RepresentationsPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1525/rep.2023.164.1.1
Christopher Newfield
{"title":"Criticism After This Crisis","authors":"Christopher Newfield","doi":"10.1525/rep.2023.164.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2023.164.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"How do we build the working conditions we need to really do our jobs? By really do I mean being able to create the new forms of knowledge that society will need to get through the next thirty years, and being able to work with our students with a scope and intensity we desire and they deserve. Only a small minority of us now have proper working conditions. We need them for the whole profession and not just for the privileged few.","PeriodicalId":47353,"journal":{"name":"Representations","volume":"115 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135711049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RepresentationsPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1525/rep.2023.162.3.26
Mrinalini Chakravorty
{"title":"Anticolonialism’s “Homosexual Territory”","authors":"Mrinalini Chakravorty","doi":"10.1525/rep.2023.162.3.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2023.162.3.26","url":null,"abstract":"Frantz Fanon’s powerful conception of racial anticolonialism occurs in the shadow of his vexed treatment of homosexuality. This essay considers the traffic between Fanon’s anticoloniality and the recalcitrance of queer transnational writers to argue that sexuality obtains a political force in their fiction through specific citational practices. It explores how fabulation and farce enable a citational queer of color aesthetics that circulates around, unsettles, and adapts Fanon’s historical signatures. The essay ultimately traces a sphere of influence between literature and political culture that makes sexual politics the ground zero for statist decolonization and yet also always a sign of more radical possibility.","PeriodicalId":47353,"journal":{"name":"Representations","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66929833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RepresentationsPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1525/rep.2023.161.2.20
M. Abeygunawardana
{"title":"Yes, Pain, But What Else?","authors":"M. Abeygunawardana","doi":"10.1525/rep.2023.161.2.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2023.161.2.20","url":null,"abstract":"This essay argues that the dynamic between flat emotions and transformative flesh in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child engages the strategies and failures of racial liberalism. I define racial liberalism as the US’s rights-based approach to racial justice across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries that frames racism as a private, psychological drama of emotions. By veering away from strong emotions and the liberal subject and toward affect and materiality, Morrison shifts blame away from individual victims and perpetrators and instead highlights the harm of larger, administratively “neutral” systems like the law and the prison industrial complex.","PeriodicalId":47353,"journal":{"name":"Representations","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66930076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RepresentationsPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1525/rep.2023.162.5.56
Kaneesha Cherelle Parsard
{"title":"Siphon, or What Was the Plot? Revisiting Sylvia Wynter’s “Novel and History, Plot and Plantation”","authors":"Kaneesha Cherelle Parsard","doi":"10.1525/rep.2023.162.5.56","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2023.162.5.56","url":null,"abstract":"This essay revisits Sylvia Wynter’s 1971 essay “Novel and History, Plot and Plantation” in relation to a quandary: the history of provision grounds not only as a resource but also as an initiation into property relations during and after West Indian slavery. In this light, the plot becomes a space of instruction in how to become a free subject through exchange. The essay draws out the plot’s histories of dispossession, enclosure, and dispute. Ultimately, it offers another term, siphon, as the condition of the overlapping conjunctures of West Indian emancipation and the postcolonial.","PeriodicalId":47353,"journal":{"name":"Representations","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66929851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RepresentationsPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1525/rep.2023.163.7.116
J. Esty
{"title":"Proxy War and Sequel Logic","authors":"J. Esty","doi":"10.1525/rep.2023.163.7.116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2023.163.7.116","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47353,"journal":{"name":"Representations","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66930301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RepresentationsPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1525/rep.2023.164.5.115
Devin William Daniels
{"title":"Everybody’s Statistical Record","authors":"Devin William Daniels","doi":"10.1525/rep.2023.164.5.115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2023.164.5.115","url":null,"abstract":"This essay approaches Richard Wright’s naturalist novel Native Son (1940) as a statistically informed project that explores probability and potentiality not as theoretical concepts but as material and historical phenomena instantiated by the emerging statistical governance of the New Deal state. I demonstrate the ways Bigger is rendered as information throughout the novel to show that Wright’s work anticipates how the state was increasingly relying on nonvisual, informatic processes of perception, foreshadowing the racialized data of the digital age.","PeriodicalId":47353,"journal":{"name":"Representations","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135711054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RepresentationsPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1525/rep.2023.164.3.51
Tom Clayton
{"title":"Milton’s Coalitions","authors":"Tom Clayton","doi":"10.1525/rep.2023.164.3.51","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2023.164.3.51","url":null,"abstract":"This article proposes “coalition” as an organizing dynamic for opposition politics that influenced an emergent conception of religious toleration in the English Civil Wars. Through readings of John Milton’s Areopagitica (1644), and in comparisons with his immediate forbears and contemporaries, the article distinguishes this conception of toleration from later liberal formulations. In closing, it argues that the formal dynamics of coalition also characterize the marital relationship of Adam and Eve after the fall in Milton’s epic Paradise Lost (1667, 1674).","PeriodicalId":47353,"journal":{"name":"Representations","volume":"129 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135711046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RepresentationsPub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.3390/ani12050618
Kavita Ranjeeta Lall, Kegan Romelle Jones, Gary Wayne Garcia
{"title":"Reproductive Technologies Used in Female Neo-Tropical Hystricomorphic Rodents.","authors":"Kavita Ranjeeta Lall, Kegan Romelle Jones, Gary Wayne Garcia","doi":"10.3390/ani12050618","DOIUrl":"10.3390/ani12050618","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This is the second of two literature reviews that focuses on the female reproductive anatomy and reproductive technologies used in selected neo-tropical hystricomorphic rodents. The rodents chosen included the agouti (<i>Dasyprocta leporina</i>), the capybara (<i>Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris</i>), and the paca (<i>Cuniculus paca</i>). Over seventy references were used, spanning the years 1919-2021. Knowledge of the reproductive tract is important in understanding any unique features, which may affect the use of reproductive technologies. Some unique characteristics common to these species included the presence of a vaginal closure membrane and a lobulated placenta with a vascular sub-placenta. The capybara had hyperpigmentation of the vagina that was unique to each individual, while the agouti and paca had accessory corpora lutea, in addition to the main one. Some reproductive technologies have been used, with attempts at estrous induction and synchronization taking place within the past five years. Even though most work has been done over the past twenty years, there is still a dearth of information.</p>","PeriodicalId":47353,"journal":{"name":"Representations","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8909426/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90599111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RepresentationsPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1525/rep.2022.158.11.106
Kadji Amin
{"title":"We are All Nonbinary","authors":"Kadji Amin","doi":"10.1525/rep.2022.158.11.106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2022.158.11.106","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47353,"journal":{"name":"Representations","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66930054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RepresentationsPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1525/rep.2022.160.1.1
David Carroll Simon
{"title":"Lyric Misogyny and the Comedy of Interpretation","authors":"David Carroll Simon","doi":"10.1525/rep.2022.160.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2022.160.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"This essay aims to understand the relationship between feeling and attention in gendered experiences of evaluative perception. Juxtaposing Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” with ancient and early modern descriptions of laughter, humor, and comedy, I develop a new reading of the poem in which unserious or gratuitous attention is identified with gender subordination. Marvell’s poem confuses the hierarchy of significance on which comic misogyny depends. I conclude by identifying some of the cultural-historical reasons that the scene of heteroerotic encounter makes sense as a point of departure for Marvell’s experiment in levity.","PeriodicalId":47353,"journal":{"name":"Representations","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66929955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}