Studies in the Literary Imagination最新文献

{"title":"The Age of Humans Meets Posthumanism: Reflections on Don DeLillo's Zero K","authors":"Alexandra Glavanakova","doi":"10.1353/SLI.2017.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SLI.2017.0007","url":null,"abstract":"The scientific community disagrees over the date of the beginning of the Anthropocene. According to William Ruddiman, who proposed the “early Anthropocene” hypothesis, the onset of this era can be located some eight thousand years ago. The Anthropocene Working Group, set up by the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) and also supported by the Nobel Prize winner Paul Crutzen, who is credited with coining the term in 2000, has suggested that the Anthropocene was ushered in by the Industrial Revolution (c. 1800 CE) (see “Anthropocene,” “Anthropocene Working”). Alternatively, the dawn of the Nuclear Age in the mid-1940s has been pinpointed as the dawn of the Anthropocene. Regardless of its still debatable origin, the concept itself can be applied productively for cultural and literary analysis. As a yet informal scientific term that still needs to be validated, the Anthropocene denotes a geological epoch marked by a new scale of human activity and agency that follows the Holocene. It highlights the extent of the impact of human activities—global and irreversible—on the state of our planet, especially on climate change, the loss of biodiversity, and environmental degradation. Taking into consideration the steep rise in the damaging effects of industrial development on the environment since the middle of the twentieth century, scientists have also identified the Anthropocene as the age of “Great Acceleration.”1 There are social and literary critics, however, who dissent from using the term Anthropocene but share a similar view on the status quo and a similar insistence on","PeriodicalId":390916,"journal":{"name":"Studies in the Literary Imagination","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126486558","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":"Re-locating the US-Mexico Borderlands: Susan Harbage Page's Vibrant Contact Zones","authors":"Audrey Goodman","doi":"10.1353/SLI.2017.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SLI.2017.0005","url":null,"abstract":"In the fall of 2016, photographer Susan Harbage Page mounted Objects from the Borderlands, an exhibit at the Greensboro, North Carolina Project Space. This show assembled some of the things she retrieved and the photographs she took along the US-Mexico border between Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros, Mexico, to Eagle Pass and Piedras Negras starting in 2007. She displayed a selection of objects, ranging from a dusty bible to a child’s pink sneaker, on a raised horizontal surface with a yellow background, each labeled with an archival number and date; she posted maps of the borderlands on the walls; and she installed on a corner table tickertape printed with excerpts from interviews with two local women who had migrated from Mexico to North Carolina, as well as audio recordings of their voices. On opening day, one of the women interviewed came with her family, her friends, and her friend’s dogs, beaming with excitement. Visitors were asked to recount their own experiences with border crossings and given envelopes with the question: What would you bring with you? More than an exhibit, Objects from the Borderlands created openings for conversation among recent migrants to the US, local residents, and visitors. It invited viewers to feel the affective reverberations of complex histories of displacement within a shared space. By re-locating everyday evidence of the ongoing crisis of migration across the US-Mexico border to a North Carolina city with a substantial and growing Mexican population, Harbage Page created a new contact zone in which viewers could potentially access what “vital materialist” philosopher Jane Bennett calls “a strange and incomplete commonality with the out-side” and be induced “to treat other people and things more carefully, more strategically, more ecologically” (17–18). It also brought together many aspects of the artist’s sustained engagement with gender and border politics: for over twenty years, Harbage Page’s diverse body of work has focused on issues of social justice, the meaning of archives, and the effects of militarization on borders in North America, Europe, and the Middle East. She chose to work on the border for this project so that she could speak about the migrant crisis in the US, and the alliances she created through it extended","PeriodicalId":390916,"journal":{"name":"Studies in the Literary Imagination","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127010047","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":"Material Nature, Visual Sovereignty, and Water Rights: Unpacking the Standing Rock Movement","authors":"Anna M. Brígido-Corachán","doi":"10.1353/SLI.2017.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SLI.2017.0006","url":null,"abstract":"The 11-foot-tall mile-marker made by activists at the Oceti Sakowin Camp in 2016 is one of the most emblematic visual icons of the Standing Rock movement. Hand-carved from wood and pointing to Native American reservations, nature sites, cities, and foreign countries, among others, the mile-marker post bears witness to the multilayered preoccupations and collective strategies of the protestors against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). The post highlights the value of overlapping places, Native territories, epistemologies, and concerns, while intertribal coalition building, solidarity, and the urgent vindication of sovereignty through visual resignification gain center stage.1 In line with this land-based, Indigenous-centered, and multivocal milemarker, in this essay I explore Native American environmentalism through a historical and visual analysis of the 2016–2017 Standing Rock/#NoDAPL movement. I give a brief overview of the history of the movement and then focus on a specific set of the group’s decolonizing strategies, which are articulated around three core issues: 1. A reassertion of Traditional Environmental Knowledge (TEK), human rights, and place-based solidarity—all of which are central to ongoing Native American struggles for self-government (Coulthard, “Land”); 2. A critical revision of historical imaginaries and decolonizing practices; and 3. The struggle for visual sovereignty (Raheja, “Reading” 1163). These practices aim to subvert shifting media portrayals of Native Americans that continue to feed from symbolic spatial settings and (neo)colonialist stereotypes. Significantly, the set of photographs examined in this essay (which are taken from social media sites managed by the #NoDAPL movement: Indigenous Rising and Indigenous Rising Media) rarely attempt to capture or represent water, even though this other-than-human person, a sacred but also material/physical being in Native American epistemologies, is key to understanding the plight of Standing Rock and of other Indigenous com-","PeriodicalId":390916,"journal":{"name":"Studies in the Literary Imagination","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130890771","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":"Staging Slavery in Post-Katrina New Orleans: Crisis as Shock Therapy?","authors":"N. Dessens","doi":"10.1353/SLI.2017.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SLI.2017.0003","url":null,"abstract":"We should stop for a moment and ask ourselves—at this point in our history—after Katrina, after Rita, after Ike, after Gustav, after the national recession, after the BP oil catastrophe, and after the tornado—if presented with the opportunity to build monuments that told our story or to curate these particular spaces ... would these monuments be what we want the world to see? Is this really our story? (Landrieu)","PeriodicalId":390916,"journal":{"name":"Studies in the Literary Imagination","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129997543","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":"Postapocalyptic Curating: Cultural Crises and the Permanence of Art in Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven","authors":"Carmen M. Méndez-García","doi":"10.1353/SLI.2017.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SLI.2017.0000","url":null,"abstract":"In the first years of the twenty-first century, a number of American authors2 have set out to discover (using environmental disasters, pandemics, nuclear wars, massive failures of technology, or fossil fuel scarcity) what would define humanity if societies and civilizations were to collapse in a planetary crisis. While most of these texts focus on the immediate aftermath of civilization’s collapse, Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven depicts survivors of a pandemic catastrophe trying, twenty years later, to cope with a new reality. In a world with no borders or countries, the Traveling Symphony, a group of musicians and actors, brings music and plays to scattered settlements in a humanist endeavor. At the same time, in what used to be an airport, a former corporate consultant painstakingly curates the Museum of Civilization, which tries to pass down a sense of shared culture with its collection of donated, useless remnants of technology (credit cards, smartphones, laptops) and assorted objects found in abandoned baggage. The novel emphasizes the resilience of cultural objects in a brave new world where Shakespeare and obscure science fiction comics apparently coexist in terms of cultural importance. The troupe’s motto, “Survival is not enough,” stresses the importance of a renewed idea of culture in defining what is human. While in other postapocalyptic texts humanity is defined through individual moral choices—such as those made by the ones “carrying the fire” in Cormac McCarthy’s 2006 The Road—Station Eleven suggests that, were humans to survive such an unprecedented crisis, the only hope to escape being feralized lies in a communal, continuous effort to recreate culture. Station Eleven stands out as a rare, hopeful postapocalyptic text, underlining the importance of art and culture for our species and the deeply moral individual and communal choices necessary to recover from crisis by practicing and conserving culture. Station Eleven was nominated in 2014 for the National Book Award, and it was also a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. While it did not receive either of these awards, it did win the Arthur C. Clarke Award, one of the","PeriodicalId":390916,"journal":{"name":"Studies in the Literary Imagination","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129427636","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":"Catoptrica","authors":"J. Alison","doi":"10.1353/sli.2015.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sli.2015.0018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":390916,"journal":{"name":"Studies in the Literary Imagination","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123155432","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":"“Dream Out of Reach”","authors":"Aikaterini Grigoriadou","doi":"10.1353/SLI.2015.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SLI.2015.0011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":390916,"journal":{"name":"Studies in the Literary Imagination","volume":"535 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123577903","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":"Selected Bibliography of Recent Scholarly Work on John Henry Newman with a Focus on Literary Studies","authors":"P. H. Schmidt","doi":"10.1353/sli.2016.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sli.2016.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":390916,"journal":{"name":"Studies in the Literary Imagination","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130616960","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 Century of Neglect: John Henry Newman and T. S. Eliot's \"Tradition and the Individual Talent\"","authors":"L. Oser","doi":"10.1353/SLI.2016.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SLI.2016.0013","url":null,"abstract":"The unexpected obstacle to our juxtaposition of these two authors is that Newman does not answer that illustrious roll call, the index of Donald Gallup’s T. S. Eliot: A Bibliography. Eliot never devoted a single essay to him. What could be the cause of so protracted a silence? Certainly, it was not lack of familiarity. For three straight years, fall and winter, beginning in the fall of 1916, Eliot’s University of London Extension class on “Modern English Literature” devoted a week to Newman. The printed syllabus gives only a tantalizing glimpse of the proceedings: “His temperament, with regard to his change in religious attachment. Reasons for joining the Church of Rome. His thought. Style. Read: Apologia, Idea of a University.” (131)","PeriodicalId":390916,"journal":{"name":"Studies in the Literary Imagination","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115377342","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 Educated Conscience: Perception and Reason in Newman's Account of Conscience","authors":"F. Aquino","doi":"10.1353/SLI.2016.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SLI.2016.0014","url":null,"abstract":"An important feature of conscience, for John Henry Newman, is the capacity to sense things divine.1 This feature entails a kind of moral perception. In some texts, for example, Newman describes conscience as the capacity to “perceive the voice, or the echoes of the voice, of a Master, living, personal, and sovereign” (Grammar 77; see also Philosophical Notebook 59; Certain Difficulties 247, 255; Parochial and Plain Sermons 237). However, he complicates things a bit in his sermon, “The Usurpations of Reason,” by stating that our capacity to detect moral truths happens “without any intelligible reasoning process” (Fifteen Sermons 56). At first glance, one may conclude from this quotation that conscience and reason, for Newman, are not only distinct but that the former does not need the latter to detect moral truths. In this article, I argue that such a conclusion misses both the subtlety of Newman’s employment of the term “reasoning” in this sermon and his understanding of the relationship between conscience and reason. More specifically, Newman’s discussion of the relationship between reason and conscience needs to be couched within his overall account of faith and reason. For example, one of Newman’s main concerns in the Fifteen Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford is to examine existing accounts of faith and reason and thus to clarify the conditions under which Christian belief (or for that matter any belief) can be considered rational. Conscience certainly includes a perceptual feature, especially given Newman’s emphasis on its basic or pre-trained aspect, but background beliefs, training, experience, and practice play a crucial role in how we learn to perceive and make sense of things divine. As I hope to show, Newman’s notion of an “educated conscience” is saturated (or shaped) by a kind of implicit reasoning, the operation of which is external to a person’s awareness.2 Along these lines, I will restrict the focus of this article to four aspects of Newman’s thought on conscience. The first section will explain in what sense Newman thinks of conscience as a natural element of our cognitive existence. The second section will spell out Newman’s notion of an edu-","PeriodicalId":390916,"journal":{"name":"Studies in the Literary Imagination","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133645386","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}