Contributors
Daniel Garrett
Daniel Garrett, a child of the American south, Louisiana, where he grew up reading, taking photographs, and enjoying fishing and a good summer barbecue. Daniel moved to New York and became a graduate of the New School for Social Research, was an intern at Africa Report, poetry editor for the male feminist magazine Changing Men, founded and acted as principal organizer of the Cultural Politics Discussion Group at ABC No Rio and Poets House, wrote about painter Henry Tanner for Art & Antiques, and organized the first interdepartmental environmental justice meeting at Audubon. Long interested in human complexity, intelligence, experiment, and cultural diversity, Garrett has researched various cultures, and he wrote about fiction and poetry for World Literature Today and international film for Offscreen, and has done music reviews that constitute a history of popular music for The Compulsive Reader. His work has appeared as well in The African, All About Jazz, American Book Review, Black Film Review, Cinetext, Contact II, Film International, The Humanist, Hyphen, Illuminations, Muse Apprentice Guild, Option, Pop Matters, Quarterly Black Review of Books, Rain Taxi, Red River Review, Review of Contemporary Fiction, and Wax Poetics. He returned to the south, where he worked on philosophical fiction, the novel A Stranger on Earth.
Articles by Daniel Garrett
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Mind How You Go: Epic Enlightenment in Siddhartha (Conrad Rooks, 1972) and Little Buddha (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1993)
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The Limits of Magical Thinking: China in The Last Emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1987) and A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke, 2013)
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Sensitive, Subversive Friendships: The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Blindspotting and Sorry to Bother You
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Fighting the Dangerous Foolishness of Miss Anne and Mister Charlie: Battling Bigotry in The Mauritanian, Vice, and The Great Muslim American Road Trip
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Dispossession; and the Consequences of Settler Colonialism: Palestinians in Salt of this Sea (Annemarie Jacir, 2008), Out in the Dark (Michael Mayer, 2012), and Omar (Hany Abu-Assad, 2013)
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Broken Friendship: Banshees of Inisherin by Martin McDonagh
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Challenger of Categories: Neruda, a film by Pablo Larrain
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Privileged Position: A Paris Education (Jean-Paul Civeyrac, 2018)
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A Modest Meditation on Mexican Modernism: Alonso Ruizpalacios’s Güeros and Alejandro González Iñárritu’s The Revenant
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In Search of Complexity: America, India, and Pakistan in Mira Nair’s The Namesake and The Reluctant Fundamentalist