Pub Date : 2023-05-10DOI: 10.22439/asca.v55i1.6859
S. S. Lee
When Frederick Faust wrote The Gentle Gunman, locating it in Argentina, he did more than entertain American readers with new terrain in his western. By choosing to bordercross between the western and the Argentine gauchesque, he creates an opportunity to ask questions about the modernity of American and Argentine cultures and the national identities emphasized by both societies. This article begins by analyzing the characteristics of the western and the gauchesque in Faust’s novel. This article also provides an overview of the historical moment of the novel’s creation, expectations of readers from the time period, and Faust’s decision to eroticize the western’s setting. By doing so, this article answers the question about the hero’s displacement in a modern world that values class elitism above heroic characteristics. While scholars have analyzed different elements of Faust’s life and works, they have not discussed his border-crossing between the literary genres of the western and the gauchesque, two genres that emphasis national identity. By focusing on Faust’s border-crossing, it will become evident that Faust championed specific traits embodied by the cowboy and, in one case, the gaucho––all of which foster a sense of who belongs to the landscape and who does not.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-10DOI: 10.22439/asca.v55i1.6877
Georgi Asatryan
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Pub Date : 2022-12-16DOI: 10.22439/asca.v54i2.6791
Edited by Clara Juncker and Marianne Kongerslev
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Pub Date : 2022-12-12DOI: 10.22439/asca.v54i2.6740
Clara Junker
In his memoir, A Negro Explorer at the North Pole (1912), Matthew Henson describes the toll of his and Peary’s race to the Pole. This record of the 1908-09 Arctic expedition complicates established understandings of the “Dash to the Pole” and his own role as Peary’s assistant. Donald B. Macmillan declared in How Peary Reached the Pole: The Personal Story of His Assistant (2008) that Peary could not have done it without Henson (275), whose text uncovers an accomplished writer and explorer at work. The complicated character of Robert E. Peary figures prominently in his pages, though in a less independent version than in other accounts. Henson details the highly skilled labor he performs in the Arctic, and his own personality and perceptions. He shares, to a degree, the value systems of his Commander and the white members of the expedition, including the emphasis on heroic masculinity. But he also inscribes his racial heritage into his memoir, and his close, if complex, relation to the Inughuit. The result of intricate balancing acts, Henson’s silences echo in his text, revealing what could not be articulated by an African American member of Peary’s legendary expeditions. Henson’s contemporaries paid little attention to his accomplishments, since white American and European explorers dominated the field of Arctic travel, but his contribution received more attention as the 20th Century progressed. His experience suggests the costs and the crises—personal, national, and international—of a contested icescape increasingly visible and accessible in the 21st Century.
在他的回忆录《北极的黑人探险家》(1912)中，马修·汉森描述了他和皮尔里前往南极的代价。这份1908-09年北极探险的记录使人们对“冲向极点”的既定理解和他作为皮尔里助手的角色变得复杂起来。唐纳德·b·麦克米伦在《皮尔里如何到达极点:他的助手的个人故事》(2008)中宣称，如果没有亨森(275)，皮尔里不可能做到这一点。亨森的文章揭示了一位有成就的作家和探险家的工作。罗伯特·e·皮尔里(Robert E. Peary)这个复杂的角色在他的书中占据了突出的位置，尽管在一个不像其他作品那样独立的版本中。汉森详细描述了他在北极的高技能劳动，以及他自己的个性和看法。在某种程度上，他与他的指挥官和探险队的白人成员有共同的价值体系，包括对英雄气概的强调。但他也把自己的种族传统写进了回忆录，以及他与因纽特人的亲密关系(虽然复杂)。复杂的平衡行为的结果，亨森的沉默在他的文本中回响，揭示了皮尔里传奇探险的非洲裔美国人无法表达的东西。汉森的同时代人很少关注他的成就，因为美国和欧洲的白人探险家主导了北极旅行领域，但随着20世纪的发展，他的贡献得到了更多的关注。他的经历表明，在21世纪，一场有争议的冰川逃逸的代价和危机——个人的、国家的和国际的——越来越明显和容易实现。
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Pub Date : 2022-12-12DOI: 10.22439/asca.v54i2.6742
Marianne Kongerslev, Clara Junker
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Pub Date : 2022-12-12DOI: 10.22439/asca.v54i2.6741
Zachary Lavengood
In 2018 The People’s Republic of China (PRC) released its Arctic policy and articulated its position, principles, and goals as a “near-Arctic state.” In the years since, China has become a central focus of the growing academic and professional discourse surrounding the emerging Arctic and has positioned itself as a consequential actor in regional affairs. This article examines the opportunities and limitations for China in the High North by focusing on its four key drivers for Arctic engagement: resource extraction, international shipping, scientific pursuits, and international prestige. This article finds that while China’s involvement in Arctic affairs is growing, there are still significant roadblocks to its ambitions which it will need to overcome in order to reach its goal of being recognized as an Arctic power.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.22439/asca.v53i2.6396
Clara Juncker
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Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.22439/asca.v53i2.6394
Ari Helo
Thomas Jefferson is famous for his advocacy of equal rights of men, religious freedom, and democracy throughout the United States. He is equally (in)famous for his racist statements, for his little concern for women's rights, for his apparently unrealistic anti-slavery policies, and for his strongly anti-Federalist politics. This article will make clear that his political solution to the problem of slavery was not as far-fetched at the time as many scholars still tend to think it was. His fame as the high priest of minimal government also needs to be reconsidered given his hugely expensive, governmental solution to the problem of slavery. It is also important to grasp how very restricted a role Jefferson attributed to the federal government in putting his abolition plan into effect. The only aspect concerning the federal government in Jefferson's plan had to do with financing and sending slaves abroad after each state's individual decision of emancipation.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.22439/asca.v53i2.6389
Henry King
From 1945 to 1950, a number of unexplained disappearances occurred in the vicinity of Bennington, Vermont. During the same period, the author Shirley Jackson moved to North Bennington, while her friend Kenneth Burke (a colleague of her husband at Bennington College) published two pivotal works of theory, A Grammar of Motives (1945) and A Rhetoric of Motives (1950). Although the disappearances have previously been noted as a context of Jackson’s fiction, especially the short story “The Missing Girl”, this article applies a Burkeian lens to analyse how Jackson used the disappearances to explore the effects of what Burke calls “the hierarchal psychosis” on young women and rural New England society.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.22439/asca.v53i2.6393
Vahit Yaşayan
Depicting the economic and cultural problems facing its Nigerian immigrant protagonists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel, Americanah provides a great opportunity for its readers to understand the increasing appeal of the idea of cultures among immigrants in the West. It shows how the problems accompanying cultural dislocation compel even alienated individuals who previously idealized the West to embrace their cultures and move away from universal and individualistic perspectives such as liberalism. Cultural dislocation not only helps immigrants discover the importance and particularity of their own culture but also the continuing influence of cultures in the West. Further complicating the picture, however, the novel also reveals how the culture discovered by immigrants in exile is distinctly different from the culture lived and understood by their counterparts in their native country. By frankly depicting both the cultural problems facing African immigrants in a racialized America and the prevalence and negative effects of Eurocentric cultural alienation among non-Western youth, Americanah helps us understand the surprising turn to cultures and away from liberalism at the start of the twenty-first century.
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