... in Rachel Kushner’s recent The Flamethrowers (2013), and others. The figure of what Robin Morgan terms the “token terrorist” seems to have survived her immediate political moment and continues to resonate within the American imaginary of a “postpolitical” age. Against the backdrop of recurring contemporary...

.... The “politics of mobility” also determines migrants’ modes of conviviality and labor. Hage’s protagonists survive by maneuvering underground, in the interstices of the city, or in a cab, their space of work and mobility in the city, and using a rich verbal medley to tell its myriad stories. Thus Hage presents...

... sandwich burning. Just think about it, he says. And the thing is, I do. SURVIVAL RULE OF THREES: 3 minutes without oxygen 3 hours without shelter 3 days without water 3 weeks without food 3 years without human contact Jim showed up just before I graduated from high school, when I...

... are dead. I imagined my ice hook of a grandmother, holding a pheromone vial and dreaming of desire. The opposite of desire isn t hatred, it s survival. I come from a family of people who live in survival mode. We talk little of want or being wanted. The pheromone job itself was a matter of survival. I put...

... these bones over burned-out fields, over seas, over raw edges of the trees, but I can’t survive fire  survive without fire. She’s grown fierce minnesota review 89 (2017) DOI 10.1215/00265667-4175785  © 2017 Chelsea Dingman 1 2...

... support from administrators for classes such as mine, the officers on duty on any particular night ultimately decide who does and who does not leave his cell. These obstacles are in addition to the daily work required by literate, ambitious inmates simply to survive among a population rife...

..., bourgeois death ritual like a wiggly gelatin salad filled with death thoughts. Surviving poorly, disgusting in my suspended element. I poked the face until I sad- dened my suicidal self slowly to sleep. I poked the face again in the morning in front of a tree near the library, and I cried like a dumb...

...), Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies (South End, 1989), 9-11 (Seven Stories, 2001), Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance (Metropolitan, 2003), and Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy...

...M. L. Krishnan M. L. Krishnan Six Steps Toward Consecration 1. Once Full It began when she was seen that afternoon. But perhaps it began even earlier, when she survived her own infanticide, when the milky latex traveled down the conch of her baby throat and she swallowed it hun- grily, gurgling...

... is to ensure survival. As Kalish’s portrait of the period wins sway, future generations will be more likely to understand the Depression as “Great” precisely because it allowed native self-reliance to thrive. In the process of presenting nativity, and not policy, as the generator...

..., and memori- alize one of the darkest chapters in South Asian history. Like the stories of the indentured, Sinha s characters also reveal the shadier side of migritude in terms of the price they pay for surviv- ing the kala pani journey to paradise. The novel captures and re-cre- ates these kala pani...

...-and-culinary-rebranding-of-traditional-foods . Kendzior Sarah . 2013 . “ Surviving the Post-employment Economy .” Aljazeera (blog) , November 3 , www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/11/surviving-post-employment-economy-201311373243740811.html . Kozol Jonathan . 2006 . The Shame...

...? If and when our common survival as students and teachers is at stake, by all means, yes, let us defend and fight for it. Let us do so, however, with- out either nostalgia or illusions. Let us do so, above all, keeping in mind that a struggle for survival and a revolutionary struggle are not necessarily one...

..., each confined to “the sphere of a certain hour in one’s life” (Benjamin 1968, 163). Each step may be taken and survived, but the successful overcoming of danger is nonextendable and cannot go beyond itself; it is sealed in the same way that Benjamin describes the unskilled worker’s work...

...: “Gouldner’s theory was one of the most dramatic failed prophecies of the late twentieth century….As the events of the 1980s showed, the old class in America was alive and well; it survived and flourished in the decades after Gouldner’s prophecy” (663-64). One needn’t fear...

...Will Dolben [email protected] © 2023 Will Dolben 2023 Will Dolben Staring at a Mountain I see myself in the attic, notice my mother s rotary cutter on the desk. This is 20 years ago I m new to mental illness. The sky is blue with various clouds. A house that survived the fire...

... from oceanic ancestors? In his room he submerged them in seawater until egg and snail survived these “long baths” —​ surmising that the lowly Helix pomatia must have been “transported to islands by adhering to the feet of birds or to driftwood.” My own devotion...

... growing from our beds, our heads become feathers and everyone forgets how to walk, we follow horses to the slaughterhouse, open books about survival and know an end to all safe places. ...

... I have dreamed of, keep time in the homes of the pretenders. I will not trade my sanity for it. Until now I have survived on recycled desires, but an apology offered with half-felt duty, I could not respect, or sing, or love. ...

... hospitals, autopsies, mental asylums, The stable lamplight of a city park shown the wall lizard s survival. On City Island, the island submerged with the weight of stags laden by generational quarantined, as if stillborns among the Asters. The clunky disposal of unclaimed old wooden graves. An undetonated...