Category: Volume 25 – Number 1 – September 2014
Notes on Contributors
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Aaron Colton is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Virginia. His research centers on the development of American metafiction from 1919 through present and its implications for ethical theory and critical methodology. Megan Fernandes is an academic and poet. She received her PhD in English at UC Santa Barbara and her MFA […]
Politics, Animal-Style
September 24, 2017 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 25, Number 1, September 2014 |
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Lisa Uddin (bio) Whitman College uddinlm@whitman.edu A review of Brian Massumi, What Animals Teach Us about Politics. Durham: Duke UP, 2014. Brian Massumi’s book arrives after a more-than-ten-year multidisciplinary brainstorm on “the question of the animal.” While the question has proven as hard to pose as it is to address, it is possible […]
Government Intrusion and the Afro-Modernist Experience
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Todd Hoffman (bio) Georgia Regents University THOFFMA1@gru.edu A review of William J. Maxwell, F.B.Eyes. How J. Edgar Hoover’s Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2015. William J. Maxwell’s exhaustively researched and compelling study uncovers and interprets the complicated history of the relation between African American literature and the J. Edgar […]
Feeling, Form, Framework
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Diana Filar (bio) Brandeis University dfilar@brandeis.edu A review of Rachel Greenwald Smith, Affect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism. Cambridge UP, 2015. In recent scholarship about contemporary literature, it has become in vogue to declare the death of postmodernism as an appropriate periodizing break for thinking of the contemporary as a […]
Epistemologies of State, Epistemologies of Text
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Aaron Colton (bio) University of Virginia agc3bs@virginia.edu A review of Timothy Melley, The Covert Sphere: Secrecy, Fiction, and the National Security State. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2012. Richard J. Hofstadter’s “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” (1952) provides the classic framework for any scholarly discussion of conspiracy and paranoia in the United States. In […]
The Enchantment of Commodified Desire in Post-Revolutionary China: “Rain Clouds over Wushan” (1996) as Post-Socialist Film
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Xiaoping Wang (bio) Huaqiao University, Xiamen University wxping75@163.com Abstract Rain Clouds over Wushan (Wushan Yunyu巫山云雨, also known as In Expectation) was a key film in the Chinese avant-garde movement of the 1990s. This paper contends that the film’s use of symbolism, naturalism, and super-realism to indicate the omnipotence of desire in contemporary China, which […]
The Transgenic Imagination
September 24, 2017 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 25, Number 1, September 2014 |
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Megan Fernandes (bio)Lafayette College Abstract This essay examines how transgenic paradigms of recombination and mutation have influenced contemporary lyrical poetry. These paradigms offer poetic strategies that highlight a growing uncertainty about the future of biodiversity and the curious anticipation of the evolutionary unknown. The central poetic question becomes one of survival. Can the transgenic survive? […]
“Against Telephysics” from “Contra la tele-visión”
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Heriberto Yépez (bio)Jake Nabasny (Translation) (bio)Viviane Mahieux (Introduction) (bio) Introduction Heriberto Yépez is a Mexican writer who practices many genres. He is a poet, a novelist, an essayist and a translator who maintains a highly visible profile in Mexican letters. For many years, he has published regularly in the country’s most important newspapers and cultural […]
12:00am
September 24, 2017 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 25, Number 1, September 2014 |
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Signor Benedick the Moor (bio) Jonathan Snipes (bio) Daveed Diggs (of clipping) (bio) <AUDIO 1 here> The moral altitude of man is directly related to his aptitude for self preservation on the brink of a type 1 society the question becomes how effective is self preservation against ourselves and what happens […]
An Interview with Thurston Moore
September 24, 2017 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 25, Number 1, September 2014 |
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Daniel Kane (bio) University of Sussex Daniel.Kane@sussex.ac.uk On August 13, 2013, I got together with Thurston Moore in his flat in Stoke Newington to discuss how his readings in contemporary American poetry influenced some of the songs on the recently-released self-titled album by his post-Sonic Youth band, Chelsea Light Moving. We never really got […]