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Introduction Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Deborah M. Mix
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Introduction Deborah M. Mix In her 1986 talk “Notes for an Oppositional Poetics,” Erica Hunt encourages us to attend to what she calls “contiguity,” a series of complex interactions, real and imagined, among writers. Hunt argues that in paying attention to these connections, we can recognize interrelationships among writers and groups
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"He's Busy Espalliering Sylvia": Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Assia Wevill Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick
Abstract: Prompted by recent feminist recovery efforts, this essay traces and considers Assia Wevill (1927–1969) as a noteworthy woman writer, whose life and literary contributions were influenced and inspired by the Pulitzer Prize–winning Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) and the former British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes (1930–1998). Reflecting on the manner in which Assia has been understood as a femme fatale
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Redeeming Professions: Wollstonecraft, Austen, and Vocational Choice Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Amy L. Gates
Abstract: Jane Austen’s novels insist that readers notice characters’ professions and vocational choices. This essay argues that Austen’s ideas develop from—and expand on—Wollstonecraft’s claims about the power and potential of vocational choice to benefit self and society. In A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Mary Wollstonecraft famously critiques
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"What Would Become of My Literary Career?": Julia Ward Howe, Elizabeth Stoddard, and the Limits of Literary Traditions Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Nicole C. Livengood
Abstract: In The Hermaphrodite (ca. 1846) and “Collected by a Valetudinarian” (1870), Julia Ward Howe and Elizabeth Stoddard indulge in fantasies in which their protagonists, Laurence and Alicia, embrace fully Romantic modes of authorship. Laurence and Alicia can fulfill Romantic ideals of authorship partly because they publish their work through the circulation of ideas rather than in printed, mass-produced
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Illness in Isolation: Katie Farris's A Net to Catch My Body in Its Weaving in Conversation with Emily Dickinson Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Ronnie K. Stephens
Abstract: Katie Farris’s chapbook, A Net to Catch My Body in Its Weaving, chronicles the author’s diagnosis and subsequent treatment of breast cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic. Farris directly invokes Dickinson on several occasions and employs some of her stylistic idiosyncrasies, such as the em dash. Farris taps into a connection between the societal fears of tuberculosis during Dickinson’s lifetime
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Elusive Allusions: Shirley Jackson's Gothic Intertextuality Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Emily Banks
Abstract: This article analyzes Shirley Jackson’s use of allusions in The Haunting of Hill House and Hangsaman. Drawing from Nicholas Royle’s work on the Freudian uncanny in relation to literature and pedagogy, it argues that, in both novels, allusions draw readers with literary knowledge into the protagonist’s psychological experience and ultimately comment on literary studies as an inherently gothic
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Gothic: An Illustrated History by Roger Luckhurst (review) Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Amanda L. Alexander
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Gothic: An Illustrated History by Roger Luckhurst Amanda L. Alexander Gothic: An Illustrated History. By Roger Luckhurst. Princeton University Press, 2021. 288 pp. Gothic: An Illustrated History is a vibrant book for the twenty-first century Gothic scholar. The text’s layout, colorful visuals, and cover all contribute to an
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Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World by Anna Arabindan-Kesson (review) Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Zay Dale
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World by Anna Arabindan-Kesson Zay Dale Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World. By Anna Arabindan-Kesson. Duke University Press, 2021. 320 pp. In Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World,
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Lichens: Toward a Minimal Resistance by Vincent Zonca (review) Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Nicole Emanuel
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Lichens: Toward a Minimal Resistance by Vincent Zonca Nicole Emanuel Lichens: Toward a Minimal Resistance. By Vincent Zonca. Translated by Jody Gladding. Polity Press, 2023. 250 pp. Once you begin read ing Vincent Zonca’s Lichens: Toward a Minimal Resistance, it is likely that you will start to notice these minute life forms
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Ponchos y sarapes: El cine mexicano en Buenos Aires (1934–1943) by Ángel Miquel (review) Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Jose Antonio Intriago Suarez
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Ponchos y sarapes: El cine mexicano en Buenos Aires (1934–1943) by Ángel Miquel Jose Antonio Intriago Suarez Ponchos y sarapes: El cine mexicano en Buenos Aires (1934–1943). By Ángel Miquel. Peter Lang, 2021. 196 pp. My grandfather loved movies, especially the Westerns he used to watch as a kid in Saturday matinees with his
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Notes on Contributors Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2023-12-05
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Notes on Contributors JULIE GOODSPEED-CHADWICK is Chancellor’s Professor of English, affiliate faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and director of the Office of Student Research at Indiana University Columbus. She is the author of the books Reclaiming Assia Wevill: Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, and the Literary Imagination (Louisiana
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Introduction: Confinement Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Justin Hastings, Shannon Derby
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Introduction:Confinement Justin Hastings and Shannon Derby Following the expected and necessary cancellation of the annual MMLA Convention in the fall of 2020 due to the corona-virus pandemic, we felt compelled to design and publish a special issue of JMMLA that reflected the current moment of tumult, confusion, and, as our journal title
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Queer Communal Postcolonial Happiness in NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names and Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Katherine Jane Gutiérrez-Glik
Abstract: When one examines recent scholarship on queer and postcolonial individuals, happiness is generally not the first quality that comes to mind. This paper will demonstrate, however, that while queer theory's insistence on the right to be unhappy appears contradictory to the politics of postcolonial happiness, queer theory's concepts of alternate temporalities and queer futurity have much to
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Cognitive Dissonance in Nella Larsen's Passing Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Caresse Ann John
Abstract: In 1957, Leon Festinger published his findings on cognitive dissonance, and subsequently his theory became an important staple in social psychology. However, the concept of cognitive dissonance has not often been applied in the field of literature. Nella Larsen's Passing makes a strong case for the usefulness of cognitive dissonance, particularly when it comes to teaching our students not
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"Under This Yok of Mariage Ybounde": Aristocratic Husbands and Authoritative Wives in The Merchant's Tale Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Rachel Lea Tharp
Abstract: Separating the Merchant's Prologue from his tale leaves the Merchant's character incomplete. Without considering the Merchant's motivation for telling a fabliau, his tale remains a mere addition to the well-established tradition of anti-feminist medieval literature. Merchants held a tenuous position in the three-estate system after the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 challenged the traditional social
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The Necessity of (Dis)memberment: The Intersection of Mixed-Race, Gender, and Hero in Duffy and Jennings's Adaptation of Butler's Kindred Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Pilar DiPietro
Abstract: Around the time Butler wrote Kindred the prevailing theories of African American literary criticism involved conflicting views of the genre—views that previously supported historical narrative but that were progressively evolving toward deeper, more evocative criticisms. This developing narrative, at a distanced view, perhaps offered a mirrored understanding of then-contemporary African American
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Finding Oneself in Print: Robinson Crusoe, Metonymy, and the Ideologically Constructed Self Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Brian McCarty
Abstract: Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe dramatizes the extent to which the racism endemic to colonialist discourse mediates the titular character's interactions with his island environment, thus precluding the empiricism valued during the eighteenth century. While scholars often assert that Crusoe's discovery of the footprint initiates a drastic change in how he perceives the island, the footprint
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The Djamila Phenomenon: How the Confinement of Two Algerian Revolutionaries Was Translated for a French and Global Public, 1956–1962 Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Mary Anne Lewis Cusato
Abstract: Two female Algerian revolutionaries, Djamila Bouhired and Djamila Boupacha, both members of the Front de libération nationale (FLN), were captured by French troops in Algeria, tortured, tried, and sentenced to death, approximately three years apart. After their sentencings, both their cases would go abroad, moving from Algeria to France and from France elsewhere. It is the movement of these
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Housewives as New Women: Marital Relations and Domesticity in Vicki Baum's Zwischenfall in Lohwinckel (1930) Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Victoria Vygodskaia-Rust
Abstract: The period from 1928 to 1933 represents a decisive break in which both the political culture and the socioeconomic circumstances of the Weimar Republic changed dramatically and thus had a pronounced impact on the discourse about women's role in society. While the seductive and androgynously clad flapper dominated the image of modern femininity in the early 1920s, by the late 1920s and into
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Notes on Contributors Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2023-07-11
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Notes on Contributors MARY ANNE LEWIS CUSATO is an award-winning Associate Professor of World Languages and Cultures at Ohio Wesleyan University, where she directs the French Program and co-founded and co-directs the Palmer Global Scholars Program. Professor Cusato's teaching and scholarship focus on such phenomena as multiculturalism
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Introduction: Race, Ethnicity, and the Environment Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Matthew Lambert
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Introduction: Race, Ethnicity, and the Environment Matthew Lambert The year 2021 marked the tenth anniversary of editors Alison H. Deming and Lauret E. Savoy’s The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World. The essays that Deming and Savoy collect in this important anthology seek to expand traditional understandings of
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Conversion, Assimilation, or Sovereignty: Native Shape-Shifting and Settler Colonialism in James Fenimore Cooper's The Oak Openings Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Joel Wendland-Liu
Abstract: The Oak Openings documents, reproduces, and enforces a textual racial formation that strives to reconstruct and reshape a Native sovereign space of Anishinaabewaki into West Michigan. For Cooper, the transformation of the land, from “empty” to productive, anticipated a necessary conversion of Indigenous peoples to Christianity and assimilation of white civilization that forms the plot trajectory
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"What May Happen in a Field of Wild Oats": Ecogothic Retribution in "The Damned Thing" Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Joseph Hansen
Abstract: This essay explores the expression of two parallel anxieties in Ambrose Bierce’s 1893 “The Damned Thing.” The work depicts, in non-chronological order, a man’s struggle with and eventual defeat by a mysteriously invisible creature (“the Damned Thing”) that inhabits his Californian homestead. On its surface, the story is markedly ecophobic, and I conclude that Bierce’s intention was to unsettle
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Homeland Lost: Threats to the Subject-Land Continuum in Emilio Fernández's María Candelaria (1943) Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Stephanie Gates
Abstract: The process of urbanization creates a social reality of estrangement from the land and natural world. In the 1940s Mexicans abandoned rural spaces in dramatic numbers; this era exemplifies this modern condition of separation from nature, and its repercussions appear in Mexican cultural productions from this era. Now regarded as a masterpiece of Mexican Cinema, the film María Candelaria (1943)
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Introduction Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Eloise Sureau
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Introduction Eloise Sureau The inevitable presence of the Other, whether it be a separate entity or a fragment of the self, is an intrinsic part of being human. As the French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre rightfully states, "[t]he Other looks at me, and as such he holds the secret of my being, he knows what I am. Thus, the
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Doubling Down on Stupid: Direction, Misdirection, and Miscommunication in El castigo del penséque Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Robert L. Turner III
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Doubling Down on Stupid:Direction, Misdirection, and Miscommunication in El castigo del penséque Robert L. Turner III (bio) Although Tirso de Molina (1579–1648), pseudonym for the Mercedarian priest Gabriel Téllez, is best known as the author of El burlador de Sevilla (The Trickster of Seville) and El condenado por desconfiado (Damned
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Doubles in a Science Fiction Screenplay and Film: Alexander Payne's Downsizing as a Case Study in Doubling and Duality Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Laura L. Beadling
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Doubles in a Science Fiction Screenplay and Film:Alexander Payne's Downsizing as a Case Study in Doubling and Duality Laura L. Beadling (bio) Introduction Doubles have long been a fascination for all forms of cultural representations, from novels and poetry to films and graphic novels. From Dostoevsky's novella The Double to Anne Sexton's
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Palimpsests and Doubles: Echoes of The Rubáiyát in T. S. Eliot's Poetry after Vinnie-Marie D'Ambrosio Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Russell Brickey
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Palimpsests and Doubles:Echoes of The Rubáiyát in T. S. Eliot's Poetry after Vinnie-Marie D'Ambrosio Russell Brickey (bio) In his 1933 Norton Lecture "The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism,"1 T. S. Eliot related the following anecdote to explain his emergence as a poet: I can recall clearly enough the moment when, at the age of fourteen
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Using Literary Texts in Foundational Spanish Courses: Why I Teach "A Julia de Burgos" Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Colleen Scott
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Using Literary Texts in Foundational Spanish Courses:Why I Teach "A Julia de Burgos"1 Colleen Scott (bio) . . . yo iré en medio de ellas . . . —Julia de Burgos, "A Julia de Burgos" The poem "A Julia de Burgos" by the Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos clearly expresses the theme of duality and the double, specifically the battle between
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Practicing the Work of Worms: Lyric Voice and Grievable Lives in Solmaz Sharif's Look Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Maria Capecchi
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Practicing the Work of Worms:Lyric Voice and Grievable Lives in Solmaz Sharif's Look Maria Capecchi (bio) Solmaz Sharif's poetry book, Look, is a poignant work filled with carefully crafted lyric poems as well as an important analysis of the effects of war. Her poems break new poetic ground, using erasure tactics, a complex lyric "I,"
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Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil by Susan Neiman (review) Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Kurt Hollender
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil by Susan Neiman Kurt Hollender Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil. By Susan Neiman. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. 432 pp. Dr. Susan Neiman's Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil compares the public Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung (w
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The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis by Melissa J. Homestead (review) Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Kelsey Squire
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis by Melissa J. Homestead Kelsey Squire The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis. By Melissa J. Homestead. Oxford UP, 2021. 408 pp. Biographical approaches to literature rely so often on facts drawn
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In Search of the Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece by Salamishah Tillet (review) Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Courtney Walton
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: In Search of the Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece by Salamishah Tillet Courtney Walton In Search of the Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece. By Salamishah Tillet. Abrams Press, 2021. 224 pp. The book In Search of the Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece by Salamishah Tillet (2021)
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Introduction Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Eloise Sureau
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Introduction Eloise Sureau The inevitable presence of the Other, whether it be a separate entity or a fragment of the self, is an intrinsic part of being human. As the French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre rightfully states, "[t]he Other looks at me, and as such he holds the secret of my being, he knows what I am. Thus, the
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Doubling Down on Stupid: Direction, Misdirection, and Miscommunication in El castigo del penséque Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Robert L. Turner III
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Doubling Down on Stupid:Direction, Misdirection, and Miscommunication in El castigo del penséque Robert L. Turner III (bio) Although Tirso de Molina (1579–1648), pseudonym for the Mercedarian priest Gabriel Téllez, is best known as the author of El burlador de Sevilla (The Trickster of Seville) and El condenado por desconfiado (Damned
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Doubles in a Science Fiction Screenplay and Film: Alexander Payne's Downsizing as a Case Study in Doubling and Duality Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Laura L. Beadling
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Doubles in a Science Fiction Screenplay and Film:Alexander Payne's Downsizing as a Case Study in Doubling and Duality Laura L. Beadling (bio) Introduction Doubles have long been a fascination for all forms of cultural representations, from novels and poetry to films and graphic novels. From Dostoevsky's novella The Double to Anne Sexton's
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Palimpsests and Doubles: Echoes of The Rubáiyát in T. S. Eliot's Poetry after Vinnie-Marie D'Ambrosio Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Russell Brickey
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Palimpsests and Doubles:Echoes of The Rubáiyát in T. S. Eliot's Poetry after Vinnie-Marie D'Ambrosio Russell Brickey (bio) In his 1933 Norton Lecture "The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism,"1 T. S. Eliot related the following anecdote to explain his emergence as a poet: I can recall clearly enough the moment when, at the age of fourteen
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Using Literary Texts in Foundational Spanish Courses: Why I Teach "A Julia de Burgos" Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Colleen Scott
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Using Literary Texts in Foundational Spanish Courses:Why I Teach "A Julia de Burgos"1 Colleen Scott (bio) . . . yo iré en medio de ellas . . . —Julia de Burgos, "A Julia de Burgos" The poem "A Julia de Burgos" by the Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos clearly expresses the theme of duality and the double, specifically the battle between
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Practicing the Work of Worms: Lyric Voice and Grievable Lives in Solmaz Sharif's Look Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Maria Capecchi
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Practicing the Work of Worms:Lyric Voice and Grievable Lives in Solmaz Sharif's Look Maria Capecchi (bio) Solmaz Sharif's poetry book, Look, is a poignant work filled with carefully crafted lyric poems as well as an important analysis of the effects of war. Her poems break new poetic ground, using erasure tactics, a complex lyric "I,"
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Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil by Susan Neiman (review) Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Kurt Hollender
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil by Susan Neiman Kurt Hollender Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil. By Susan Neiman. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. 432 pp. Dr. Susan Neiman's Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil compares the public Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung (w
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The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis by Melissa J. Homestead (review) Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Kelsey Squire
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis by Melissa J. Homestead Kelsey Squire The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis. By Melissa J. Homestead. Oxford UP, 2021. 408 pp. Biographical approaches to literature rely so often on facts drawn
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In Search of the Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece by Salamishah Tillet (review) Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Courtney Walton
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: In Search of the Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece by Salamishah Tillet Courtney Walton In Search of the Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece. By Salamishah Tillet. Abrams Press, 2021. 224 pp. The book In Search of the Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece by Salamishah Tillet (2021)
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Introduction: In the Middle Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2022-07-07 John (Jack) D. Kerkering, Michelle Medeiros
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Introduction: In the Middle John (Jack) D. Kerkering and Michelle Medeiros The spring issue of the Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association is typically edited by one or more guest editors and dedicated to addressing a special topic, and this 2020 spring issue largely follows that precedent. We are two of five guest coeditors
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Equivalence, Excess, Ekke: Multilingual Poetics Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Joe DeLong
Abstract: South African–Canadian poet Klara du Plessis explains that in Afrikaans Ekke, the title of her first full-length poetry collection, is an emphatic form of the first-person singular pronoun ek. Ekke is predominantly in English, but a significant portion of the work is in other languages, primarily Afrikaans. As the back cover copy aptly states, Ekke “explores the multiplicity of self through
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Performing the Other: Masking and Cognition in Miguel de Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Tatevik Gyulamiryan
Abstract: In his Novelas ejemplares, Miguel de Cervantes masterfully uses masking as a vehicle for reinforcing theory of mind and false belief, thereby revealing his insight into cognition and the human condition. Various characters in his Novelas undergo premeditated or imposed identity change through transvestism, ennoblement, pauperization, or (de)humanization. Characters who withstand identity
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Prostitución y el imaginario de la blancura en el contexto brasileño finisecular: Análisis de O cortiço de Aluísio Azevedo Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Esther Teixeira
Abstract: The article examines O Cortico by Aluizio Azevedo to show how the portrayal of prostitution in the novel reveals a hierarchical racial logic among black, mulata and white women, which serves to highlight the importance of protecting the purity and chastity of Brazilian white women in the process of national consolidation. Through a detailed analysis of the main female characters (Bertoleza
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Midwestern Alchemy: The Global Context of a Small-Town Manuscript Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Fred Porcheddu, Jordan Cardinale, Bridget Koerwitz
Abstract: Our essay describes a previously unknown fifteenth-century alchemical manuscript in Denison University’s Special Collections, surveys its general position among the thousands of medieval text objects owned by smaller institutions in North America, and outlines the features of an interactive digital project to be constructed around it. The main text in the manuscript, John of Rupescissa’s
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The Language of Difference in Derrida's "How to Name": Effects of the Like / As Dyad Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Wilson Baldridge
Abstract: This article reviews Jacques Derrida’s readings of French poet Michel Deguy, notably Deguy’s 1966 prose poem dedicated to Dante, “Apparition of the Name,” with a focus on the “bivocality” of the French lexeme salut (salutation or salvation). Derrida’s essay, “How to Name,” has been of interest recently to scholars in furtherance of a militant atheism through Derrida’s deconstructive interpretation
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Animality, Masculinity, and Frontier Melodrama in Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Jordan Sillars
Abstract: In this article, the author argues that reading Yank Smith of Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape alongside parallel characters in nineteenth-century American melodrama highlights the stoker’s real, permanent alienation from his American context. Yank shares the animal associations and physical prowess that characterized the frontiersman of the melodramatic stage, but unlike those characters,
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The Interior Borderlands: Regional Identity in the Midwest and Great Plains ed. by Jon K. Lauck (review) Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Molly Becker
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Interior Borderlands: Regional Identity in the Midwest and Great Plains ed. by Jon K. Lauck Molly Becker The Interior Borderlands: Regional Identity in the Midwest and Great Plains. Edited by Jon K. Lauck. Center for Western Studies, 2019. 379 pp. “Establishing a boundary between the Great Plains and Midwest is tricky
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Learning Languages in Early Modern England by John Gallagher (review) Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Andrew Fleck
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Learning Languages in Early Modern England by John Gallagher Andrew Fleck Learning Languages in Early Modern England. By John Gallagher. Oxford University Press, 2019. 288 pp. The early modern English understood their language to have limited usefulness beyond the shores of Britain. Some English writers who hoped that their
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The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America by Anders Walker (review) Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Sherry Johnson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America by Anders Walker Sherry Johnson The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America. By Anders Walker. Yale University Press, 2018. 304 pp. God gave Noah the rainbow sign, No more water, the fire next time! —James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time From the blazing
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Memory, Intermediality, and Literature: "Something to Hold On To." by Sara Tanderup Linkis (review) Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Ellen Stenstrom
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Memory, Intermediality, and Literature: “Something to Hold On To.” by Sara Tanderup Linkis Ellen Stenstrom Memory, Intermediality, and Literature: “Something to Hold On To.” By Sara Tanderup Linkis. Routledge, 2019. 278 pp. Located at an innovative intersection of current scholarly trends in memory and material studies, Sara
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Introduction: Consuming Cultures Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Kathryn C. Dolan, Eloise Sureau
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Introduction:Consuming Cultures Kathryn C. Dolan and Eloise Sureau The 2018 Midwest Modern Language Association convention occurred in the wake of the #MeToo movement. The social concerns at the time were reflected at the convention, as the executive committee, in an effort to allow all participants to focus on their scholarship, worked
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Feasts, Family, and Fun: Food in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Alissa Burger
Abstract: In the article, the author considers the significance of food in J.K. Rowling'sHarryPotterseries. This analysis focuses on the importance of food in three distinct roles: theHogwarts feasts, which establish and celebrate communal magical identity; family mealslike those with the Weasleys and the Order of the Phoenix that emphasize familialinclusion and belonging; and fun, in the role of treats
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From the Lindy Hop to the Bunny Dip: Hugh Hefner's Jazz Age Redux Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Jessica McKee, Taylor Joy Mitchell
Abstract: As a jazz enthusiast, Hugh Hefner transferred the hedonistic dreams of the Jazz Age into a Playboy ethos. Most curious about Hefner's Jazz Age redux, however, is what is missing: the Flapper. This essay compares the Flapper, the Playboy, and his playmate the Bunny and argues that, in Hefner's re-creation, the figure of the Flapper has been consumed and recast as both the Playboy and the Bunny
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"Unmasking" Culture: Mardi Gras Indians and the Materiality of Re-presentation Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Sarah Hirsch
Abstract: The body's interaction with place leads to an embodied rhetoric that is tied to visual-material rhetoric in that it takes into account how the body interacts with the visual and material aspects of culture. With regard to the Mardi Gras Indian, the body is interacting and negotiating an interplay among various visual and material aspects of multiple cultures inherent to the Black experience
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The Literature of Protest and the Consumption of Activism Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Eric Leuschner
Abstract: With the recent surge in demonstrations and marches in the United States and around the world, literary representations of protest have started to appear more common. Novels such as Sunil Yapa's Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist (2016) and Dana Spiotta's Eat the Document (2006) can be usefully seen as examples of "the literature of protest," that is, fictional representations of protest
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Women at War: WWI, Patriarchy, and Conflict in Wonder Woman (2017) Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Zachary Michael Powell
Abstract: The essay starts with a simple premise: Why was Wonder Woman's twenty-first century take on this heralded comic book character that originated in 1941 set during the First World War? In collective memory and early popular WWI scholarship, the war has been represented through the stories of male soldiers while women are almost completely absent. In reviewing this memory, feminist scholars
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Du silence à la légitimation de soi Bon petit soldat de Mazarine Pingeot Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Béatrice Vernier
Abstract: This article examines the ways in which Mazarine Pingeot revisits her hidden childhood in her book Bon petit soldat, as her mother was the mistress of François Mitterrand, the French President at that time. When Pingeot was 19, the sudden disclosure of her filiation by a journalist drastically changed her relation to the public. She became a renowned person without her will and had to bear