In this Issue

Table of Contents

Editors' Note: Strange Magic

Amy Herzog, Joe Rollins
pp. 9-12
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2013.0002
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Introduction: The Practice of Enchantment: Strange Allures

Ann Burlein, Jackie Orr
pp. 13-23
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2013.0008
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Part I. Trans-Forms // Bending Lines of Light

Enchantment in an Age of Occupy

Betty M. Bayer
pp. 27-50
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2013.0014
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Speculative Realism, Visionary Pragmatism, and Poet-Shamanic Aesthetics in Gloria Anzaldúa—and Beyond

AnaLouise Keating
pp. 51-69
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2013.0020
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The New Laboratory of Dreams: Role-playing Games as Resistance

Katherine Angel Cross
pp. 70-88
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2013.0026
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Poetics of Trans-Forms

Emperor Magog

Rachel Loden
p. 89
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2013.0031
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Green Flowers

Christopher Phelps
pp. 90-91
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2013.0000
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Forms of Crouching

Mona Nicole Sfeir
p. 92
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2013.0006
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Scenes from My Life as the Abominable Snowman

Jane Yeh
pp. 93-94
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2013.0012
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Mythopoeia

Jeanine Oleson
pp. 95-102
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2013.0018
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Part II. Strange Time

Silent Plasticity: Reenchanting Soviet Stagnation

Anastasia Kayiatos
pp. 105-125
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2013.0024
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Queering Utopia: Deep Lez and the Future of Hope

Kaitlin Noss
pp. 126-145
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2013.0029
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Black Girls Are from the Future: Afrofuturist Feminism in Octavia E. Butler's Fledgling

Susana M. Morris
pp. 146-166
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2013.0034
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Melancholic Ghosts in Monique Truong's The Book of Salt

Naomi Edwards
pp. 167-186
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2013.0004
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The Guy in the Blue Suit, and: Plastic Frogs, and: Charlotte Russe

Ann Podracky
pp. 187-190
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2013.0010
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A Drive-In Dreamland

Zoe Beloff
pp. 191-195
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2013.0016
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Poetics of Strange Time

from Over the City

Jesse Nissim
pp. 196-197
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2013.0022
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The Temptation Is

Elizabeth Macklin
pp. 198-199
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2013.0027
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The Fir Tree Prisoner

Zoë Brigley
p. 200
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2013.0032
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Nest

Craig Morgan Teicher
pp. 201-202
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2013.0001
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Part III. Power as Ambivalent Nature

Banal, Familiar, and Enrapturing: Financial Enchantment After Guatemala's Genocide

Diane M. Nelson
pp. 205-225
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2013.0007
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Mana and Mystification: Magic and Religion at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Randall Styers
pp. 226-243
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2013.0013
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The Wendy House

Heather Warren-Crow, Kelly Rafferty
pp. 244-250
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2013.0019
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Helen Adam's Occult Reworkings

Cindy McMann
pp. 251-263
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2013.0038
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Negotiating Precarity: Tarot as Spiritual Entrepreneurialism

Karen Gregory
pp. 264-280
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2013.0025
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Poetics of Allure

Gurney

Pelle Lowe
p. 281
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2013.0030
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The Lesbian Body, for Monique Wittig

Camille Norton
p. 282
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2013.0036
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Flyover Country

Alison Powell
pp. 483-484
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2013.0035
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Enchantment

John Gallaher
pp. 285-286
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2013.0005
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Part IV. Classics Revisited

Audre Lorde, Presente!

Bettina Aptheker
pp. 289-294
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2013.0011
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Of Sensual Matters: On Audre Lorde's "Poetry Is Not a Luxury" and "Uses of the Erotic"

Roderick A. Ferguson
pp. 295-300
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2013.0017
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"Uses of the Erotic" for Teaching Queer Studies

Nikki Young
pp. 301-305
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2013.0023
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Birthing the Warrior: Poetry as Illumination

Laurie Ann Guerrero
pp. 306-310
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2013.0028
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A Revelatory Distillation of Experience

E. Patrick Johnson
pp. 311-314
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2013.0033
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Part V. Book Reviews

Magic Versus Neoliberalism: Riots Against Everywhere

Craig Willse
pp. 317-325
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2013.0003
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Dis/enchantment: Locating Modernity Between Secularism and "The Sacred"

Megan Goodwin
pp. 326-333
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2013.0009
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Alien Connections: Recovering Contingency in Social Forms

Jenna Supp-Montgomerie
pp. 334-338
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2013.0037
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What's the Matter?

Melissa Autumn White
pp. 339-345
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2013.0015
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Coda

Ode to an Anatomical Venus

Joanna Ebenstein
pp. 346-352
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2013.0021
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