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...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...

...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...

... 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...

... a 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...

.... 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...

... 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 the inevitable...

... the dress and even Grandma didn’t want her to since it was the dress she got married in herself. Oriel convinced Grandma to get Cleo to wear it since she was getting married to Jesus; it was Oriel who said to Grandma that Cleo was old enough to be baptized even if it was a year before she...

... in Houston since 1987, receiving an MFA in creative writing from the University of Houston in 1999 and teaching at various campuses in the Houston system since 2000. This interview took place 29 March 2007 while Moshiri participated in the Western Carolina University Literary Festival...

..., probably so she has more time to stay at home and watch TV. Mr. Jones, the gym teacher (I m not sure if you know him since he s new), smokes cigarettes at his lunch break and has a daughter he picks up at the elementary school when his wife can t get her, and drinks too much at the Blue Moose Lounge, but I...

...: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality [New York: Holt, 2006]) Ever since Walter Benn Michaels stopped trying to show us how late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American naturalists, their explicit statements to the contrary, really loved capitalism, he has...

... Democracy [Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2007]) Since the dismantling of the welfare state and the resurgence of unilateral military hubris, the left has attempted to come to terms with the conservative shift in American politics. When the unrestrained market is declared...

...KR Miller Copyright © 2019 KR Miller 2019 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...

...David R. Shumway David R. Shumway Ideas of the University (on Christopher Newfield, Ivy and Industry: Business and the Making of the American University, 1880-1980 [Durham: Duke UP, 2003]) Seemingly since the day of its publication in 1996, the book which...

... for scholarly articles and books published since 2000, and was immediately referred to 8,500 sources. “Domestication of the dog” brought 8,000 hits for the same period, while “chicken” brought 177,000 hits, and “evolution of the cat” brought 430,000. Even...

... in slightly so you seem emaciated, peasant-like, broke, bordering on martyrdom, since your gasoline bill runs well over a hundred dollars a tank. Yes, we know it’s counterintuitive. But it’s the right move. While you stand there, the pump ticking off gallon after gallon, you want a measure of pity...

... since you can't help being born black; but as Michaels points out, a child can't help being born poor either (165), and once we see economic inequality and exploitation as the problem to be solved we're committed to a different political program. The attempt to de-racialize social inequality...