{"title":"The Kelvin Hall Clown by Frank Quitely","authors":"Vincent Deighan (aka Frank Quitely)","doi":"10.5325/pacicoasphil.56.2.0257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/pacicoasphil.56.2.0257","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This contribution consists of a copy of an original artwork by the contributor as well as a short reflection on its composition.","PeriodicalId":41712,"journal":{"name":"Pacific Coast Philology","volume":"56 1","pages":"257 - 258"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44885565","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":"\"As Spirits of The Old Ones Dance, We Sing,\" \"Closing a Portal to Past; Opening One to Promise,\" and \"Rez Dogs Eat Beans\"","authors":"Gordon Johnson","doi":"10.5325/pacicoasphil.56.2.0205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/pacicoasphil.56.2.0205","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Abstract:</p><p>These literary pieces by Gordon Lee Johnson accompany Juan Delgado's interview with him, also in this issue.</p>","PeriodicalId":41712,"journal":{"name":"Pacific Coast Philology","volume":"56 1","pages":"205 - 210"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47276362","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":"Satiric TV as Critical Metatainment in Latin America","authors":"Paúl Alonso","doi":"10.5325/pacicoasphil.56.2.0154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/pacicoasphil.56.2.0154","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article summarizes key ideas about the role of satire in political communication in Latin America and the United States, through the analysis of examples from Mexico, Argentina, and Peru.","PeriodicalId":41712,"journal":{"name":"Pacific Coast Philology","volume":"56 1","pages":"154 - 164"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47325084","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":"“Humor Is My Communion”","authors":"Juan Delgado","doi":"10.5325/pacicoasphil.56.2.0194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/pacicoasphil.56.2.0194","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In this interview Gordon Lee Johnson discusses his understanding and views of the complex figure known as the trickster. He also describes growing up Cahuilla and Cupeño in the Pala Reservation in southern California, explaining how humor is not monolithic on the Rez and rejecting the Hollywood images of the stoic Indian.","PeriodicalId":41712,"journal":{"name":"Pacific Coast Philology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47109763","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":"On the Theory and Praxis of Nonsense Poetry as Dialogic Scrum; Or, the Poetical Hermeneutics of a Retro-Teleological, Post-Diegetic Transom (Notes towards an Investigation)","authors":"Michael Heyman, Joseph M. Thomas","doi":"10.5325/pacicoasphil.56.2.0224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/pacicoasphil.56.2.0224","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay explores the nonsensical elements of the composition and staging of \"A Short Program of Poems for Young People, in Four Chapters,\" a fifty-minute poetry reading by Michael Heyman and Joseph T. Thomas, Jr. prepared for the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association's 2019 annual conference, \"Send in the Clowns,\" focusing primarily on the theory and practice of nonsense in relation to the writing and staging of \"A Short Program of Poems for Young People, in Four Chapters,\" which was performed in San Diego by Joseph T. Thomas, Jr. and Michael Heyman at the 2019 Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association conference, \"Send in the Clowns.\"","PeriodicalId":41712,"journal":{"name":"Pacific Coast Philology","volume":"56 1","pages":"224 - 241"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42492527","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 Clown's Nightmare of a Masquerade Ball\": John Kneubuhl's The Moon and I","authors":"S. Orr","doi":"10.5325/pacicoasphil.56.2.0140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/pacicoasphil.56.2.0140","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This Presidential Address from the 2019 PAMLA Conference treats The Moon and I (1942), a newly recognized play by Samoan-American dramatist John Kneubuhl (1920–1992). With recourse to contexts developed through Kneubuhl's other stage and screen dramas, Orr will discuss the playwright's experiments with the fale aitu (a dramatic Samoan clowning genre) as well as Modernist and postcolonial literary traditions. By turns tragic and comic, Naturalist and Symbolist, Polynesian and Western, The Moon and I emerges as an important work within Kneubuhl's groundbreaking Oceanic Modernism ouevre.","PeriodicalId":41712,"journal":{"name":"Pacific Coast Philology","volume":"56 1","pages":"140 - 153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47298329","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":"Glasgow Smiles Better: A Response to Frank Quitely's Portraiture and The Kelvin Hall Clown (2019)","authors":"Julie Briand-Boyd, D. Boyd","doi":"10.5325/pacicoasphil.56.2.0278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/pacicoasphil.56.2.0278","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This brief article is a critical response to the illustrated portrait The Kelvin Hall Clown (2019), donated to the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) by Eisner Award–winning and internationally renowned Glasgow-based comics artist Frank Quitely (We3 [Vertigo DC Comics, 2004], All-Star Superman [DC Comics, 2008], and Jupiter's Legacy [Image Comics, 2013–]). The essay contextualizes the portrait of a clown not only in the tensely bound aesthetics of humor and tragedy but also specifically in the context of contemporary Scottish urban literature and culture. From a brief history of Scotland in the 1980s, the essay examines Quitely's portrait as a carefully attuned response to questions of Scottish identity, masculinity, and the role that labor and violence play in the shaping of postindustrial cities like Glasgow. Furthermore, the essay muses on Quitely's work in portraiture, and introduces readers to his portraiture not only as popular covers of superhero comics but also as examples of Quitely's aesthetic and philosophical experiments with concepts of corporeality and faciality, which, in our estimation, offer vitalistic and existential insights that challenge national, classical, transcendent, or Cartesian models of subjectivity.","PeriodicalId":41712,"journal":{"name":"Pacific Coast Philology","volume":"56 1","pages":"278 - 286"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41941570","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":"Hot Cars, Dusty Roads, Clown Motels","authors":"A. Howe","doi":"10.5325/pacicoasphil.56.2.0287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/pacicoasphil.56.2.0287","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 During the past 250 years, American road tourism has spanned a continent and reflected numerous cultural and economic modalities. This article explores specific moments and aspects of road tourism from the prerevolutionary era through the twentieth century. Each era noted encompassed specific aspects of technology, class distinction, and even aesthetic appreciation of nature coded to a time and place. For instance, prerevolutionary tourism was a largely regional affair, with wealthy elites taking extended trips to upstate New York to enjoy the beauty of the natural world. Mid-twentieth-century automobile tourism, however, reflected an emergent middle class, with new destinations throughout the American West made possible by widespread car ownership. This article explores road tourism with a specific focus on how the transition to the automobile precipitated the rise of the motel. Route 66 is examined as the apotheosis of road tourism, and two motels—the Wigwam Motel and the Clown Motel—for their employment of nostalgia, cultural appropriation, and the carnivalesque.","PeriodicalId":41712,"journal":{"name":"Pacific Coast Philology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41755075","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 History of Clowns in Comics","authors":"L. Grove","doi":"10.5325/pacicoasphil.56.2.0259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/pacicoasphil.56.2.0259","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The history of clowns and the history of comics are interwoven, from the figures of the Commedia dell'arte, and the birth of the modern comic in the 1820s, to the sinister postmodern renderings of the twentieth century such as Stephen King's It and Frank Quitely's unnerving DC Joker. Laurence Grove presents five \"quick-fire sideshows\" that discuss how and why clowns and comics are interconnected icons of current culture. Both are visual phenomena that draw on text; they are hybrid and contradictory. Both can operate as filters for intense emotion and masks for social comment in difficult times. Or maybe they are just fun.","PeriodicalId":41712,"journal":{"name":"Pacific Coast Philology","volume":"56 1","pages":"259 - 277"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44022845","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}