Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1353/cea.2023.a901809
S. Pak
Abstract:The two worlds created by Padmanabhan have further significance in that they demonstrate how dystopia is embedded in reality, making it more relevant to the contemporary audience. Harvest sets itself up as a fictional dystopia while keeping enough reality for the contemporaries to recognize; Lights Out, on the contrary, begins as a realistic drawing room drama that initiates itself from a social incident, but reaches out to include dystopian qualities bad enough for the audience to want to deny its practicality. … Although by definition neither utopia nor dystopia can exist, Padmanabhan's depiction of dystopian societies that touch the quotidian life strengthens her commentary and critique on the existing world.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1353/cea.2023.a901812
H. Ellison
Abstract:All it was (he said for the thousandth time), was a plateau time for speculative fiction. A new generation of writers needed fresher ways to tell more relevant stories, and without benefit of salon, left bank, coffee house or writers' colony, individual talents of all ages, several sexes, many different backgrounds and disciplines caused a self-fulfilling prophecy. They caused to be created forums in which they could do what they longed to do. That it happened almost at the same time on both sides of the Atlantic, with over a hundred different writers--many of whom had no connection with their sf brothers and sisters--should be proof enough to even the most concretized of sf's observers.
{"title":"A Few (Hopefully Final) Words on \"The New Wave\" (Originally published in the 1974 special issue of The CEA Critic)","authors":"H. Ellison","doi":"10.1353/cea.2023.a901812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cea.2023.a901812","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:All it was (he said for the thousandth time), was a plateau time for speculative fiction. A new generation of writers needed fresher ways to tell more relevant stories, and without benefit of salon, left bank, coffee house or writers' colony, individual talents of all ages, several sexes, many different backgrounds and disciplines caused a self-fulfilling prophecy. They caused to be created forums in which they could do what they longed to do. That it happened almost at the same time on both sides of the Atlantic, with over a hundred different writers--many of whom had no connection with their sf brothers and sisters--should be proof enough to even the most concretized of sf's observers.","PeriodicalId":41558,"journal":{"name":"CEA CRITIC","volume":"85 1","pages":"187 - 191"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46562123","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.a901807
Marianne Cotugno
Abstract:The environmental concerns of Richter's fiction are the concerns of the early 20th century and many expressed in Richter's novels echo [Aldo] Leopold's own. Richter dramatizes the effects of deforestation, poor land management, predator control, and overhunting. Although the trilogy begins with a depiction of settlers' minds narrowing, as Leopold asserts, by the end, a transformation has taken place, not merely of the land but of Sayward, the trilogy's protagonist, who embraces a more ecological point of view. Ultimately, the trilogy argues for the need for ecological balance in our relationship with the natural world.
{"title":"Awakening Ecological Consciousness in Conrad Richter's Ohio Trilogy","authors":"Marianne Cotugno","doi":"10.1353/cea.2023.a901807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cea.2023.a901807","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The environmental concerns of Richter's fiction are the concerns of the early 20th century and many expressed in Richter's novels echo [Aldo] Leopold's own. Richter dramatizes the effects of deforestation, poor land management, predator control, and overhunting. Although the trilogy begins with a depiction of settlers' minds narrowing, as Leopold asserts, by the end, a transformation has taken place, not merely of the land but of Sayward, the trilogy's protagonist, who embraces a more ecological point of view. Ultimately, the trilogy argues for the need for ecological balance in our relationship with the natural world.","PeriodicalId":41558,"journal":{"name":"CEA CRITIC","volume":"85 1","pages":"119 - 133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46952942","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.a901813
Matt Seymour
Abstract:Despite Shakespeare's appeal, many students remain skeptical. In response, I begin my English language-arts methods class by asking my preservice teachers this question: "Why do we still teach Shakespeare?" When my preservice teachers' future students inevitably ask them, "Why are we reading a 400-year-old play written by some dead white guy?" I want them to be able to respond with a clear and compelling answer. We read Shakespeare because his writing allows us to explore what it means to be a person in different times and spaces in ways that other texts do not. In this essay, I assert that English teachers can involve their students in rigorous academic conversations and engage them in reading Shakespeare to explore important questions regarding what it means to be human.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1353/cea.2023.a901808
Susan A. Farrell
Abstract:The Balham mystery carries many elements that would make their way into We Have Always Lived in the Castle: a wealthy family with troubled personal relationships; a case in which the cause of death is clearly identified as poison, but no one is ever convicted of a crime; sensational coverage in the press; and perhaps most importantly, an exploration of gender politics within the home. This essay looks to historical sources to examine the relationship between poison and gender, poison's links to witchcraft, and views of poison in the popular imagination. It argues that Jackson uses the metaphor of poison to challenge traditional domestic ideology in the novel.
{"title":"Sugared Death: Poison and Gender in Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle","authors":"Susan A. Farrell","doi":"10.1353/cea.2023.a901808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cea.2023.a901808","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The Balham mystery carries many elements that would make their way into We Have Always Lived in the Castle: a wealthy family with troubled personal relationships; a case in which the cause of death is clearly identified as poison, but no one is ever convicted of a crime; sensational coverage in the press; and perhaps most importantly, an exploration of gender politics within the home. This essay looks to historical sources to examine the relationship between poison and gender, poison's links to witchcraft, and views of poison in the popular imagination. It argues that Jackson uses the metaphor of poison to challenge traditional domestic ideology in the novel.","PeriodicalId":41558,"journal":{"name":"CEA CRITIC","volume":"85 1","pages":"134 - 152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43662804","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.a901810
Jeraldine R. Kraver
{"title":"Looking Backwards: Do Genres Blend or Do They Bleed?","authors":"Jeraldine R. Kraver","doi":"10.1353/cea.2023.a901810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cea.2023.a901810","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41558,"journal":{"name":"CEA CRITIC","volume":"85 1","pages":"171 - 173"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46522584","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}
Abstract:I examine African American educational writing in the Colored American newspaper against the backdrop of white notions about common schooling. Along the way, I explore how the fusion of racial and educational discourses combine with social factors to influence competing conceptions of the common schoolhouse in the antebellum North. White reformers, despite employing the democratic language of universal education, imagined the schoolhouse as a site where whites could be cultivated as national citizens and nonwhites, specifically African Americans, rendered noncitizens. They created a fantasy of the schoolhouse as a site that paradoxically produced national unity and perpetuated social fracturing through racial division.
{"title":"On the Threshold of Education: Race and Antebellum Schooling in the Text and Context of the Colored American","authors":"D. Terry","doi":"10.1353/cea.2023.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cea.2023.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:I examine African American educational writing in the Colored American newspaper against the backdrop of white notions about common schooling. Along the way, I explore how the fusion of racial and educational discourses combine with social factors to influence competing conceptions of the common schoolhouse in the antebellum North. White reformers, despite employing the democratic language of universal education, imagined the schoolhouse as a site where whites could be cultivated as national citizens and nonwhites, specifically African Americans, rendered noncitizens. They created a fantasy of the schoolhouse as a site that paradoxically produced national unity and perpetuated social fracturing through racial division.","PeriodicalId":41558,"journal":{"name":"CEA CRITIC","volume":"85 1","pages":"58 - 83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42988332","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}
Abstract:Yet, there has been no research thoroughly examining how The Hunger Games film trilogy, in both obvious and subtle ways, expresses widely accepted ableist concepts of and perspectives on disability and people with disabilities. Given as much, I apply critical disability studies as the primary theoretical frame, will carefully explore and discuss how The Hunger Games films can be regarded as harmful and regressive for the human rights of those with disabilities in that they covertly and overtly support deterministic and essentialist views of disability as a marker of Otherness and fortify ableist ideology, which flourishes everywhere in society. Namely, I aim to unmask and thereby problematize the ideological power of ableism and able-bodied normativity lurking in The Hunger Games films.
{"title":"Disabled Bodies and Ableist Ideology in The Hunger Games Film Trilogy","authors":"Hyun-Jo Yoo","doi":"10.1353/cea.2023.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cea.2023.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Yet, there has been no research thoroughly examining how The Hunger Games film trilogy, in both obvious and subtle ways, expresses widely accepted ableist concepts of and perspectives on disability and people with disabilities. Given as much, I apply critical disability studies as the primary theoretical frame, will carefully explore and discuss how The Hunger Games films can be regarded as harmful and regressive for the human rights of those with disabilities in that they covertly and overtly support deterministic and essentialist views of disability as a marker of Otherness and fortify ableist ideology, which flourishes everywhere in society. Namely, I aim to unmask and thereby problematize the ideological power of ableism and able-bodied normativity lurking in The Hunger Games films.","PeriodicalId":41558,"journal":{"name":"CEA CRITIC","volume":"85 1","pages":"113 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42475085","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}
Abstract:The various points of similarity between "The Blue Hotel" and "The Killers" relate to the mutual theme of the impersonality and the inevitability of evil. In neither story is murder an isolated event, but a demonstration of the evil inherent and inevitable in human society, of the violence beneath the tranquil surface of modern civilization.
{"title":"'The Blue Hotel' and 'The Killers'","authors":"J. A. Ward","doi":"10.1353/cea.2023.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cea.2023.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The various points of similarity between \"The Blue Hotel\" and \"The Killers\" relate to the mutual theme of the impersonality and the inevitability of evil. In neither story is murder an isolated event, but a demonstration of the evil inherent and inevitable in human society, of the violence beneath the tranquil surface of modern civilization.","PeriodicalId":41558,"journal":{"name":"CEA CRITIC","volume":"85 1","pages":"87 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49351933","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}
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