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THE CASE OF BLACKNESS by Moten, Fred

“…[...] the old view, in which the human being appears as the aim of production, regardless of his limited national, religious, political character, seems to be…”
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TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES: ON PARANOID READING AND REPARATIVE READING by Love, Heather

“…According to Sedgwick, paranoia works to anticipate and to ward off negative feeling, in particular "the negative affect of humiliation" (145). In this sense,…”
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FROM GAZA TO WARSAW: MAPPING MULTIDIRECTIONAL MEMORY by Rothberg, Michael

“…[...] besides targeting the problem of zero-sum thinking and bringing together histories that are usually kept separate, my research questions another…”
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Happy Accidents: Critical Belatedness, Feminist Formalism, and Early Modern Women's Writing by Dodds, Lara, Dowd, Michelle M.

“…In many ways, the field of early modern women's writing operates as a kind of alternate reality to the wider field of Renaissance literary studies. Despite a…”
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After Life in Margaret Cavendish's Vitalist Posthumanism by Blake, Liza

“…Is it possible to be a posthumanist without affirming life? Must a posthuman materialism necessarily be lively? Recent contemporary new materialists— as part…”
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Description as Chance Operation: Stein, Williams, and After by Perlow, Seth

“…This essay argues that Gertrude Stein and William Carlos Williams practice description as a kind of chance operation, an encounter with the randomness of the…”
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Poetics of the Record: Robin Coste Lewis's Voyage of the Sable Venus by Grandy, Claire

“…This essay analyzes what I term “poetics of the record” in the context of black feminist experimental poetry. I argue that iterative photographic forms,…”
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Hard Road Ahead: Stone's Queer Agency in Stone Butch Blues by Rodness, Roshaya

“…What is stone in Stone Butch Blues? This essay looks to the material properties of stone and stonelike objects to re-examine the affective and relational…”
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Reading Dialectically by Lesjak, Carolyn

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After Wetlands by Eklund, Hillary

“…Since 1900, 64 percent of the world's wetlands have disappeared. But in western literature, wetlands have been dead and dying for much longer. In our lived…”
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Lonely Individualism in Moby-Dick by Furui, Yoshiaki

“…This essay reconsiders the concept of individualism in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick by focusing on the affective aspect of Captain Ahab's solitude. By…”
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Form, Voice, and Utopia in David Foster Wallace by Seguin, Robert

“…This essay proposes a formal approach to the work of David Foster Wallace, centered on two principal axes: one, the persistent pattern of reversals (the good…”
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Now Then: The Emergence of the Contemporary Literature Journal by Maguire, Michael

“…In the last ten or so years, the field of contemporary literature studies has become increasingly interrogative of its own definition and methods, raising…”
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Budding Oedipus: The Oedipal Family Tree and King Lear by Nardizzi, Vin

“…This essay frames the Gloucester subplot in King Lear with the rich history of one of literary criticism's most powerful explanatory figures for human…”
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THE ECOLOGICAL ALTERNATIVE: EDWARD ABBEY, THE NEW LEFT, AND ENVIRONMENTAL AUTHENTICITY by Menrisky, Alexander

“…This essay explores a narrative conflict between selfhood and ecology in Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire in order to gain an understanding of how New Left…”
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Poetics of The Record: Robin Coste Lewis's Voyage Of The Sable Venus by Grandy, Claire

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Narrating General Performance: Art, Life, and Labor in Niña Weijers's The Consequences and Tom Mccarthy's Satin Island by Besser, Stephan

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Hard Road Ahead: Stone's Queer Agency in Stone Butch Blues by Rodness, Roshaya

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Lonely Individualism in Moby-Dick by Furui, Yoshiaki

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Historicizing the Theorization of Race: A Nineteenth-Century Story by Tucker, Irene

“…In this essay, I bring together Victorian studies and race studies in an effort to overturn what has come to be the most familiar form of racial analysis in…”
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