American Afterlives concludes with the ritualized disinterment of the author’s decomposed corpse. An archaeologist is excavating a twenty-first century cemetery, nestled in a California oak savannah. She discovers some decayed cloth and…
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The Life of American Afterlives
		June 26, 2024
	
	
		I first became aware of Shannon Dawdy’s American Afterlives during the fall of 2019, when her friend and fellow New Orleanian, the literary scholar and Princeton author Bryan Wagner, suggested that she…
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Thinking with form, playing with genre
		June 19, 2024
	
	
		Myriad Intimacies experiments with form and genre to enact a mode of thinking about interrelations. Its core argument is that our lives, the concepts by which we understand ourselves, and the social…
						June 19, 2024
					
				
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Myriad Intimacies and feminist political imagination
		June 19, 2024
	
	
		I read Myriad Intimacies with joy and wonder. It is a beautiful book that frames itself as an offering, rather than an intervention—a spiritual journey between secular and sacred. It pushes against…
						June 19, 2024
					
				
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Sacred experiments, intimate politics
		June 19, 2024
	
	
		On walks between writing, when I pass the California poppies, I let them press into my mind, remembering a poem from Lata Mani’s Myriad Intimacies: “nectarous orange / pulsing for hours.” The…
						June 19, 2024
					
				
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Brilliance and complexity: Publishing Lata Mani’s Myriad Intimacies
		June 19, 2024
	
	
		Lata Mani has been an intellectual hero of mine since before I became an editor at Duke University Press. I had attended the pathbreaking “Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture” conference at…
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