Stefanie Wortman
Looking at ekphrasis in this way can help us to see it as another in a series of projects to undermine or complicate the centrality of self in the lyric.
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Contemporaries Essays, Uncategorized
Loving Miéville’s Sentences
Joel Burges
What does it mean to love your object of critique, especially when you know better?
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“Window Seat”: Erykah Badu, Projective Cultural Politics, and the Obama Era
On the afternoon of March 13, 2010, neo-soul singer Erykah Badu walked though Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, the site of John F. Kennedy’s 1963 assassination. Rarely meeting the eyes…
Contemporaries Essays
2011 Keynotes, Contemporaries Essays
Very Different Tonight: The Contagious Nightmares of Wilhelm Reich
Kim Cooper
This is a story about slippage between things that are objectively real
and things that are unknowable, about how one man’s memories
of a unique and troubled childhood….
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Counterfactual States of America: On Parallel Worlds and Longing for the Law
Fiction takes us out of this world. A given work might set fabricated characters and events within the actual existing world, thereby altering it; or it might fabricate a new…