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...Ovidio Reyes Copyright © 2020 Ovidio Reyes 2020 Ovidio Reyes L Éducation sentimentale: Take 2 You grow up thinking mom and dad a perfect unit, a living onesie. Then you slog through adolescence and notice the buttoned trap door at the onesie s bottom. A few more years and it becomes clear how...

...Laura Wetherington © 2013 Laura Wetherington 2013 Laura Wetherington I take my time like it’s only mine after Christophe Tarkos Whiteness is a state of mind. A roof is pitched like a commercial. We give our lives accordingly. I position myself above...

...Matthew Yeager Matthew Yeager From The Gut Sonnets Take 2: Should I Kill and Eat Chi-Ko or Not, or Alone in Rage the Self Is Split, Lost No more! I’m sick of living! (ripped like this), torn Like a note that needs both halves for sense. Night after night, I turn...

...James Grabill 2005 the minnesota review 2005 23 James Grabill The President Takes an Interest in Maps of the Moon (after C.H.) The President hauls tail to dump yard of astronomy. So many things...

...Uma Dwivedi Uma Dwivedi SUMMER DEPRESSION TAKES ANOTHER THROAT INTO HER MOUTH minnesota review 96 (2021) DOI 10.1215/00265667-8851184 © 2021 Uma Dwivedi 20 buildings like teeth, slippery loves worrying my skin to rupture. mirror skies. every corner returning & melted on pavement, turning a foot...

...Nidesh Lawtoo In this interview, J. Hillis Miller and Nidesh Lawtoo take one of the most influential concepts in Western aesthetics, mimēsis , as an Ariadne’s thread to retrace the major turns in Miller’s career and, by extension, to promote a re- turn of mimesis in literary theory and criticism...

... surrounded by Mexican American storytellers becomes confirmed without a doubt—that questions are more about the asking and the process of listening than they are about any particular answer. Reaching for justice and taking steps toward kinship takes humility before an ever-spiraling cyclical process...

... feminisms help to recognize how multiple phenomena work together to behave in what can become legible at any given moment as a body. By utilizing the materiality of conceptions about connectivity often thought to be merely theoretical, by taking a critical look at the noncentralized and multiple movements...

...Elizabeth Maddock Dillon; Christian P. Haines; Peter Hitchcock This article proposes that the commons is best understood as a relation among people, land, water, flora, and fauna that requires performance. The “performative commons” takes place in opposition to the alienating and disentangling work...

... articulations of the common. The possibilities of a common that is alert to the limits of natural resources and operates in relation to them are described in Ivan Illich’s 1973 essay “Energy and Equity.” This article takes Illich’s essay as a beginning point for creating an energy commons today. Copyright ©...

... trajectories. It examines the tension between the universalizing aspiration of the common as a political project and the particular social situations of the commons. It emphasizes the commons as praxis, that is, as a practice that takes place in the world without being reducible to place. In doing so, it also...

..., Not Barriers! ) (2017), Diome takes up the many threads of the migritude tapestry so fully depicted in her novels and reweaves them into a portrait of an ideal new multicultural French identity. Copyright © 2020 Virginia Tech 2020 Fatou Diome migritude assimilationism Marianne Works Cited...

...Margret Grebowicz This article takes its cue from Timothy Morton’s invitation to think all things in terms of radioactivity. Instead of focusing on objects, however, the author explores radiation in the imagination of animal desire in the nuclear dystopia. Her working hypothesis...

... upon the “ineluctable modality of the visible” and his own variegated processes of perception as he takes in the sea and the beach. Each lizard articulates a different perspective on sensory perception and a different modality of reading directed by that perspective, and so the lizards cannot agree...

... 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...

...Phillip E. Wegner This essay takes up the challenge, issued by Fredric Jameson in a 1976 minnesota review essay, to become attentive to the “presence of some Utopian content even within the most degraded and degrading type of commercial product.” It does so through a reading of the Adam Sandler...

...Elizabeth Adan; Benjamin Bateman This introduction to the special focus section, “Emergent Precarities and Lateral Aesthetics,” takes the recent work of Lauren Berlant and Judith Butler as its point of departure to map the parameters of lateral agency and precarity as a means of exploring what...

...Michelle Ty Samuel Beckett's body of work is a literature committed or, more accurately, given over to nonsovereign states of being. Taking as a point of departure the prominence of choicelessness in Beckett's writing — along with the difficulties it introduces for character (which hardly develops...

...Philip Armstrong Taking its point of departure from the etymological relation between precarity and prayer as well as from Jean-Luc Nancy's writings on “prayer demythified,” the essay seeks to reconfigure problems of dependency, vulnerability, and abandonment in the discourse of precarity...