You have to look beyond the monster itself in order to understand what it actually means.
Mary Seacole and the Cholera in Panama
Mary Seacole’s account of her role in treating Cholera’s victims presents a portrait of one epidemic-stricken community that responds in ways both typical and, in our own pandemic times, uncomfortably familiar.
Reading the Dehumanized Perspective in Narratives of the Partition of 1947
The insidious malleability of dehumanization sheds a great deal of light on ingroup-outgroup tensions.
This is the experience of waiting: wanting to be doing something but knowing it won’t mean anything—the meaning is what we’re waiting for.
Full Stop Quarterly: Winter 2020
In this issue we look at and beyond all sorts of crisis-bred monsters.
Mind Melding Across the Genre Divide
To choose the “we” narrator is inherently political. The collectively narrated novel is fairly new—to literary realism, anyway.
Most of the time we become through ambivalence—not caring either way—in an ill-fitting place of unfulfilled desire. Essays on ambivalence and forgetting.
A generation of highly original thinkers whose commitment to their work was not limited to the fickle favors of the research and education sector. An all-too-brief introduction.
The statue was renamed, or named twice: the Dionysus-Sardanapalus. Each name is a mirror of itself and the opposite. The statue embodies the unstable relationship between history, narrative, and artifact.
To write fan-fiction is to re-write, to bend time, to insert oneself into a queer narrative that is both already-impossible and newly-possible through the projection of desire onto fictional proxies.