Pub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.5325/complitstudies.60.3.0617
Jen-Hao Walter Hsu
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Pub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.5325/complitstudies.60.3.0606
Roanne L. Kantor
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Pub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.5325/complitstudies.60.3.0423
Sarah J. Townsend
abstract:This article provides an introduction to Redesigning Modernities I, the first of two special issues that grew out of the Redesigning Modernities project led by Penn State's School of Global Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. The article explains the aims of the larger project, which seeks to encourage complementary and collaborative research agendas among faculty and graduate students, develop new curriculum and innovative course designs, and generate materials for inclusion in the university's Open Educational Resources (OER) archive. This introduction also situates the first workshop, held in summer 2020, in the context of the pandemic's early days as a way of explaining the recurring threads that connect the contributions to this issue: infrastructures, ecologies, and emancipatory openings. Finally, it presents the lineup of pieces in this issue: a dossier on Ecologies, Foodways, and Commodity Chains composed of four short pieces; an interview with the Brazilian graphic novelist Marcelo D'Salete along with a prefatory text drawing connections between his Angola Janga (2017) and the U.S. writer Gayl Jones's Palmares (2020); and four full-length articles on diverse media (short videos/vlogs, a series of experimental novels, the ideas of a feminist philosopher and performer, and a cult classic film).
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Pub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.5325/complitstudies.60.3.0485
Eva-Lynn Jagoe
abstract:Food and bodies die and decompose in ways that can contribute to a cycle of regeneration through compost. Late modernity functions as a discard culture, however, and this process of life and death is often broken or interrupted. This article analyzes the reappearance of compost as a solution to waste in the language of entrepreneurs, scientists, and scholars who assert their relationship to it. In these discourses, the multiple species that perform the cycle of death and life are put to work on yet another frontier of capitalism for the purpose of profit and accumulation. Compost is fast becoming a greenwashed commodity with uses both as a new technology and as an ideology that centers the human, much as it claims to cherish the nonhuman. This analysis focuses on the technologization of compost; funeral practices and human corpse composting; and the use of composting as a metaphor in recent scholarship.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.5325/complitstudies.60.3.0497
Miguel A. Valerio
abstract:This short article offers some remarks to contextualize the interview that follows with Marcelo D'Salete, a Brazilian graphic novelist known for his works on the history of slavery and Black resistance in Brazil. The article focuses on D'Salete's great work Angola Janga (2017), about the famous maroon community in seventeenth-century Brazil known to the Portuguese as Palmares, and discusses this work in relation to the six-volume Palmares (2020) by the U.S. writer Gayl Jones.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.5325/complitstudies.60.3.0434
Vinay Dharwadker
abstract:This article provides an overview of the seminar on India and Indian literature held in summer 2020 as part of the Redesigning Modernities project at Penn State. It summarizes the organization of the seminar, contextualizes its materials and goals, and discusses its principal outcomes. The main question that the seminar's twenty-six faculty and graduate student participants sought to explore collectively, across multiple humanistic disciplines, was: Why does the modern world look so different in a geo-cultural location such as India or South Asia, as we look at it through the eyes of Indian writers of fiction, prose, poetry, and drama in several languages?
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Pub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.5325/complitstudies.60.3.0507
Marcelo D’Salete, Miguel A. Valerio, Amanda Talbot
abstract:In this interview, Miguel Valerio (a scholar of Afrodiasporic culture in colonial Latin America and early modern Iberia) engages in a conversation with Marcelo D'Salete, a well-known graphic novelist whose works center on the experiences of Black people in Brazil. The range of topics they discuss include Palmares, the seventeenth-century maroon community that is at the center of D'Salete's Angola Janga (2017); the history, future, and present of Black struggles in Brazil; the ability of comics and other art forms to re-desenhar (meaning both "redraw" and "redesign") the past; Afro-pessimism and the central role of slavery in the formation of modernity; and the importance of Black joy.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.5325/complitstudies.60.3.0449
Ana Schwartz
abstract:Following recent research in cultural studies that has observed "the emergence of biopolitics in the Americas," this article proposes a new aspect to the early modern experience of eating. Rather than simply a vehicle for pollution, eating appears in the 1555 captivity of the Hessian adventurer and autobiographer Hans Staden by Tupinambá in Brazil as a flashpoint for techniques of coercive self-governance. Working as an arquebusier on early Portuguese sugar plantations, Staden witnessed the dangerous sweetness of early modern capitalism. Yet Staden's keen sensitivity to the political economy of cassava root flour, a commodity on which he himself depended, also suggests he witnessed his own unhappy conscription into a regime that required him to discipline himself in order to survive. Staden's frustrated memories showcase biopower's surprisingly intimate, personal, reach, revising our understanding of modernity as altogether distinct from the feudal past.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.5325/complitstudies.60.3.0541
Martin Schauss
abstract:This article considers the interrelation between capitalist modernity as ecological crisis and the crisis of the textual economy in Renee Gladman's experimental novels set in the fictional city-state of Ravicka (2010–2017). The article shows how Gladman attempts to reposition the experimental work within the world-literary field by framing the text itself as ecological, at once implicated in cultural and geopolitical modes of production and circulation, and generative in terms of speculative world-building. The article focuses on Gladman's exploration of urban space and architecture in relation to ecological catastrophe, and draws comparisons with other speculative designs, such as the People's Parliament of Rojava in Northern Syria. While Gladman's eroding architectural-linguistic landscape translates world-ecological issues like forced displacement, race, gender, pollution, and unevenly distributed forms of eco-political violence, her texts also problematize projection and allegorical modes of reading, signaling the abstraction of social relations in modernity. The article suggests that Gladman's experimental writing ultimately hopes to open a new space of relational, embodied thinking while finding creative energy and resilience within the political constraints of literary production.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.5325/complitstudies.60.3.0578
Krista Brune, Justus Peña Berman, Jutta Gsoels-Lorensen, MaryEllen Higgins, Ibis Sierra Audivert, Maria Truglio, Alex Rivera
abstract:Sleep Dealer (2008), a science-fiction feature directed by Alex Rivera, offers a dystopian view of U.S.-Mexico relations: with the border fully closed, labor is extracted from economically desperate Mexicans through "nodes" and technologically delivered to the United States. Over the past decade, the film has emerged as a cult success, screening at festivals and in classrooms, garnering favorable critical reception, and generating scholarship in film studies, cultural studies, border studies, Latinx studies, and science fiction studies. This article complements existing perspectives by offering six different, but interrelated, approaches to reading the film, followed by a brief interview with the director. The interventions read Rivera's speculative vision of a near future not that different from our current reality through the lens of recent events. Rivera's film appears even more prescient and insightful in light of the rise of remote work as a tool to mitigate the virus that protected certain bodies via technology while leaving "essential" ones vulnerable; the proliferation of drones and other modes of surveillance; the digital mediation of our personal lives and memories; and the emergence of a technologized border that extends geographically and virtually beyond the physical borderlands.
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