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To survive is messy, elaborate, and layered. Survival conjures hills alive with survivalists, such misconstrued terms as ""survival of the fittest,"" the defiance reflected in Gloria Gaynor's 1980s disco anthem ""I Will Survive,"" and states of being ""a survivor"" of abuse, war, or rape. Survival's topicality extends beyond controversies around life and death expectancy toplanned life termination, as well as the continuing fascination with suicide and now ecocide. Posing ""survival"" invites the question: What didn't survive?

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Frances Bartkowski is a feminist theorist and literary critic, teaching English and Women's Studies at Rutgers University-Newark since 1989. Her books include ""Feminist Utopias""; ""Travelers, Immigrants, Inmates: Essays in Estrangement""; ""Kissing Cousins: A New Kinship Bestiary""; and the textbook, ""Feminist Theory: A Reader."" Elena Glasberg writes about visual arts, music, literature, and ice in publications including ""Political Legal Anthropology Review,"" ""Genre,"" ""The Scholar & Feminist,"" ""Journal of Historical Geography,"" ""New Zealand Journal of Photography,"" and ""Women's Studies Quarterly,"" and teaches in the Writing Program at NYU. Taylor Black is a lecturer in the Expository Writing Program at NYU and currently working on a book project, ""Time Out of Mind: Style and the Art of Becoming,"" which explores the practices and uses of style in the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Flannery O'Connor, Quentin Crisp and Bob Dylan.

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