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The Red Carpet
Authors: Dutt Sandeep , Hayat Faisal , Ritika  
Published: February 2024

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This chapter unfolds the story of Sajjad Kishwar, a great artist, born in Ludhiana who found endless fame in the Pakistan television and radio industry. From the carpet of leaves leading to his school to the red carpet of the entertainment industry, he’s seen it all. He recalls his exhausting journey of migration guarded by the Baloch Army to Rawalpindi. His career started with ‘Raizgari’ while working with PTV studios, leading him to win a series of never-ending accolades. This is the Red Carpet, a rags-to-riches story of an artist whose art did know no boundaries and how his dogged determination was finally paid off.
Wounded Flower
Authors: Dutt Sandeep , Hayat Faisal , Ritika  
Published: February 2024

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This chapter narrates the story of a five-year-old Pushpa from Montgomery and her ordeal during partition which led to a military gate. The story revolves around three Hindu kids who were hiding their identities for days to survive. The storyteller recalls the soul-trembling episodes from her past of her family getting slaughtered mercilessly at the hands of the extremists. How she got separated from her mother and remained at the mercy and kindness of others. Read about how her life is no short of a living proof of a miraculous survival which reminds us all of the proverb: ‘The one who is sheltered by God cannot be killed by anyone’.
Love Migrants
Authors: Dutt Sandeep , Hayat Faisal , Ritika  
Published: February 2024

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This chapter reflects upon the story of Jannat Bibi, and how love and determination can change the course of life when it comes to the struggles with the forces as big as destiny. Read about how the partition of the country tore two families apart and left the storyteller to choose from two impossible choices. How she, along with her two-year-old son, was kept under house arrest by her father to prevent migrating to Pakistan with her husband, nevertheless, the duo made it work for the next decade and had to start life from scratch not once but twice. The story, Love Migrants, is a tale of passionate romance that was patient but relentless and did not flinch in desperate times.
Lost Friendships
Authors: Dutt Sandeep , Hayat Faisal , Ritika  
Published: February 2024

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The chapter unravels the undying love and compassion in a friendship which partition could not divide. The storyteller, Abdul Rashid, recalls how his father had formed deep friendships in Amritsar and it was for that they were able to escape safely. The same man also helped feeding the family when it was starving in Khilchian for 27 days. Read about the migration story of Abdul Rashid whose family suffered many ordeals in Hudiara. He also mentions about the Walton camp in Lahore before they could make it to their relatives in Chak 27. The story, Lost Friendships, is about the narrator who often wonders if his friends whom he left as a child, would be able to recognize him.
The Salvation Story
Authors: Dutt Sandeep , Hayat Faisal , Ritika  
Published: February 2024

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The chapter reveals the story of Sai Ramte Shah Chisti, a man who has lived many lives. He was born in 1910 in Malerkotla. Having spent 15 years of life in jails, he remembers his martyr father whose death as a martyr during Jaito Morcha inspired him to choose the path of a freedom fighter. He recalls attending a secret conference where Bhagat Singh, Chander Shekhar Azad, and Teja Singh Sultantar. The chapter belongs to the man who was on the run for years, penned his speeches under the pen name of comrade Dukhiya, worked as an activist after independence, and later went on journey that took him closer to God. The story is journey of the man’s salvation.
Hands Held Up
Authors: Dutt Sandeep , Hayat Faisal , Ritika  
Published: February 2024

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This chapter unveils the story of Charan Das who always longed for love as both his parents had passed away in an accident when he was very young. Raised by his paternal uncle and grandmother, he worked in multiple professions; from starting a flour mill in eastern Punjab to tailoring, watch repairing to business of hosiery and then finally settling down in Scotland. Most importantly, he found the love he was longing for after getting married to this woman whom he really needed in his life. The story, Hands help up, is about this man who lives in Glasgow while keeping his love for Lahore alive in his heart.
Time Tailor
Authors: Dutt Sandeep , Hayat Faisal , Ritika  
Published: February 2024

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This chapter narrates the story of Surinder Singh, a man from the holy Panja Sahib, whose migration would have been impossible without the help of the Frontier Gandhi. He remembers the announcement of the Maharaja of Patiala that gave them the courage to leave behind everything they owned, and they migrated carrying only three pairs of clothing. Remembering about the joyful days of his childhood, he recalls the fun rides on his father’s awe-striking Tonga. The story, Time Tailor, saddens the narrator for the current generation would never understand the love and friendship between him and Bashir. He wished if only people knew what they really lost and are still losing.
The Airport Professor
Authors: Dutt Sandeep , Hayat Faisal , Ritika  
Published: February 2024

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This chapter narrates the extraordinary story of a poet, philosopher, teacher, and author of 47 books, Dr. Satyapal Anand, whose journey begins from the North-West Frontier Province to Ludhiana but that is only the new beginning to the various places he visits later in his life. He ends up teaching the students all around the globe and attended many conferences in Norway, Denmark, UK, Germany, and Turkey that earned him a nickname, ‘Airport Processor’. He has fond memories of his village which he has had the fortune of visiting three times so far. This story reflects the storyteller’s belief that the time is indeed a leveller; a destroyer… but never a preserver.
Horror of Horrors
Authors: Dutt Sandeep , Hayat Faisal , Ritika  
Published: February 2024

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The chapter reveals the story of the father of Syed Abdul Waheed who tried his best to save his children. The details of an escape attempt from Ambala, are still fresh in the memory of narrator as he explains in great detail: how her sisters and father disguised themselves to hide their Islamic identities. His father who was a railway employee, had sought help from the Baloch Regiment for a safe passage, and yet he happened to be a spectator of many horrors before he could finally enter Pakistan while hearing the cheering slogans of Long Live Pakistan! Written in blood, Horror of Horrors, screams, ‘Why?’ with every single drop within.
Beyond Barbed Wire
Authors: Dutt Sandeep , Hayat Faisal , Ritika  
Published: February 2024

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The chapter reveals an unusual but beautiful story of a 22-year-old Hindu woman, Mandowari Karmani who was living in Sindh, Pakistan and did not migrate like the other Hindu families living there at the time of partition for a heart-warming reason. She recalls the thundering sounds of the fighter jets of World War II, that still haunts her. Now, an old woman who misses her three daughters who have migrated to India in the 1990s, wants to hug her grandchildren but only if she could cross the border. She says Beyond the Barbed Wires, peace is the only way. The story is a promise to people that humanity isn’t dead yet.
Egypt’s State Periodical as a Tool of Governance, 1828–39
Authors: Schwartz Kathryn A. 
Published: February 2024

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This chapter explores the first decade of issues of al-Waqa’i‘ al-Misriyya, the Ottoman Arabic language paper founded by Mehmed ‘Ali in 1828, from the perspective of the government that made it and the functionaries who formed its target audience. I argue that the organ was intended as a tool of state-building, published not for an open-ended public but for those who were to use it to impose the emerging polity’s aims upon the land and people of Egypt. At the same time, it served to narratively render this select readership into one corps united by Mehmed ‘Ali’s vision for the province. In the absence of scholars’ regular and unrestricted access to Egyptian state archives, the entries across al-Waqa’i‘ al-Misriyya’s pages serve as an intriguing alternative resource.
Introduction
Authors: Baron Beth , Culang Jeffrey 
Published: February 2024

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This handbook is the first reference work in decades to cover the span of modern Egyptian history. Eschewing a view of the modern period as a series of reactions by Egyptians to the changes wrought by colonialism and modernity, it portrays modern Egyptian history as a continuous process of translation and adaptation, invention and reinvention, construction and reconstruction. The handbook brings together a dynamic group of leading scholars to highlight new and exciting research trajectories that are reshaping the field rather than provide a comprehensive overview of Egypt’s modern past. Although it represents the traditional staples of social, economic, and political history, the focus is on new and fast-growing areas of research, including the histories of medicine and disease, environment, and technology. The authors adopt various analytical lenses, especially gender and class, and to a lesser extent race. A current that connects all of the chapters is the archive—more specifically, the question of how to pursue research on modern Egyptian history at a time when access to the Egyptian National Archives has become more difficult. The handbook highlights some of the creative ways in which scholars are responding to this challenge.
Dams, Ditches, and Drains
Authors: Reynolds Nancy Y. 
Published: February 2024

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Egypt was integrated as a unified water landscape, or hydroscape, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through the accumulated efforts of engineers, farmers, and state officials who constructed ever-larger water management projects to channel Nile water. While these efforts initially increased centralized control of water, the partial failure of new technologies ultimately returned some measure of agency to local users. The turning point came in the 1960s, when three colonial-era infrastructural projects were remade by the postcolonial state: the large dam system in the country’s south at Aswan, Cairo’s sewer system, and the hydrology of the canal and drainage systems in the country’s agricultural fields. These changes fundamentally reoriented the work of managing the river system. Whereas in the earlier period, the river was managed at its highest levels (in flood) and involved the removing of silt from canals, by the second half of the twentieth century, water control focused on managing the river at its lowest levels and managing scour from the now silt-free river. The Aswan High Dam, completed in 1971, established a new hydrological regime by eliminating the annual flood, flattening out the seasonal variation in the river’s flow, and ultimately requiring an extensive drainage system to counter the rising water table. Connecting the local surface encounters of water users to the larger infrastructural story demonstrates, then, how a range of engineering practices both created a national hydroscape and, paradoxically, opened new spaces for individual interaction with the overall system.
Toward Understanding Muslim Responses to Forced Migration
Authors: Zaman Tahir 
Published: February 2024

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Using the example of Islamic tradition, this chapter navigates developments in how the intersections of religion and forced migration have been understood in academic and policy arenas. The author identifies three key areas around which knowledge generation on Muslim responses to refugee situations has clustered: rights-based approaches to protection and assistance, readings of hospitality to account for the encounter between so-called host communities and newly arrived refugees, and decolonial perspectives that interpret the dynamics of mass displacement situations from within the framework of an Islamic ontology and epistemology. The author argues that while Islamic traditions have been mobilized across different forums to advocate for a culturally different conception of protection and assistance for displaced people, Islamic traditions—as a perspective on migration and mass displacement—remain subordinate to European ways of knowing, seeing, being, and doing in the world that spatially fixes people within the territorial borders of the nation-state.
Running Late
Authors: Mayer Ruth 
Published: February 2024

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This chapter explores the temporal dimensions of serial storytelling in the silent film serial both on a structural level and as a plot contrivance. It approaches the silent serial as a unique cinematic mode with its very own conventions and practices, rather than a mere preparation for feature-film storytelling, and it focuses on the paradigmatically serial device of the cliffhanger. The chapter investigates the “pre-cliffhanger” serial The Hazards of Helen (1914–1917), in comparison to the cliffhanger serial A Woman in Grey (1920). Both serials revolve around “serial queens” and both draw heavily on temporally inflected narrative formulas such as the “last-minute rescue” or the chase, and they do so in ways that differ from the practices of the feature film. At the same time, these serials participate in a more pervasive cultural renegotiation of time and temporality, taking issue with the time politics of industrial modernity at large.
A Prologue to Hollywood
Authors: Melnick Ross 
Published: February 2024

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This chapter examines Sidney Patrick Grauman’s role in developing film prologues and premieres that helped redirect the focus of the film industry westward via a combination of motion-picture marketing and exhibition and real estate investment and promotion. Grauman, through his real estate development projects, redefined the cityscape of Los Angeles in the 1910s and then, during the 1920s, the growing urbanity of Hollywood. Grauman’s use of stars, publicity, and premieres to sell his real estate, theatrical, and other ventures is part of a larger story about his role in Hollywood’s evolution. Examining Grauman’s additional connections with local developers, financiers, hotels, banks, and industry organizations provides a window into the small number of key players in Hollywood’s early maturation and how Grauman’s Egyptian and Chinese theaters, the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, and other local entities became essential parts of Hollywood’s growth as an iconic place for global commerce, entertainment, and tourism.
Introduction
Authors: King Rob , Keil Charlie 
Published: February 2024

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Revisionist scholarly interest in silent cinema has now lasted longer than the silent era itself. This introductory chapter offers an overview of that scholarship, the better to see how silent film research positions itself today. It considers how historical research into film’s early years first emerged out of debates and disputes within the context of 1970s film studies; it explores how the concept of “modernity” subsequently provided a framework for silent film scholars in the 1990s and 2000s to bridge the concerns of film history and film theory; and it sketches the implications of the recent material turn in the humanities for silent film scholarship. It concludes by advocating a comparative media approach to film historiography, for which the emphasis falls on relations among media forms, technologies, and institutions as frameworks for historical analysis.
Scandinavian Cinema, Location, and the Discourse of Quality in 1920
Authors: Bachmann Anne 
Published: February 2024

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In Swedish film history, it is customary to describe the production practice emerging from 1916/1917 onward, and geared toward quality cinema, as resulting in a “golden age,” with flagship productions characterized by natural scenery, psychological interest, and a weighty sense of literariness. Around 1920, this production trend inscribed itself into various realms of Sweden’s contemporary culture, in particular interacting with a burgeoning contemporary print culture in the form of posters, souvenir booklets, and book editions with film stills. The Swedish style soon spread to other Nordic countries and was endorsed by Carl Th. Dreyer, whose films from the early 1920s partake in a trans-Scandinavian practice informed by the quality concept formed in Swedish cinema. The article explores trans-Scandinavian aspects of this era, framing them in terms of nature and location, tied to the notion of authenticity.
Picture, Shadow, Play
Authors: Bao Weihong 
Published: February 2024

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This chapter looks at how cinema’s initial appearance in China reveals the limits of media archaeology and invites a new way of thinking about ontology. It takes a slice of the first few years of cinema’s development in China while relocating that period within the longer and broader history of visual modernity from the mid-nineteenth century onward. Zooming in and out of this horizontal and vertical span, the chapter examines how cinema’s ontology was threaded through a series of media analogies: picture, shadow, play. By looking into their historical antece dents, the chapter illustrates how these analogies did not correspond to specific media “objects” in a Cartesian sense but instead served as ontological placeholders, hinting at the tremendous transformations in media practice during this period. Together, these ontological constellations contributed to new modes of perceiving, experiencing, and knowing as the condition of possibility for cinema.
Race, Rights, and Reproductive Oppression
Authors: Bridges Khiara M. 
Published: February 2024

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This chapter draws into greater relief the relationship of race to reproductive rights. The first section explains why abortion rights are an issue of racial justice. The second section explores a few of the myriad modes by which reproductive oppression—that is, the domination and subjugation that operate through the regulation and exploitation of people’s reproductive capacities—is inflicted in the United States today. It discusses the United States’ long history of sterilization abuse against poor and nonwhite communities, the criminalization of substance use during pregnancy, and the terror that the child welfare system (frequently called the “family policing” or “family regulation” system by activists) inflicts on vulnerable families. The chapter notes that nonwhite people with the capacity for pregnancy sustain these forms of reproductive oppression more frequently and to a greater degree than their White counterparts. It offers that the disparate racial burdens imposed by these forms of reproductive oppression likely explain why so much of it flies under the radar and never becomes the stuff of headlines.
The Role of Race in Expanding and Diminishing Parental Rights
Authors: Bridges Khiara M. 
Published: February 2024

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The right of parents to direct their children’s upbringing is a right that, at least in theory, the Constitution guarantees to all. The right is not supposed to be contingent on the parents’ race or socioeconomic status (or any other status, for that matter). However, in practice, parents with race privilege—especially when combined with class privilege—have robust rights to family privacy. Meanwhile, parents without race privilege—especially when that nonwhiteness intersects with a low income—appear to have rights to family privacy that exist solely in theory. This chapter examines two contexts to illustrate this stark divergence: the battle over “Critical Race Theory” in K-12 schools and the family regulation system’s practice of systematically separating and dismantling vulnerable families.
Urbanity, Biopolitics, and Race in Whitman’s “Manly Health and Training”
Authors: Pöhlmann Sascha 
Published: February 2024

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Walt Whitman’s “Manly Health and Training” offers an opportunity to reconsider the long-standing assessment of Walt Whitman’s urbanity. Neither journalistic prose nor poetry (but still poetic and imaginative), “Manly Health” is a city text, blending self-help manual and biopolitical manifesto. “Manly Health” attempts a reconciliation of the positive and negative aspects that allegedly distinguish Whitman’s urban poetry and prose, and it combines the utopian promise of metropolitan life with a critique of its actual dire conditions. This chapter also argues that Whitman proffers “individualist biopolitics,” or a care of the self that is entirely the responsibility and domain of the individual, but which nevertheless serves national interests. The city in “Manly Health” is the site of a dual conflict between individual and society that plays out in the related terms of Modern economic conditions and biopolitical demands that constitute Whitman’s combined critique and fantasy of America.
Indigenous Glyphs, Granite Inscriptions
Authors: Einboden Jeffrey 
Published: February 2024

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Opening with discussion of a monument that marked the centennial of Walt Whitman’s 1819 birth, this chapter interrogates Whitman’s engagements with hieroglyphic antiquity, excavating the graphic and alphabetic inscriptions that lie underneath Leaves of Grass. In 1920, lines from Leaves of Grass were inscribed in massive letters on a Canadian cliff overlooking Mazinaw Lake in traditional Algonquian territory. Now, a full hundred years later, these inscribed words have eroded but are still faintly legible, aptly reflecting tensions original to Whitman’s own poetry, spanning organic grass and effaced granite, English language and Anishinaabe lands. The chapter argues that Whitman’s verses—rightly associated with leafy animation and serene leisure —are also rooted in a nineteenth century typified by archaeological discovery and deciphering, with Leaves of Grass growing from the granite and clay grounds of pre-Columbian America and Bronze Age Assyria, bridging between Indigenous petroglyphs and Near Eastern cuneiform tablets.
Whitman Left to His Own Devices
Authors: Folsom Ed 
Published: February 2024

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This essay examines Walt Whitman’s “erotics of reading,” the way he imagined his material book itself to be a kind of haptics—a technology of touch feedback. It examines Whitman’s use of haptic diction—touch, tenderness, press—his insistence upon the reader’s body materially touching the poet’s body (of work). It probes how Whitman uses deictic words—this, here, now—to point to nothing specific and thus to the one place that these words all magically do point: a moment of now, here, where you are reading this material book. The essay explores the way his words insist that they feel the pulse of the reader’s wrist as the physical hand of the reader descends on the actual physical printed page. The essay concludes by acknowledging that this magic is an artifice or a device, as Whitman reveals in his odd and complex “Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand.”
Backhanded Compliments, or Rehabilitating Rehabilitation in Whitman
Authors: Martínez Benedí Pilar , Savarese Ralph James 
Published: February 2024

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This essay analyzes Walt Whitman’s evolving notion of vigor, especially after the strokes that he experienced in 1873 and 1875. In Specimen Days, Whitman describes “left-hand writing” by Civil War veterans and declares it “beautiful,” though “slant[ing] backwards instead of forward.” In this moment, we see Whitman “looking over some of this writing”—exploring, that is, the fruits of rehabilitation. The concept of “rehabilitation” traditionally assumes an embodied norm even as it tries to find a solution to catastrophic injury. However, it also locates disability strictly in the person as opposed to the environment. Physiological distinctiveness only becomes disabling when the environment refuses to accommodate it—or, in Whitman’s terms, to sing and celebrate it. Yet a more progressive, one might even say a more neurocosmopolitan, understanding of rehabilitation has begun to emerge: one that almost begs to be applied to the good gray poet and bard of democracy.