Pub Date : 2023-11-15DOI: 10.1353/cea.2023.a912096
Susanna Kelly Engbers
Abstract:
Just as the cloth was transformed and became defined as a quilt, so, too, the special qualities of the quilting bee supported the transformation of quilters into defined, agential groups. Indeed, the historical context of both quilting bees and quilt-making is significant, the activities at their peak of popularity in the mid-nineteenth century, the same time as the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention—generally marked as the formal birth of the organized women's rights movement.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-15DOI: 10.1353/cea.2023.a912102
Joyce Kinkead
Abstract:
No doubt the concept of "Writing Intensive" (WI) courses is familiar. In addition to WI, our institution also requires "Quantitative Intensive" (QI) courses for graduation, based on the belief that literacy in numbers is also important for professionals and an educated citizenry. In essence, QI means math/stat across the curriculum, paralleling writing across the curriculum. Each department is to have on the books a QI course that demonstrates how numbers apply to the field.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-15DOI: 10.1353/cea.2023.a912099
David Gall-Maynard
Abstract:
One recurring feature of climate change discourse—and apocalyptic rhetoric more generally—is the appeal to textual authorities whose knowledge transcends that of rhetor and audience. "For religious apocalyptic," Brummett writes, "the grounding text will be one or more of the scriptures of the religion; for secular apocalyptic, the grounding text will be the assertion of a natural law governing the domain in question or it will be a widely revered secular text" (99). As a case-in-point, climate reform rhetors often invoke the authority of the scientific consensus surrounding climate change, research that is the basis for the IPCC's [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] reports.
{"title":"The End Is Always Near: Evaluating the Influence of Premillennial Apocalyptic Rhetoric on Evangelical Christian Attitudes toward Climate Change Discourse","authors":"David Gall-Maynard","doi":"10.1353/cea.2023.a912099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cea.2023.a912099","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>One recurring feature of climate change discourse—and apocalyptic rhetoric more generally—is the appeal to textual authorities whose knowledge transcends that of rhetor and audience. \"For religious apocalyptic,\" Brummett writes, \"the grounding text will be one or more of the scriptures of the religion; for secular apocalyptic, the grounding text will be the assertion of a natural law governing the domain in question or it will be a widely revered secular text\" (99). As a case-in-point, climate reform rhetors often invoke the authority of the scientific consensus surrounding climate change, research that is the basis for the IPCC's [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] reports.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":41558,"journal":{"name":"CEA CRITIC","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138531109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-15DOI: 10.1353/cea.2023.a912098
Lynée Lewis Gaillet
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The abiding legacy between the Choctaw Nation and Irish citizens stems from a small act of kindness in the 19th century. Following their forced migration during the 1830s, aptly remembered as the Trail of Tears, the Choctaw Nation donated $710 in 1847 ($26,468.37 in 2023 currency) to address Irish poverty resulting from the potato famine (Howe and Kirwan, xxvii). This act of benevolence established a cultural bond between the two groups—one that still thrives and has expanded to include other participants and recipients of their largesse.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-15DOI: 10.1353/cea.2023.a912100
Daniel Collins, Meghan Gilbert
Abstract:
As white academics engaging in anti-racist education, we work from a stance of transparency, humility, and constant self-interrogation. It's important to have white instructors and administrators engaging in the labor of dismantling academic systems of oppression, if only because there are so many of us. A legacy of racist hiring and promotion strategies means that, even now, roughly 70% of faculty in the United States are white (Davis and Fry). But, as we take up the work, we need to be mindful to take our cues from instructors and administrators and scholars of color who have been in this fight long before us and continue to lead the efforts.
{"title":"Composing an Anti-Racist Academy: Re-Imagining Systems and Structures in a First-Year Writing Program","authors":"Daniel Collins, Meghan Gilbert","doi":"10.1353/cea.2023.a912100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cea.2023.a912100","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>As white academics engaging in anti-racist education, we work from a stance of transparency, humility, and constant self-interrogation. It's important to have white instructors and administrators engaging in the labor of dismantling academic systems of oppression, if only because there are so many of us. A legacy of racist hiring and promotion strategies means that, even now, roughly 70% of faculty in the United States are white (Davis and Fry). But, as we take up the work, we need to be mindful to take our cues from instructors and administrators and scholars of color who have been in this fight long before us and continue to lead the efforts.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":41558,"journal":{"name":"CEA CRITIC","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138531101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-15DOI: 10.1353/cea.2023.a912104
Kathleen McEvoy
Abstract:
Hannah Duston might be a footnote in our literary and colonial history, but her narrative demonstrates the power that stories have to drive people's beliefs. Those who view her monuments, when they are not defaced, come away thinking that she was a hero who triumphed over the Indians who kidnapped her and murdered her baby, but that is only part of what happened. The full story raises complicated questions that we as a nation still have not fully answered, and it pushes students to consider the ways in which time and context can alter our understanding of literary works and moments of history.
{"title":"Re-Assessing Our Colonial Heritage: The Controversial Memorialization of Hannah Duston","authors":"Kathleen McEvoy","doi":"10.1353/cea.2023.a912104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cea.2023.a912104","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>Hannah Duston might be a footnote in our literary and colonial history, but her narrative demonstrates the power that stories have to drive people's beliefs. Those who view her monuments, when they are not defaced, come away thinking that she was a hero who triumphed over the Indians who kidnapped her and murdered her baby, but that is only part of what happened. The full story raises complicated questions that we as a nation still have not fully answered, and it pushes students to consider the ways in which time and context can alter our understanding of literary works and moments of history.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":41558,"journal":{"name":"CEA CRITIC","volume":"170 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138531102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-15DOI: 10.1353/cea.2023.a912103
Eric Larson
Abstract:The resulting modernization of every Chaucerian tale between 1700 and 1795 is a remarkable achievement for many reasons. For one, it represents a preoccupation with medieval themes in the late-Stuart and Georgian eras, both in terms of the tedious work performed and the literary market that continuously supported it. In addition, the way these poets modernized the tales, by sticking only loosely to the source material and effectively rewriting the stories from a contemporary perspective, reveals the thoughts, fears, and prevailing attitudes that defined the eighteenth century.
{"title":"The Eighteenth-Century Chaucer and the Rewriting of English History","authors":"Eric Larson","doi":"10.1353/cea.2023.a912103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cea.2023.a912103","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The resulting modernization of every Chaucerian tale between 1700 and 1795 is a remarkable achievement for many reasons. For one, it represents a preoccupation with medieval themes in the late-Stuart and Georgian eras, both in terms of the tedious work performed and the literary market that continuously supported it. In addition, the way these poets modernized the tales, by sticking only loosely to the source material and effectively rewriting the stories from a contemporary perspective, reveals the thoughts, fears, and prevailing attitudes that defined the eighteenth century.","PeriodicalId":41558,"journal":{"name":"CEA CRITIC","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138531107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1353/cea.2023.a901811
Eric Sandberg
Abstract:Miéville has never claimed that his politically informed, anti-authoritarian, radical SF is a literary innovation. Instead, he locates his work within an older tradition; he is, as he has explained, "staking out remembered territory" rather than exploring new ground (qtd. in Gordon, "Revelling" 367). Miéville's overall literary project can thus be seen as a form of radical remembering, a recovery of a forgotten or neglected generic past, which he uses to write back against conservative versions of the genre, from Tolkien's nostalgic evocation of a rural, orderly, and hierarchical England (and the less important but widely-disseminated work of his many imitators), to Jules Verne's evocations of capitalist expansion and industrial triumph over nature in works like Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (1871) and The Mysterious Island (1875), to Robert Heinlein's evocations of a militarized free-market neo-liberal future in works like Starship Troopers (1959) and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966).
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