When it was published in 2002, Julie Otsuka’s When the Emperor Was Divine offered a literary representation of Japanese American internment that was quite different from previous narratives.1 Employing the…
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Contemporaries Essays, Minimalisms Now: Race, Affect, Aesthetics
Contemporaries Essays, Minimalisms Now: Race, Affect, Aesthetics
On Ambience, Tan Lin, and American Minimalism
What is the minimum volume (and quality) of material or statistical quantity of words necessary to induce a rehearsal of the generic exercise we might term “reading” or an aesthetic…
Contemporaries Essays, Minimalisms Now: Race, Affect, Aesthetics
Minimal Thoughts: Cognition in the Wake of Slow Crisis
Accounts of minimalism’s ascent in postwar American fiction vary, but one common scholarly perspective links the aesthetic with war fiction, specifically Vietnam War narratives and Ernest Hemingway’s World War I…
Contemporaries Essays, Minimalisms Now: Race, Affect, Aesthetics
“It comes down to / so little”: Ashbery, Matthíasdóttir, and Minimal Afterlives
In Something Close to Music, a recent posthumous collection of his scattered art criticism (plus poems and playlists), John Ashbery writes of the work of the late Icelandic painter Louisa Matthíasdóttir…
Contemporaries Essays, Minimalisms Now: Race, Affect, Aesthetics
“A Handshake Is Available Upon Request”: Severance and the Uneasiness of Sparsity
The offices of biotech company Lumon are empty. Hallways and rooms are bare, though not totally insipid. Once exiting the corridors, workers’ units bear a splash of colour — green…
Contemporaries Essays, Minimalisms Now: Race, Affect, Aesthetics
An Introduction to “Minimalisms Now: Race, Affect, Aesthetics”
Are we all minimalist now? In early 2019, U.S. news organizations reported a surge of clothing and other donations to charity shops, a surge they called the Marie Kondo effect.1…
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