{"title":"Resisting print-culture norms: Charles Dickens’s “Hunted Down” in the anglophone periodical press","authors":"Ayendy Bonifacio","doi":"10.1080/14775700.2021.1873025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14775700.2021.1873025","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Charles Dickens’s 1859 serial “Hunted Down” was the first work by Dickens initially published in the U.S. and later in the U.K. “Hunted Down” was published in Robert Edwin Bonner’s New York Ledger, the most popular U.S. story paper of the mid-nineteenth century. In this article, I examine the anglophone press’s sensationalization of “Hunted Down’s” publication and what this reveals about nineteenth-century print culture. “Hunted Down,” I argue, resists correlative cultural links between a publication’s monetary value and its intrinsic literary value, i.e., its quality, length, word count, originality, and creativity. Bonner’s publication of Dickens’s story was momentous in the anglophone press because it broke away from the nineteenth-century publishing norm of unauthorized reprints, generating a global conversation concerning the value of periodical fiction. In the cultural imagination of newspaper readers, “Hunted Down’s” resistance to print-culture norms became more important than the serial itself. Examining the anglophone press’s sensationalization of “Hunted Down’s” publication offers scholars a look at how the literary market place and international copyright law shaped literary taste and value in the mid-nineteenth century.","PeriodicalId":114563,"journal":{"name":"Comparative American Studies An International Journal","volume":"118 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131226378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mean streets: homelessness, public space, and the limits of capital","authors":"Nicole M. Gipson","doi":"10.1080/14775700.2020.1815448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14775700.2020.1815448","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":114563,"journal":{"name":"Comparative American Studies An International Journal","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117268931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“A Sickness which has Grown to Epidemic Proportions”: American Indian Anti-and Decolonial thought During the Long 1960s","authors":"D. Cobb, S. Barger, Lily Skopp","doi":"10.1080/14775700.2020.1735921","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14775700.2020.1735921","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the wake of World War Two and with the onset of decolonisation and the Cold War, the United States embarked on a mission to ‘modernize’ the economies and cultures of the so-called ‘developing nations’ of the ‘Third World.’ Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Native rights advocates seized upon the language of modernisation, development, nation building, nationalism, anticolonialism, and decolonisation among them. They leveraged these concepts to advance a model for federal-Indian relations predicated on tribal sovereignty and self-determination. In so doing, they became active participants in a global process of confronting and reassessing United States domestic and foreign policy and, in time, the very history of European colonialism and settler colonialism upon which they rested. Exploring the ideas of Native intellectuals, including D’Arcy McNickle (Flathead), Robert K. Thomas (Cherokee), Dorothy Davids (Stockbridge-Munsee), Clyde Warrior (Ponca), and Hank Adams (Assinibione), demands a re-evaluation of the Red Power era, challenges the tacit assumption that anti- and delonial thought emerged sui generis during the 1970 s, and proposes a more expansive and inclusive vision of American Indian intellectual history.","PeriodicalId":114563,"journal":{"name":"Comparative American Studies An International Journal","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122373313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Red Power at 50: Re-Evaluations and Memory Introduction","authors":"Lucie Kýrová, G. Tóth","doi":"10.1080/14775700.2020.1718057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14775700.2020.1718057","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This special issue of Comparative American Studies, ‘Red Power at 50: Re-Evaluations and Memory,’ aims to open a period of reflection on and discussion of the historical role and memory of Red Power as a movement for Native North American rights that not only shook the U.S. domestic scene, but also built transnational alliances and ultimately advanced a global Indigenous human rights régime. The articles in this issue offer evaluations and reinterpretations of the struggle’s historical importance, its international dimension, but also its limitations.","PeriodicalId":114563,"journal":{"name":"Comparative American Studies An International Journal","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129234392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Labour of Laziness in American Literature","authors":"Lucy Cheseldine","doi":"10.1080/14775700.2020.1748366","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14775700.2020.1748366","url":null,"abstract":"Zuzanna Ladyga labours hard to convince us to be lazy. Her book offers close readings of various modern and postmodern American writers, while speaking directly to current discourses on a ‘culture ...","PeriodicalId":114563,"journal":{"name":"Comparative American Studies An International Journal","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126621920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Thousand-faced Salesman: Revisiting Willy Loman in Tehran","authors":"K. Ahmadgoli, Morteza Yazdanjoo","doi":"10.1080/14775700.2020.1741244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14775700.2020.1741244","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman (1949) is one of the most adapted and adaptable American plays, spawning numerous appropriations in cinema, television, and other products of popular culture. The salesman concept travels through generations and cultures by adapting itself to new sociocultural environments. This article examines the adaptive and appropriative features in Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman (2016) that, as a cinematic discourse, stretches and indigenises the salesman meme into contemporary Iran. It explores the adaptability of the salesman meme, which reproduces itself in various incarnations, in the early twenty-first century Iran, with specific emphasis on gender politics and fractured interpersonal relationships. Basing its theoretical thrust on Richard Dawkins’ and Linda Hutcheon’s ‘meme’, the article suggests that such adaptability confers the ability on salesman to cross histories, cultures and societies, as a universal sign of human fallibility and obsession with social myths.","PeriodicalId":114563,"journal":{"name":"Comparative American Studies An International Journal","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130478140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘We’re Still Here’: Memory and Commemoration in the Alliances between the American Indian Movement and Welsh Nationalists","authors":"Kate Rennard","doi":"10.1080/14775700.2020.1730666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14775700.2020.1730666","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Focusing on the role of historical memory and commemoration, this article explores the exchange of ideology and strategy between the American Indian Movement (AIM) and Welsh nationalists in the late twentieth-century. While these links might seem unexpected, they are part of a larger story of connections between the two groups, in which they shared information and supported each other’s campaigns. Despite the differences between the movements involved, these activists bonded through shared experiences of colonialism; their histories, in particular, were not being remembered. This article argues for a re-evaluation of AIM’s legacy through the transnational effects of their protests involving remembrance. AIM’s use of counter-commemorations not only shaped the tactics of historical remembering used by some Welsh nationalist groups but these Welsh activists, in turn, used the historical memory of AIM to raise awareness of their own causes. This article, therefore, uncovers some of the complicated and diverse ways that the American Indian Movement has influenced Welsh nationalism.","PeriodicalId":114563,"journal":{"name":"Comparative American Studies An International Journal","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129769305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Alternative to Red Power: Political Alliance as Tribal Activism in Virginia","authors":"B. Woodard","doi":"10.1080/14775700.2020.1724018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14775700.2020.1724018","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Red Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s was not universally endorsed and accepted by all Native communities, particularly in areas where other forms of indigenous accommodation and resistance to settler colonialism had already developed long-term strategies. The situation in the U.S. South was complicated by issues of race, and must be understood in the historical context of, first, slavery, and subsequently, Jim Crow. In these systems, activism by non-White populations carried different meanings within the wider political economy of the region. Understanding the push and pull factors of a desegregating South is required to explain Virginia’s mid-century indigenous political landscape. Attention should be given to the various and multiple reasons for Native community action in each specific context, especially to race-based civil rights activism within a state where the Eugenics Movement, Racial Integrity, and the ‘one drop rule’ had historically loomed large. Like other states across the South, the Commonwealth of Virginia officially recognised eleven tribes of ‘Virginia Indians’ between 1983 and 2010, an outcome of post-Red Power indigenous political activism. Virginia tribes’ political positioning during the civil rights era requires an analysis that historically situates their long-term alliance building and strategic essentialism as alternative approaches to those that were promoted by Red Power.","PeriodicalId":114563,"journal":{"name":"Comparative American Studies An International Journal","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114388301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Performative Protest and the Lost Contours of Red Power Activism","authors":"S. Hitchmough","doi":"10.1080/14775700.2020.1736459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14775700.2020.1736459","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The historical mapping of the Red Power movement is dominated by a handful of monumental events, and the intervening Native activism is often overshadowed by these summits. This article seeks to reveal the lost contours of the landscape and to rethink the ‘classic’ Red Power narrative. It argues that the lesser-known events and activism had a distinctively performative element to them that, in turn, was comprised of two strands: the first was a critical engagement with sites or symbols of national identity-making and, by extension, with narratives and ideas of patriotism. Secondly, such acts were often animated by a playful and ironic sense of humour. Merging a discussion of this performative rhetoric with analyses of events that have often sat in the shadows of the peaks of the struggle – the plan to occupy Ellis Island, protests at Mount Rushmore, the plan to take the Statue of Liberty ‘hostage’, and protests such as the 1976 Trail of Self-Determination – uncovers a much richer, nuanced and complicated ideological engagement with Red Power activism that is largely absent from current scholarship.","PeriodicalId":114563,"journal":{"name":"Comparative American Studies An International Journal","volume":"48 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120838759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Yours in Indian Unity”: Moderate National Indigenous Organisations and the U.S.-Canada Border in the Red Power Era","authors":"Reetta Humalajoki","doi":"10.1080/14775700.2020.1735920","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14775700.2020.1735920","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Historiography on the Red Power era has to-date largely focused on the direct action protests of the American Indian Movement, while overlooking the continuing political lobbying and transnational work of more moderate Native rights organisations. This article argues that the National Congress of American Indians in the U.S. and the National Indian Brotherhood in Canada rhetorically challenged the U.S.-Canada border, even establishing a Joint Agreement to foster collaboration across it. However, while their leaders purported to challenge nation-state borders, in practice the collaboration between the two organisations adhered to the settler-colonial structures dominant in North America. Shaped by these federal ties, the exchange was ultimately unable to achieve its aim of working towards self-determination through mutual cooperation. Moderate Indigenous organisations remain dependent on federal structures to operate, thus limiting their ability to effectively organise across settler-state borders.","PeriodicalId":114563,"journal":{"name":"Comparative American Studies An International Journal","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126500067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}