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Jazzing in the Tokyo Slum: Music, Influence, and Censorship in Akira Kurosawa’s Drunken Angel
Authors: Harris Michael W.
Published: October 2013

Akira Kurosawa’s 1948 film Drunken Angel was his first collaboration with composer Fumio Hayasaka, with whom the director would work until Hayasaka’s death. This article examines two elements that shaped the final product but have rarely been discussed: similarities between G. W. Pabst’s The Threepenny Opera (1931) and music’s function in structuring the film’s narrative. These are connected through Kurosawa’s desire to have used “The Ballad of Mack the Knife” in the film’s score.
Fast and Bilingual: Fast & Furious and the Latinization of Racelessness
Authors: Beltrán Mary
Published: October 2013

This article interrogates the immense popularity of Fast & Furious (Justin Lin, 2009), the fourth film in the Fast franchise, with US Latino viewers when it was released, exploring both the film industry’s targeting of Latinos in recent years and the potential of and limitations inherent to foregrounding a “bilingual aesthetic” in a franchise known for an ethos of racelessness. Comparisons to the short film Los Bandoleros (Vin Diesel, 2009), included with Fast & Furious on the commercial DVD, highlight borders that still exist when major US studios construct a seemingly multicultural narrative for global audiences.
With “Feelings of Reverence for Departed Greatness”
Authors: Ford Frances Henderson
Published: October 2013

Few historic sites in America are as well known and beloved as George Washington’s Mount Vernon. Arguably the birthplace of preservation in the United States, decisions about preservation and interpretation at Mount Vernon continue to be scrutinized in a very public manner. Even before the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association assumed ownership in the middle of the nineteenth century, such decisions could arouse strong feelings. The story of Washington’s initial resting place and the removal of his body from the badly decayed original casket to a marble sarcophagus carved by the Philadelphia marble mason John Struthers in the 1830s is one such example of how good intentions and forgetfulness combined to result in hard feelings and a significant misinterpretation of Washington’s burial site and its meaning.
The Display of Ruins: Lessons from the Ghost Town of Bodie
Authors: Strazdes Diana
Published: October 2013

A gold-mining town in northeastern California that flourished during the 1870s and 1880s, Bodie has become known as one of the most extensive ghost towns of the American West. It is now a state park managed according to the preservation principle of “arrested decay” and, as such, is an unusual instance in the United States of a cultural heritage site presented through ruins. Investigations of comparable tourist venues have emphasized the role of preconditioned conceptions in shaping visitors’ reactions. Bodie offers an opportunity to consider in addition the direct effects of visual experience—the combined impression made by the geography of the site, the juxtaposition of the structures and setting, and the fragmentary furnishing of buildings—whether resulting from accidents of time or organizational decisions made at the park. Offering a minimum of written interpretation, the park is a display of fragments that creates a distinctive impression of authenticity while offering a message very different from both historical setting and the information offered to visitors. Bodie exemplifies the power of visual appearance to create meaning, whether intended or not.
How Heritage’s Debate on Values Fuels Its Valorization Engine: The Side Effects of Controversy from Alois Riegl to Richard Moe
Authors: Koziol Christopher
Published: October 2013

Discussions of values and valuation constitute a substantial portion of the recent theoretical and policy discourse of heritage conservation. The contrast between many preservationists’ proclivity for broad inclusiveness and economists’ quest for specifiable and parsimonious models has now been explored through a number of heritage conferences and publications. This article moves the debate in a new direction. The argument begins with a discussion of the embedded and inevitable entanglements of assigning value, valuation, and the changeable process by which value is ascribed to an object, valorization. Although alluded to in a few other heritage publications, the discussion here turns to actor network theory (ANT), and specifically the work on the sociotechnical configuration of markets by Michel Callon, for direction. The heritage specific sections of the article focus on historical changes in the policy environment of preservation, and a discussion of how heritage stakeholders, even those as self-consciously detached as academic economists, must be considered to be actors embedded in those activities, including markets, which they propose to critique.
Storyscapes and Emplacement, Layer by Layer
Authors: Mitchell Mary , Barnes David S.
Published: October 2013

Buildings and sites associated with large administrative institutions present challenges for historical interpretation. Often lacking immediate visual legibility or commonly known histories, these unwieldy places are not only costly to maintain but also confusing to potential visitors. These difficulties are compounded in sites that have been used for a variety of purposes in different eras. In this essay, we argue that the same features that complicate interpretation of such sites also offer exciting possibilities when they are addressed with attention to narrative and emplacement . Using Philadelphia’s Lazaretto quarantine station as an example, we contend that historical interpretation can showcase the contingent social meanings and experiences of place over time. We demonstrate this interpretive strategy by explaining how relatively stable physical features of the Lazaretto took on different meanings and carried different symbolic resonances through the site’s long life—first as a quarantine station, then as a country club, and later as a seaplane base. Exploring a site through its historical stratigraphy can engage visitors by demonstrating sociocultural change over time, and can stimulate dialogue about issues of contemporary relevance by revealing their roots and resonances in the site.
World’s Fairs: Language, Interpretation, and Display
Authors: Vegas Fernando , Mileto Camilla
Published: October 2013

Apart from some cases related to the glories of nineteenth-century structural engineering and some isolated examples representing the avant-garde of the moment, world’s fair architecture of the eclectic period continues to be quite an unexplored subject within the panorama of recent architecture. This article analyzes the function of nineteenth-century world’s fair architecture by considering the interpretation and display of past traditions in local and international exhibitions, the different strategies implemented in their conception, and current approaches to interpretation. Finally, a reflection is made about the role of world’s fair architecture in the creation of the architecture and urban planning of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century cities. This paper is an elaboration of some ideas presented in the book: Fernando Vegas López-Manzanares, La Arquitectura de la Exposición Regional Valenciana de 1909 y de la Exposición Nacional de 1910 (Valencia: Ediciones Generales de la Construcción, 2003).
Housing the Bell: 150 Years of Exhibiting an American Icon
Authors: Matero Frank G.
Published: October 2013

Conceived, built, and briefly used over a thirty-year period, Mitchell/Giurgola’s Liberty Bell Pavilion housed and exhibited the single most venerated symbol of American democracy. Although the display of the Liberty Bell as a public talisman of freedom and independence dates back to 1852 when it was moved out of its original tower and placed on display within the Declaration Chamber in Independence Hall, the building of a special structure to house, protect, and exhibit the bell was first realized with Giurgola’s modernist design. Going beyond its immediate programmatic requirements, Mitchell/Giurgola Architects created a space that was both contemplative and functional for the more than thirty million people who visited the bell during the Bicentennial and afterward.

Recent changes in exhibition, security, and architectural taste have redefined Independence Mall and with it the display of the Liberty Bell. Throughout the long history of venerating and preserving these forty-five acres of buildings and sites associated with the founding of the nation, the various approaches over time in exhibiting the Liberty Bell remind us of the primacy of design in shaping interpretation and experience.
Influence of an Academic Intervention Program on Minority Student Career Choice
Authors: Sweeney Jennifer K. , Villarejo Merna
Published: October 2013

This qualitative, retrospective study explored how educational experiences provided as part of an undergraduate intervention program helped to shape career decisions for minority biology students. A key goal for the program is to increase minority entry into science research and teaching careers, yet actual career choice has not been studied. Interviews with program alumni uncovered varying perceptions of the benefits of coursework, advising, and research and clinical work by alumni in different careers as well as varying influence of personal factors on career choice. These results support prior findings on the impact of intervention programs on career choice for minority students.
Faculty Perceptions of High-Achieving Male Collegians: A Critical Race Theory Analysis
Authors: Comeaux Eddie
Published: October 2013

Critical race theory was employed as an interpretive framework to explore faculty perceptions of the academic accomplishments of high-achieving Black and White male collegians. Using photo elicitation methodology, faculty participants responded to a randomly assigned photograph of and vignette about either a Black or White male student. While most faculty members were supportive of the academic achievements of both Black and White male collegians, some subscribed to dominant racial ideologies such as colorblindness and racial coding. These findings have implications for faculty, student affairs professionals, and others who frequently interact with college students and are committed to creating more equitable educational environment.
Focusing on the Sophomores: Characteristics Associated With the Academic and Social Involvement of Second-Year College Students
Authors: Wang Xueli , Kennedy-Phillips Lance
Published: October 2013

Research has long suggested that an optimal level of involvement in academic and social activities positively affects student development and outcomes. However, many second-year students experience the “sophomore slump.” For this study, guided by both prior literature and theoretical perspectives, a survey instrument was developed to measure students’ participation and involvement in a range of academic and social activities. The dependent variables comprised of five scales representing various aspects of involvement. Independent variables included student background characteristics, environmental variables, and psychological measures. Results from regression analyses indicate that academic self-efficacy and institutional commitment were strong predictors of sophomore involvement. Student background characteristics illustrate differences in the degree to which students were involved. Living on campus was positively related to sophomore involvement. A discussion of implications for practice follows.
The Influence of Study Away Experiences on Global Perspective-Taking
Authors: Engberg Mark E.
Published: October 2013

This article examines the relationship between 2 study away experiences—study abroad and service-learning—and the development of a global perspective. Three different studies are presented using cross-sectional and longitudinal designs and multi-institutional samples. The results specifically link involvement in study abroad and service-learning to the varying dimensions of the Global Perspective Inventory, demonstrating the influence such involvement has on student learning and development across cognitive, intrapersonal, and interpersonal domains. The article concludes with a discussion of the results and implications for administrators and practitioners interested in assessing global learning on their campuses.
Creating My Own Story: Catholic Women’s College Students Narrating their Lives
Authors: Enke Kathryn A. E. , Winters Kelly T. , Ropers-Huilman Rebecca
Published: October 2013

Given the complex and gendered messages college women receive about their future professional and personal lives, a woman’s college experiences play an important role in helping her make difficult life choices. In this article, we present a narrative analysis of the envisioned futures of students at two Catholic women’s colleges in the Midwestern United States. Participants drew on a number of narrative themes when creating their rhetorical future lives, including sequencing or juggling multiple priorities, opting out of future work or family roles, using overarching principles to make decisions about future roles, and maintaining resistance to planning. Our findings suggest that holistic understandings of students’ experiences must consider the complex ways in which identities, such as gender, are positioned within social narratives.
Racial Identity Attitudes and Ego Identity Statuses in Dominican and Puerto Rican College Students
Authors: Sanchez Delida
Published: October 2013

This study explored the relation between racial identity attitudes and ego identity statuses in 94 Dominican and Puerto Rican Latino college students in an urban public college setting. Simultaneous regression analyses were conducted to test the relation between racial identity attitudes and ego identity statuses, and findings indicated that racial identity attitudes were significantly related to ego identity statuses. Specifically, internalization racial identity statuses were significantly related to foreclosed ego statuses, and dissonance racial identity statuses were significantly related to moratorium ego statuses.
The Impact of Institutional Mission on Student Volunteering
Authors: Sullivan Susan Crawford , Ludden Alison Bryant , Singleton Royce A.
Published: October 2013

This study examined patterns and predictors of volunteering among students at a liberal arts college with an institutional culture that strongly promotes community service. Results showed that predictors varied across four different types of volunteering: community service, social action, religious service, and service to the college. Year in school, academic performance, and familiarity with the college’s mission statement were the most consistent predictors, but only familiarity with the mission was significantly associated with all types of volunteering. Thus, one way to increase volunteering may be to promulgate an institutional mission statement emphasizing service to others.
La Teogonía de Hesíodo en la poesía juvenil de Lorca
Authors: Garrido Andrés Ortega
Published: October 2013

La lectura de la Teogonía de Hesíodo, obra que Federico García Lorca poseía en una edición bilingüe con traducción de Luis Segalá, influye en varios de sus poemas de juventud, especialmente en "La religión del porvenir". En este artículo ofrecemos una nueva versión de ese poema, corrigiendo a la luz del manuscrito ciertas lecturas de las ediciones previas disponibles, y estudiamos la estrecha relación de la Teogonía con ese y otros poemas de juventud, en los cuales se consolidan algunos temas centrales de la poética lorquiana.Federico García Lorca's reading of Hesiod's Theogony , a poem which Lorca possessed in a bilingual edition translated by Luis Segalá, influences several of his early poems, especially "La religión del porvenir." In this article, I offer a new version of this poem, introducing some corrections of the previously published text based on the manuscript, and study the close relation of the Theogony with that and other poems of Lorca's youth, where some central issues of his poetics are consolidated.
Heme aquí: Martín Luis Guzmán's Autobiographical Acts Within and Beyond "Apunte sobre una personalidad"
Authors: Cifuentes-Goodbody Nicholas
Published: October 2013

This article examines the efforts of Martín Luis Guzmán (1887-1976), as both an author and publisher, to cultivate his legacy within the canon of Mexican letters. He begins this autobiographical project with a speech to the Mexican Academy of Language in 1954, "Apunte sobre una personalidad," where he links his identity as an artist to a glorified history of the Mexican Revolution. By portraying himself as a writer whose greatest work is perpetually deferred, he is able to unite his disparate literary production from the previous forty years under a single narrative. Using this renovated life story, the author goes on to republish his work to great success, as seen in the official celebrations surrounding his eightieth birthday. However, the drastic change that his reputation undergoes just one year later show the limits of Guzmán's autobiographical acts, the price that he ultimately pays for attempting to so closely control his life story, and the importance of referentiality in the study of autobiography.
Crossing the Line in the Sand: Francis Drake Imitating Ferdinand Magellan in Juan de Miramontes's Armas antárticas
Authors: McCloskey Jason
Published: October 2013

This article examines the third canto of Juan de Miramontes's colonial Latin American epic, Armas antárticas (1608-1609), in which Francis Drake narrates the voyage of Ferdinand Magellan to Elizabeth I of England. The study begins by analyzing how Armas antárticas portrays Magellan as an epic hero and defuses certain long-standing controversies surrounding him by appealing to classical epic models and judiciously drawing from historiographic texts. Despite the general effectiveness of this portrayal, however, Armas antárticas creates entirely new problems for the perception of Magellan by presenting him as a precursor of Drake. In fact, the text poetically and ironically suggests that Magellan transgressed the antimeridian of the Line of Tordesillas, and in doing so preceded Drake in his piratical activities in the Pacific. In this way Armas antárticas evinces unexpected parallels with ideas about piracy and international law expressed by the Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius in Mare liberum (1609).
Construyendo al predicador criollo: una aproximación al Arte de sermones de fray Martín de Velasco
Authors: Vitulli Juan
Published: October 2013

Este ensayo estudia la conexión entre el surgimiento de manuales de oratoria escritos en el mundo colonial y su particular interés por construir la figura del predicador criollo. Se analiza aquí el libro Arte de sermones para hacerlos y predicarlos (1677), escrito por el criollo neogranadino fray Martín de Velasco. Este texto me permite demostrar cómo en las últimas décadas del siglo XVII el grupo criollo está en proceso de crear la figura de un agente cultural inédito, el predicador criollo, a través de ciertas estrategias de negociación discursiva entre su lugar de enunciación y la autoridad peninsular. En mi lectura, destaco cómo el Arte de sermones permite observar la compleja construcción ideológica que enmarca y fundamenta el espacio epistemológico desde el cual surge el predicador criollo.This essay studies the connection between the rise of oratory manuals written in the colonial world and its particular interest in building the figure of the Creole preacher. I analyze here the book Arte de sermones para hacerlos y predicarlos (1677) written by the Creole author Fray Martin de Velasco. This text allows me to demonstrate how in the last decades of the seventeenth century, the Creole community is in the process of creating the figure of an unprecedented cultural agent (the Creole preacher) through the deployment of certain discursive strategies that focus on the intersection between the Creole locus of enunciation and peninsular authority. My reading of Velascós book shows the complex ideological paradigm that frames the distinctive epistemological space forged by the Creole community in order to create the figure of the Creole preacher.
Possession or Insanity?: Two Views from the Victorian Lunatic Asylum
Authors: Ossa-Richardson Anthony
Published: October 2013

This article examines a controversy, between two English asylum chaplains of the 1850s, about the nature of demonic possession in the New Testament. I trace both chaplains' views to German theological debates on the subject from the late eighteenth century, and show how these discussions chimed with new theories about 'moral insanity' being developed by contemporary psychiatrists in England and France. Finally, I argue that the compromise between rationalist and supernaturalist explanations of possession, developed by German theologians, was used by the two chaplains to justify their contentious place in the modern asylum.
Through the Prism of a Plagiarism Debate: Eighteenth through Twentieth-Century Sino-Japanese Intellectual Relations
Authors: Sela Ori
Published: October 2013

During the twentieth century Dai Zhen (1724-77) has been accused by some of plagiarizing the work of Itō Jinsai (1627-1705). Others refuted the accusations, and a debate has been raging on this subject. In this paper I explore the similarities between the works of the two scholars; analyze the possibility and plausibility of Dai using Jinsai's work; and historicize the plagiarism debate itself. In doing so I unravel the complexities of Sino-Japanese intellectual exchange, how texts and ideas traveled, and how scholars from each country perceived those across the sea, at different times and historical contexts.
Bergson Comes to America
Authors: McGrath Larry
Published: October 2013

This article documents Henri Bergson's visit to America in 1913. It is based on original research carried out and at the archives of the Sorbonne and universities at which the French philosopher spoke. The conceptual stakes of Bergson's visit turned on the dualisms in his thought. I first highlight the centrality of the problem of dualism in Bergson's early works. I then examine how Americans treated the problem in three contexts: Bergson's close relationship to William James; academic engagements with Bergson's thought, especially that of John Dewey who hosted Bergson; and finally his cultural popularity, primarily in New York City.
Scripture and Truth: A Problem in Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
Authors: Nadler Steven
Published: October 2013

Three articles, by Steven Nadler, Carlos Fraenkel, and Warren Zev Harvey, constitute a "symposium" on a particular set of issues in Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise: how to reconcile Spinoza's account of the interpretation of Scripture (and the distinction between truth and meaning) with some remarks he says about miraculous events as related in Scripture.
The Development, Logic, and Legacy of Reflexive Concepts in Greek Philosophy
Authors: Jeremiah Edward
Published: October 2013

Reflexive concepts and philosophy have a history of intimacy. From the beginning, philosophy's discourse incorporates reflexive ideas and makes these essential building-blocks in its project to think the real. I argue that concepts such as the self-moving and self-gathering soul in cosmology and anthropology, the thing-in-itself in ontology, and self-care in ethics become primordial reflexive operations which ground and animate their respective realms, and form an ecology of reflexive ideas. I provide an account of the underlying reasons for the development of these reflexive concepts, while at the same time sketching their reception and legacy in the tradition.
Spinoza on Miracles and the Truth of the Bible
Authors: Fraenkel Carlos
Published: October 2013

Three articles, by Steven Nadler, Carlos Fraenkel, and Warren Zev Harvey, constitute a "symposium" on a particular set of issues in Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise: how to reconcile Spinoza's account of the interpretation of Scripture (and the distinction between truth and meaning) with some remarks he says about miraculous events as related in Scripture.
From Pious to Polite: Pythagoras in the Res publica litterarum of French Renaissance Mathematics
Authors: Oosterhoff Richard J.
Published: October 2013

Between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, Pythagoras became a purveyor of polite secrets. To the Florentine Neoplatonist philosopher Marsilio Ficino, Pythagoras was a prophet or priest whose cryptic sayings might allow a glimpse into cosmic mysteries. By the 1650s one was as likely to find Pythagoras adorning a treatise on the theory of disciplines like swordsmanship and dancing. Numbers had come down to earth. This paper charts the first, crucial part of this inversion in meanings and importance attributed to Pythagoras—and so to mathematics—among French mathematicians in the first part of the sixteenth century.
Spinoza on Biblical Miracles
Authors: Harvey Warren Zev
Published: October 2013

Three articles, by Steven Nadler, Carlos Fraenkel, and Warren Zev Harvey, constitute a "symposium" on a particular set of issues in Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise: how to reconcile Spinoza's account of the interpretation of Scripture (and the distinction between truth and meaning) with some remarks he says about miraculous events as related in Scripture.
The London Library and the Circulation of French Fiction in the 1840s
Authors: Atkinson Juliette
Published: October 2013

The enduring notion that Victorian readers avoided French novels—predominantly on the ground of immorality—is challenged by the archives of the London Library, founded in 1841. This article argues that the London Library found the highbrow, exclusive image it endeavored to project constantly shaken by the demands of its subscribers, who made contemporary, and often risqué, French fiction a central part of their leisure reading. These demands helped shape the library’s collections, as subscribers eagerly took up the opportunity to engage with Continental trends, revealing in the process numerous literary fads of the 1840s and the diversity of the social groups that followed them.
Negotiated Order: The Fourth Amendment, Telephone Surveillance, and Social Interactions, 1878–1968
Authors: Agur Colin
Published: October 2013

In the United States the words “telephone surveillance” bring to mind contemporary security concerns about smart phone tracking, the NSA warrantless wiretapping scandal, and the telecommunications provisions of the Patriot Act. Yet telephone surveillance is as old as telephony itself, dating back to the nearly simultaneous commercialization of the telephone and phonograph. This article examines telephone surveillance by American law enforcement agencies from the inception of telephone service to the passage of the Federal Wiretap Law in 1968, focusing on the challenges an advancing, proliferating, and shrinking technology posed for Fourth Amendment law. To highlight the technological, institutional, and cultural interactions that have shaped Fourth Amendment jurisprudence, the article deploys Jack Balkin’s theory of cultural software and Anslem Strauss’s concept of a negotiated order and brings together major cases, federal legislation, and evidence of government surveillance. The article argues that during the first ninety years of telephone usage in America, laws on search and seizure developed not from constitutional consistency or logic but as the result of a complex negotiation process involving new media and human agency.
Efficient, Secure Green: Digital Utopianism and the Challenge of Making the Electrical Grid “Smart”
Authors: Slayton Rebecca
Published: October 2013

Electrical grids have long depended upon information infrastructures—systems for exchanging information about electricity generation, transmission, distribution, and use. But only in the last decade has the notion of a “smart grid” captured the imagination of policymakers, business leaders, and technologists. Smart grid promoters promise that information technology will simultaneously improve the efficiency, reliability, and security of the grid. This article shows how these goals have come into tension as the grid’s information infrastructure has shaped, and been shaped by, government policies. It advances a three-part argument. First, digital technology and digital utopianism played a significant and underanalyzed role in restructuring the electricity industry during the 1980s and 1990s. Second, industry restructuring encouraged utilities to deploy information technology in ways that sacrificed reliability, security, and even physical efficiency for economic efficiency. Third, aligning the many goals for a smart grid will require heterogeneous engineering—designing sociopolitical and technological worlds together.
Computer Technology in Brazil: From Protectionism and National Sovereignty to Globalization and Market Competitiveness
Authors: Cukierman Henrique Luiz
Published: October 2013

This article seeks to outline some initial conclusions of ongoing research into the controversies and congressional debates that took place during the passage through the Brazilian National Congress of the bills (dated 1984, 1991, 2001, 2004) relating to informatics activities in Brazil. Which topics did the congressional controversies “heat up” around, and which led to their “cooling off” so as to make the formulation of a new law possible? What were the issues at stake that led to the promulgation of four informatics laws in such a short space of time? What led these debates from market protectionism and national sovereignty to globalization and market competitiveness? These questions can be answered by the a priori definition of groups and interests. However, the choice in this article is to follow the actors and their own strategies of formation and dissolution of groups, focusing on the tracks left by the debates in Congress, especially those formally recorded in congressional documents and in the press.
Said, Lukács, and Gramsci: Beginnings, Geography, and Insurrection
Authors: McCarthy Conor
Published: October 2013

This essay argues that Edward Said’s work was deeply shaped by Georg Lukács’s theory of reification and totality, as set out in History and Class Consciousness , and also molded by a reinflection of Lukács’s thinking through the work of Antonio Gramsci. The interweaving of the influences of Lukács and Gramsci was fundamental in enabling Said’s radicalized geographical criticism. The essay shows that though Said frequently disavowed “totalizing” thought, Lukácsian theory actually underpins the ways Said opens his major books, from Beginnings to Culture and Imperialism . The influence of Gramsci, appearing from the later 1970s onward, permits Said to spatialize the insights he had already incorporated from Lukács in a productive interplay.
Edward Said as a Lukácsian Critic: Modernism and Empire
Authors: Brennan Timothy
Published: October 2013

The inaugural role played by early-twentieth-century Marxist thought in anti-colonial theory has been largely ignored in recent decades. Although far from its only or most important case, this defining influence is exemplified in the close relationship of Edward Said’s work to that of Georg Lukács. Said read and reviewed Lukács closely throughout his apprenticeship, highlighted his work in his Orientalism- era seminars, and established a critical affinity with Lukács in a similar critique of literary modernism. Aspects of Said’s major interventions (above all in Beginnings ) are directly modeled on Lukácsian points of departure. Considering the efforts today to rehabilitate modernism as inherently worldly, political, and critical of European norms, it is significant that Said considered the social implications of modernism’s ironic dissimulations to be antipathetic to anti-colonial thought. This imperial dimension of form is theorized in Lukács himself: Said understood this and his work is informed by it.
Edward Said’s Imaginative Geographies and the Struggle for Climate Justice
Authors: Dawson Ashley
Published: October 2013

Can viable links be established between environmental justice activists from communities in climate chaos-threatened locations in the Global North and communities of what the environmental historian Ramachandra Guha calls “ecosystem people” in the Global South? In order for such transnational links to be forged, new forms of empathy and solidarity need to be fostered that extend our political imaginary beyond the dominant geographic scales of the past—the city, nation, or region—without collapsing into a sweeping and abstract planetary universalism. Such a process of rewriting will entail an ability to see established geographies as the product of social struggles, as ways of imagining the world in order to cement or to contest hegemony. Geography, as Edward Said consistently argued, never simply involves describing the world, but rather is an inescapably political practice of world-making through representation. Considering Said alongside figures such as Antonio Gramsci and C. L. R. James, the essay argues that Edward Said’s work on what he called “imaginative geographies” blazed a path for the political and theoretical project that confronts the movement for climate justice today.
Edward Said and the (Mis)Fortunes of the Public Intellectual
Authors: Varadharajan Asha
Published: October 2013

This essay describes Edward Said’s career as a public intellectual, focusing in the main on his journalistic interventions in newspapers and magazines rather than on his academic career. I argue that Said’s reputation for worldliness should rest equally on his role as a citizen who articulated dissent in the interests of revitalizing American democracy. I conclude by considering why and how we need his vision of political and moral conduct more than ever in these perilous times.
Searching for Medicine in Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer
Authors: Nash Woods
Published: October 2013

Walker Percy was trained as a physician, and most of his novels are clearly invested with his concern for the medical profession. At first glance, The Moviegoer (1961) looks like the exception. It is the story of Binx Bolling, who has recently embarked on a “search,” though he cannot name its goal. Yet, the text offers numerous clues that Binx is searching for a life in medical practice. First, he exercises a sophisticated medical vocabulary and habitually assesses others’ health. Furthermore, by becoming a doctor, Binx might achieve the kind of “certification” for which he longs, defeat “the malaise,” reassert his limited respect for science, and better understand his deceased father, who was a surgeon. Finally, in Binx’s relationship with Kate, the text also offers a new model for the physician-patient relationship—one of mutual, existential commitment—thereby mapping one of the heights to which the medical profession might aspire
Reading and AIDS Literacy in Allen Barnett’s Short Fiction
Authors: Lee Rick H.
Published: October 2013

This essay traces a tradition of texts that document the impact of AIDS literacy on gay men’s understanding of the epidemic. AIDS literacy refers to practices of reading and information exchange that engage with different bodies of knowledge from cultural debates to biomedical discourse, and with various genres of representation from media portrayals to obituaries. Focusing on the stories of Allen Barnett and the recent public discussions surrounding the death of former New York City mayor Ed Koch, this essay argues that the cultivation of AIDS literacy is paramount for confronting the unfinished history of AIDS. By staging AIDS literacy in two of his stories—“Philostorgy, Now Obscure” and “The Times As It Knows Us,” both published in 1990—Barnett bestows to his audience a meaningful set of ideas about gay identity, reading practices, and rituals of remembrance that can revitalize AIDS consciousness at the present historical moment.
A Plague on Both Your Houses of Worship: The Meanings of Epidemic Disease in William Byrd II and Cotton Mather
Authors: Long Thomas Lawrence
Published: October 2013

Treatises on epidemic disease by two North American British Colonial literary figures, William Byrd II and Cotton Mather, demonstrate similar preoccupations with epidemics’ religious meanings, despite Byrd’s Anglican and Mather’s Calvinist Congregationalist differing theological commitments. Both men situate epidemic disease in the inherent weakness of the human condition, while Byrd is more inclined toward human reason and Mather toward spiritual intervention in the selection of preventives and treatments. Mather’s role in the 1721 smallpox inoculation controversy may represent competition between Boston’s traditional ministerial intelligentsia and the emerging university-trained medical intelligentsia.
Satire as Medicine in the Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century: The History of a Metaphor
Authors: Gallagher Noelle
Published: October 2013

This essay explores the changing cultural meanings of the comparison between satire and medicine in literature of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century (1660–1800). Drawing on examples from a wide range of texts, I argue that medical rhetoric not only remained important in the theorization and classification of satire as a genre, but also played a prominent role within satiric literature, as writers began to complicate and challenge the conventional critical associations between satirists and physicians. Ultimately, I suggest that the satire-as-medicine metaphor came to stand in for a number of important cultural debates, including those between the arts and sciences, between “high” and “low” art, and between the ancients and moderns.
Confined to Bed: Illness, Narrative, and Female Authority in Charlotte Temple
Authors: Garden Rebecca
Published: October 2013

Susanna Rowson’s early American bestseller, Charlotte Temple , has typically been read as a story of seduction and abandonment. Not only is the title character abandoned but also the revolutionary ideals of female equality that were ultimately rejected in the formation of the new republic. This essay, however, focuses primarily on the power that other female characters wield through narrative mastery. It locates female narrative power within the social space of the bed—a place where sex, reproduction, reading, writing, and illness converge. Charlotte Temple redefines female authority and authorship by figuring the domestic space of the bed as narrative space—a theater for action—juxtaposed with the street, where the threat of female narrative power is represented as contagion. This essay reads Charlotte Temple as a proto-feminist education in narrative strategies that both resists and reinforces perceptions of female narrative as contagious.
The Nineteenth-Century Quarantine Narrative
Authors: Bezio Kelly
Published: October 2013

This essay articulates the literary and political consequences of a sub-genre of nineteenth-century travel writing that I call the quarantine narrative. Twelve texts, once fashionable but now little-known and understudied, published between 1832 and 1847 are examined herein. Written primarily by itinerant Americans—including titans of the antebellum periodical scene, Knickerbocker authors Nathaniel P. Willis, Theodore S. Fay, and Henry T. Tuckerman—these works collectively disseminate an anticontagionist perspective that derides the practice of quarantining “dangerous elements” to protect the well-being of a population. Linked together by an exposé prose style aimed at demystifying and debunking medical detainment, and by the use of irony intended to prompt new thinking about national identity formation, these narratives convey a surprisingly positive attitude toward foreign influence during an early period of global travel, commerce, and cultural circulation.
The Bacteriological Modernism of Joris-Karl Huysmans’s Against Nature
Authors: Jørgensen Jens Lohfert
Published: October 2013

The French author Joris-Karl Huysmans’ novel Against Nature (1884) is notorious for its depiction of anti-social, extravagant life-style, as well as for its highly descriptive style, saturated by details and criss-crossed by a multitude of cultural references. This reading of Huysmans’ novel argues that the depiction of the main character’s attempt to gain existential self-control, by isolating himself from society, forms a phenomenological expression of the way in which the breakthrough of the germ theory of disease contributed to a general feeling of a subjective lack of control in the second half of the nineteenth century. As a manifestation of a wariness of aesthetic influence, the novel’s style mirrors the main character’s relation to society. The style forms a rupture of the aesthetics of naturalism in the novel, by means of which it contributes to the formation of another aesthetic norm—that of modernism.
Exploring the generic boundary zone: Narrative perspective in George Orwell’s ‘A hanging’ and Janette Turner Hospital’s ‘The mango tree’
Authors: Lee Carolyne
Published: October 2013

In this article, I show how the ‘narratorial presence’ (our aesthetic experience of being in the story), constructed for the reader in relation to each specific story, occurs at the intersection of highly nuanced narratological structures and reading conventions. Such conventions can also shape our view of ‘borderline’ texts as either ‘story’ or ‘essay’. Drawing first on narratological features originally articulated by Franz Stanzel and Gerard Genette, this article extends these articulations to fully explore and describe the nexus between pronoun choice in short narratives and the specific and heightened effects constructed by readers – that is, narrative perspective, an aspect affecting the entire reading experience.
Reviews
Authors: Petter Sylvia , March-Russell Paul
Published: October 2013

Of weather and the land: Short fiction from Australia

Forecast: Turbulence, Janette Turner Hospital (2011) Australia: Harper Collins, 232 pp., ISBN: 9780732294441, h/bk, AUD 22.99

In the Shade of the Shady Tree: Stories of Wheatbelt Australia, John Kinsella (2012) Athens, OH, USA: Ohio University Press, 190 pp., ISBN: 9780804011372, h/bk, USD 19.96

Short Story Theories: A Twenty-First Century Perspective, Viorica Patea (ed.) (2012) Amsterdam: Rodopi, 346 pp., ISBN: 978-90-420-3564-5, h/bk, £63.75
Voicing the self: Narration, perspective and identity in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s ‘Prince Ramji Rowdedow’ (1874)
Authors: Hatter Janine
Published: October 2013

This article considers Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s use of the short story form and authorial, character and narrative voice in her theatrical tale ‘Prince Ramji Rowdedow’ (1874). As context for this article prevailing Victorian approaches to narrative voice will be considered, alongside Braddon’s acting and playwright careers, emphasizing her knowledge of how the voice is utilized on and offstage. The thesis of this article is that although the voice can be fragmented, it is a vital and powerful element of identity construction for both fictional characters and real people. However, Braddon’s deliberate exposé of the highly constructed nature of the theatre demonstrates that a person’s identity is socially rather than individually constructed.
‘To sing the beauties of the Haitian motherland’: The voice of the Griot in Jacques-Stéphen Alexis’ Romancero aux étoiles (1960)
Authors: Bascombe Carla
Published: October 2013

There is a glaring disparity between the number of short stories being published by writers of Haitian origin and the body of literary criticism that exists on these stories. This article examines the relationship of narration and nation and will seek to bring the Haitian short story to the fore with specific emphasis on the voice of the griot in the 1960 collection Romancero aux étoiles/A Serenade to the Stars by writer Jacques-Stéphen Alexis. The griot, a traditionally African figure, is the ever-present narrator in this collection, thus reminding the reader of the strong connection of the Haitian short story to African oral traditions. The article begins by analysing Alexis and how he integrates his réalisme merveilleux approach to literature. It then locates Alexis’ collection within the framework of Haitian short fiction. The narrative voice that Jacques-Stéphen Alexis uses in his short stories is a multifaceted one that reflects the political environment of a nation that is perpetually reminded of its tenuous history and fecund culture.
Leverets
Authors: Mort Graham
Published: October 2013

By submitting an original short story and an essay exploring its genesis, antecedents and composition, this article explores the creative process in the context of the demands being made upon creative writers to position their writing as research within the UK higher education academy. Whilst pointing to the rigidity of current research models it also indicates the intense subjectivities at play in the reading and realization of fictional forms, discussing both process and affect in doing so.
‘I Contain Multitudes’: The queer chronotopes of Annie Proulx’s ‘Brokeback Mountain’
Authors: Madden Christopher
Published: October 2013

This article will explore Annie Proulx’s treatment of the expansive Wyoming setting and the characters’ traumatic lives in ‘Brokeback Mountain’ as factors that would seem to militate against the generic limits of the short story form. Through Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of the chronotope, I will argue that Proulx represents memory and geography in images in which time and space coalesce or are torn asunder to signify a love that literally dare not speak its name because it would be lethal to do so. The story’s central theme of queer love between two novice shepherds has a concomitant effect on what constitutes the normative in Wyoming’s fiercely patriarchal and machismo world. This results in a range of chronotopes in which heteronormative space and time undergo queer revision. Drawing upon queer theory tropes such as futurity and counterpublics, I suggest that Proulx’s queering of the literary form of the pastoral recalibrates notions of domesticity and the family. Proulx’s imagery thus reveals an alternative ethic secretly at work in the story’s milieu that narrative discourse opens to the reader even if its secret significance is sullied and even silenced by rural myth and history in its represented world.
Legending in flagrante delicto: The short fiction of Can Xue
Authors: Stevenson Simon
Published: October 2013

Mainland Chinese writer Can Xue (1953–) has one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary fiction. Her short pieces have been favourably compared with those of Kafka and share something of the same metamorphic transformation of the social order into something more oneiric and malleable. This article discusses the critical reception of her work that has tended to interpret her innovative narrative strategies as a response to the trauma suffered by her family during the Cultural Revolution, noting that the author herself plays down these political considerations, stressing instead the attempt to depict a singular internal world. It suggests that Gilles Deleuze’s concept of ‘legending’ provides a way of negotiating between the external socio-political contexts and the internal ‘soul worlds’ of Can Xue’s writing, and outlines the importance of the concept for a reading of short fiction in general.
Primo Levi as storyteller: The uses of fiction, creative non-fiction and the hard to classify in Levi’s narrative of the Holocaust
Authors: McCrory Moy
Published: October 2013

The varied forms of short prose writing used by Primo Levi in his continued narrative of the Holocaust allows a reconsideration of him as not merely its witness, but also as its storyteller. Taking The Periodic Table ([1975] 1986) as a conscious shift in Levi’s writing direction this article examines where the fictional developments and memory collide, and attempts to assess if this produces a more memorable format in order to reveal a difficult history. Do we continue to read Levi because his honesty is greater than the bare facts, and is there such a thing as a Holocaust aesthetic?