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Alone In The Crowd: Appropriated Text And Subjectivity In The Work Of Rirkrit Tiravanija, Liz Linden Jul 2016

Alone In The Crowd: Appropriated Text And Subjectivity In The Work Of Rirkrit Tiravanija, Liz Linden

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The practice of Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija is perhaps the best-known exemplar of relational aesthetics, a distinction first made by Nicholas Bourriaud and affirmed in the writings of many subsequent art critics; but the critical focus on the interactive aspect of his works has tended to rely on utopian modes of community engagement, which ignore Tiravanija's strategic deployment of relational, interactive structures to implicate the viewer, publicly, in problematic political positions. Tiravanija commonly uses appropriation in his artworks as a way of exposing viewer's biases and this paper focuses specifically on his use of appropriated text to explore divided subjectivities …


Blade, José Angel Araguz Jan 2016

Blade, José Angel Araguz

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This poem by José Angel Araguz was awarded the University of Cincinnati Graduate Poetry Prize in 2016 and appeared on the official website of the Academy of American Poets.


La Llorona At The Saloon, José Angel Araguz Jan 2016

La Llorona At The Saloon, José Angel Araguz

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This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in Aster(ix).


Story Of The Salt Doll, José Angel Araguz Jan 2016

Story Of The Salt Doll, José Angel Araguz

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This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Inflectionist Review.


The Story Of Eyes, José Angel Araguz Jan 2016

The Story Of Eyes, José Angel Araguz

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This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Inflectionist Review.


El Rio, José Angel Araguz Jan 2016

El Rio, José Angel Araguz

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This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in Crab Creek Review. “El Rio” comes from trying to move beyond predictable tropes about border crossing and work out how the river makes itself known, through dreams as well as everyday occurrences of profiling, and unignorable.


Cazar Means To Hunt Not To Marry, José Angel Araguz Jan 2016

Cazar Means To Hunt Not To Marry, José Angel Araguz

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This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in December.


Freckles, José Angel Araguz Jan 2016

Freckles, José Angel Araguz

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This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Indianola Review.


Night Sky Manifesto, José Angel Araguz Jan 2016

Night Sky Manifesto, José Angel Araguz

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This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Inflectionist Review.


The Music Inside, José Angel Araguz Jan 2016

The Music Inside, José Angel Araguz

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This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Inflectionist Review.


Alien, José Angel Araguz Jan 2016

Alien, José Angel Araguz

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This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in Crab Creek Review.


On Being Called Jorge, José Angel Araguz Jan 2016

On Being Called Jorge, José Angel Araguz

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This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Indianola Review.


Cornflower, José Angel Araguz Jan 2016

Cornflower, José Angel Araguz

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This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Inflectionist Review.


Midnight, José Angel Araguz Jan 2016

Midnight, José Angel Araguz

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This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Inflectionist Review.


Distinguished Poet José Angel Araguz: The Interview, José Angel Araguz, A. Molotkov, John Sibley Williams Jan 2016

Distinguished Poet José Angel Araguz: The Interview, José Angel Araguz, A. Molotkov, John Sibley Williams

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This interview with poet José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Inflectionist Review.


Leave, José Angel Araguz Jan 2016

Leave, José Angel Araguz

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This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Inflectionist Review.


"A Bastard Jargon”: Language Politics And Identity In The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao, Rachel Norman Jan 2016

"A Bastard Jargon”: Language Politics And Identity In The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao, Rachel Norman

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This essay explores Junot Díaz's only full-length novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, through the theoretical lens of sociolinguistics and examines the ways in which Díaz has attempted to overcome the publishing industry's complicity in maintaining the nation's ethnocentric expectations in regards to English as the only acceptable language of publication. By introducing the work of several sociolinguists into the discussion, examining the use of African American Vernacular and “nerdish” alongside the Spanish, and reviewing Díaz’s relationship with his editors, I provide a more nuanced reading of the ubiquitous code-switching throughout Oscar Wao and suggest that beyond …


The Poetry Of John Dewey, Jerry L. Williams Jan 2016

The Poetry Of John Dewey, Jerry L. Williams

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This essay examines the poetry of John Dewey, 101 poems in total. Characteristic of the rhymed and metered poetry of the period, they show a very human side of Dewey. This analysis argues that many of his poems deal with existential themes—love, finitude, and God, for example. On a deeper level these poems are also show connections to Dewey’s philosophy, in particular his ideas about social change and dualism.


Strange Fruit: Race, Terror, And The War On Terror, Lisa M. Tillmann Ph.D. Jan 2016

Strange Fruit: Race, Terror, And The War On Terror, Lisa M. Tillmann Ph.D.

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This poem examines drone warfare as a form of lynching. “Strange Fruit” links the deaths of Pakistani children Zeerak and Maria Khan to the murders of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, documented in the most infamous lynching photograph in U.S. history.


Of All Days: Critical Pedagogy Outside The Classroom, Lisa M. Tillmann Ph.D. Jan 2016

Of All Days: Critical Pedagogy Outside The Classroom, Lisa M. Tillmann Ph.D.

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A student at the author’s college pens a racist column on immigration for the school newspaper. Two departments, including the author’s, send campus-wide emails denouncing the rhetoric. A firestorm erupts, as much over the emails as over the op-ed. Years later, the student visits the author unannounced.