MINNESOTA REVIEWPub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1215/00265667-9335674
Sarah Taban
{"title":"suppose I had left then","authors":"Sarah Taban","doi":"10.1215/00265667-9335674","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00265667-9335674","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43805,"journal":{"name":"MINNESOTA REVIEW","volume":"27 1","pages":"24 - 24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89910014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MINNESOTA REVIEWPub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1215/00265667-9335856
D. Suvin
{"title":"On Understanding Our Needy World through Science Fiction and Utopia/nism: An Epistemological Introduction","authors":"D. Suvin","doi":"10.1215/00265667-9335856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00265667-9335856","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:How do dominant epistemological frames create political understanding and violence in the public sphere and through cultural texts? This article explores a theoretical answer to this question by identifying narrative categories, or frames, that create shared realities and collective political understanding and action in contemporary antiutopian US culture. Much current public information is marred by the juxtaposition of fact and fiction, logic and emotion, creating forms of knowledge and thus political action not necessarily based, then, on actuality or a communal ethic of care. Through analysis of worlds made possible in science fiction, the author builds on his previous theoretical work to develop what he calls \"a method for radical utopian cognition\"—one that sees cultural cognition based in logic, emotions, and a utopian frame in which destiny or resolution is not dictated by class or preordained authorial expectation but is instead open for constructive possibilities and new realities through the presentation of alternative possible worlds.","PeriodicalId":43805,"journal":{"name":"MINNESOTA REVIEW","volume":"32 1","pages":"122 - 143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87836555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MINNESOTA REVIEWPub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1215/00265667-9335814
R. Ghosh
{"title":"Desiring-Material","authors":"R. Ghosh","doi":"10.1215/00265667-9335814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00265667-9335814","url":null,"abstract":"This article tries to develop a complicated relationship between the material-plastic, the desire principle, and its affective dimensions. It explores how plastic “touches” us multi-sensorially through its materiality and materialization. As ready-made, found, waste, abandoned, and obscure objects, plastic triggers and challenges the imagination and builds a variety of aesthetic affordances. It constructs and inheres in a desire-principle where the material goes beyond consumerism, cultural habituality, economic viability, the eco-catastrophic mandate, and spectrality into the (im)pure realm of art and imagination. This demonstrates how the plasticity of plastic and the plasticity of an artistic mind come into a compelling and convulsive interplay. This works through three sections. First, the “collectorial desire” where the artists in question emerge as collectors of plastic objects and construct a deeply invested negotiation with material and aesthetic-affective desire; second, the “ghosting desire” where all plastic artists are shown to have an epiphanous and analytic relationship with plastic objects as they make their way into art forms having a past life to themselves, ghostly in their objecthood and object presence; third, the “connective desire” where plastic becomes the “plastic subject” and initiates manifold becomings through instances like the plastiglomerates, the plastic-rock that expands the human-nonhuman affective arc of transmedial existence. Invested in art-interpretation and poetics of materiality, the article brings home a fresh realm of plastic-art with plastic-desire.","PeriodicalId":43805,"journal":{"name":"MINNESOTA REVIEW","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48223407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MINNESOTA REVIEWPub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1215/00265667-9335758
J. Michel
{"title":"Lord of the Rings but Blacked","authors":"J. Michel","doi":"10.1215/00265667-9335758","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00265667-9335758","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43805,"journal":{"name":"MINNESOTA REVIEW","volume":"37 1","pages":"40 - 40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75570842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MINNESOTA REVIEWPub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1215/00265667-9335786
Vasantha Sambamurti
{"title":"I Inspire Song in White Women","authors":"Vasantha Sambamurti","doi":"10.1215/00265667-9335786","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00265667-9335786","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43805,"journal":{"name":"MINNESOTA REVIEW","volume":"10 1 1","pages":"42 - 42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78413140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MINNESOTA REVIEWPub Date : 2021-05-01DOI: 10.1215/00265667-8851170
James Jabar
{"title":"Choose a Story Where Eulogies Are Never Given","authors":"James Jabar","doi":"10.1215/00265667-8851170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00265667-8851170","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43805,"journal":{"name":"MINNESOTA REVIEW","volume":"96 1","pages":"18 - 19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78497229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MINNESOTA REVIEWPub Date : 2021-05-01DOI: 10.1215/00265667-8851100
Gene Albamonte
{"title":"In Which All That Is Familiar Leaves Us","authors":"Gene Albamonte","doi":"10.1215/00265667-8851100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00265667-8851100","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43805,"journal":{"name":"MINNESOTA REVIEW","volume":"14 1","pages":"10 - 8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91041820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}