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Contemporary Literature
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Quarterly of scholarly essays on contemporary writing.

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To read Georgina Colby and Michael Dowdy's stunning essays in 64.1 and 64.4:

"Housing the Stranger: Feminist Sheltering in the Work of Bhanu Kapil" (cl.uwpress.org/content/64/1...)

"'Mexican or Something': Reading the Novels of Mexicanesque Appalachia (cl.uwpress.org/content/64/4...)
June 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
to read Swoboda's narratological treatment of attention economies/ecologies, click here: cl.uwpress.org/content/64/3...
Rachel Cusk’s Attention Ecology
Rachel Cusk’s trilogy, Outline, Transit , and Kudos , tracks the peregrinations of Faye, a British writer, throughout Athens, London, and an unspecified town in Germany. The novels contain very few pl...
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June 17, 2025 at 5:29 PM
In "Rachel Cusk's Attention Ecology," Swoboda suggests that we might respond to the demands of an attention economy by modeling and attending to "attention ecologies," environments "that heighten alertness to the networks...among which humans exist, perceive, and interrelate."
June 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM