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{"title":"Johan Turi's Ecology","authors":"Svein Aamold","doi":"10.1080/1369801X.2023.2169625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2023.2169625","url":null,"abstract":"This essay discusses Johan Turi's images (most of them undated) and his text published in 1910, recently translated by Thomas A. DuBois as An Account of the Sámi. It is the first book in Sámi in which the colonized talks back to their colonizers. Together, Turi's Account and his paintings and drawings, some of which are published here for the first time, provide detailed descriptions of the lives of Sámi herders in the mountain areas in northern Sweden, their seasonal migrations towards the coastal areas of northern Norway, and their knowledge, culture, and belief systems. Turi's main objective was to make the state administrations in Sweden and Norway understand Sámi culture and put an end to their detrimental colonial practices so that the Sámi could continue living in their traditional land. I compare his project to studies of the Sámi performed by Swedish authors and scientists, whose views, despite their thorough investigations and “scientific” approaches, gave support to ongoing processes of Swedish/Norwegian colonization and assimilation of Sápmi, i.e. the Sámi and their land. The imagery of Johan Turi adds to his text by demonstrating the hidden as well as the perceptible. As such, his artworks differ fundamentally from those of contemporaneous Swedish landscape painters. Turi's production insists on a holistic and relational acknowledgement of nature, animals, humans, and the spiritual. The need to understand, protect, live within, and respect their environment is fundamental for the Sámi. Together, Turi's artworks and text constitute profound and well-founded arguments for the preservation of Sápmi, in ecological as well as human terms.","PeriodicalId":19001,"journal":{"name":"Molecular interventions","volume":"32 1","pages":"878 - 901"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84219043","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":"Samuel Hearne, The Denesuline, and The Beaver","authors":"S. Kjeldaas","doi":"10.1080/1369801x.2023.2169622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801x.2023.2169622","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19001,"journal":{"name":"Molecular interventions","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88485912","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":"Of Global Anglophone: A Response","authors":"S. Gikandi","doi":"10.1080/1369801X.2022.2161061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2022.2161061","url":null,"abstract":"This commentary identifies and discusses the three issues that have driven the turn to the term Global Anglophone in literary studies: the demand by institutions for tags that signal diversity of bodies and forms of knowledge; the desire for a new descriptive term for English literatures outside Britain and North America; and the need to rethink the long history of the discipline within the cultures of the British empire. The commentary focuses on the possibilities and limits of recent debates on Global Anglophone literature in the institutional politics of North American universities.","PeriodicalId":19001,"journal":{"name":"Molecular interventions","volume":"173 1","pages":"694 - 698"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79576475","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":"Just Add Global","authors":"Michaela Bronstein","doi":"10.1080/1369801X.2022.2161055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2022.2161055","url":null,"abstract":"What happens when a field is no longer the site of a shared political mission? This essay considers the simultaneous “global” turns in modernist studies and postcolonial studies, arguing that in each case a field defined by a set of central theoretical commitments and purposes was replaced by an understanding of a field as a hospitable location in which multiple competing projects might coexist. The essay suggests, using a reading of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o's Petals of Blood in the context of Russian literature, that our new field formations invite an understanding of solidarity as a fragile, contingent possibility: something that we can't merely detect in the present, but must look for in new and sometimes unforeseen forms.","PeriodicalId":19001,"journal":{"name":"Molecular interventions","volume":"23 1","pages":"679 - 693"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80921786","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":"Aspirations of Relationality: Asian American Studies, American Studies, East Asian Studies, and the Global Anglophone","authors":"Daniel Y. Kim","doi":"10.1080/1369801X.2022.2161059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2022.2161059","url":null,"abstract":"If the rubric of the Global Anglophone has come to be largely synonymous with the postcolonial, a development that some commentators have viewed with concern and even alarm, this essay explores a certain politically aspirational potential in the catachrestic elisions this category might engender. For if postcolonial studies has always struggled with a certain exclusionism predicated on how the South Asian context has functioned as its paradigmatic example, then the category of the Global Anglophone might help the field shed its own version of provincialism and develop more expansive geographic and temporal understandings of empire. Drawing in part from the work of Roanne L. Kantor, which bridges South Asian and Latin American studies, this essay explores how this newly ascendant category might help bring the fields of postcolonial, Asian American, and East Asian studies into more explicit alliance. While first acknowledging the potential identitarian tensions that might emerge between Asian scholars hired under the rubric of the Global Anglophone and Asian American and/or Ethnic Studies respectively, this essay ultimately argues for a more coalitional awareness of how seemingly distinct strains and traditions of anticolonial and antiracist scholarship might be relationally articulated to one another.","PeriodicalId":19001,"journal":{"name":"Molecular interventions","volume":"79 1","pages":"619 - 635"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77663009","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":"Loose Canons: The Global Anglophone Novel and the Failures of Universalism","authors":"Nasia Anam","doi":"10.1080/1369801X.2022.2161062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2022.2161062","url":null,"abstract":"This essay examines In the Light of What We Know, by Zia Haider Rahman (2014. In the Light of What We Know. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux) and Home Fire, by Kamila Shamsie (2017. Home Fire. New York: Riverhead), two texts portraying the geopolitical state of the globe whose formal experimentations signal the shifting political stakes of the anglophone novel in the second decade of the twenty-first century. At the level of content, Rahman and Shamsie’s novels depict ever-deepening rents in Enlightenment-borne concepts of citizenship, statehood, and universalism, explicitly confronting the expansion and destruction wrought by globalization and its hegemonic predecessor, colonialism. At the same time, they practice a kind of formal violence in their stylistic instability. I argue that the content of these texts depicting the politically imperilled state of the world is powerfully reflected in their narrative fractures. Rahman and Shamsie directly interrogate the types of narratives employed to disseminate universalist, democratic ideals across the world, and do so by inverting these ideals entirely. As they progress (and digress), both novels break apart the narrative template which centres the universal subject of history and thereby produces the global aspiration to “acquire” this sort of subjectivity. Distinguishing these two novels from earlier examples of postcolonial literature are the ways they challenge the baseline ideological and epistemological concepts underpinning the sort of modernity which produces the novel as a form. In the Light of What We Know and Home Fire suggest that representing what a “global anglophone” reality might actually look like in the second decade of the twenty-first century necessitates the portrayal of the decadence and failure of universalism in content and form alike.","PeriodicalId":19001,"journal":{"name":"Molecular interventions","volume":"99 1","pages":"636 - 656"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81848323","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":"Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature","authors":"T. Brennan","doi":"10.1080/1369801X.2022.2161060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2022.2161060","url":null,"abstract":"Not every literary study opens with an account of a political hanging. Even fewer risk the vulnerabilities that come with dramatizing the author’s anguish in the face of an undeserved death. Ato Quayson, though, describes how he paced his office, raising his fists and holding his head in his hands after hearing of the judicial execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa in 1995 in Nigeria. Far from gratuitous, the anecdote helps us understand why he set off on this lonely road of the study of tragedy while at the same time striking a note true to the rest of the book – his frequent return, despite the text’s philosophical ambitions, to the terrible contemporary world of migrants, the hungry, the recently enslaved, and the unemployed. One of the striking features of the book, in fact, is this mixing of a rather remarkable erudition with a compulsion to jolt us again and again into the headlines. We read of Syrian refugees, Africans drowning in the Mediterranean, and (in one of the book’s later tropes) the peripheral poor’s experience of waiting in a bidonville or refugee camp in a state of anomie for what never arrives. Book-learning is never allowed to rest, in other words; the author feels the suffering of the destitute too strongly and insists that postcolonial studies care about such things; even more, that these concerns should guide the study itself. As both literary genre and existential state, then, “tragedy” would seem ill-fit for such a reformer’s sensibility. In its everyday sense, after all, the term invokes irremediable disaster, wasted opportunities, and an unspeakable, and avoidable, loss; in its classical literary sense, it alludes to the bitter fruits of arrogance, forbidden desires, and bad choices. All of these meanings are upfront and personal in this book, but only as a kind of false flag. It is as though the author wanted us to mistake his meaning by supposing that he was saying that the postcolonial world was just a sad place for contemplating misery while washing one’s hands. Here, though, the scholar is the politician. By going back to Aristotle, he reminds us that tragedy is – as literary form in The Poetics and as worldview in The Nicomachean Ethics – about freedom, discovery, recognition, and","PeriodicalId":19001,"journal":{"name":"Molecular interventions","volume":"4 1","pages":"291 - 295"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90571881","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 Global Anglophone: An Institutional Argument","authors":"J. Lawrence","doi":"10.1080/1369801X.2022.2161056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2022.2161056","url":null,"abstract":"Most accounts of the rise of Global Anglophone as a disciplinary category and academic field have characterized it as an expansion, revision, or “repackaging” of the Postcolonial within literary studies. In this introductory essay, I make the case that the increased prominence of Global Anglophone in hiring in the US academy derives from broader shifts in the institutional landscape of English departments over the past twenty years. After situating Global Anglophone within a contemporary turn toward organizing literary fields around transnational, ethnic, and subnational categories rather than nation-states, I offer a model for approaching Global Anglophone as an umbrella term for all teaching and scholarship conducted in English departments. Using James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time (1963) as a test case, I propose a newly revamped Global Anglophone curriculum that would better reflect the kinds of research that literary scholars are producing in the twenty-first century.","PeriodicalId":19001,"journal":{"name":"Molecular interventions","volume":"64 1","pages":"579 - 600"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86658934","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":"Area Studies: From “Global Anglophone” to Afropolitan Literature","authors":"A. Ede","doi":"10.1080/1369801X.2022.2161058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2022.2161058","url":null,"abstract":"African Literature has gone through many phases: from its being denied a literary category to becoming Third World, Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literature respectively and to its latter categorization as a “Global Anglophone Literature” subsumed under an overarching “Area Studies” American academic quota. This essay examines these shifts between categorizations and focalizes the politics, both professional and disciplinary, that undergirds such unstable and sliding nomenclature. It proceeds to tease out, within a postcolonial framework, the Euro-American empire-building imperatives of such naming. While some of these questions are not necessarily completely new, what is unique here is that this reflection concludes by suggesting Afropolitanism as a possible alternative discourse for reading postcolonial African and African diasporic culture.","PeriodicalId":19001,"journal":{"name":"Molecular interventions","volume":"23 1","pages":"657 - 678"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75402735","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":"Manufacturing environmental disasters: an analysis of eco-documentaries in the age of Asia","authors":"Winnie L. M. Yee","doi":"10.1080/1369801x.2022.2158485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801x.2022.2158485","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19001,"journal":{"name":"Molecular interventions","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88305365","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}