Review of: The California Gothic in Fiction and Film, Bernice Murphy (2022) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 320 pp., ISBN 978-1-47449-786-2, h/bk, £90.00
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This article examines the gendered experience of labour in the North American university to theorize its implications for the production of autobiographical writing. Drawing on the work of Dodie Bellamy, Roxane Gay and Heidi Julavits, I make a specifically feminist argument about time, precarity and value in academia, arguing that the job of writing creatively in the academy is complicated by the invisibilization of education and administration as well as the preponderance of women and minorities in non-permanent and therefore precarious academic roles. The authors discussed in this article all play with supposedly marginal literary forms like the diary, personal essay or blog to trouble the institutional overvaluing of canonical work and destabilize what Sarah Sharma calls a ‘patriarchal temporality’ that designates their work and lives as marginal. With a particular focus on Bellamy, who documents her repeated denial of tenure in personal and often sexually explicit writing, I want to interrogate the peculiar circularity of narrating experiences of overwork, insecurity and discrimination in the body of a text that might be read by current or future employers, as women translate their personal and leisure time into new forms of workplace productivity and commit further areas of their life to the university without the promise of liberation from or reform of its oppressive structures.
{"title":"‘Never enough, never enough’: Institutional autobiography and gendered labour in contemporary North American women’s writing1","authors":"R. Sykes","doi":"10.1386/ejac_00085_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ejac_00085_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the gendered experience of labour in the North American university to theorize its implications for the production of autobiographical writing. Drawing on the work of Dodie Bellamy, Roxane Gay and Heidi Julavits, I make a specifically feminist argument about time, precarity and value in academia, arguing that the job of writing creatively in the academy is complicated by the invisibilization of education and administration as well as the preponderance of women and minorities in non-permanent and therefore precarious academic roles. The authors discussed in this article all play with supposedly marginal literary forms like the diary, personal essay or blog to trouble the institutional overvaluing of canonical work and destabilize what Sarah Sharma calls a ‘patriarchal temporality’ that designates their work and lives as marginal. With a particular focus on Bellamy, who documents her repeated denial of tenure in personal and often sexually explicit writing, I want to interrogate the peculiar circularity of narrating experiences of overwork, insecurity and discrimination in the body of a text that might be read by current or future employers, as women translate their personal and leisure time into new forms of workplace productivity and commit further areas of their life to the university without the promise of liberation from or reform of its oppressive structures.","PeriodicalId":35235,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of American Culture","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41611275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Black Trans Feminism, Marquis Bey (2021)","authors":"M. Kosma","doi":"10.1386/ejac_00082_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ejac_00082_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Black Trans Feminism, Marquis Bey (2021)\u0000Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 304 pp.,\u0000ISBN 978-1-47801-781-3, h/bk, $104.95","PeriodicalId":35235,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of American Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43503767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The article is a case study of James Blish’s short story adaptation of the Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS) episode ‘Balance of Terror’, originally a pacifist narrative focused on tragic choices forced upon individuals. The episode is notable not only for introducing Romulans to the franchise but also for painting them in an unexpectedly sympathetic light as the extratextual power struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union is criticized by means of cognitive estrangement. The hegemonic tenor of the submarine film subgenre the episode emulates becomes quickly subverted as both sides of the conflict are given a voice, and the eventual victory of Captain Kirk is painted almost as a moral defeat. Blish’s adaptation is a testimony to the misinterpretation of TOS. Blish did not translate an SF story into another medium but rewrote it into a war narrative while not changing any major events, taking the episode at face value and apparently not noticing the allegory on which it was founded. This case serves as an example of how easily a subversive narrative can be co-opted the moment genre is misidentified.
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Review of: Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State, Moon-Ho Jung (2022) Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 368 pp., ISBN 978-0-52026-748-0, h/bk, £24.00
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The alternate realities and imagined futures of speculative fiction provide a rich source of material through which to interrogate our views of history, elucidate our contemporary cultural milieu and chart what we see as possible. This article attends to the politics of Indigenous–Settler relations through an engagement with speculative fiction. Spatially and temporally located in the country now called Canada in the twenty-first century, the work centres on a conversation between the author, a Settler Canadian, and writer, playwright and humourist, Drew Hayden Taylor, from the Curve Lake First Nation. A full transcript of the conversation, edited for length and clarity, is provided. In it, Taylor describes his speculative writing practice and engagement with Indigenous futures. The article concludes with the author’s reflection on the process of decolonization, situating engagement in Indigenous futurisms as a step in this process.
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Review of: Gender in Post-9/11 American Apocalyptic TV: Representations of Masculinity and Femininity at the End of the World, Eve Bennett (2019) New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 224 pp., ISBN 978-1-50133-108-4, h/bk, £110.00, p/bk, £29.99
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Research within Terror Management Theory (TMT), an approach established by Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski and Sheldon Solomon, suggests that the widespread current sense of impending doom and its accompanying political limbo is due to a pervasive death anxiety that has been shown to increase bigoted behaviours. This article addresses how the first season of Russian Doll, a Netflix show created by Natasha Lyonne, Leslye Headland and Amy Poehler in 2019, engages with the notion of time loops and multiverses triggered by death and thus imaginatively confronts the audience with mortality and the search for meaning in the face of the inevitable. This article argues that Russian Doll positions a collaborative approach to meaning making in the face of death as a way to overcome the more politically destructive facets of death anxiety. The protagonists cope with their mortality through fostering strong, positive relationships and overcoming their unresolved emotional issues, thereby creating meaningful lives for themselves.
Jeff Greenberg、Tom Pyszczynski和Sheldon Solomon建立的恐怖管理理论（TMT）研究表明，当前普遍存在的末日即将来临的感觉及其伴随的政治困境是由于普遍存在的死亡焦虑，这种焦虑已被证明会增加偏执行为。这篇文章讲述了由Natasha Lyonne、Leslye Headland和Amy Poehler于2019年创作的Netflix电视剧《俄罗斯娃娃》第一季如何融入死亡引发的时间循环和多元宇宙的概念，从而富有想象力地面对观众的死亡和在不可避免的情况下寻找意义。这篇文章认为，俄罗斯娃娃将在死亡面前创造意义的合作方法定位为克服死亡焦虑中更具政治破坏性的方面的一种方式。主人公通过培养牢固、积极的关系和克服未解决的情感问题来应对死亡，从而为自己创造有意义的生活。
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Speculative fiction has always been political, showcasing diversity and interrogating both current events and larger questions of humanity and society. The articles in this Special Issue, coming out of the annual conference of the German Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung in 2020, discuss a variety of different approaches.
投机小说一直是政治性的，展示了多样性，并质疑了时事以及人类和社会的更大问题。本期特刊中的文章来自2020年德国Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung年会，讨论了各种不同的方法。
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In Stephanie Saulter’s 2013 debut novel Gemsigns, a pandemic known as ‘the Syndrome’ has wiped out most of humanity. To cope with the sudden loss of most of their work force, bioengineering companies have modified human genes to create genetically altered workers, the so-called gems. For more than a hundred years, gems have been the property of the company that created them, but as the gems have become more and more advanced in their cognitive skills, calls for their emancipation arose, until gem enslavement is eventually abolished. This article reads Gemsigns as a warning against how bioengineering can be employed to reaffirm racialized hierarchies with racialization working as a technology for oppression. The enslavement of gems does not merely replace older forms of economic exploitation of oppressed groups but is firmly rooted in real-world power structures, thereby addressing the exceptional vulnerability of marginalized people to be commodified by technological progress instead of profiting from it. I further suggest that Gemsigns uses its post-abolition setting to illustrate that the struggles for equality of formerly enslaved people do not simply end with the official abolishment of enslavement.
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