by Sayani Sarkar | Jul 24, 2024 | Essays, Essays 2024
Cemetery: A Colonial Time Portal All India is full of neglected graves that date from the beginning of the eighteenth century—tombs of forgotten colonels of corps long since disbanded; mates of East India men who went on shooting expeditions and never came back;...
by Andy Andrade | Jul 23, 2024 | Essays, Essays 2024
Countercultural Chronotopes of Thomas Pynchon The 1950s in the United States, marked by the post-World War II economic boom, were characterized by pressures to conform, Cold War fears, and increasing government surveillance. By the 1960s, the United States was primed...
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by Tomás Miriti Pacheco | Jul 21, 2024 | Essays, Essays 2024
Revis[it]ing the Slave Narrative: The Past and Future of Octavia Butler’s Kindred Octavia Butler’s groundbreaking 1979 novel Kindred follows the main character Dana, a contemporary Black writer in Los Angeles, as she is pulled across time and space to the Maryland...
by Elena Bellaart | Jul 18, 2024 | Essays, Essays 2024
Elizabeth Stoddard’s Unruly Girlhood Weird girls are having a literary moment. A search for “weird girl books” on TikTok confirms this, yielding hundreds of videos celebrating the genre. Authors like Mona Awad, Sayaka Murata, and Ottessa Moshfegh feature...
by Kendall Grady | Jul 21, 2023 | Essays, Essays 2023
Poetics of the Data/Body: Intimating Data Visualization After the Post-Internet Turn When I was a kid, “internet” was still written with a capital “I,” the Internet, like a first-person pronoun, a discrete selfhood. And I was on it. Before Lev Manovich situated...
by Alvaro Castillo | Jul 21, 2023 | Essays, Essays 2023
Writing The Distance Originally an act of defiance, I began riding bikes religiously in fall 2012, when I enrolled in courses at Mission, Pierce, and Valley College so I wouldn’t have to commute by bus. I was (and still am) undocumented, and President Obama’s...
