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Bilingual Brokers
Authors: Lim Jeehyun
Published: September 2017

B
ilingual Brokers examines bilingual personhood in Asian American and Latino literature through social debates on bilingualism. Instead of arguing for or against bilingualism this study focuses on the contingencies under which bilingualism is taken as good or bad to bring into high relief the function of language as capital in these debates. Behind the discourse of American identity, economic calculations and rationale played a significant role in challenging the long-held popular view of bilingualism as a liability. The emergence and recognition of Asian American and Latino literature take place against the backdrop of these debates on bilingualism as the place where social anxieties about American identity in the face of new immigration and globalization are worked out. Interweaving the social significance of language as human capital and the literary significance of English as the language of cultural capital, Bilingual Brokers traces a structure of feeling around the dual meaning of bilingualism as liability and asset in Asian American and Latino literature. In literary representations, bilingual personhood illustrates a regime of flexible inclusion where an economic calculus of value for racialized subjects crystallizes at the intersections of language and racial difference and is used in deliberations of social worthiness. By pointing to the nexus of race, capital, and language as the focal point of negotiations of difference and inclusion, Bilingual Brokers probes liberalism’s fault lines for racialized subjects.
Bilingual Personhood and the American Dream
Authors: Lim Jeehyun
Published: September 2017

Chapter two examines the rhetorical and social construction of bilingual personhood as part of the American Dream through the debates on public bilingualism. The debates on bilingual education and bilingualism as civil right in the 1960s and 1970s centered on what language befitted an American citizen concordant with the vision of the American Dream. The argument against public bilingualism viewed English as the colorblind language of the American Dream whereas the argument for public bilingualism presented the idea that the American Dream can be in many languages. While these two poles of opposition and advocacy are well-rehearsed positions in the social debates on bilingualism, both positions presuppose possessive individualism in the construction of bilingual personhood, which limits the parameters of public bilingualism.
Believing in Order to See
Authors: Marion Jean-Luc
Published: September 2017

This is a collection of articles written over the space of twenty years on various subjects connected to the rationality of faith and its presentation in the contemporary world. Marion discusses the role of the intellectual in the church, the rationality of faith, the infinite worth and incomprehensibility of the human, the phenomenality of the sacraments, and the phenomenological nature of miracles and of revelation more broadly. Throughout he stresses that faith has its own rationality, which is one of love, gift, and givenness, which can be outlined phenomenologically and hence expressed with philosophical rigor. He also criticizes various movements within Catholicism to intellectualize the role of the laity and instead argues for the simple responsibility of the baptized as church of Christ in need of the sacraments and unfolding their particular rigor and “logic.” Marion outlines the gift-character of faith and sacraments and their essential phenomenality of giveness, which calls forth a response of love and devotion in the sense of kenotic abandon. He ends with an analysis of sanctity.
The Future of Catholicism
Authors: Marion Jean-Luc
Published: September 2017

Catholicism has an ethical role in contemporary culture as raising questions about norms and practices in order to preserve the dignity of the human being. The Church must give the Word (Christ) to the world. Man as absolute principle (in Descartes, Kant, and Hegel) becomes a means to an end. The “I” treated as absolute subject of knowledge becomes an object. The I cannot be the source of values or knowledge (man reverts to himself); this devalues the I. Man transcends man. Instead of objectifying man as an object of knowledge, we must “recognize” man as created in the image of God (which assures man’s essential unknowability). Christians must “keep the vigil of the unknowable.”
“They Recognized Him and He Became Invisible to Them”
Authors: Marion Jean-Luc
Published: September 2017

Using the Gospel account of the resurrected Christ’s encounter with the two disciples on the way to Emmaus, Marion argues that faith is not about making up for a lack of intuitions, but about the fact that our concepts fail to grasp the abundance of intuitive given. The disciples cannot and do not want to understand; they have no concepts for grasping what presents itself as fully given. Christ must provide the hermeneutic, which ultimately occurs in the gift of the broken bread. Christ as the logos gives them his meaning.
The Banality of Heidegger
Authors: Nancy Jean-Luc
Published: September 2017

Jean-Luc Nancy provides an analysis of the anti-Semitic aspects of Heidegger’s recently published Black Notebooks. Referring to Hannah Arendt’s notion of the “banality of evil,” Nancy offers an analysis of the philosophical or “historial” anti-Semitism found in the Black Notebooks. He notes especially that this anti-Semitism is marked by the “banality” of ordinary anti-Semitism pervading Europe. He does this by linking Heidegger’s remarks to the well-known anti-Semitic forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, whose terms are strikingly similar. Heidegger’s thought is also placed in the broader context of Western thought and culture, particularly in relation to the notion of a “decline” and to the sense of crisis pervading Europe in the first half of the twentieth century, to which anti-Semitism was a frequent response. Nancy critiques Heidegger’s continual evocation of a “beginning,” to be found solely in Greek thought, that has been covered over but whose destiny must be renewed in “another beginning,” and he links this to the impulse in European thought, and especially in Christianity, toward ever more initial foundations of “self.” The rejection of Judaism by Christianity, in its very foundation, is compared with Heidegger’s insistence on “another beginning.” Nancy finds in this complex ensemble a hatred of self at the heart of the West.
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Authors: Nancy Jean-Luc , Fort Jeff
Published: September 2017

Rather than asking about the provenance and place of Judaism in the West, Heidegger posits a single and continuous process in which the metaphysics of beings passes through its historical epochs. There are two schematic reasons for this lack of inquiry. The first has to do with Heidegger’s philosophical reading of history, which precluded any consideration of a development as a succession of events. The second involves the history of Judaism in relation to Christianity as the latter developed out of it. Christianity from the beginning set about denying its origins in Judaism, for the sake of a new beginning that, while distinct, is at least analogous to Heidegger’s thinking of the historiality of being. One aspect of this repudiation is an attempt to displace Judaism entirely, and to make Christianity the only true religion, thereby associating the Jews with a curse and a misfortune, which then becomes the curse of the West itself, one that must be destroyed. At the same time, there are indications in Heidegger of another understanding of Christianity that might have allowed a different grasp of its history, and of history itself, in its differentiated and disordered succession of events, irreducible to a single history of being.
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Authors: Nancy Jean-Luc , Fort Jeff
Published: September 2017

Grace, as something that cannot be foreseen requires a flaw, a breach or an insecurity, may be related in Heidegger to what he never ceased calling a task, one that required deferral, interrogative suspense, and uncertainty. While Heidegger maintained such suspense, he ran the risk of a too great certainty regarding being, of reifying it into a substance. His thought thus opened both a rich philosophical resource, but also opened it to a sordid sacrificial violence. Heidegger often speaks of sacrifice in his work, and of war. If we relate such statements to the thinking of destruction and ending found in the Black Notebooks, and to the role of the Jews in this thinking, and if we take the true measure of his evocations of sacrifice and destruction, we are left speechless in the face of a harsh truth: Heidegger not only was anti-Semitic, he attempted to think to its final extremity a deep historico-destinal necessity of anti-Semitism. In this light, Heidegger’s anti-Semitism can be seen as even more grave than the biologism of the Nazis’ racism.
The Origin of the Political
Authors: Esposito Roberto
Published: September 2017

This book explores the conceptual trajectories of two of the twentieth century's most vital thinkers of the political: Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil. Taking Homer's Iliad as the common origin and point of departure for our understanding of Western philosophical and political traditions, the book examines the foundational relation between war and the political. Drawing actively and extensively on Arendt's and Weil's voluminous writings, but also sparring with thinkers from Marx to Heidegger, the book traverses the relation between polemos and polis, between Greece, Rome, God, force, technicity, evil, and the extension of the Christian imperial tradition, while at the same time delineating the conceptual and hermeneutic ground for the development of the notion and practice of “the impolitical.” Within the book, Arendt and Weil emerge “in the inverse of the other's thought, in the shadow of the other's light,” to “think what the thought of the other excludes not as something that is foreign, but rather as something that appears unthinkable and, for that very reason, remains to be thought.” Moving slowly toward their conceptualizations of love and heroism, the book unravels the West's illusory metaphysical dream of peace, obliging us to reevaluate ceaselessly what it means to be responsible in the wake of past and contemporary forms of war.
Hope and Play: Jonathan Lear’s Radical Hope and Lars von Trier’s Melancholia
Authors: Honig Bonnie
Published: September 2017

This chapter examines hope and play in relation to the necessary conditions of democratic life by offering a reading of Jonathan Lear's book Radical Hope and Lars von Trier's film Melancholia. Both Radical Hope and Melancholia explore the loss of holding environments and the world-loss that results. Both also pose the question of how and whether attachment to world and to others is possible in the absence of public things. Melancholia may be read as a parable of capitalism or climate change as well as the human alienation and melancholy they engender. Radical Hope brings these possibilities together as it tries to understand the melancholy and resilience of the Crow people who suffered under white conquest, but managed to retain some of their land to this day.
Cash Flow Problems Can Kill Profitable Companies
Authors: Stice Derrald , Stice Earl K. , Stice James D.
Published: September 2017

Although the cash flow statement has been required in public financial reports since 1988 in the United States (and since 1994 according to International Financial Reporting Standards), these important cash flow data are still often overlooked in standard financial analyses. Accounting net income measures economic performance which does not necessarily match up with the timing of cash flow. Many profitable businesses have been killed by cash flow problems, often in the start-up phase. A business has three types of cash flows: operating, investing, and financing. A key measure of cash flow health is free cash flow, the amount of operating cash flow generated in excess of the cash needed for important spending such as for capital expenditures. Managers must pay particular attention to the difference in timing between when cash is collected from customers from the sale of inventory and when cash must be paid to suppliers for the purchase of that inventory. A significant discrepancy between those numbers indicates a potential cash flow problem. Managers and owners of a business that is burning through cash spend much of their time worrying about cash flow survival and are therefore distracted from making the tactical and strategic decisions important to the long-run success of their business.
Narrating Jewish history in free walking tours – Warsaw as a case study
Authors: Stach Sabine
Published: September 2017

Narrating Jewish history in free walking tours – Warsaw as a case study
Entangled heritage. Wrocławs’s German-Jewish and Polish-Jewish history exhibitions, 1920-2010
Authors: Kretschmann Vasco
Published: September 2017

Entangled heritage. Wrocławs’s German-Jewish and Polish-Jewish history exhibitions, 1920-2010
Performing the Holocaust on social networks: digitality, transcultural memory and new forms of narrating
Authors: Pfanzelter Eva
Published: September 2017

Performing the Holocaust on social networks: digitality, transcultural memory and new forms of narrating
Zar
Authors: El Hadidi Hager
Published: September 2017

Zar is both a possessing spirit and a set of reconciliation rites between the spirits and their human hosts: living in a parallel yet invisible world, the capricious spirits manifest their anger by causing ailments for their hosts, which require ritual reconciliation, a private sacrificial rite practiced routinely by the afflicted devotees. Originally spread from Ethiopia to the Red Sea and the Arabian Gulf through the nineteenth-century slave trade, in Egypt zar has incorporated elements from popular Islamic Sufi practices, including devotion to Christian and Muslim saints. The ceremonies initiate devotees—the majority of whom are Muslim women—into a community centered on a cult leader, a membership that provides them with moral orientation, social support, and a sense of belonging. Practicing zar rituals, dancing to zar songs, and experiencing trance restore their well-being, which had been compromised by gender asymmetry and globalization. This new ethnographic study of zar in Egypt is based on the author's two years of multi-sited fieldwork and first-hand knowledge as a participant, and the collection and analysis of more than 300 zar songs, allowing access levels of meaning that had previously been overlooked. The result is a comprehensive and accessible exposition of the history, culture, and waning practice of zar in a modernizing world.
The Zar Trade: Belonging to Tayfat al-Zar
Authors: El Hadidi Hager
Published: September 2017

This chapter examines the socialization and localization of space and time in the zar ritual complex through elaborate and deliberate practices of performance, representation, and actions. In particular, it shows how zar connectivity builds community within the old quarters of Cairo. The chapter begins with a brief introduction about the relevance of anthropologist Arjun Appadurai's work on the production of locality to zar practices. It then considers historiographical studies of women in Cairo and zar as a remnant of a guild corporation (tayfah). It also explores zar divination practices as passiones by presenting the stories of three diviners as case studies of professional zar activities.
Saints and Spirits: Transformation of Traditions
Authors: El Hadidi Hager
Published: September 2017

This chapter examines saint and spirit songs as “acts of transfer” as well as the most popular zar spirits in Cairo and the different ways through which they are placated in ritual. It first provides an overview of zar songs as “acts of transfer” before discussing the meaning enacted by a song dedicated to Hassan Abul Gheit, the patron saint of the Gheitaniya zar musicians. It then considers the historical context of the Abul Gheit song, along with the cultural memories of a marginal Sufi movement that originated in the nineteenth century. It also explores changes in the articulation of spirit possession by focusing on the spirit pair of Yawra Bey and Rakousha Hanem. Finally, it looks at zar music bands and their styles of singing, along with the history of the song “Banat al-Handasa”.
State, Society, and Irrigation Management in Egypt
Authors: Gouda Dalia M.
Published: September 2017

This chapter brings together the different elements that explain irrigation water management in Egypt and how it has changed over time, leading to the initiation of irrigation improvement projects and the formation of water users' organizations (WUOs) from the late 1980s onward. It looks at the role of the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation and the customary social organizations (informal water user groups) for irrigation water management, and how they have changed over the past sixty years. It outlines the different irrigation improvement projects and discusses the objectives of the Egyptian government and donor agencies in the creation of WUOs, and how these have affected the functioning of WUOs at different hydrological levels. Finally, it summarizes the fieldwork strategy used to carry out the research, giving the reasons for the selection of the villages in Kafr al-Sheikh and Fayoum governorates and the author's access to the field.
Mrs. Naunakhte & Family
Authors: Donker van Heel Koenraad
Published: September 2017

The so-called Will of Naunakhte (1154 BCE) has become rightly famous in Egyptology. Naunakhte was a woman from the New Kingdom village of Deir al-Medina who made a statement in court about her inheritance. So what really happened to her eight surviving children, four of whom were daughters? By carefully studying the documents mentioning members of the family and including all the material mentioning the women of the New Kingdom village of Deir al-Medina and other sources, the book puts to the forefront the remarkable role played by ordinary women in ancient Egypt. The book is an unprecedented view into the lives of these ordinary women and the status of divorce and marriage in Deir al-Medina at the time.
A Boy with a Golden Pair of Hands
Authors: Donker van Heel Koenraad
Published: September 2017

This chapter focuses on Maaninakhtef, the son of Naunakhte and Khaemnun. It is not clear where Maaninakhtef came in the line of succession, although when Naunakhte's children went to clear out their mother's house and took turns picking the items of their choice, he was quite often last in line. On the other hand, these were only the household goods, not the most valuable items of the lot. Maaninakhtef was part of the regular workforce, and O. Berlin P 14262 connects him with carpentry. This chapter also considers the recent archaeological excavations in the workmen's settlement in the Valley of the Kings by the Swiss team led by Andreas Dorn; these excavations have yielded multiple new practice letters on ostraca that Maaninakhtef wrote to the vizier Neferrenpet but never actually sent. Finally, it discusses the question of why the library of the scribe Qenhirkhopshef was passed on to Maaninakhtef when the latter's brother Amunnakhte died.
Was Neferhotep a Wimp?
Authors: Donker van Heel Koenraad
Published: September 2017

This chapter focuses on Naunakhte's son, Neferhotep. Bernard Bruyère found two fragments of a limestone seat in the village containing the names of both Neferhotep and his brother Maaninakhtef. This could mean two things: the two men shared a house or this could actually be their carpenter's shop. Apart from being a workman, a colophon made by Neferhotep's brother Amunnakhte in one of the Chester Beatty papyri also refers to him as a carpenter. In Naunakhte's last will Neferhotep was excluded from the main part of the inheritance because he always asked her for support. Naunakhte's decision suggests that Neferhotep was a wimp who was unable to make ends meet, and instead of supporting his mother in her old age she had to support him. Nevertheless, Neferhotep contested her will after she died. The chapter also considers two court cases involving Neferhotep and laid before the divine oracle.
Qenhirkhopshef the Younger
Authors: Donker van Heel Koenraad
Published: September 2017

This chapter focuses on Naunakhte's son, Qenhirkhopshef the Younger, who received a larger share of her mother's inheritance in the form of a copper vessel and ten additional sacks of grain. It begins with some facts about Qenhirkhopshef: he was a regular workman, but some of the correspondence with his brother Maaninakhtef suggests that he also worked as a carpenter, perhaps as part of a family business. It then considers one ostracon (O. BM EA 50737) from Dynasty 20, which mentions both Qenhirkhopshef and his sister Khatanub; Naunakhte's daughters sometimes appear in the records buying carpentry. It also describes Qenhirkhopshef the Younger as one who seems to have been more versatile than other workmen. Finally, it analyzes one of Qenhirkhopshef's stelae, found in a Theban tomb and then acquired by the Earl of Belmore. The tomb has come to be known as Lord Belmore's Tomb.
Rewriting the Revolution
Authors: Gordon Joel
Published: September 2017

This book examines the formative period of the Egyptian revolution that began on July 23, 1952, when the Free Officers, a group of army officers led by Muhammad Nagib and Gamal Abdel Nasser, staged a coup d'etat that overthrew King Farouk. After forcing King Farouk to abdicate, the Free Officers established a military junta, decreed a land reform program, appointed Nagib as prime minister, and ordered all political parties to apply for recertification. They also abrogated the Constitution and outlawed all political parties, after which they declared a three-year “transition period” of martial law and proclaimed their movement a revolution. The book explores the political dynamics of this transition period by assessing and synthesizing a variety of interpretations of events and how the coup of July 23, undertaken in the name of social and political reform, became the “July Revolution.” It also considers the debate over the legacy of Nasser and the regime he founded in Egypt.
"Lift Up Your Head"
Authors: Gordon Joel
Published: September 2017

This chapter examines the Free Officers' political agenda for their revolution. The officers' revolution was supposed to be only temporary, but they ended up overturning the liberal order in an attempt to clear the path for a turnover in party leadership. Their assertion of direct power was a reflection of the need for a bolder, more long-term strategy as far as Egypt's political reform was concerned. The chapter first considers the response of many liberals to the new regime before discussing the Command Council of the Revolution's (CCR) founding of a new political movement called Liberation Rally, designed to encourage national unity under the slogan “Lift up your head, my brother.” It then looks at the CCR's abolition of the monarchy and declaration of Egypt as a republic headed by Muhammad Nagib and Gamal Abdel Nasser. It also analyzes the show trials instigated by the government to prosecute old-regime figures for corruption and abuse of power.
"A Revolutionary, Not a Politician"
Authors: Gordon Joel
Published: September 2017

This chapter examines the March crisis of 1954, which saw the Command Council of the Revolution (CCR) face off against the combined opposition of the old political parties, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Left, much of the independent intelligentsia, and significant units within the army. The March crisis was sparked by the ouster of Muhammad Nagib as prime minister, and the opposition rallied behind him. They demand that power must return to civilian hands, the officers must return to the barracks, and the revolution must end. The chapter discusses the street demonstrations that were part of the March crisis and the steps taken by the Free Officers after it ended. It shows that the March crisis turned out to be a pivotal moment that allowed the CCR to consolidate its power and establish itself as the only viable alternative to the old regime.
"Fondest Hopes of the West"
Authors: Gordon Joel
Published: September 2017

This chapter examines the Free Officers' relations with Britain and the United States, particularly in light of the Anglo-Egyptian negotiations regarding the withdrawal of British troops from the Suez Canal Zone. In the aftermath of the March crisis, the Command Council of the Revolution (CCR) trained its sights on an evacuation agreement with the British. Both Washington and London felt that the officers shared common strategic and objective aims with the West. The chapter first considers the extent and nature of U.S. and British roles in the consolidation of military rule in Egypt before discussing the Anglo-Egyptian relations in the context of Anglo-American alliance politics. It also explores the question of the presence of British troops in the Suez Canal Zone, along with the U.S. and British response to the Free Officers' coup d'etat of 1952. Finally, it looks at the signing of the Suez accord between Egypt and Britain in October 1954.
Protecting Pharaoh's Treasures
Authors: El Saddik Wafaa , Heimlich Rüdiger , Heimlich Rüdiger
Published: September 2017

Growing up in Egypt's Nile Delta, the author was fascinated by the magnificent pharaonic monuments from an early age, and as a student dreamed of conducting excavations and working in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. At a time when Egyptology was dominated by men, especially those with close connections to the regime, the author was determined to succeed, and secured grants to study in Boston, London, and Vienna, eventually becoming the first female general director of the country's most prestigious museum. The author launched the first general inventory of the museum's cellars in its more than 100-year history, in the process discovering long-forgotten treasures, as well as confronting corruption and nepotism in the antiquities administration. In this very personal memoir, the author looks back at the history of Egypt and asks, what happened to the country? Where did Nasser's bright new beginning go wrong? Why did Sadat fail to bring peace? Why did the Egyptians allow themselves to be so corrupted by Mubarak? And why was the Muslim Brotherhood able to achieve power? But the author's first concern remains: How can the ancient legacy of Egypt truly be protected?
Transcending Conquest
Authors: Murphy Melissa S. , Klaus Haagen D.
Published: September 2017

There are twelve chapters divided into three sections: 1) life, death, and mortuary practices; 2) colonial entanglements, frontiers, and diversity; and 3) identity and the body under colonialism. The first and second sections offer a global perspective on the effects of colonialism and culture contact on community health: indigenous converts living in the frontier, peripheral towns, lower class suburbanites within major urban centers, and recent European immigrants. The contributions move beyond indigenous communities. Class, ethnicity, hybridity and contact longevity (entanglement) flesh out that colonialism was not a one-way process of cultural exchange, health decline, extirpation, or even a bad thing. The chapters’ undercurrent is resilience, with bioarchaeological data providing evidence of dietary and health changes reflecting the various degrees different communities responded and adjusted to colonialism. Colonized Bodies, Worlds Transformed‘ssecond accomplishment is to define bioarchaeology of colonialism that is not focused on diet, disease, and demography. Colonized Bodies, Worlds Transformed successfully justifies the value of diverse approaches that use body modification (Tiesler and Zabala), human skeletal morphology (Buzon and Smith, Danforth et al.,Ortiz et al., Ribot et al.), and ancient DNA (Danforth et al.) to explore what a bioarchaeology of colonialism can offer—the study of identity, hybridity, and ethnogenesis.
The Social Structuring of Biological Stress in Contact-Era Spanish Florida
Authors: Winkler Lauren A. , Larsen Clark Spencer , Thompson Victor D. , Sciulli Paul W. , Hutchinson Dale L. , Thomas David Hurst , Blair Elliot H. , Sanger Matthew C.
Published: September 2017

Winkler and colleagues investigate the relationship between social status and well-being among the Guale from St. Catherines Island in Spanish Florida (A.D. 1607–1680). Specifically, they examine stress through dental caries, linear enamel hypoplasias, tooth size, and long bone length. Their analysis of mortuary data identifies postcontact social status variation on the basis of funerary offerings and proximity to the altar, and they integrate ethnohistorical evidence to enrich their interpretations. While Winkler and colleagues do not find any direct relationship between stress markers and mortuary offerings, there were spatial relationships between involving well-being and proximity (or distance) from the altar. While the study of colonialism in Spanish Florida has a long history, this work at St. Catherines Island represents new directions involving the spatial dimensions of mortuary and skeletal data on an intracemetery level. Winkler and colleagues conclude with discussions about their findings within the context of Spanish colonialism in Spanish Florida and the implications for bioarchaeology of colonialism.
A Glimpse of the Ancien Régime in the French Colonies?
Authors: Danforth Marie Elaine , Cook Danielle N. , Funkhouser J. Lynn , Hester Barbara T. , Guzik Heather
Published: September 2017

Danforth and colleagues report on demography, diet, mitochondrial DNA, and biological stress in remains from Moran, Mississippi, part of New Biloxi, a French colonial settlement. This study is unique, since at the time of this writing, skeletal remains were identified at only six French sites in the U.S. These authors test whether the historically documented policies implemented under “Code Noir” were actually practiced and enforced at the settlement, segregating the European settlers, enslaved Africans and their descendants, and Native Americans. The authors were surprised by the high number of young males of European ancestry they encountered. Stable isotope data indicated that their diets were dominated by C3 based plants and only one had C4 based diet. Although the human remains were small and few possessed high levels of enamel defects, Danforth and colleagues found low levels of physiological stress. They conclude that either the burials from Moran were not part of New Biloxi and did not suffer to the degree the settlers of New Biloxi suffered or there was strict enforcement of segregation, with the remains of other groups interred elsewhere, and the conditions were not as poor for the Moran group as historical documents about New Biloxi say.
“The house / of herself”
Authors: Gill Jo
Published: September 2017

‘“The house/ of herself”: Reading Place and Space in the Poetry of Anne Sexton’ offers a reading of Anne Sexton’s poetry and prose (including short stories, unpublished lecture notes and correspondence) in light of its engagement with history and, more importantly, with historiography. The orthodox assumption that confessional poetry in general, and Sexton’s poetry in particular, has little or nothing to say about contemporary historical circumstances has been confounded of late by the work of a number of critics. This essay takes these revisionist readings of Sexton’s historical and political commitment as the starting point for a nuanced and theoretically inflected reading of her engagement not with history per se, but with historiography – or the ways in which the past has been read, understood and communicated over time.
Anne Sexton’s Institutional Voice
Authors: Javadizadeh Kamran
Published: September 2017

“Anne Sexton’s Institutional Voice” offers a critique and revisionary account of the breakthrough narrative, with Anne Sexton serving as its central example. If a crucial aspect of the breakthrough narrative is that the poet makes a radical turn away from “objective” content and towards autobiography, then Charles Altieri suggests a way in which we can both acknowledge the poet’s renewed interest in his own life and at the same time preserve the possibility that certain legacies of modernist and New Critical poetics might still condition his deployment of autobiography. Put another way, my contention here is that poets like Plath, Lowell, and Sexton continue, rather than reject, key aspects of the institutional forms of modernism that they inherit, but that they do so, often, by writing poems in which they are themselves both the subjects and the objects of institutional scrutiny.
Reading, Voice, and Performance
Authors: Hyning Victoria Van
Published: September 2017

Anne Sexton delivered her last public reading at Goucher College, Baltimore, MD, on October 1, 1974, three days before she took her own life. The high quality, eighty-minute long performance was recorded, but remained unknown until 2005. “Reading, Voice, and Performance” brings the last reading into conversation with some of the better known biographical aspects of Sexton’s last months and days—already familiar to readers of her obituaries and Diane Wood Middlebrook’s biography—as well as with other recordings (Caedmon (1974); Voice of the Poet (2000), etc.) and the work of scholars Derek Furr, Jo Gill, Christopher Grobe and J. D. McClatchy who have written on the nature of Sexton’s self-presentation and public persona(e).
“The Speaker in This Case”
Authors: Beaumont Jeanne Marie
Published: September 2017

Transformations brings together several currents of Anne Sexton’s themes and methods and can be read as both a masked autobiography and transitional or gateway work from her mid to late poetry. This chapter analyzes the voice and tone she conjures to create the persona of witch/crone/teller and closely looks at the kinds of metaphors and images she employs to create her distinctive dramas. It compares her retellings to the original Grimm texts and also looks at some of her earlier poems as precursors while considering how, in her hands, the tales turn into both theatrical performances and case studies.
Anne Sexton and the Wild Animal
Authors: Lasky Dorothea
Published: September 2017

“Anne Sexton and The Wild Animal” discusses the bestiary poems from Anne Sexton’s 45 Mercy Street in the context of the book as a whole. It also investigates the idea of a feral, metaphysical “I” in other American poets, including Sylvia Plath.
A Further Brush with Fame in 1965
Authors: Frank Patrick
Published: September 2017

In chapter 5, Frank traces the spread of Nueva Figuración’s international renown, discussing the artists’ growing number of group shows and related reviews in U.S. and European magazines. Comparing it to the postmodern treatise The Anti-Aesthetic by Hal Foster, Frank examines Noé’s Antiestética, a theoretical text in which he extolled chaos as a value in art and announces his views on other dominant movements of the day such as Pop Art. Frank closes on the dissolution of Nueva Figuración: with the art scene in Argentina trending toward Pop and related styles and with Marta Minujín staging “Happenings” and proclaiming that painting was dead, the New Figurationists had one final group show in Buenos Aires and then went their separate ways.
Up to Maughty London
Authors: Loukopoulou Eleni , Knowles Sebastian D. G.
Published: September 2017

Up to Maughty London: Joyce's Cultural Capital in the Imperial Metropolis examines the relationship between James Joyce’s writings, their publication history, and London, arguing that they are intrinsically related owing to the scale of Joyce’s ambition, and the geopolitical significance of the metropolis as the vortex of the British Empire. There are two main strands that the book explores: first, a consideration of London’s status as a matrix for political and cultural formations and the aspects of this that are intertwined with the representation of London in Joyce’s work, and second, Joyce’s diverse publications and the promotion of his work in London’s literary marketplace. By assessing the promotion of his work through publisher’s series, magazines, anthologies, radio broadcasts and sound recordings, and by referring to unpublished manuscripts, drafts, notebooks, diaries, and letters, this book offers fresh readings of literary representations of London in Joyce’s work and sheds light on his aspirations to become a London published author.
Joyce and the British Avant-Garde
Authors: Loukopoulou Eleni
Published: September 2017

“James Joyce and the British Avant-Garde” focuses on Joyce’s interaction with Cambridge’s intellectual milieu, where new experiments in literature were forcefully debated in the magazine Experiment (1928–31), founded and run by William Empson and Jacob Bronowski. I will outline the publication background and analyse the “Museyroom” extract from Work in Progress which was published in Experiment in 1931. The significance that Joyce attributed to this publication can be gauged by his strong interest in “helping” (Letters I 302) Stuart Gilbert to write an exegetical essay, titled “A Footnote to Work in Progress”, to be published alongside the extract from Work In Progress. The publications in Experiment have been neglected by Joyce scholarship thus far. Nonetheless, such publications are significant because they foreground the intense interest of the emerging British avant-garde in Joyce’s cultural practices and theoretical concerns. Equally overlooked is the publication of a section from “Proteus” in The European Caravan anthology (1931). This was the first Anglo-phone anthology to present post-WWI experimental literature from France, Italy, Great Britain, and Ireland. Bronowski sub-edited the section on Britain and Ireland with the help of Thomas McGreevy and Samuel Beckett.
Travels on the St. Johns River
Authors: Bartram John , Bartram William
Published: September 2017

Travels on the St. Johns River presents writings by pioneering American naturalists John Bartram and William Bartram during their exploration of Florida in the second half of the eighteenth century. Part I (chapters one–three) includes selections from John Bartram's Diary, William Bartram's description of the St. Johns River valley in his celebrated Travels, and selected correspondence. Part II (chapter four) describes the landscapes, plants and animals, people, and cultural artifacts that John and William encountered in their explorations. Descriptions of the natural world, written in binominal nomenclature, are updated and redefined. Here, armchair and active travelers will find a guide to both the St. Johns River valley, its landscapes, its flora and fauna, and to the Bartrams' responses to the natural world of their time. Photographs, drawings, and maps accompany the writings and the editors’ modern interpretations.
Diary
Authors: Bartram John
Published: September 2017

These selections from John Bartram's Diary (or Journal) record the Florida leg of his 1765–66 tour of the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida with his son William. Bartram’s observations of the St. Johns River are accompanied by notes on north Florida flora and fauna, recent and ancient human history, weather, springs, and river hydrology.
Brazilian and South American Political and Military Engagement in Haiti
Authors: Seitenfus Ricardo
Published: September 2017

“Brazilian and South American Political and Military Engagement in Haiti” analyses the multiple factors surrounding South American involvement in Haiti that eventually brought Brazil, in particular, out of a policy of ‘non-intervention’ and into full engagement in Haitian peacekeeping. By examining the interstate politics and the intricate dynamics in international left-wing organizations, this analysis unveils how Brazil came to lead the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), and how much of the South American left came to support Aristide’s ouster. Such a surprising political movement is examined in terms of disagreements between the São Paulo Forum and the Haitian political party, Famni Lavalas, founded and led by Jean-Bertrand Aristide. This analysis demonstrates the importance of understanding the complexities of regional politics and presents an astounding picture of how the South American left distanced itself from the Haitian left.
Sovereignty and Soil
Authors: Freeman Scott
Published: September 2017

“Sovereignty and Soil” analyses how agricultural labor and the non-adoption of soil conservation strategies becomes a site of resistance to the impositions of foreign aid. Throughout Haiti’s agricultural and environmental history, foreign intervention has laid claim to the trees and crops of Haiti, and in doing so has threatened the very stuff of sovereignty: Haiti’s soil. Not only is it important to consider the history of agricultural extraction in Haiti, it is equally important to consider the efforts of international aid that ostensibly attempt to rectify such ills. This contemporary ethnographic research details how environmental aid projects have unsuccessfully attempted to use Haiti’s collective labor groups as a site for individualized wage labor incentives. The impositions of individualized wage labor are in stark contrast to the way that Haitian cooperative labor groups work for group rather than individual benefit. Ultimately, this article documents how long held agricultural practices are continuing assertions of rural solidarity.
Serials to Graphic Novels
Authors: Golden Catherine J.
Published: September 2017

The Victorian illustrated book is a genre that came into being, flourished, and evolved during the long nineteenth century and finds new expression in present-day graphic novel adaptations of nineteenth-century novels. This history of the Victorian illustrated book focuses on fluidity in styles of illustration across the arc of a genre diverse enough to include serial instalments, British and American periodicals, adult and children’s literature, and—most recently—graphic novels. The caricature school of illustration, popular in the 1830s and 1840s, was not a transient first period in the history of the illustrated book. In the 1870s, Academy-trained artists for the Household Edition of Dickens’s work refined characters created by George Cruikshank and Hablot Knight Browne for an audience that appreciated realism in illustration, but their illustrations carry the imprint of caricature. At the fin de siècle—which some critics consider a third period of the Victorian illustrated book and others call the genre’s decline—book illustration thrived in certain serial formats, artists’ books, children’s literature, and the U.S. market where we again witness a reengagement with the caricature tradition as well as a continuation of the realistic school. The Victorian illustrated book finds new expression in our time; the graphic novel adaptation of Victorian novels, referred to as the graphic classics, is a prescient modern form of material culture that is the heir of the Victorian illustrated book.
Caricature
Authors: Golden Catherine J.
Published: September 2017

In its theatricality, caricature-style book illustration approximates the tableau style popular in the nineteenth century. This chapter examines book illustrations by George Cruikshank, Phiz, Richard Doyle, John Leech, and Robert Cruikshank that, like tableaux, capture a dramatic moment in works by Dickens, Ainsworth, and Thackeray. With lighting, props, clever casting, and detail-laden backdrops, the caricaturists staged scenes ranging from the sensational to the sentimental, from the deeply psychological to the broadly comic. “Caricature: A Theatrical Development” adds two Victorian author-illustrators to this list of recognized caricaturists. Better known as an author than an illustrator, William Makepeace Thackeray designed theatrical pictorial capital letters, vignettes, tailpieces, and full-page engravings for his best-known Vanity Fair (1848) and cast his heroine Becky Sharp in various stage roles. To dramatize Alice’s transformations, Lewis Carroll recalled popular caricature techniques in his illustrations for the first version of Alice in Wonderland (1865) entitled Alice’s Adventures Underground(1864) at a time when realistic illustration held sway. This chapter also examines artistic limitations and scandals (e.g. Robert Seymour’s suicide, Cruikshank’s claim of authoring Dickens’s works) that led to a dismissal or devaluation of the caricaturists and a privileging of the Academy trained artists who entered the field of illustration in the 1850s.
Broken Chains and Subverted Plans
Authors: Fennell Christopher C.
Published: September 2017

Broken Chains and Subverted Plans: Ethnicity, Race, and Commodities examines the ways in which the large-scale development plans of Anglo-American governing officials and investors were subverted by the choices of individuals and social networks in the regions of Virginia and Illinois in the nineteenth century. The lessons from this study inform issues very current today, as economists and policy makers debate the best ways to create new markets and develop commodity chains of production and consumption spanning the globe. The backcountry of Virginia presents a story of German-American farmers utilizing ethnic social networks to take selective advantage of economic opportunities promoted by Anglo-American officials and investors. The region of Illinois illustrates the ways in which African Americans worked to overcome the overt and structural racism that shaped the availability of land and economic opportunities in the Midwest. These two case studies emerge from multi-year research projects in which Fennell served as a principal investigator, analyst, and archaeologist.
Introduction
Authors: Westwood Lisa , O’Leary Beth Laura , Donaldson Milford Wayne
Published: September 2017

Chapter 1 introduces the concepts of “importance” and historic preservation at a high-level and explains the biographies of each of the authors. The included chapter outline also provides an overview of the scope and content of the book.
This chapter begins with an overview and definition of human culture, and how it has changed over time. The concepts of archaeology and space archaeology are introduced within the context of place-based historic preservation and Apollo culture.
Cultural Context of Apollo Culture
Authors: Westwood Lisa , O’Leary Beth Laura , Donaldson Milford Wayne
Published: September 2017

This chapter expands on the notion of Apollo Culture in greater detail, beginning with an historic context of the Cold War era. It takes a look at the Sputnik and Vanguard launches during the IGY (International Geophysical Year) Space Race, and explains how these political and social events of the mid-20th century set the stage for the rise and fall of the Apollo program- which required a combination of engineering, marketing, and scientific efforts by the federal government.
Preservation of Space Heritage Using Models from the Sea and Antarctica
Authors: Westwood Lisa , O’Leary Beth Laura , Donaldson Milford Wayne
Published: September 2017

“Preservation of Space Heritage using Models from the Sea and Antarctica” turns to existing precedents set by the concepts of international waters and lands, like Underwater Heritage for the sea and Antarctica, as possible models for how other properties that lack ownership (such as Tranquillity Base on the Moon) could be preserved. The authors also discuss the concept of cultural landscape as a mechanism that is gaining recognition among other types of historic preservation efforts, being made by the likes of the UN Convention, NASA Guidelines, XPrize, and the Outer Space Treaty, and how it is becoming more important as threats to space heritage are emerging.
Preservation Works
Authors: Westwood Lisa , O’Leary Beth Laura , Donaldson Milford Wayne
Published: September 2017

“Preservation Works” provides examples of real case studies where historic preservation of space heritage has been successful, demonstrating potential routes for preservation. The chapter includes discussions on saving the Space Shuttles (led by Donaldson), designation of Tranquillity Base on state historical registries, establishment of a multi-state park for the Manhattan Project, and other smaller efforts to preserve artifacts and recognize sites.