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Childhood Spaces and Deaf Culture in Wonderstruck and A Quiet Place
Authors: Yenika-Agbaw Vivian
Published: September 2023

The protagonists of Brian Selznick’s Wonderstruck (2011) and John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place (2018) are portrayed as agentic children whose deafness does not interfere with their engagement with childhood spaces or the imaginative and physical freedom and transformative childhood experiences they find there. However, secret spaces reminiscent of childhood can be contradictory, embodying not only dreams and possibilities but also endangerment. The young protagonists in these texts strive for well-being as children rather than to seek security as Deaf children; they are rebellious characters who strive to create identities that are not limited by deafness as perceived by the larger hearing community but are portrayed as courageous and resilient children with a healthy sense of wonder. They must contend with the demands of the hearing world as they forge secret spaces for childhood that nurture imagination and create possibilities for them as children who happen to be deaf.
Myanmar
Authors: Lent John A. , Lent John A.
Published: September 2023

This chapter assesses the difficulties faced by political cartoonists in Myanmar. It first provides a historical overview of political cartooning in the country, before profiling two individual cartoonists interviewed for this work. These are Aw Pi Kyeh (APK) and Win Aung, who were among the most conversant about government/cartooning relationships, probably because they were older than the other interviewees (APK was born in 1959; Win Aung, in 1962) and had lived during and suffered under varying degrees of harsh authoritarianism. Additionally, the chapter takes a closer look at the problems Myanmar's cartoonists continue to face. One major problem of the profession relates to cartoonists' labor. No Myanmar newspapers or other periodicals maintain staff positions; all cartoonists work as freelancers. The chapter also argues that upgrading the professional status of political cartooning (actually, all cartooning) in Myanmar is sorely needed.
India
Authors: Lent John A. , Lent John A.
Published: September 2023

This chapter focuses on political cartooning in India. It starts by exploring the history of caricature in India up to the latter part of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The chapter then embarks on a series of interviews to capture the essence of Indian political cartooning in these later periods. Additionally, the chapter considers the characteristics and problems of pre-modern-age cartooning, particularly focusing on the 1990s. Afterward, the chapter gives more focus to Indian political cartooning in the twenty-first century, and the views the political cartoonists interviewed for this work have on the subject. India's freedom to cartoon is also considered in depth, as well as alternative cartooning forms artists have turned to in light of the limits to this freedom. To conclude, the chapter offers some perspectives on women cartoonists in India.
Sri Lanka
Authors: Lent John A. , Lent John A.
Published: September 2023

This chapter explores the difficulty of political cartooning in Sri Lanka. Aside from the low pay and lack of respect for the profession, political cartoonists in the country also has to deal with the inherent dangers that come with the profession—namely, violence and terrorism, though contemporary Sri Lankan cartooning is not as fraught as it had been for many years now. Relatively speaking, political cartooning is a newcomer to Sri Lanka, primarily dating to the 1940s. Pioneering political cartooning in the 1940s were Aubrey Collette (1920–1992), who drew for the Times of Ceylon and then the Ceylon Observer, 1947–1964, and G. S. Fernando, who was first a commercial artist and then was made main artist of the Times Group Newspapers in 1933. The chapter also gives particular focus to Jiffry Yoonoos (1932–2003), whose cartooning career has been met with the aforesaid dangers. Other terrorist actions and threats to political cartoonists in Sri Lanka are also explored.
Introduction
Authors: Machado Isabel
Published: September 2023

Mardi Gras plays a crucial role in the construction of Mobile’s identity and has a considerable impact on the city’s economy and on how its citizens have defined and imagined themselves. This chapter introduces readers to the city of Mobile and its Mardi Gras celebration and defines the concepts that orient the book’s analysis: the “invention of traditions” and “markedness.” It also engages with Carnival Studies, and with the scholarship on Brazilian Carnaval specifically, to provide a framework for understanding Mobile’s celebration.
Slaves to the Community: Blacks and the Rhetoric of Selling Out
Authors: Malcolm Nigel I.
Published: September 2023

“Slaves to the Community: Blacks and the Rhetoric of Selling Out” critiques Randall Kennedy’s work Sellout. In the post-civil rights era, blacks can achieve a great deal as individuals. However, the tension between the aspirations of the individual and the demands of the racial group create internal pressures (Touré 2011) that bring forth a divided self that mirrors the one Du Bois wrote about at the turn of the twentieth century. This is the result of a color line, drawn by white citizens in the past, but now solidified and reified by blacks in the present (Dickerson 2004). The rhetoric of ‘selling out’ functions as a mechanism of social control meant to keep blacks on ‘their side’ of the color line. It does so at the very moment it becomes possible for blacks to cross the threshold and become part of the American mainstream.
Blacks and the Rhetoric of Individualism
Authors: Malcolm Nigel I.
Published: September 2023

“Blacks and the Rhetoric of Individualism” critiques Touré’s work Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness? In the post-civil rights era, some blacks wish to live free of restrictions that attempt to tell them not only who to be but also how to be. Touré is one such individual and his book examines the lives of many others who wish to explore the plurality of ways in which individuals can enact their own notions of blackness. However, the post-black identity Touré advocates for is more likely to be embraced by the Mainstream and Transcendent groups rather than the Abandoned who continue to occupy a place at the bottom of America’s social hierarchy even among other blacks. Problems with the post-black identity exist yet some may see this as a tradeoff they are willing to accept if class can be seen as a more important marker for them than race.
Eudora Welty and Mystery
Authors: Kreyling Michael
Published: September 2023

Eudora Welty says, in a letter to Kenneth Millar, that she read James M. Cain’s crime fiction late (and had “fun” with it)—in the 1970s—decades after her mother (a devoteé of the “Golden Age”) read, and disapproved of, him and his writing. This chapter ventures that noir is constant but evolving, and that Welty the daughter was a member of the age of Chandler and the hardboiled aesthetic. She need not like or dislike noir or its practitioners, but she could and did adapt it to the currents of her fiction. Noir’s familiar elements (misogyny, road and car culture, gestating violence, ultimate doom) are re-mixed in her work. So it is with Welty’s novella The Ponder Heart and her short story “No Place For You, My Love.” We read Welty in the tradition of the detective novel, and hardly know it.
Reading Eudora Welty’s “Petrified Man” and “Old Mr. Marblehall” as Southern Pulp
Authors: Frye Katie Berry
Published: September 2023

This chapter examines the work of Eudora Welty in relation to the conventions of pulp and genre fiction, specifically that of mystery and detective stories. When read through this lens, Welty’s short fiction reveals “clues,” often in the form of the pulp publications strewn throughout her stories, that direct the reader on interpreting her characters. In “Petrified Man,” the women act as detectives, perusing pulp magazines that ultimately point them towards catching the criminal, and in “Old Mr. Marblehall,” the titular character is a bigamist who reads lowbrow publications in horror and science fiction, magazines that signal the slaveholding South’s own troubled history of white men leading double lives. Both short stories pay tribute to the mystery genre, appropriating such elements as disappearing acts, doppelgängers, counterfeit identities, and the popularity of pulp genre fiction presenting suspect constructions of masculinity.
Detecting Dr. Strickland
Authors: Pickard Michael
Published: September 2023

Critics have not often looked at mysteries in Welty’s fiction through the lens of genre. “The Demonstrators” (1965) is an exception. As the perceptive recent discussion of the story has made clear, Welty draws on the conventions of mystery fiction to expose medical racism and white supremacy in fictional Holden, Mississippi. This essay argues that “The Demonstrators” does even more than that. Going beyond recognition of these forces, Welty asks us to consider how they can reside within Strickland’s educated mind and pass the muster of his human heart. How does a person who has devoted his life to healing others—who has suffered humanizing losses of his own and made personal sacrifices in order to pursue this profession—live with himself, when the system he lives within has turned him into an agent of discrimination and even murder? How, in short, is Richard Strickland possible?
When a Mystery Leads to Murder
Authors: Pollack Harriet
Published: September 2023

In Welty’s 1971 novel, the garrulous Renfro-Beecham clan undertakes to identify the parents of Jack’s bride, Gloria Short, a county orphan now married into the family. The genre-bending novel weighs issues of evidence and proof as it drolly modifies familiar “country-house mystery” convention, flipping the form’s traditional upper-class British setting to locate the case in a Mississippi “shotgun” homestead. There, no celebrated detective works the puzzle; instead, the family deems themselves a sort of kith and kin investigative team, intending to diminish the resented bride to a mystery they have solved. This chapter ––creating crime-boards on suspect parental pairings–– follows more clues than its reunion members, or previous critics, have thought to use. Moreover, as Welty thickens, rather than resolves, the novel’s mysteries, all versions of the past lead to another crime. A murderer confesses, mid-novel and without consequences, causing the essay to reassess the novel’s covert investigation into felonious whiteness.
The Fall of Eagle Island
Authors: Kugler Jimmy
Published: September 2023

The longest of the War’s chapters depicts another valiant Frog defeat. As in the first chapter, the Toad air force continues their atrocity campaign, targeting civilians and the defenseless wounded. The story moves back and forth from air to ground. Only briefly do Frogs retrieve their dead and wounded, one of the few sentimental gestures in the entire comics. Vengeance and cruelty motivate the combatants. The battle as usual is simplified into individual combat, though here it concludes with a complex depiction of a melee. The Toad victory was costly; to take the island, twice as many Toads died than Frogs.
Sophisticated Children
Authors: Roszak Suzanne Manizza
Published: September 2023

Chapter 1 draws together cross-written short stories and poems by Rabindranath Tagore and Langston Hughes. Produced around the first few decades of the twentieth century, these texts do important antiracist and anticolonialist work, operating from an intersectional vantagepoint that accounts for accompanying issues of class and gender and that locates their common roots in globally interlinked systems of oppression. Tagore’s and Hughes’s cross-writing construes their younger characters and readers as sophisticated children: as more than capable of confronting and disrupting these systems. The thematic and aesthetic echoes that reverberate across Tagore’s and Hughes’s work “for children” and “for adults,” irrespective of these expected categories of audience, speak to our need for more fluid and nuanced ways of understanding what children’s literature is and who it is for. Working from these textual examples, this first chapter also gestures toward the larger transnational aims of this book.
Subversive Adventures and Intrepid Kids
Authors: Roszak Suzanne Manizza
Published: September 2023

This chapter scrutinizes texts that draw on and repurpose conventions from within the vast and historically problematic genre of the children’s adventure story. In their cross-writing, James Baldwin, Mario Puzo, and Chinua Achebe take part in a contemporary movement that has used stories of children’s adventures as a subversive vehicle for protest. In the process, within narratives that extend from the midcentury United States to colonial and post-independence Nigeria, they tackle subjects ranging from toxic masculinity to the overrepresentation of white identities in children’s literature. Inconsistencies in the reception of Baldwin’s, Puzo’s, and Achebe’s work for age-diverse audiences prove nonsensical in light of the very real, thought-provoking, and aesthetically complex interventions that their children’s books make, as well as in light of the ways that their purportedly adult texts also center and privilege stories of adventurous childhood.
Introduction
Authors: Bailey Trenton
Published: September 2023

In this introduction to Do You Remember?: Celebrating Fifty Years of Earth, Wind & Fire, the author establishes the band’s decades-long success in the music industry. Since the band’s inception in 1970, they have sold more than ninety million records, making them one of the best-selling bands of all time. The author describes finding EWF’s music as a toddler, and how it inspired him as he grew older and became more curious about their album covers, performances, and lyrics, which frequently display Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) themes and symbols. The author then discusses the numerous influences of the Black Arts Movement, Egyptology, and the Affro-Arts Theater on the band’s founder, Maurice White.
Shining Stars
Authors: Bailey Trenton
Published: September 2023

Chapter 3 details EWF’s continued success in the late 1970s, beginning with the release of “Shining Star” and the album That’s the Way of the World. The author details the symbolism and overall meaning of both “Shining Star” and the Way of the World album; specifically, he discusses the Kemetic images and message of fulfilling one’s purpose in life. The chapter continues with a discussion of EWF’s following album, Gratitude, and their 1976 album Spirit.
Be Ever Wonderful
Authors: Bailey Trenton
Published: September 2023

The eleventh chapter discusses the band’s work from 2006 to 2012, including work with other artists. Hot Feet, a Broadway show based on the music of EWF, is discussed, as is the second edition of In the Name of Love. The band continues to perform and receive various accolades.
Afterword
Authors: Bailey Trenton
Published: September 2023

The afterword discusses Maurice White’s primary vision: to raise the consciousness of people around the world. EWF’s uplifting messages of universal love and spiritual guidance. The song discusses the relationship between White’s Christian belief and his interests in Egyptian cosmology and other spiritual beliefs. Ultimately, White’s musical talents and persistent positivity have led to his enduring legacy.
Deriving Meaning
Authors: Falola Toyin
Published: September 2023

Language discourse in the early years after colonialism centred on meta-language – that is, can an intellectual discourse be truly African if it is done in a Western language? There is a common assumption that African educational systems would benefit more from the use of indigenous languages. The underlining idea is that language has intrinsic resourcefulness, and using indigenous language will help Africans grasp ideas directly. Therefore, this chapter discusses Michael Afolayan’s Fate of Our Mothers as a text riddled with variations of languages and highlights how the memoirist balances the Yoruba cultural mosaic of the different ways of life and translated some Yoruba words into English. It explores the nuances of language in the memoir, orality and socio-cultural identities, Yoruba life and its communitarian nature, and the search for meaning through the lens of language.
“Little did I suspect that I was destined to eventually become a fabulously successful cartoonist”
Authors: Utell Janine
Published: September 2023

This chapter tells of Howard Cruse’s early years growing up in Springville, Alabama and attending Indian Springs School. The chapter focuses on the development of his artistic talent in cartooning, his relationship with his parents, and his fears and shame about being gay in a rural religious community. It also introduces Cruse’s early interest in racism and the struggle for civil rights.
“There were things buried inside of me that were getting pried loose by all these vibes in the air”
Authors: Utell Janine
Published: September 2023

This chapter tells of Howard Cruse’s college years, when he attended Birmingham-Southern College. The chapter focuses on Cruse’s interest in the theatre as well as his work on campus cartooning, and his relationship with Pam Walbert, with whom he had a child surrendered for adoption. The chapter continues the story of Cruse’s experience with the civil rights movement in Birmingham, which would be fictionalized in his graphic novel Stuck Rubber Baby.
“I discovered a sexy New Yorker”
Authors: Utell Janine
Published: September 2023

This chapter tells the story of how Howard Cruse and Ed Sedarbaum met. The chapter focuses on the importance of the LGBTQ community in New York in post-Stonewall 1970s and the movement for gay rights to their relationship. The story of Cruse and Sedarbaum is situated within the important historical context of consciousness-raising and resources like the Gay Switchboard of New York.
“Seeing them and missing them still makes me angry”
Authors: Utell Janine
Published: September 2023

This chapter focuses on Howard Cruse’s response to the AIDS crisis during the Reagan and Bush administrations. The chapter also focuses on Ed Sedarbaum’s activism for gay rights, particularly his founding of Q-GLU in Jackson Heights. The chapter places the work of the two men in the historical context of LGBTQ activism in the 1980s and 1990s, including the reactions to the murder of Julio Rivera in Queens and the Children of the Rainbow curriculum controversy.
Before the Big Trouble Came
Authors: Minehan Thomas
Published: September 2023

This chapter historically contextualizes the reasons for the rise in homelessness for Minehan’s typical informant: “that monstrous depression, that economic juggernaut that was to crash through his home, cast him out upon the road, and make him perhaps a bum for life?” Far from generalizing, however, Minehan shows, through the reports of his young subjects, that family “trouble,” illness, and inadequate social supports formed complicated, long-standing conditions they had to leave behind rather than remaining a burden taking “bread off thekids’ plate.”
Why Did They Leave Home?
Authors: Minehan Thomas
Published: September 2023

Delving more deeply into the troubles that ultimately led to minors leaving home, Minehan provides evidence confirming what is well understood today about throwaway youth. For girls, fleeing sexual abuse is a significant reason and prostitution a not uncommon consequence, as one of the few earning options, as Fern explains: “Get wise, sister, get wise.” Others are simply uncared for or hungry like Jud, who claims that “Square meals don’t come every day, but I eat better than I ate at home.”
Sex Life
Authors: Minehan Thomas
Published: September 2023

Though he repeats the often racist and heterosexist language of his informants and the biases of his time, Minehan should be credited here for his relatively objective treatment of girls and prostitution without slipping into moralism. He also describes the ways in which young tramps help to protect each other without a protectionist spin. Minehan describes predatory vs. mutually consenting relationships between “wolves” and “tenders,” while also capturing the more homophobic consensus among the boy hoboes (especially in contrast to the open acceptance of male homosexuality among the men).
Religious Life
Authors: Minehan Thomas
Published: September 2023

This chapter exposes the hypocrisy of ill-serving charities proselytizing towards transients of all ages, who are coerced to play the part of “Pork Chop Christians.” One informant explains, “it’s never too late for Jesus—but it’s always too late for beds.” Minehan’s is clear in his critique: “To appeal to him to quit sinning is foolish… he cannot blame his past misdeeds for his present misery.” This chapter carries an impressive range of humor and profundity.
Political and Social Philosophy
Authors: Minehan Thomas
Published: September 2023

Minehan writes that “Practically the only group which will speak for the homeless man and the young tramp is the Communist.” One youth, Boris, explains their need for solidarity: “We don’t know what to do and so the bulls beat us and the Christians steal our soup and the judges send us to jail.”
Conversations
Authors: Minehan Thomas
Published: September 2023

Snippets from representative conversations on clothing, food, quarrels, and inherently interesting flotsam of hobohemia from a youth perspective: “The boys and girls live dangerously. Never is there an uneventful day… Stark tragedy and ironic comedy are not unknown. Around campfires and after meals the group exchanges adventures and discusses deeds on the road.”
Two Diaries
Authors: Minehan Thomas
Published: September 2023

Many of the young tramps keep and share diaries with tips on friendly towns, generous citizens, corrupt agencies, and violent police. Under the guise of copying them to go in the same direction, Minehan reproduces the diaries of Blink, a Dutch boy from Pennsylvania who lost an eye to a flying cinder, and Simple Sam, a Jewish boy from New York with a tendency to comically underestimate the complexity of everything.
Vagabondage in the Past
Authors: Minehan Thomas
Published: September 2023

A sweeping and suspiciously Western history of vagabondage from the Roman Empire and Crusades to the building up of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific rail systems. From the perspective of depression-era America, he writes, “Nobody starves, we say today, and we dole out food. The Romans gave free grain. Bread and circuses was the policy of Rome. Ours is only bread. But men need more than bread. They need occupations, for without occupations they become vagabonds.”
Becoming American
Authors: Bunn Mike , Williams Clay
Published: September 2023

Before Mississippi became a part of the United States, the region was under control by various European nations. The last nation, Spain, was hesitant to withdraw, even after the Treaty of San Lorenzo officially ceded the land to the United States. Intriguing characters such as Spanish Governor Manuel Gayoso de Lemos and American Commissioner Andrew Ellicott squared off to determine which nation would be sovereign. Meanwhile, Native American nations who dominated the landscape wondered about their futures. After a near rebellion, Spanish officials finally withdrew, and a new American government structure was established.
The Land of Promise
Authors: Bunn Mike , Williams Clay
Published: September 2023

To its free early American settlers, the millions of acres of relatively cheap and extremely productive land that lay within the Mississippi Territory formed “the land of promise, flowing with milk and honey.” Fertile, abundant, and beckoning to those eager to make their fortune, the land that became the twentieth state sounded a clarion call for thousands throughout the nation in an age when land represented one of the surest paths to security and wealth. As sure a form of currency as any coin, bill, or note, the land held tangible promise that could be unlocked by anyone with the willingness to toil or the financial resources to purchase slaves for that purpose. Its sylvan beauty, both aesthetic and practical, captured the attention of early settlers in a profound way. The process of settling this luxuriant land, however, would prove more complicated than many could have dreamed.
New Beginnings
Authors: Bunn Mike , Williams Clay
Published: September 2023

The American settlement of Mississippi during its foundational period is in some respects the defining event of the era. The people who settled in Mississippi in its territorial and early statehood years came from near and far via trips which were commonly arduous and marked an abrupt turn in the course of their lives. The waves of immigrants did not arrive evenly in terms of chronology or geography, but they nonetheless shared so many basic commonalities that they can best be understood as an essential shared experience. If we are to make sense of how and why Mississippi developed as it did, it is essential that we understand the process of migration and the establishment of a new home within its borders.
Dying (and Living) in Early Mississippi
Authors: Bunn Mike , Williams Clay
Published: September 2023

Mississippi developed on the fringes of more established sections of America. Its frontier location and circumstance heavily influenced its cultural development, highlighting life’s fragility and encouraging the formation of its hallmark rough-edged, self-reliant, and insular culture. In contrast to the consuming and sometimes monotonous work which defined how Mississippians earned their livings, a variety of ad-hoc amusements and raucous diversions added color and texture to daily existence. The roughly four decades of the territorial and early statehood years witnessed the birth of a special society which helped set the stage for decades of future cultural development, but this fact cannot be fully understood without some examination of the realities of life on the frontier and how early Mississippians chose to spend their free time.
Travel, Trade, and Urban Centers
Authors: Bunn Mike , Williams Clay
Published: September 2023

Mississippi became progressively more interconnected and populous over the course of its territorial and early statehood years. During the span of just a few decades, it witnessed some of the most robust growth in its physical infrastructure of any era in its history. Road networks of progressive sophistication were developed, steamboat travel revolutionized the way goods were brought to market, and the new railroad technology pointed the way towards a radical new future for intrastate travel and trade. Mississippi’s river towns became the early state’s foremost urban centers, meanwhile small inland crossroads communities took root. Taken together, the development of early Mississippi’s interconnected travel network and urban infrastructure played a vital role in determining where its people lived and how they connected with each other and the rest of the world.
The Rise of Jacksonian Democracy
Authors: Bunn Mike , Williams Clay
Published: September 2023

As Mississippi emerged from the faction-ridden, decentralized and intensely local electoral system which characterized its territorial days, a new, party-based political system brought the young state into the realm of national affairs with remarkable speed. By 1830, national political party alignment had already come to shape political debate in the state over everything from persistent internal sectional rivalry to broader issues such as state rights and the scope and purpose of the federal government. Mississippians regarded the most prominent military and political leader of the era, Andrew Jackson, as one of their own, and the state’s politics came to be especially defined by his rise. By the end of the early statehood period, Mississippi had transformed from a frontier backwater region, disconnected from national affairs, to a central player in the defining political debates of the era.
Democracy and Decency Prevail
Authors: Fenimore Wanda Little
Published: September 2023

On May 17, 1954, Chief Justice Earl Warren announced the Supreme Court’s ruling that “Separate educational facilities were inherently unequal,” remarkably similar to Judge Waring’s “Segregation per se is inequality” in his Briggs dissent. Although cited as Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark decision consolidated five cases. To celebrate, Elizabeth and Waties hosted well-wishers with an impromptu gathering at their New York City apartment. The Warings continued their activism and maintained their ties with South Carolina throughout the 1950s. They returned to Charleston for a testimonial dinner in 1954. When Reverend Joseph De Laine fled South Carolina to escape an attempt on his life, Elizabeth and Waties aided the De Laine family. In the 1960s, Judge Waring served on numerous boards and Waring, although bedridden, corresponded with the extensive network she developed while living in Charleston.
Men in Black Assemblages
Authors: Lechuga Michael
Published: September 2023

Chapter Three considers the alien-making technologies in the extraterrestrial film franchise Men in Black. These technologies, including biometric surveillance and virtual walls, are being adopted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
to police migrants. In Men in Black films, agents surveil aliens with advanced databases in order to pursue and apprehend those that are on the planet without authorization. They also use “neuralyzer” technology to mediate narratives of alienhood that obscure the ways the government controls aliens. This chapter examines how the U.S. adopts Men in Black technologies in the surveillance of migrants in places like border checkpoints, airports, and in immigration raids while the national media redirects the attention of citizens to hide the violent and exploitative nature of citizenship control. In other words, the U.S. legal and juridical apparatuses mobilize Men in Black technologies to produce migrants as aliens and obscure the government’s role in policing them.
Sleep Dealer , Nomadic Assemblages, and Deterritorializations
Authors: Lechuga Michael
Published: September 2023

Chapter Four of Visions of Invasion explains a different set of possibilities for technologies of visibility. The first two cases of the book examine how the manufacturing of alienhood in film coincides with the production of a settler colonial subjectivity to fit the U.S. constitutive citizenship paradigm. In this chapter, though, I describe how artist/activists are mobilizing nomadic assemblages—political networks that resists citizenship control using the same technologies of visibility often used in citizenship control. This chapter includes a discussion of “nomad thought”—a concept that guides the framing of nomadic assemblage—and considers the affirmative aspects of re-arranging technologies of visibility for the purposes of resisting techniques of migration control. This chapter also includes an analysis of Sleep Dealer, an activist film that challenges the US’s depiction of alienhood by assembling the same narrative technologies used in Hollywood’s alien invasion genre to tell a pro-migrant story.
“Why Can’t I Have a Normal Dog Like Everyone Else?”
Authors: Abate Michelle Ann
Published: September 2023

Chapter Three shifts from Charlie Brown to his pet pooch, Snoopy. Although Schulz’s star character is both drawn and identified as a beagle, this chapter makes a case that he exhibits a variety of behaviors, traits, and sentiments that are more stereotypically associated with felines rather than canines. In examples ranging from his refusal to play fetch and his penchant for sleeping on top of his doghouse rather than inside of it to his grandiose views of himself and the fact that his best friend is a bird, Snoopy is far more cat-like than dog-like in many respects. Identifying and exploring Snoopy’s cat-like qualities not only adds a new dimension to this exceedingly popular Schulz character, it also adds a new facet to a common theme in Peanuts: failure.
I Love Lucy
Authors: Abate Michelle Ann
Published: September 2023

Chapter Four examines the self-proclaimed “fussbudget” of Peanuts, Lucy Van Pelt. When this figure made her first appearance in Schulz’s comic strip on March 3, 1952, another character named Lucy already permeated American popular culture: Lucy Ricardo from the television show, I Love Lucy. In a historical detail that has been long overlooked, Lucy Van Pelt was created and introduced against the backdrop of the I Love Lucy craze. However unexpected and even unlikely, the initial portrayal of Schulz’s fussbudget possesses a variety of areas of overlap with the figure who is commonly remembered as the First Lady of Sitcoms. Exploring the suggestive echoes between Lucy Van Pelt and Lucy Ricardo locates Peanuts within one of the most significant events taking place in American popular culture during the postwar years, while it simultaneously calls attention to another long-overlooked area of cultural crosspollination: the one between television sitcoms and newspaper comics.
Franklin and Pig-Pen
Authors: Abate Michelle Ann
Published: September 2023

Chapter Five takes another look at the comics life and cultural legacy of Franklin from Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts. Making his debut in July 1968, Franklin’s introduction to the strip has long been praised as a landmark moment when a white cartoonist broke the colorline to introduce a black character to his all-white cast. While the appearance of Franklin was an important event in U.S. comics, it was not without complications and even problems. In a heretofore overlooked detail, the shading technique that Schulz used to signify the race of his new black character mirrors the one that he used to shade another long-established figure from the strip: Pig-Pen. As his name implies, Pig-Pen is known for being filthy: his face is dirty, his clothes are soiled, and his body is surrounded by an ever-present cloud of dust. Schulz uses a similar hatching method to indicate that Pig-Pen’s skin is dirty as he does to indicate that Franklin’s is black. In so doing, Peanuts connects itself with the long history in American popular culture of likening blackness with dirt. The visual links or aesthetic connections that occur between Franklin and Pig-Pen not only complicate celebratory views of Franklin as a progressive character, but they also add to recent discussions about the importance of paying attention to the line in comics.
The Analog of Self-Authenticity Within The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion
Authors: Hurley Gavin F.
Published: September 2023

This chapter explores the rhetorics of experience, representation, and simulation within Luciano Ercoli’s 1970 film Forbidden Photos of a Lady above Suspicion. It acknowledges the playfulness of the film—and of gialli in general—by showing how its rhetorical reflexivity adheres audiences to the narrative. The chapter specifically analyzes the film’s unique plot and characters—and then more closely traces nuanced ingredients of Forbidden Photos, such as setting, props, and cinematography. Via the analysis, the chapter argues that Forbidden Photos acts as a form of metacommentary. The film steers audiences into pondering the giallo genre and the viewing experience itself.
A White Dress for Marialé
Authors: Edwards Matthew
Published: September 2023

Interview with Romano Scavolini
Leitmotif
Authors: Pigee Vera , Pigee Vera
Published: September 2023

Vera Pigee explains why and how she wrote the autobiography.
Federal Government
Authors: Pigee Vera
Published: September 2023

Vera Pigee provides brief explanation of the bias in the court system and the relief when federal registrars arrived to register voters fairly.
Depositions of Blacks in Tallahatchie County
Authors: Pigee Vera
Published: September 2023

Vera Pigee describes irregularities and violations in procedure in court proceedings at all levels of the judicial system and government.
Positive Action Finally
Authors: Pigee Vera
Published: September 2023

Vera Pigee provides a brief account of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the inclusion of her beating in the Congressional Record and the inauguration of President Johnson.
Various Pressures
Authors: Pigee Vera
Published: September 2023

Vera Pigee describes the various social pressures and societal tensions related to her civil rights activism. She also reminisces upon her decision to further her education in Detroit.
Nominating Committees
Authors: Pigee Vera
Published: September 2023

Vera Pigee describes the conflicts within the local NAACP and how the internal politics and election mishandling facilitated her departure from her leadership position. She muses about how her activism with the NAACP brought blessings but also had negative consequences. She ends with her assessment of her mistakes and what she deems as national problems that halted further progress – from abandoning proper parenting, to the military abroad, to the excesses of a capitalist society.
A Personal Introduction
Authors: Pigee Vera
Published: September 2023

Vera Pigee briefly gives her biography, including her church home, her NAACP membership and her degrees earned. She then states that the second part of The Struggle of Struggleslooks at what came before the civil rights movement and the years since.
Black Organizations
Authors: Pigee Vera
Published: September 2023

Vera Pigee laments the demise of black organizations in the quest of integration, particularly the Tabor Afro-American Sons and Daughters Hospital in Mound Bayou. She recounts the continuing discrimination black patients face at the Coahoma County hospital who received Hill-Burton funds to integrate, and how she proved that discrimination to visiting federal investigators.
Why
Authors: Pigee Vera
Published: September 2023

Vera Pigee poses some questions to black Americans and gives some answers. Subjects include petitioning the Supreme Court to act on the KKK; the fact that black Americans have not assumed substantially powerful government posts nor have pay equity in any profession; and lamenting the lack of prayer in society.
Introduction
Authors: Malone Mark Hugh
Published: September 2023

In the introduction, Mark Hugh Malone remembers interviewing William Levi Dawson as a student completing a PhD dissertation about Dawson’s life in the 1980s. The desire to expand and publish his dissertation as a book stuck with the author through the decades. Here, Malone describes his renewed research and efforts to publish an expanded and complete biography of the musician and educator.
Afrohorror and the Gendered Narrator
Authors: Marotta Melanie A.
Published: September 2023

Husband and wife team, Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due, paired to write the new series revolving around female and male adolescent protagonists. In the first of this series (Devil’s Wake series), Devil’s Wake (2012), the text alternates narrators, with the female protagonist, Kendra, starting the novel. While Kendra is clearly the primary protagonist and it appears that Barnes and Due’s novel is to resemble Octavia E. Butler’s Parables series, this novel contains stereotyping regarding gender and ethnicity that offers the audience a poor look at twenty-first-century youth. In this chapter, both series are examined (each is comprised of two novels), noting the strength of each novel as a neo-slave narrative, the similarities to one another, and the success of each protagonist as an adolescent activist.
Self-Image and Narration in the Young Adult Steampunk Novels The Black God’s Drums and the Dread Nation Series
Authors: Marotta Melanie A.
Published: September 2023

P. Djèlí Clark and Justina Ireland rewrite the American Civil War, calling attention to discrimination for Black young women and showing reader this momentous event though the eyes of young, Black female characters. In fact, the three prose worksselected from these authors are populated primarily with female characters, a welcome change to thegenre. The texts from Clark and Ireland are later twenty-first century additions to the YoungAdult slave narrative genre, and it may be that with the second and third decades of this century, writers are looking towards female inclusivity.
De la représentation à la littéralité
Authors: Sevastyanov Aleksey
Published: September 2023

Analysant avec profondeur les discours légitimant l’architecture numérique, d’une part, et l’architecture collaborative, de l’autre, l’auteur montre à quels retours de flamme dialectiques on s’expose lorsque, suivant l’ambition de Manfredo Tafuri, on prétend « dépasser » la figure de l’architecte apparue à la Renaissance, tout à la fois intellectuel, artiste et « maître-penseur » au service des classes dominantes. À peine croit-on s’être débarrassé de l’architecte classique, et avec lui des mirages et des ravages de la Raison, de l’esthétique et de l’avant-garde, que ces dernières, ainsi que le fait apparaître l’auteur, reviennent sous une forme plus pernicieuse encore. Troquant la « représentation » contre la « littéralité », on n’obtient en définitive qu’une représentation – rationnelle, artistique ou politique – de la « littéralité ».

Aleksey Sevastyanov est architecte, diplômé par l’ENSA de Paris La Villette (2012), où il a également accompli un post master en Architecture et Philosophie (2013). Il a soutenu une thèse de doctorat en philosophie à l’Université de Lille, sous la direction de Holger Schmid. Elle a pour titre : « Architecture et irreprésentable. Pour une critique du sublime » (2018) et a obtenu une mention au Prix de la recherche et de Thèse de Doctorat en Architecture de l’Académie d'architecture (2019). Il publie des articles dans les Cahiers thématiques (« Sur le statut de l'architecture discursive : (im)matérialité de l'œuvre architecturale postmoderne ») et dans Médiation et Information (« Cette image qui parle. Sur quelques contradictions de l’image de synthèse en architecture »).
Dieu, le corps, le volume
Authors: Richir Luc
Published: September 2023

Il s'agit de la version condensée d'un livre paru aux éditions de La Part de l'Œil (Bruxelles 2003), sous le titre "Dieu, le corps, le volume - Essai sur la sculpture".Cette version ne se contente pas d'abréger le propos de l'ouvrage initial, elle en corrige la ligne à certains endroits.Le texte de Luc Richir, s'il aborde une pratique dont les départs sont étrangers à ceux de l'architecture (quoique, souvenons-nous de Hegel : la sculpture aurait "soulagé" l'architecture de ses handicaps intrinsèques quant à l'assomption de l'esprit), établit la filiation de la notion d'espace (dit scientifique et moderne : ambiance générale préalable à l'advenue de tout corps) à l'omnivoyance d'excellence théologique.Si depuis Heidegger, la pensée de l'architecture a appris à se défaire de l'espace de la science pour cultiver un souci de "l'être selon le lieu", les résultats conquis par Luc Richir ruinent, sans retour possible, l'illusion que nous habiterions là, dans cet espace que la science a construit pour y opérer !Voici un extrait du texte de Luc Richir : " Dire que Dieu est la « sphère infinie dont le centre est partout et la circonférence nulle part » revient à soutenir que le voir absolu, étendu aux dimensions d’un univers dilaté, en expansion infinie, est incorporel. Autrement dit, l’espace n’a pas de corps, mais il les contient. Les déborde. Il s’étend au-delà de leurs limites. Mieux : il ne doit rien aux corps qu’il inclut. Un espace continu, infini, homogène et isotrope, comment notre corps pourrait-il s’y repérer? "
Looking at the earth from a philosophical point of view
Authors: Villela-Petit Maria
Published: September 2023

Les scientifiques nous alertent au quotidien quant aux déséquilibres des milieux physiques, chimiques et biotiques qui conditionnent, disent-ils, nos vies sur la terre. Les scientifiques alimentent au quotidien l’enchaînement réciproque de la technique et de l’économie dont l’inflation cause les déséquilibres que les scientifiques diagnostiquent. Les scientifiques fourbissent les armes et crient à la catastrophe. D’aucun nous le disent depuis longtemps, qui parfois sont savants : la science ne se pense pas ! Elle exhibe aujourd’hui ses responsabilités et son irresponsabilité sans pudeur, fière à bras ; voilà même qu’avec la sûreté du maître elle nous fournit les modèles d’un développement durable. La science en question, la science « à la question » ? Vous n’y pensez pas ! Qui se risquerait à troubler l’exactitude de la vérité ?Les architectes, par leur pratique de la trace et du tracé, se soucient de l’habiter. Ce souci, rémanent et perforant, rencontre l’évidence « phénoménologique » d’un séjour sur la terre et sous le ciel. Cette évidence est, par force et en droit, première et constante, elle ne souffre aucune distraction dans le champ du « projet » de l’architecte ! Mais est-elle « scientifique » ?Il se fait que les critiques conjointes de la science et de la métaphysique ont causé, dans le pré de la philosophie, une attention pour la Terre en tant qu’elle est l’assise et l’horizon de l’habiter. Cette attention rejoint le souci des architectes.Mais qu’en est-il des rapports qu’entretiennent l’attention des philosophes pour la Terre et les représentations que les scientifiques dressent du « système » terre ?Maria Villela-Petit a contribué à faire l’état de ces interrogations à l’occasion d’une conférence « Looking at the Earth from a Philosophical Point of View » qu’elle nous propose d’éditer sur les pages du laa. Cette conférence fut prononcée le 16 février 2006, dans le cadre du séminaire du Professeur Rowland Stout, à l’University College of Dublin (UCD).Maria Villela-Petit est née à Rio de Janeiro, où elle a fait ses premières études de philosophie à l’Université Catholique de Rio. À Paris, elle étudie sous la direction de Paul Ricœur et soutient une thèse de doctorat sur « L’intersubjectivité et l’être-en-commun dans la philosophie phénoménologique d’Edmund Husserl ». Chercheur émérite du CNRS (Archives Husserl de Paris), elle a aussi enseigné l’Esthétique à l’Institut Catholique de Paris.Elle est l’auteur de nombreux articles sur Husserl, Heidegger, M. Merleau-Ponty, H. Maldiney, Jean Nabert et Paul Ricœur, mais aussi sur Platon et l’art grec, et sur Simone Weil.
De l’idéal à l’objet déchet
Authors: Melo Saint-Cyr Viviana
Published: September 2023

Viviana Saint-Cyr reprend ses interrogations quant aux rapports entre l'architecture et la sublimation, dont nous avions publié quelques états en 2008 (voir : Architecture, corps et sublimation) et poursuit ses hypothèses quant à l'avance de l'art sur le discours analytique.

 

"J’ai l’idée que ce film (...) traite deux thèses lacaniennes sur l’architecture. D’un côté, la thèse (...) sur l’architecture comme la présentification de la douleur, ce qui est montré non seulement par la belle manière de filmer l’architecture mais surtout par l’angoissante succession de plans fixes. Et de l’autre, la thèse sur l’architecture « qui peut être définie comme quelque chose d’organisé autour d’un vide » et rapportée à la sublimation qui « élève un objet à la dignité de la Chose »".