of ‘The Far Field,’” for example, Quechenbach concludes that “Roethke’s ecological mysticism emphasizes horizontal movement across liminal zones where matter and spirit intersect and communicate... the convergence of worlds, and a traveler could cross between environments... Nature abides in immediate particulars integrated into a holistic, enduring net of relationships” (259). These are quintessentially ecological insights. This Field Guide, the first book on Roethke in more than twenty years, will appeal to readers from a variety of interlocking disciplines, including scholars and students of American literature as well as twentieth-century poetry more generally. With its emphasis on close reading and formal analysis, it might also be of use to practicing as well as aspiring poets. Similarly, since chapters are written in a highly accessible style, the book is of value to students of creative writing, especially at the graduate level. Taken together, these essays provide a synthesis of previous generations of criticism, while a number of contributors adopt forward-looking critical approaches such as ecocriticism. As such, it represents a unique contribution to Roethke studies: a comprehensive analysis of his craft, a careful examination of his poetics, and a timely reassessment of his literary legacy and relevance.
{"title":"Traffic in Asian Women by Laura Hyun Yi Kang (review)","authors":"N. Woodcock","doi":"10.1353/ams.2021.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2021.0008","url":null,"abstract":"of ‘The Far Field,’” for example, Quechenbach concludes that “Roethke’s ecological mysticism emphasizes horizontal movement across liminal zones where matter and spirit intersect and communicate... the convergence of worlds, and a traveler could cross between environments... Nature abides in immediate particulars integrated into a holistic, enduring net of relationships” (259). These are quintessentially ecological insights. This Field Guide, the first book on Roethke in more than twenty years, will appeal to readers from a variety of interlocking disciplines, including scholars and students of American literature as well as twentieth-century poetry more generally. With its emphasis on close reading and formal analysis, it might also be of use to practicing as well as aspiring poets. Similarly, since chapters are written in a highly accessible style, the book is of value to students of creative writing, especially at the graduate level. Taken together, these essays provide a synthesis of previous generations of criticism, while a number of contributors adopt forward-looking critical approaches such as ecocriticism. As such, it represents a unique contribution to Roethke studies: a comprehensive analysis of his craft, a careful examination of his poetics, and a timely reassessment of his literary legacy and relevance.","PeriodicalId":80435,"journal":{"name":"American studies (Lawrence, Kan.)","volume":"60 1","pages":"112 - 113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ams.2021.0008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48374872","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":"Red Myth, Black Hero: Frederick Douglass, the Communist Party, and the Aesthetics of History, 1935–1945","authors":"Luke Sayers","doi":"10.1353/ams.2021.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2021.0003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80435,"journal":{"name":"American studies (Lawrence, Kan.)","volume":"60 1","pages":"59 - 80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ams.2021.0003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49604403","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":"A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke by William Barillas (review)","authors":"Christian P. Knoeller","doi":"10.1353/ams.2021.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2021.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80435,"journal":{"name":"American studies (Lawrence, Kan.)","volume":"60 1","pages":"111 - 112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ams.2021.0007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46825156","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}
In this paper, I draw attention to the need for new, critical forms of textual representation that can begin to discuss the liminal refugee figure, tracing Kao Kalia Yang’s refugee narrative against the autobiography of the self-proclaimed exile, Ariel Dorfman. Unlike Dorfman’s Heading South, Looking North, which returns to a Modernist exile tradition of isolation and singularity while relegating the refugee to a position of silence, Yang’s The Latehomecomer negotiates the interconnected relationships between the writer and the collective, accepting the challenge of writing a refugee narrative. Although both authors are pushed from their homelands and share a similar need for refuge, only one has the ability to strategically take on the label of “Exile” instead of “Refugee.” And, in doing so, Dorfman presents the “Exile” as the more legible status, one that allows for an intellectualized and singular retelling and that, inadvertently, creates a false dichotomy between the voiced exile and the voiceless refugee. With John Beverley’s notion of testimonio, which draws together the issues of representing voicelessness and collectivity, I argue that Yang provides an example of how to represent what is often portrayed as a silent and marginalized group. Ultimately, by giving voice and agency to a peripheral collective, Yang’s memoir provides new models for thinking critically about refugee literature, particularly as it confronts Western traditions of understanding forced displacement and the construction of the refugee as a mass of silent victims.
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{"title":"The Rise and Fall of America’s Concentration Camp Law: Civil Liberties Debates from the Internment to McCarthyism and the Radical 1960s by Masumi Izumi (review)","authors":"D. Roediger","doi":"10.1353/ams.2020.0034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2020.0034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80435,"journal":{"name":"American studies (Lawrence, Kan.)","volume":"59 1","pages":"70 - 71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ams.2020.0034","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44135968","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}
When the popular television news magazine Omnibus aired late in the afternoon of December 28, 1952, the episode included a fourteen-minute film featuring William Faulkner as himself. Largely neglected by scholars, the Omnibus production is a cultural artifact from the post-Nobel Prize phase of the author’s career that warrants closer examination. Faulkner’s big TV moment gave him access to the largest audience he was ever able to reach at once, since the viewership of Omnibus averaged seventeen million. The short film preserves in an encapsulated form a juncture at which Faulkner was poised to become an actor in a geopolitical theater of cultural Cold War. A series of connections between the Radio-Television Workshop, the Ford Foundation-supported production company responsible for Omnibus, and the cultural operations of the U.S. State Department suggest that Faulkner’s appearance on the program factored into his becoming an official cultural ambassador during the mid-1950s. The producers employed the increasingly influential new medium of television as an instrument for rendering the local and global domains Faulkner now inhabited as a worldly Mississippian. The version of Faulkner portrayed on screen is responsive to key concerns prevalent in Cold War culture: fraught southern race relations, compromised American masculinity, and Atomic Age fears. A combination of televisual image-making and trademark self-fashioning in the Omnibus production helped to cultivate the persona that Faulkner, a writer-diplomat in the making, would soon take to the far-flung places where he was dispatched in the interest of advancing U.S. interests amid a heated ideological conflict.
{"title":"Faulkner on Omnibus : A Portrait of the Artist as a Cultural Ambassador in the Making","authors":"T. Atkinson","doi":"10.1353/ams.2020.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2020.0030","url":null,"abstract":"When the popular television news magazine Omnibus aired late in the afternoon of December 28, 1952, the episode included a fourteen-minute film featuring William Faulkner as himself. Largely neglected by scholars, the Omnibus production is a cultural artifact from the post-Nobel Prize phase of the author’s career that warrants closer examination. Faulkner’s big TV moment gave him access to the largest audience he was ever able to reach at once, since the viewership of Omnibus averaged seventeen million. The short film preserves in an encapsulated form a juncture at which Faulkner was poised to become an actor in a geopolitical theater of cultural Cold War. A series of connections between the Radio-Television Workshop, the Ford Foundation-supported production company responsible for Omnibus, and the cultural operations of the U.S. State Department suggest that Faulkner’s appearance on the program factored into his becoming an official cultural ambassador during the mid-1950s. The producers employed the increasingly influential new medium of television as an instrument for rendering the local and global domains Faulkner now inhabited as a worldly Mississippian. The version of Faulkner portrayed on screen is responsive to key concerns prevalent in Cold War culture: fraught southern race relations, compromised American masculinity, and Atomic Age fears. A combination of televisual image-making and trademark self-fashioning in the Omnibus production helped to cultivate the persona that Faulkner, a writer-diplomat in the making, would soon take to the far-flung places where he was dispatched in the interest of advancing U.S. interests amid a heated ideological conflict.","PeriodicalId":80435,"journal":{"name":"American studies (Lawrence, Kan.)","volume":"59 1","pages":"21 - 7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ams.2020.0030","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46436492","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}
In her memoir, Haldol and Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life (2013), Melody Moezzi describes herself during a manic episode as “Tigger on crack.” By mixing humor with social critique, Moezzi compares the discrimination she experiences as a Muslim woman of Iranian descent and as a woman living with bipolar disorder in the U.S. Gayathri Ramprasad’s Shadows in the Sun: Healing from Depression and Finding the Light Within (2014) offers insights into the author’s childhood marked by depression in India and her approaches to managing her mental illness that combine Hindu culture and Western medicine after migrating to the U.S. Both authors expose and criticize exclusionary practices that dehumanize and isolate people with invisible disabilities. This article investigates how women with mental health issues use memoir to discuss the negative ideological notions that patriarchal society has historically attached to disability, femininity, and non-whiteness. My comparative reading—informed by life-writing theory, feminist concepts, and critical race studies—offers an intersectional perspective on how society perpetuates the oppression of women of color with a mental disability based on their bodies, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, and religion. The women whose memoirs I analyze are not interested in declaring their lives unique. Their aim is to emphasize how common mental disabilities are among women. My case studies push for social justice as they challenge autobiography’s supposed reliance on a stable sense of self to convey the ‘truth’ and connect discourse about disability with other layers of domination.
在她的回忆录《Haldol and Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life》(2013)中，Melody Moezzi将自己在躁狂发作期间描述为“吸毒的跳跳虎”。通过将幽默与社会批判相结合，Moezzi比较了她作为伊朗血统的穆斯林妇女和在美国患有双相情感障碍的妇女所经历的歧视。2014年出版的《从抑郁中治愈，发现内心的光明》(Healing from Depression and Finding the Light Within)一书深入探讨了作者在印度度过的以抑郁为特征的童年，以及她移民美国后将印度文化和西方医学相结合的治疗精神疾病的方法。两位作者都揭露和批评了那些使无形残疾的人失去人性和孤立的排他做法。这篇文章调查了有心理健康问题的女性如何使用回忆录来讨论男权社会在历史上对残疾、女性化和非白人的负面意识形态观念。我的比较阅读——受生活写作理论、女权主义概念和批判性种族研究的影响——提供了一个交叉的视角，研究社会是如何基于有色人种的身体、性别、种族、民族、国籍和宗教，对精神残疾的女性进行长期压迫的。我所分析的那些回忆录中的女性，并没有兴趣宣称她们的生活是独一无二的。他们的目的是强调精神残疾在女性中是多么普遍。我的案例研究推动了社会正义，因为它们挑战了自传对稳定的自我意识的依赖，以传达“真相”，并将关于残疾的论述与其他层次的统治联系起来。
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{"title":"Realist Ecstasy: Religion, Race, and Performance in American Literature by Lindsay V. Reckson (review)","authors":"Rebekah Trollinger","doi":"10.1353/ams.2020.0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2020.0035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80435,"journal":{"name":"American studies (Lawrence, Kan.)","volume":"59 1","pages":"71 - 72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ams.2020.0035","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43068792","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":"The Mound Bayou Demonstrator: Black Memory at the Margins and the Means of Cultural Production","authors":"Janet Kong-Chow","doi":"10.1353/ams.2020.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2020.0023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80435,"journal":{"name":"American studies (Lawrence, Kan.)","volume":"59 1","pages":"13 - 31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ams.2020.0023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49319470","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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