...Hannah Kroonblawd Hannah Kroonblawd Since You Have Come This Far Agafia Lykova has lived in the Siberian wilderness her entire life. Her parents fled religious persecution in the 1930s, and the family...

... authors and activists like Fatou Diome, Shailja Patel, Abdourahman Waberi, and Igiaba Scego contribute to a new literary, cultural, and political genre called migritude. Migritude initially indicated a group of younger African authors in Paris but has since expanded to include Europe beyond France, such...

... of a rising China. The GDP fetish and economic developmentalism have been the backbone of the pragmatic policies of the Chinese Communist Party since reform, but three decades of economic achievement have not bolstered the leadership’s political self-confidence, let alone their vision and courage for...

...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...

... literature since its emergence in the 1970s has never explicitly thematized the Anthropocene, this perspective is arguably a hidden theme. I propose the term Anthropocene literature as a descriptive and diagnostic concept to characterize literary texts that reflect on the human condition in the face of...

... 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...

...Tom Moylan Since the turn of this century, engaged intellectuals have argued for the refunctioning of a utopian process within actually existing politics. While I accept the caveats about utopianism's ineffectiveness or co-optation that are the bedrock of the cold stream of the Marxist tradition...

... partial understanding of Greek tragedy, since tragedy relied on cause and responsibility. Nietzsche's anti-Aristotelianism can also be regarded in terms of his philosophical project of inventing cultural antidotes for what he viewed as a falsely optimistic age: joy in suffering rather than release...

...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...

... color. Frozen River ’s answerability is to an audience of independent filmgoers, especially women, since the film depicts the growing bonds between a white woman and an indigenous woman. The white character is not a savior to native people; rather, the women partner as equals. Ultimately, the analysis...

...RC deWinter Copyright © 2020 RC deWinter 2020 RC deWinter after-bathing beauty took a bath today rst time since can t recall mirror naked tits migrating south oh well global warming sigh the belly pooch rising atlantis recalled from the depths still esh rosy and inviting enough to tempt yes...

...KR Miller KR Miller Bed Bugs She strips if no one s home in my kitchen, standing clean and day-creased by the sink. Stuffs clothes into a sleek white sack. Our arrangement since her roommate found a sign, a bite, an itch. It s been two months since that. And yet . . . Yes, that s exactly when our...

... sluiced in sunburns refuse to widen for any sun blooming only when permitted at which time we swallow perfume & move warships with our tongues I have been removing cactus spines from my sides since winter trimming others that have gone on so silently a small sky twirls open reveals a steady light one with...

... stays outstretched and she’s asking for just a little of our gold, something for the bus or for lunch or, I reach into my tiny purse, drop some coins, since now her hand is the meter, that turns us in our slot. minnesota review 78 (2012) DOI 10.1215/0026 5667-1550491...

... concerns lugging around a home on one’s shoulders which now seems less a burden since it finally protects against one’s origins minnesota review 78 (2012) DOI 10.1215/0026 5667-1550518  © 2012 Kimiko Hahn 19 ...

... those lines, that ten pounds you’ve been trying to lose since christmas will melt as you step into a new world, followed by the faint and jubilant sound of cheers and a growing patter of footfalls from all those inspired and following— © 2007 the minnesota review 2007 ...

... guides one to the toilet and then back to his sterile bed. I’ve heard that happiness is only a calculation, and we never mastered the goddamn math, that new studies now show only forty percent of happiness is under our control, and they say that since I am...

... since I bought it. I will tell you how we need to go home. We will stop holding hands so I can go faster on stick shift. You will tell me I care too much. I will beg to stay inside our house for so long the neighbors forget we are home. You will move out...

...Christian Detisch Christian Detisch this is not a poem about longing the absence of love or sentimentality (sentimentality my friend says is for people who can’t handle real emotions) since I think you would hate that kind of poem & the O O Os I’m so...

..., they resembled every key to every house I’ve lived in ever since, and everything we knew about love: ghostly and forbidden. minnesota review 79 (2012) DOI 10.1215/00265667-1708241  © 2012 Austen Rosenfeld 23 ...