In the face of what increasingly feels like an impossible situation, we must steadfastly honor the profound history that underpins the plea for Palestinian decolonization, and the enduring legacy of sumud.
These characters and interpretations provide an interesting level of historical queer representation on a larger scale, whether or not they are actually queer.
Each author’s language “is sent, failing, on a wandering journey of endless mediation,” unable to cement and bring home a fixed meaning, leaving their works at the meeting point of music and language.
Eliot’s representation of the senses is wide, and can be both personal to the intended reader, or more universalized, general descriptions which portray the poignant scenes for which Eliot is so famous.
Music, as a form of expression that is vital to Punjabi articulation regardless of caste/class, loses its potency as a tool for social cohesion if Jatt is truncated to mean Punjabi.
Rebellion against the numbing effects of technology is possible, but it requires a recognition of the self and a connection with the world outside of the numbing medium.
She overlooks the exact spot where Harry, Katia, Maurice, and forty others passed away. She stares at that spot, then screams into the void of the Unzen valley and of this dimension.
The internet reflects our technological evolution back at us not only by incorporating past forms but also by illuminating the way each invention has affected our behavior and conceptualization of the world.