{"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":"Colonial Clowns?","authors":"Amanda Lagji","doi":"10.5325/pacicoasphil.56.2.0211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/pacicoasphil.56.2.0211","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 While other critics of Miguel Street have examined how humor arises from V. S. Naipaul’s somewhat condescending depiction of Miguel Street’s inhabitants, this analysis focuses on the role of laughter and the “colonial clown” in the social fabric of Miguel Street to produce social and political critique. In the text’s logic of laughter, this article argues that it is imperative to pay attention to the narrator’s commentary on misplaced, or solitary laughs as well. In particular, we should be alert to moments that the narrator explicitly identifies as not funny, and that should instead be taken seriously by readers. The “colonial clown” in Naipaul’s tragicomic stories not only captures the mimic elements of Naipaul’s characters, which are inarguably present in the novel, but also the important role of humor, laughter, and exaggeration in the narrator’s critical representation of the Trinidad of his childhood.","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":"48277716","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}