Abstract:Historically, scholars have not linked Margaret Fuller and Virginia Woolf. This essay acts as a transatlantic feminist recovery project, delineating Woolf's knowledge of Fuller, and how their experimental works subvert classical and romantic-chivalric literary precedents which they deem masculinist and foreclosing of possibility.
{"title":"Queer Narrative Ecology in Margaret Fuller's \"The Magnolia of Lake Pontchartrain\" and Virginia Woolf's \"Kew Gardens\"","authors":"Michael R. Schrimper","doi":"10.1353/arq.2021.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/arq.2021.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Historically, scholars have not linked Margaret Fuller and Virginia Woolf. This essay acts as a transatlantic feminist recovery project, delineating Woolf's knowledge of Fuller, and how their experimental works subvert classical and romantic-chivalric literary precedents which they deem masculinist and foreclosing of possibility.","PeriodicalId":42394,"journal":{"name":"Arizona Quarterly","volume":"77 1","pages":"101 - 120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46668725","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}
Abstract:This article examines how John Rechy's outlaw sensibility not only mobilized an early form of Queer Chicanidad but also inspired an experimental narrative discourse to critique the neo-imperial governance of the US-Mexico borderlands in the mid-twentieth century. Juxtaposing the recurrence of discrimination against marginalized groups in the United States with the reemergence of empire in the borderlands, Rechy's work articulates a historical genealogy of transnational displacement and migration, which shows how the ostensible freedoms of the present remain rooted in the unfreedoms of the colonial past. Rechy offers a narrative epistemology of border-thinking: a disclosure of transnational consciousness, positioned between temporal and spatial borders, which highlights the unavailability of existential freedom and the need for political struggle. In exploring the contours of Rechy's outlaw aesthetics this article offers a new understanding of Rechy's work that helps expand the fields of global modernism, postwar American literature, and Chicanx studies.
{"title":"Outlaw Aesthetics: John Rechy's Narrative Epistemology of the Borderlands","authors":"Aristides Dimitriou","doi":"10.1353/arq.2021.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/arq.2021.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines how John Rechy's outlaw sensibility not only mobilized an early form of Queer Chicanidad but also inspired an experimental narrative discourse to critique the neo-imperial governance of the US-Mexico borderlands in the mid-twentieth century. Juxtaposing the recurrence of discrimination against marginalized groups in the United States with the reemergence of empire in the borderlands, Rechy's work articulates a historical genealogy of transnational displacement and migration, which shows how the ostensible freedoms of the present remain rooted in the unfreedoms of the colonial past. Rechy offers a narrative epistemology of border-thinking: a disclosure of transnational consciousness, positioned between temporal and spatial borders, which highlights the unavailability of existential freedom and the need for political struggle. In exploring the contours of Rechy's outlaw aesthetics this article offers a new understanding of Rechy's work that helps expand the fields of global modernism, postwar American literature, and Chicanx studies.","PeriodicalId":42394,"journal":{"name":"Arizona Quarterly","volume":"77 1","pages":"101 - 77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/arq.2021.0011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45482464","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}
Abstract:This article explores Elizabeth Madox Roberts' use of the colloquial term "techous" in her short story "The Scarecrow" to portray sexual difference in the rural American South. Referring to Jack Halberstam's work on rural queer identity, I discuss how techous, which is used to describe Joan, the story's protagonist, for her aversion to human touch, can be understood to represent a unique sexual identity. I analyze one of the story's central images—Joan's creation of a doppelgänger to scare away crows, which Roberts links symbolically to men—as a proto-trans* act, the creation of a body not defined by sex.
{"title":"\"Witches and such like hags\": Techous Sexuality and Rural Queer Identity in Elizabeth Madox Roberts' \"The Scarecrow\"","authors":"E. Banks","doi":"10.1353/arq.2021.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/arq.2021.0010","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article explores Elizabeth Madox Roberts' use of the colloquial term \"techous\" in her short story \"The Scarecrow\" to portray sexual difference in the rural American South. Referring to Jack Halberstam's work on rural queer identity, I discuss how techous, which is used to describe Joan, the story's protagonist, for her aversion to human touch, can be understood to represent a unique sexual identity. I analyze one of the story's central images—Joan's creation of a doppelgänger to scare away crows, which Roberts links symbolically to men—as a proto-trans* act, the creation of a body not defined by sex.","PeriodicalId":42394,"journal":{"name":"Arizona Quarterly","volume":"77 1","pages":"55 - 75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/arq.2021.0010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42569686","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}
Abstract:From the late-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century, abolitionists used depictions of hungry animals such as sharks, birds, and dogs to capture the consumptive logic of chattel slavery. In the hands of white abolitionists, these tropes offered powerful condemnations of the appetites driving the slave system, but they also risked implying that enslaved people were "natural" prey and passive victims. In response, African American abolitionists reworked hungry animal tropes to emphasize resistance and to offer a more nuanced picture of the psyche of enslavers. Building on recent scholarship on animals in the discourse on slavery, this essay reveals that the threat of consumption is a critical (and overlooked) aspect of these tropes, allowing commentators to show how the slave system fuses abstract economics and lived experience, instinctive impulses and careful strategy.
{"title":"Consuming Monsters: Hungry Animals in the Discourse on Slavery","authors":"E. Pearson","doi":"10.1353/arq.2021.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/arq.2021.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:From the late-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century, abolitionists used depictions of hungry animals such as sharks, birds, and dogs to capture the consumptive logic of chattel slavery. In the hands of white abolitionists, these tropes offered powerful condemnations of the appetites driving the slave system, but they also risked implying that enslaved people were \"natural\" prey and passive victims. In response, African American abolitionists reworked hungry animal tropes to emphasize resistance and to offer a more nuanced picture of the psyche of enslavers. Building on recent scholarship on animals in the discourse on slavery, this essay reveals that the threat of consumption is a critical (and overlooked) aspect of these tropes, allowing commentators to show how the slave system fuses abstract economics and lived experience, instinctive impulses and careful strategy.","PeriodicalId":42394,"journal":{"name":"Arizona Quarterly","volume":"77 1","pages":"25 - 53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/arq.2021.0009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47039708","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}
Abstract:Since the mid-2000s, many Asian American chefs and restaurateurs have obtained mainstream acclaim by challenging the norms of the restaurant industry. Neither fully conforming to nor opposing industry norms, they reveal new forms of professional and cultural belonging that revise popular perceptions of Asian Americanness. I propose misfit professionalism as a critical concept to describe how this emerging generation of Asian Americans categorically mis-fits with institutional norms, resulting in a subject position socially defined by this mis-fitting. Exercising nonnormative professional practices in an industry where cultural traditions are tethered to professional norms, misfits authorize new narratives of Asian Americanness in popular literary genres like the cookbook. Their cookbooks employ a narrative device that I call the coming-to-career narrative, which challenges the genre's formal conventions. Examining the literariness of cookbook narratives, this article interrogates how industry professionalism engenders new understandings of race, gender, sexuality, and belonging in the twenty-first century.
{"title":"Misfit Professionals: Asian American Chefs and Restaurateurs in the Twenty-First Century","authors":"Leland Tabares","doi":"10.1353/arq.2021.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/arq.2021.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Since the mid-2000s, many Asian American chefs and restaurateurs have obtained mainstream acclaim by challenging the norms of the restaurant industry. Neither fully conforming to nor opposing industry norms, they reveal new forms of professional and cultural belonging that revise popular perceptions of Asian Americanness. I propose misfit professionalism as a critical concept to describe how this emerging generation of Asian Americans categorically mis-fits with institutional norms, resulting in a subject position socially defined by this mis-fitting. Exercising nonnormative professional practices in an industry where cultural traditions are tethered to professional norms, misfits authorize new narratives of Asian Americanness in popular literary genres like the cookbook. Their cookbooks employ a narrative device that I call the coming-to-career narrative, which challenges the genre's formal conventions. Examining the literariness of cookbook narratives, this article interrogates how industry professionalism engenders new understandings of race, gender, sexuality, and belonging in the twenty-first century.","PeriodicalId":42394,"journal":{"name":"Arizona Quarterly","volume":"77 1","pages":"103 - 132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/arq.2021.0006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45735559","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}
Abstract:This essay considers Constance Fenimore Woolson's "Miss Grief," Hawthorne's "The Birth-mark," James's The Beast in the Jungle, his 1880 essay on Woolson, and Elizabeth Maguire's The Open Door against the backdrop of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's theory of the paranoid gothic, a quasi-supernatural dynamic in which a male protagonist fears manipulation by an Other to whom his unconsciousness appears transparent. Through close reading of key figures, notably catachresis, I analyze the intertextual connections among these constellated texts and examine their allegorizing of the operation of tropology in relation to the paranoid gothic.
{"title":"What Miss Grief Knew","authors":"S. Teahan","doi":"10.1353/arq.2021.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/arq.2021.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay considers Constance Fenimore Woolson's \"Miss Grief,\" Hawthorne's \"The Birth-mark,\" James's The Beast in the Jungle, his 1880 essay on Woolson, and Elizabeth Maguire's The Open Door against the backdrop of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's theory of the paranoid gothic, a quasi-supernatural dynamic in which a male protagonist fears manipulation by an Other to whom his unconsciousness appears transparent. Through close reading of key figures, notably catachresis, I analyze the intertextual connections among these constellated texts and examine their allegorizing of the operation of tropology in relation to the paranoid gothic.","PeriodicalId":42394,"journal":{"name":"Arizona Quarterly","volume":"77 1","pages":"1 - 24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/arq.2021.0008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46309960","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":"Lying for Kicks: Queer Cross-Dressers and Hardboiled Squares in Chester Himes's All Shot Up","authors":"Clare Rolens","doi":"10.1353/arq.2021.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/arq.2021.0002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42394,"journal":{"name":"Arizona Quarterly","volume":"77 1","pages":"33 - 56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/arq.2021.0002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45744960","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}
Abstract:I am grateful to the Fulbright Scholar Program, and to colleagues in the Foreign Language Department at the University of Bergen, Norway, for the research time to start this project. Warm thanks to Tim Libretti, Tim Scherman, and Brad Greenburg for their comments on an early draft of this essay
摘要:我非常感谢富布赖特学者项目，也非常感谢挪威卑尔根大学外语系的同事们给予我这个项目的研究时间。热烈感谢Tim Libretti, Tim Scherman和Brad Greenburg对本文初稿的评论
{"title":"Nation, Narration, and Race: William Faulkner and the Discursive Limits of the Southern Condition","authors":"K. Over","doi":"10.1353/arq.2021.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/arq.2021.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:I am grateful to the Fulbright Scholar Program, and to colleagues in the Foreign Language Department at the University of Bergen, Norway, for the research time to start this project. Warm thanks to Tim Libretti, Tim Scherman, and Brad Greenburg for their comments on an early draft of this essay","PeriodicalId":42394,"journal":{"name":"Arizona Quarterly","volume":"77 1","pages":"57 - 82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/arq.2021.0001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45033328","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}
his article is concerned with efforts by recent fiction to grapple with the complicated entanglement of US imperialism, globalization, and white nationalism in American cultural and political life. Specifically, it attempts to understand how two recent nov-els—Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America (2004) and Melanie Benjamin’s The Aviator’s Wife (2013)—approach
{"title":"The Specter of St. Louis: Genre, Globalization, and the Problem of White Nationalism in Contemporary Lindbergh Fiction","authors":"Kurt Cavender","doi":"10.1353/arq.2021.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/arq.2021.0004","url":null,"abstract":"his article is concerned with efforts by recent fiction to grapple with the complicated entanglement of US imperialism, globalization, and white nationalism in American cultural and political life. Specifically, it attempts to understand how two recent nov-els—Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America (2004) and Melanie Benjamin’s The Aviator’s Wife (2013)—approach","PeriodicalId":42394,"journal":{"name":"Arizona Quarterly","volume":"77 1","pages":"106 - 83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/arq.2021.0004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44718879","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}
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