... argues that Ahmed’s substantial investigation focuses necessary attention upon the ways in which both the work ethic and, agreed-upon, “acceptable” levels of injustice for some members of a given population form a part of the genealogy of happiness as critical keyword. The concept of “care”—for a future...

...George Ella Lyon © 2016 George Ella Lyon 2016 George Ella Lyon Monday Morning Work Nothing asks me this morning to say it: not wax rolling down a candle someone bought for 20p, not the slop of water over a stone step, not a bunch of beet-weight, and no memories...

...Paul Tulloch © 2007 the minnesota review 2007 13 Poems from the “Being at Work” Poetry Challenge The “Being at Work” Poetry Challenge started off as a small attempt to add to the historical compendium of work poetry a cross...

...Jeffrey J. Williams © 2007 the minnesota review 2007 Schamus Interview 91 Jeffrey J. Williams The Work of Production in the Age of Theory: An Interview with James Schamus CEO of Focus Features, James Schamus is a major film producer...

...Todd J. Goddard © 2006 the minnesota review 2006 Goddard 153 Todd J. Goddard The Cultural Work of Literature and the Law (on W. C. Harris, E Pluribus Unum: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Constitutional...

...Marc Bousquet © 2009 the minnesota review 2009 Marc Bousquet We Work I once shocked a colleague by responding to one of those newspaper stories about a prof “caught” mowing his lawn on a Wednesday afternoon by saying that many tenured faculty were morally entitled...

...Victor Cohen 2005 the minnesota review 2005 Victor Cohen The Origins of Working Class Studies An Interview with Sherry Linkon and John Russo Sherry Linkon and John Russo founded and run the Center for Working-Class Studies at Youngstown State University in Ohio, the first...

...Sherry Lee Linkon; John Russo 2005 the minnesota review 2005 Works Cited Adair Vivyan C. Dahlberg Sandra L. , eds. Reclaiming Class: Women, Poverty, and the Promise of Higher Education in America . Philadelphia : Temple UP , 2003 . Aronowitz Stanley . False...

...John Marsh © 2008 the minnesota review 2008 John Marsh Criticism in the Iron Mills: New Working-Class Studies and the Class Turn (on Gavin Jones, American Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840-1945 [Princeton: Princeton UP, 2008]; John Russo...

...Elaine Frantz In the 2010s social justice workers and incarcerated men of color worked on a book project that would be published as Life Sentences in 2019. As one of the editors of Life Sentences , the author of this article looks back at the process, considering its authors, creativity behind bars...

...Phillip E. Wegner I reflect upon the value of Jacques Lacan's 1969–70 Seminar XVII, The Other Side of Psychoanalysis , for thinking about the challenges we face as scholars and teachers working in the contemporary university. As with Lacan's title for this seminar, my title has a range of meanings...

...Margret Grebowicz; Zachary Low Reyna Personhood, language, and voice are heavily culturally overdetermined categories, particularly today, when they appear to many posthumanist critical eyes as saturated with anthropocentrism. But the answer is not to avoid or “overcome” them. The working...

...Wang Jinghui As the first Chinese citizen to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Mo Yan shows how a writer in a socialist country successfully internalizes censorship. Censorship in China is part of Mo Yan’s professional and psychic environment and generates two major results in his works, one...

...Bert Cardullo This interview with Ken Loach took place in July 2009 at his home in Bath, England. Unquestionably one of Britain's most important filmmakers, Loach is best known for his gritty and compassionate portrayals of working-class life. Early in his career, a series of socially conscious...

... with the field a sense of how these traditions have developed in relation to key historical shifts. It then moves to consider some of the current challenges to the Left work of Latin American cultural studies, especially as articulated in response to neoliberal forms of capital. The essay argues that Latin...

...Benjamin Noys The work of Marx has often been treated as an ontology and metaphysics of labor, and this “ontology” has often been resisted in the name of life. In particular, in a series of recent theoretical works, the “savage ontology of life,” as Foucault names it, has been posed against...

...Janell Watson In this interview, feminist historian Joan Wallach Scott discusses her first encounters with critical theory, the early days of teaching women's history, her turn to the history of the present, her work on the history of feminism, her book on the Muslim veil, and her current project...

... whitewashes the asymmetric inequities of the humans of humanity. While much of this work has advocated for a dismissal of the Anthropocene concept, this article traces an alternate trajectory that has begun to emerge at the juncture of Black studies and literary theory. In this article, the author considers...

...Anna Ioanes In the wake of the linguistic turn, scholars have turned to affect and to aesthetics to account for textual experiences that exceed critical frameworks of representation and critique. Bringing formalist analysis and affect theory to bear on one another, recent works of literary, art...

...Ashna Ali; Christopher Ian Foster; Supriya M. Nair; Ashna Ali; Christopher Ian Foster; Supriya M. Nair The first of its kind, this special focus section examines a relatively understudied concept and brings together new literary works and scholarship across continents and languages. Contemporary...