gain political importance, must be supplemented with an aesthetic gut feeling. One can hardly riot in the name of a data chart. The problem is that, as Jameson admits, he is absolutely incapable of guessing or imagining (356) the shape...

... in heaven's name does academic freedom have to do with rioting, with anarchy, with attempts to destroy the primary purpose of the university, which is to educate our young people?” (Schrecker 2010 : 93). In this, he was only echoing conservative anti-intellectuals who had long suspected that academic freedom...

... the capil- lary margins of the world system, evidenced in newspaper headlines reading “Blood Shortage Cripples Third World” and “China Stops Blood” and television news reports on blood rioting in London and across Asia and Africa. Complicating the suggestion that the condition is a mere deterio...