Pub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.5325/reception.14.1.0042
D. Miyao
A discernible identity of the Japanese American film audience coalesced at a pivotal moment in the history of Japanese immigrants in the United States. That audience formed amidst a discrete event in early American cinema, the release of Cecil B. DeMille’s The Cheat in December 1915. The social construction of that audience emerged as a result of both the historical forces and the public discourses at work: 1) the social circumstances, particularly on the West Coast of the United States, involving intensifying racist thinking; and 2) the discursive event that was negotiated publicly as a controversial response to The Cheat in Japanese American publications. The production of a Japanese American film audience was inevitable by the mid-1910s, and The Cheat was the nodal point. Still, the public controversy over The Cheat in the important Japanese American newspaper Rafu Shimpo made the formation of such a filmgoing identity complicit and transparent.
在日本移民美国历史上的关键时刻，日裔美国电影观众的一种明显的身份融合在一起。1915年12月，塞西尔·b·德米尔(Cecil B. DeMille)的《骗子》(the Cheat)上映，这是美国早期电影史上的一个独立事件。观众的社会建构是历史力量和公共话语共同作用的结果:1)社会环境，特别是在美国西海岸，涉及种族主义思想的加剧;2)在日裔美国人的出版物中，作为对《欺骗》的有争议的回应而公开协商的话语事件。到20世纪10年代中期，日裔美国人电影观众的产生是不可避免的，而《骗子》是一个转折点。尽管如此，日裔美国人重要报纸《拉夫新报》(Rafu Shimpo)对《欺骗》(the Cheat)的公开争议，使这种观影身份的形成变得复杂而透明。
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Pub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.5325/reception.14.1.0005
Zénó Vernyik
This article analyzes the immediate critical reception of Arthur Koestler’s Arrival and Departure. The third novel published in his lifetime, it was the first Koestler wrote in English. Although a commercial success, his biographies disagree on the novel’s critical reception: some claim it was a success, others talk of a reserved or hostile reception. As a part of an ongoing larger project, the present article shows, based on the analysis of sixty reviews published between 1943 and 1946, that the novel had an unqualified critical success. Further, through comparing this reception to that of Thieves in the Night, it pinpoints that Arrival and Departure is both comparatively less obscure than Thieves in the Night, and, unlike in the case of the other novel, the contemporary status of Arrival and Departure is not the result of an uncritical rehashing of old critical remarks. This quantitatively informed treatment is then juxtaposed to a discussion of three specific claims of the early reviews (flat characters, weak plot, and a polemical structure) in terms of their connection to the book’s genre. Finally, the paper emphasizes that regardless of the iconic status of Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler clearly should not be considered as a one-book wonder.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.5325/reception.14.1.0022
Erin A. Smith
David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon is a generic hybrid: literary journalism, true crime tale of the Wild West, and whodunit. I argue that the activation of different sets of reader expectations for these genres gives it an extraordinarily powerful political impact. Based on reviews and reader responses on Amazon and Goodreads and on the genre characteristics of the narrative itself, I make the case that Grann satisfies readers’ expectations for formula Westerns and classical detective stories in the first two parts (i.e., solving the crime and arresting the bad guy), only to undermine them in the final section, in which just about all the white citizens in the county emerge as complicit with the crimes. Further, Killers of the Flower Moon–like many true-crime stories–offers a feminist critique of the romance plot by unveiling how happily-ever-after marriages can turn violent and abusive for women.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.5325/reception.14.1.0092
C. Mahoney
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Pub Date : 2021-07-10DOI: 10.5325/reception.13.1.0076
Patrocinio P. Schweickart
abstract:The Resisting Reader by Judith Fetterley is a groundbreaking critique of the American literary canon that put together two major critical movements of the 1970s—feminist criticism and reception theory. Fetterley demonstrated how canonical American texts are “designed” to “immasculate” women readers, to compel them to identify with a male point of view, one of whose tenets is the designation of woman as other. Fetterley inspired the author to examine how women read women’s texts and to formulate a theory of careful, responsible reading that does justice to the communicative project embodied in the text.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-10DOI: 10.5325/reception.13.1.0061
Bona
abstract:This article highlights three ways in which Fetterley’s feminist methodology anticipated intersectional praxis and enabled my own critiques of how American writers disguised and reified violent erasures of gender, class, and race. First, it highlights the misogyny extant in the Italian-American literary tradition, epitomized by Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, in ways that recall Fetterley’s analysis of The Great Gatsby. Second, it argues that Fetterley’s attention to the violent erasure of gender paved the way for thinking about the effacement of race as examined by Toni Morrison in Playing in the Dark. Third, it suggests that The Resisting Reader produced the conditions for a feminist methodology embracing interdisciplinary scholarship on race, class, and citizenship.
本文强调了费特利的女权主义方法论预见了交叉实践的三种方式，并使我能够批评美国作家如何掩饰和具体化对性别、阶级和种族的暴力抹去。首先，它突出了意大利裔美国文学传统中存在的厌女症，马里奥·普佐(Mario Puzo)的《教父》(the Godfather)就是一个缩影，其方式让人想起费特利(Fetterley)对《了不起的盖茨比》(the Great Gatsby)的分析。其次，它认为费特利对暴力抹杀性别的关注为托尼·莫里森(Toni Morrison)在《黑暗中玩耍》(Playing in the Dark)中对种族抹杀的思考铺平了道路。第三，它表明《抗拒的读者》为女权主义方法论创造了条件，包括种族、阶级和公民身份方面的跨学科研究。
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Pub Date : 2021-07-10DOI: 10.5325/reception.13.1.0084
Mccallum
abstract:Situates the reception of The Resisting Reader in context of my own experience with feminism in the academy and conducts a close reading of a racial slur that troubles the book and its reception today.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-10DOI: 10.5325/reception.13.1.0024
Charlene Avallone
abstract:An analysis of the reviews of The Resisting Reader and of early academic responses shows that literary and feminist scholars quickly welcomed the work, while reader studies came more slowly to a positive appreciation of it. Judith Fetterley’s theory of feminist resistant reading has extended across multiple fields and outside of the academy to become newly relevant today.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-10DOI: 10.5325/reception.13.1.0041
Susan Kress
abstract:
Personal reminiscences about author Judith Fetterley and personal responses to her book, The Resisting Reader.
对作家朱迪思·费特利的个人回忆以及对她的著作《抗拒的读者》的个人回应。
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