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Field Station Bahia: Brazil in the Work of Lorenzo Dow Turner, E. Franklin Frazier and Frances and Melville Herskovits, 1935-1967 Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-17 Thomas Cryer
Published in Comparative American Studies An International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Life Lessons: Experiences of Gender Studies in Zines in the 1990s and 2000s Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Charlie Jeffries
The early years of gender studies in the US academy can be traced through their impact on zinesters, who parsed their interactions with these studies in their self-made and distributed publications...
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Press X to Pet: A Critical Analysis of Dog-Petting Mechanics in High-Profile (MMO)RPGS Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-07 Samantha Baugus
Within high-profile RPGs, dogs (and other nonhuman animals) often cannot be petted. This state of affairs has been changing, though, in response to player demand. In this article, I argue that play...
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Shark Tales: Hawaiian Epistemologies and Indigenous Resistance in Kiana Davenport’s Shark Dialogues and Kawai Strong Washburn’s Sharks in the Time of Saviors Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2023-12-17 Kirsten Møllegaard
The literary trope of the shark has been exploited as a symbol of monstrosity in classic Western literature, from the great sea novels by Herman Melville, Jules Verne, and Ernest Hemingway to Peter...
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Yes, Die Hard is a Christmas Movie: A Semantic, Syntactic, Pragmatic Approach to Resolve the Debate Over Die Hard’s Genre Status Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Nathan Scoll
Sometime early in the second decade of the 21st Century, many people began taking to their holiday Facebook statuses, dating app profiles and other social media to make would-be clever remarks abou...
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Introduction: Christmas Studies, American Studies, Area Studies Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Thomas Ruys Smith
Published in Comparative American Studies An International Journal (Vol. 20, No. 3-4, 2023)
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Domestication Western-Style: Fantasies of Harmony and the Violence of Plasticity in Mary O’Hara’s My Friend Flicka Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Justyna Włodarczyk
Historically, animal characters and animal-child encounters in children’s narratives have served largely metaphorical functions. More recently, scholars have become interested in exploring literary...
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Animal Ownership and Ecological Consciousness in Three American Horror Texts Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Evert Jan van Leeuwen
This essay explores three popular horror narratives’ engagement with the commodification and exploitation of animals within American society. It reveals that the attitude towards animals as commodi...
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Brom Bones Meets the Count de Buffon: Race, Biopower, and Natural History in ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’ Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Theo Joy Campbell
In Washington Irving’s short story ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’, animals are everywhere and almost seem interchangeable with humans. Nevertheless, the story’s pervasive animal imagery has received...
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Canary in a Coal Mine: From Mine Safety Technique to Animal Metaphor (Animals Special Issue) Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Brian James Leech
In the early twentieth-century coal miners used canaries to detect the presence of poisonous gases underground. Miners treasured canaries for their cheer, partnership, and assistance. This safety p...
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‘Tis the Season?: The Context and Significance of the “War on Christmas” Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Emma Long
Claims about a war being waged on Christmas have become a staple of the American holiday season. Yet before 2004 the ‘War on Christmas’ was almost entirely non-existent. From where did the ‘War on ...
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‘The Most Famous Outlaw in the Whole USA’: Parody, Performance and the Nuancing of Jane Russell’s Persona in Her Early Western Promotion Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Ellen Wright
This paper examines the star figure, both literally and figuratively, of Jane Russell, a glamorous Hollywood actress, singer, dancer and comedienne who first rose to American public prominence thro...
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Searching for Black Santa: The Contested History of an American Holiday Tradition Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-02 E. James West
This article explores the contested history and complex politics of the Black Santa in the United States from the antebellum period to the present day. For white journalists and entertainers during...
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Outlaw Trails: New Routes Through the Postwar Western Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Helena Bacon, Mark Jancovich
Published in Comparative American Studies An International Journal (Vol. 20, No. 2, 2023)
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‘Now I Have a Machine Gun, Ho-Ho-Ho’: Masculinity, Family, and Redemptive Violence in Home Alone and Die Hard Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Melodie Roschman
In a 2017 article for the comedy website Cracked, Christopher Daed argues that “Die Hard and Home Alone are the EXACT same movie.” Daed was not the first to make this connection: a cursory search r...
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‘The Santy Claus myth’: The Politicisation of Santa Claus During the Great Depression Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Jack Hodgson
This article argues that the commercial celebration of Christmas and children’s reverence to Santa Claus became politically contentious during the Great Depression when well-established Christmas t...
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Selling Santa: How Miracle on 34th Street Stole (And Rebranded) Christmas Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Vaughn Joy
American Christmas traditions developed throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as an amalgamation of various communities’ customs, media representations of the holiday, and civic celebra...
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Winter Wonderlands: Outdoor Adventure and the Reinvention of Christmas, 1870–1900 Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Malcolm McLaughlin
For many Americans, Christmas became inextricably linked to a celebration of the outdoor life in the latter decades of the nineteenth century. Earlier generations of genteel folk in New York had ta...
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The Distribution, Exhibition, and Reception of John Ford’s Cavalry Trilogy in Madrid Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Carlos Menéndez-Otero
The article uses data from the Spanish Virtual Library of Historical Newspapers (BVPH) and the digital archive of the Madrid daily ABC to trace the promotion and theatrical run of John Ford’s Caval...
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Home on the Range: Reshaping Narratives of Domesticity in Marilyn Monroe’s Westerns Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2023-09-10 Amanda Konkle
Although Marilyn Monroe is not best remembered for her performances in westerns, she starred in three: River of No Return (Otto Preminger, 1954), Bus Stop (Joshua Logan, 1956), and The Misfits (Joh...
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Town Savior or Scourge? Asian Identity in the Western and Generic Reversal in 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964) Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Lance Lomax
The often-racist portrayals of Asians in Hollywood productions of the 1950s and 1960s and earlier decades constitutes one facet of a double-bind within which Asian Americans have historically found...
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Discovering the Living Fossil Short Story in the Late Nineteenth Century Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Richard Fallon
ABSTRACT The founders of cryptozoology in the 1950s implied that their objects of investigation, animals elsewhere presumed mythical or extinct, were beyond respectable science. Back in the late eighteenth century, Thomas Jefferson had been by no means idiosyncratic in believing that American fossils represented living animals. The subsequent near-consensus regarding extinction was, moreover, complicated
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A Christmas Carol In Nineteenth-Century America, 1844-1870 Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Thomas Ruys Smith
Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol retains a profound presence in Transatlantic seasonal celebrations and the popular image of the festive period. While the book’s reception in the United Kingdom ...
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Introduction: Age(ing) in America Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Danielle Cameron
Published in Comparative American Studies An International Journal (Vol. 20, No. 1, 2023)
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‘Every Child Rises Early on Christmas Morning to See the Johnkannaus’ [Harriet Jacobs]: The Competing Meanings of Christmas for the Enslaved in North Carolina Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Rebecca J. Fraser
Drawing on archival material from slaveholding families in North Carolina and the narratives of formerly enslaved in the State, the John Kooner parades and other Christmas festivities are employed ...
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“A Commission from Heaven”: The Legacy of Lorenzo de Zavala’s Enlightenment Discourse on Texas Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Stefan Roel Reyes
ABSTRACT This article examines how Texan Revolutionaries portrayed the Texas Revolution as a struggle for modernity. In particular, numerous Anglo-Texans created a narrative in which they cast Santa Anna at the helm of a counter-enlightenment restoring Ancien Régime values. The Revolutionaries drew upon the discourse of the Mexican politician and Texas co-founder Lorenzo de Zavala. This article contests
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‘Don’t Be Disrespectful, Young ‘Un!’: Grandpa Jones and Age Masquerade in Country Music Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Simon Buck
ABSTRACT From the 1930s to 1950s, dozens of country musicians ‘aged-up’ by drawing on wrinkles, wearing gray wigs, and behaving like ‘old-timers’. Taking as its case study the Kentuckian musician and radio entertainer Louis Marshall ‘Grandpa’ Jones, this article unpacks the phenomenon of age masquerade in mid-twentieth-century country music. Although best remembered as a cast member of the early 1970s
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‘Plug It Up!’: The Traumatic Female Coming-of-Age Story in Stephen King’s Carrie and It Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Laura Mulcahy
ABSTRACT This article interrogates the idea of female puberty being presented as a traumatic experience in Stephen King’s Carrie (1974) and It (1986). As a point of contrast, there is a brief examination of how King portrays the coming-of-age tale in ‘The Body’ (Different Seasons, 1982) for his young male protagonists – even when death or the supernatural is concerned, coming of age is depicted as
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‘No Such Thing as Unending Sunshine’: The Deflation of Postfeminism in Emma Cline’s ‘Los Angeles’ Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2023-01-22 Marni Appleton
ABSTRACT In neoliberal societies, our personal lives are increasingly subject to market logics. Feminism has become less a social force for critiquing sexism and violence against women and girls; rather, a consumer force in which feminist vocabulary is commodified, and the ability to extract profit from one’s own bodily femininity is situated as a signifier of empowerment. In this context, women’s
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‘I Hated Adult Hospitals, and Adult Medicine and Adult Patients’: Chris Adrian’s ‘A Better Angel’ and American Medicine’s Anxious Relationship to Ageing Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2023-01-20 Maggie Selby
ABSTRACT American author-physician Chris Adrian’s short story ‘A Better Angel’ (2006) explores US healthcare’s problematic relationship to ageing and death and how this is shaped by its ‘cultural infatuation with youth’. The story follows the immature and feckless Dr Carl as he becomes a reluctant companion to his dying father. Paediatrician Carl is a junkie who has cheated his way through medical
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Forest and Dream: Adventure, Nostalgia, and the Making of a Sporting-Tourist’s America, 1873-1890 Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2023-01-17 Malcolm McLaughlin
ABSTRACT In the Gilded Age of the 1870s and 1880s, in the decades between the Civil War and the closing of the Western frontier, the pioneering, New York-based outdoor-sports magazine Forest and Stream made an essential contribution to a larger cultural reimagining of America. For its readers, the magazine was an important source of practical advice, but its accounts of outdoor pursuits in wild landscapes
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Re-Thinking the Hollywood Western of the Fifties: Delmer Daves’ Masculinities Trilogy Jubal (1956), 3:10 to Yuma (1957), and Cowboy (1958) Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Brian Faucette
ABSTRACT The essay examines three films that Hollywood director Delmer Daves made in the mid-1950s—Jubal, 3:10 to Yuma and Cowboy—all of which starred Glenn Ford. The pairing of Ford and Daves, the essay argues, allowed Daves to re-think the Hollywood Westerns of the 1930s and 1940s, especially regarding questions around gender identity and representation of genders, that of the Western man. In doing
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Reckoning with Western Nostalgia Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Malcolm McLaughlin, John Wills
Published in Comparative American Studies An International Journal (Vol. 19, No. 4, 2022)
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Turn West: Finding and Defining the Transnational in California Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2022-12-10 Michael Docherty
ABSTRACT In introducing this special issue of Comparative American Studies, this essay traces a history of attempts to define and practice a transnational American studies, and suggests that such efforts face inherent and perhaps intractable difficulties. It then explains this issue’s rationale for approaching the culture, literature, and history of California through a transnational lens, proposing
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In a Different Light: Performative ‘Power’ Generation of the Historic Light Show at Grand Coulee Dam Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2022-12-10 George S. Jaramillo
ABSTRACT The Grand Coulee Dam light show is an audio-visual spectacle unique to the Bureau of Reclamation and the US Federal Government. Its life began as a display of abstract-coloured lights illuminating the falling waters of the dam’s spillways. Its production spans more than 60 years of inspiring people on the history, construction and wonder that is the Grand Coulee Dam, yet the light show or
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The Historical Environment as Aged Icon in the Gamed West Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Jeffrey Lawler
ABSTRACT As far back as Theodore Roosevelt or Owen Wister and his novel of western grit and masculinity, The Virginian, the American West has been charged with an evocative sense: as virtue, as place, as image. In this paper, I argue that the image, as place and virtue, is exhibited in video games through a built environment that contains the ideas and meaning of the ‘Old West’ and the imagined past
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California Treason: Halldór Laxness and Upton Sinclair Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2022-11-27 Jodie Childers
ABSTRACT Years before he attained international acclaim, the Icelandic author Halldór Laxness spent almost three years in the United States; however, few scholars in American studies have delved into Laxness’s pivotal experience in California or his consequential literary encounter with Upton Sinclair. Using American and Icelandic sources, this article maps Laxness’s travels through a transnational
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Do Android Detectives Dream of Electric Cowboys? Western Retrofuturity in Blade Runner 2049 Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Michael Docherty
ABSTRACT This article proposes that although Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 is, like the 1982 Ridley Scott film to which it is a sequel, most obviously located within the genres of science fiction and neo-noir, it in fact engages extensively with the history of the Western genre. Villeneuve’s film, I argue, is a crypto-Western, recuperating Western conventions within the aesthetic superstructure
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‘They Don’t Make Anything Like They Used To’: Visual, Narrative, and Ideological Nostalgia for the West(ern) in Westworld (2016) Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Stefan Schubert, Eleonora Ravizza
ABSTRACT In this article, we examine the first season of HBO’s TV show Westworld (2016-present) to analyse whether and how it imagines the American West nostalgically. From the perspective of (American) literary and cultural studies, we introduce a concept of nostalgia as a cultural style that understands nostalgia as situated on a continuum, as potentially located on a cultural artefact or text’s
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From American California to Californian America: internal Transnationalism and Settler-Colonial Expansion Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Nathaniel Sikand-Youngs
ABSTRACT Transnationalism is largely understood as a cross-national or international phenomenon, but the globalising forces of imperialism, capitalism, and decolonisation also undermine national hegemony from within the nation itself. This underexamined concept of ‘internal transnationalism’ is vital to settler-colonial spaces like California in its early US statehood, where national sovereignty is
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Sex, Profit, and Political Power: California and Its Influence on Paris’s Queer Business, Press and Politics in the Late 1970s and 80s Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2022-11-16 George Katito
ABSTRACT In late 1970s Paris, San Francisco Nights and Far West, popular institutions in the city’s new queer nightlife, helped fashion new sexual norms. They were part of a constellation of California-inspired places that stimulated new imaginings of how queerness could be expressed and embodied. Indeed, large Californian cities, San Francisco in particular, provided a profit model based on queer
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Nostalgia for the Old West in Knott’s Berry Farm, Orange County, California Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2022-11-11 John Wills
Published in Comparative American Studies An International Journal (Vol. 19, No. 4, 2022)
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With and Beyond Los Angeles’s Daddy Tank: Gender, Confinement, and Queer Desire Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Dan Bustillo
ABSTRACT This article outlines a carceral history of Los Angeles through the policing of gender, and in particular, the policing of queer brown masculinity. It traces the twinned regimes of gender and prison in Los Angeles to Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo’s 16th century colonial fiction about the capture of a gender nonconforming warrior queen Calafia, who ruled the mythical island of California. The
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Shifting Ideologies in Russian Cinematic Representations of California: Astrakhan in 1995 Vs. Molochnikov in 2020 Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Dr. Rachel Stauffer
ABSTRACT In Russian films depicting the 1990s, the theme of emigration emerged as an escape from the unstable, uncertain, and unfamiliar political, social, and economic conditions of transition. Western destinations, especially California, represented an idealised alternative to life in transitional, unpredictable Russia. Through examination of two films, one from 1995, Dmitrii Astrakhan’s Everything
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The Transnational Defence of Mexican American Children’s Rights in Depression-era California Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2022-09-27 Jack Hodgson
ABSTRACT This article is a comparative event study of a series of children’s rights disputes concerning the Mexican American community in California during the Great Depression. To stand up against abuses in reformatory schools, eugenic sterilisation and school segregation, Mexican Americans pursued a variety of strategies which reflected the dualities of Mexican American identities. These events demonstrate
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Of Martyrs and “Social Dynamites”: The Ghadar and IWW in California Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2022-09-26 Soham Deb Barman
ABSTRACT In the early decades of the twentieth century, the Pacific West Coast of the USA gradually turned into a hotbed of Indian anti-colonial activity. California, in particular, became a point of convergence for Bengali radicals/intellectuals and Punjabi migrant workers. The Ghadar would gradually emerge in 1913 out of the interactions between these two elements. My paper is animated by the understanding
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California Literature and the Geography of Power Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2022-09-04 Molly Crumpton Winter
ABSTRACT This essay considers how California novelists have depicted the state as a locale of defeat – where, if you are on the wrong side of history, the land can be stolen out from under you. The first part of this article considers several early novels that address the 19th-Century power struggles of the state: The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta,, Ramona, The Squatter and the Don, and The
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The Legacy of Gilman’s Wallpaper in James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room and Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘A Temporary Matter’ Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Ruth Maxey
ABSTRACT This essay considers the literary legacy of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ (1892) by arguing that the ‘papered wall’ continues to signify confinement and trauma in the Paris of James Baldwin's novel Giovanni’s Room (1956) and the Boston of Jhumpa Lahiri’s short story ‘A Temporary Matter’ (1999). In the first essay to analyse these three texts together, I contend that such
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Planetary Los Angeles: Climate Realism and Transnational Narrative in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island (2019) Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2022-08-21 Edwin Gilson
ABSTRACT This essay argues that the fire-plagued Los Angeles of Amitav Ghosh’s 2019 novel Gun Island functions as a device to illuminate the planetary processes and continuities of climate change and the Anthropocene. I demonstrate the ways in which Ghosh makes metaphorical connections between the disparate settings of his novel – particularly L.A and the Sundarbans delta in the Bay of Bengal – to
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Novel Climates, National Catharsis: Local vs. Global Environmentalism in Californian Cli-Fi Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2022-06-30 Kristin J Jacobson
ABSTRACT California occupies a special place within contemporary American climate fiction and environmental history. It provides the key setting for cli-fi novels such as Edan Lepucki’s California (2014), Claire Vaye Watkins’s Gold Fame Citrus (2015), T.C. Boyle’s When the Killings Done (2011) and A Friend of the Earth (2000), Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Water Knife (2015), and Octavia E. Butler’s Parable
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Novel Climates, National Catharsis: Local vs. Global Environmentalism in Californian Cli-Fi Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2022-06-30 Kristin J. Jacobson
ABSTRACT California occupies a special place within contemporary American climate fiction and environmental history. It provides the key setting for cli-fi novels such as Edan Lepucki’s California (2014), Claire Vaye Watkins’s Gold Fame Citrus (2015), T.C. Boyle’s When the Killings Done (2011) and A Friend of the Earth (2000), Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Water Knife (2015), and Octavia E. Butler’s Parable
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Introduction: Black Female Intellectuals in Historical and Contemporary Context Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2022-05-04 Rebecca J. Fraser, Imaobong D. Umoren
(2022). Introduction: Black Female Intellectuals in Historical and Contemporary Context. Comparative American Studies An International Journal: Vol. 19, Black Female Intellectuals in Historical and Contemporary Context, pp. 1-5.
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Introduction: Black Female Intellectuals in Historical and Contemporary Context Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2022-05-04 Rebecca J. Fraser, Imaobong D. Umoren
(2022). Introduction: Black Female Intellectuals in Historical and Contemporary Context. Comparative American Studies An International Journal: Vol. 19, Black Female Intellectuals in Historical and Contemporary Context, pp. 1-5.
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Teaching transnational Morrison: curation and comparative American studies Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Hilary Emmett
ABSTRACT This article is the edited text of a talk given in May 2021 for the AHRC-funded Black Female Intellectuals network. It argues that through comparative, transnational work American Studies scholars can widen the definition of who is considered a Black Female Intellectual first in terms of what we understand to be public intellectual work and also in terms of who American Studies scholars recognise
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Teaching transnational Morrison: curation and comparative American studies Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Hilary Emmett
ABSTRACT This article is the edited text of a talk given in May 2021 for the AHRC-funded Black Female Intellectuals network. It argues that through comparative, transnational work American Studies scholars can widen the definition of who is considered a Black Female Intellectual first in terms of what we understand to be public intellectual work and also in terms of who American Studies scholars recognise
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Antebellum America for German Immigrants: Thérèse Robinson von Jacob and Talvi‘s The Exiles (1853) Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2022-02-28 James Emmett Ryan
ABSTRACT The career of German writer Talvi (Thérèse Albertine Luise von Jacob Robinson [1797–1870]) illustrates her strong engagement with the intellectual and elite literary scenes of nineteenth-century Europe and America. This essay reviews her family background and early literary activities in Europe, while noting her extraordinary career as a language scholar, novelist, poet, translator, ethnologist
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Antebellum America for German Immigrants: Thérèse Robinson von Jacob and Talvi‘s The Exiles (1853) Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2022-02-28 James Emmett Ryan
ABSTRACT The career of German writer Talvi (Thérèse Albertine Luise von Jacob Robinson [1797–1870]) illustrates her strong engagement with the intellectual and elite literary scenes of nineteenth-century Europe and America. This essay reviews her family background and early literary activities in Europe, while noting her extraordinary career as a language scholar, novelist, poet, translator, ethnologist
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Black women’s complicated laughter and Toni Morrison’s post-migration novels Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2022-02-20 Tessa Roynon
ABSTRACT Toni Morrison is not conventionally viewed as a humourist or comic novelist; her chosen subject-matter has inevitably led critics to explore the bleak, tragic and painful dimensions of her writing.Her deployment of both comic anger and of the absurd dimensions of black American history, however, has yet to be properly recognised. This article does not seek to demonstrate Morrison’s place within
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Black women’s complicated laughter and Toni Morrison’s post-migration novels Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2022-02-20 Tessa Roynon
ABSTRACT Toni Morrison is not conventionally viewed as a humourist or comic novelist; her chosen subject-matter has inevitably led critics to explore the bleak, tragic and painful dimensions of her writing.Her deployment of both comic anger and of the absurd dimensions of black American history, however, has yet to be properly recognised. This article does not seek to demonstrate Morrison’s place within
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Lifting the veil on Mary McLeod Bethune’s contribution to American historiography: the first African American woman in the statuary hall collection in Washington D.C Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Fatma Ramdani
ABSTRACT This chapter seeks to complete the historiography on the hitherto unacknowledged dimension of Bethune’s intellectual endeavours and contribution to American history and culture. It will interrogate Bethune’s contribution to a more racialised and gendered narrative of American history which exemplifies the resistance and agency of her practice of history. Her exceptional trajectory will demonstrate