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Abstract: When ARIELLA AZOULAY asked, "Has anyone ever seen a photograph of rape'" she wanted to know about a visual economy of representations: which images are or are not allowed into public circulation. Images of murder, traffic accidents, and even school shootings are unfortunately ubiquitous in news broadcasts and Hollywood blockbusters. But not images of rape. For AZOULAY, this lack enforces a toxic commonsense about women's bodies: it maintains a visual culture in which women are available to be violated or are violated already; it leaves women unable to recognize rape when it happens to them; and it removes the grounds on which women can make "emergency claims" about sexual assault, claims that would activate ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-08T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: There must be no idle mourning.Collective mourning and mass burial are uneven territories of racial grief and grievances.2 The way societies honor the dead is often as much a celebration of life as an arena for singing communal sorrow songs. The landscape architecture of burial is always fraught and racialized because the afterlife is segregated not only by different death rites and rituals but by the epistemic violence that extends past death. The minor and melancholy key of Black life and mourning is connected to that of Indigenous life and mourning across the Western Hemisphere because of colonialism. The two are not mutually exclusive scales of relation because of the crimes of stolen life and stolen land, as ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-08T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Contemporary Tunisian surrealist artworks expose and subvert the interplay of productive and suppressive strategies of Tunisian political regimes that originated under the first president of the republic, HABIB BOURGUIBA (1956–1987), solidified under ZINE EL-ABIDINE BEN ALI (1987–2011), and which continue to permeate the post-2011 era.1While these three larger eras of the modern Tunisian state are distinct, the state's multiple, interwoven parts constitute a deep entrenchment of authority that suffuses each. Aïcha Filali's Hierarchy (2000) (see fig. 1) and Houda Ghorbel's Pensées Canalisées (Channeled Thoughts, 2016) (see fig. 2) each critique state power by pointing out the realities of the Tunisian state's ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-08T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: When TOMMY PICO, a queer poet from the Viejas Reservation of the Kumeyaay Nation in Southern California, won the 2018 Whiting Award for poetry, the selection committee praised the "inventiveness" of his "contemporary epics." Framing PICO'S book-length poems through a Western genre, the judges describe PICO'S work as a "forceful … interrogation of myth and cultural expectations and self" that is novel for connecting sexual exploration to histories of Indigenous dispossession.1 In celebrating PICO through the veil of a Western genre system, however, the committee obscures the Indigenous genealogies and queer Indigenous poetry that inform PICO'S composition. Yet, the very coloniality of the Whiting Award committee's ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-08T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Is there such a thing as speculative novel form' In the afterword to the English translation of her second novel La historia de mis dientes (The Story of My Teeth, 2015 ), VALERIA LUISELLI proposed a formula. "The formula, if there was one," she muses, "would be something like Dickens + MP3 ÷ Balzac + JPEG."1 Perhaps, maybe, kind of: this formula appears as hindsight, almost as a throwaway comment. The conditional clause weighs heavily: if, if, if.But where flippancy denotes narrative, affective, and political uncertainty, Luiselli's subjunctive grammar is more speculative than specious.2 In 2016, Luiselli adapted the formula, but this time in a short piece for the Financial Times on the twenty-firstcentury novel ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-08T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: What is at stake when writers of fiction try to represent violence' What ethical and aesthetic problems are enacted when the frame of fiction is placed around the "real," and how far can these problems ever be adequately addressed' This essay looks at how ROBERTO BOLAÑO and DON WINSLOW, in their respective novels 2666 (2004) and The Cartel (2015), represent the real world violence afflicting the U.S.-Mexico border city of El Paso/Ciudad Juárez from 1993 to the present. There are significant overlaps between these novels in terms of their narrative scope, their genre-bending ambitions, and their desire to tie this "new" violence to the accumulative tendencies of contemporary capitalism. However, these novels' ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-08T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: "140+140!" was the tweet that heralded a defining change to Twitter. On November 7, 2017, Twitter founder JACK DORSEY announced that the maximum length of a tweet would be increased to 280 characters from its previous limit of 140. The change was intended to remove a constraint that was perceived to hinder expression, leading to abandoned tweets among English language users.1 For a business model based on the aggregation of data for the purposes of advertising and data licensing, abandoned tweets represented unrealized commercial potential. However, for poets who had used Twitter's 140-character constraint to draft and publish lines of verse, the change was not so profitable.In the last decade, social media has ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-08T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: As writer and educator Erica Meiners suggests: "Liberation under oppression is unthinkable by design." It's time for a jailbreak of the imagination in order to make the impossible possible.This is what you must remember: the ending of one story is just the beginning of another. This has happened before, after all. People die. Old orders pass. New societies are born. When we say "the world has ended," it's usually a lie, because the planet is just fine.The prologue of The Fifth Season, the first novel in N. K. JEMISIN'S Broken Earth trilogy, begins with the end of the world. Or, to be more accurate, it invokes "the end of the world" across repetition and revision through shifting frameworks of scale. "Let's start ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-08T00:00:00-05:00
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