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{"title":"Indian Territory Reimagined: Ora Eddleman Reed's Twin Territories","authors":"Cari Carpenter","doi":"10.1353/amp.2023.a911653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/amp.2023.a911653","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT: Twin Territories was a newspaper in Indian Territory from 1898 to 1905 that included the latest regional news, historical information about various tribes, and the column \"What the Curious Want to Know.\" It also incorporated a variety of photographs of American Indian women, portraits of officials, and landmarks. The newspaper actively sustained a national audience. Ora Eddleman Reed understood her role as an editor in Indian Territory in part as a responsibility to correct inaccurate, dangerous representations of Natives people in the US. In addition to countering stereotypes of women, Twin Territories troubled visions of a backwards civilization, offering instead a portrait of Cherokee people as members of a burgeoning capitalist economy. While concentrating on a particular vision of Indian Territory as a modern, developing space, I seek to place Twin Territories in context as an Indian Territory newspaper of the turn of the twentieth century and to study its key features, including the advice column, its short fiction, and the photographic column, \"Portraits of Indian Girls.\" Such representation is all the more complicated by Eddelman Reed's connection to the Cherokee community.","PeriodicalId":41855,"journal":{"name":"American Periodicals","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135504709","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)Framing Caribbean Periodical Archives","authors":"Candace Ward","doi":"10.1353/amp.2023.a911657","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/amp.2023.a911657","url":null,"abstract":"(Re)Framing Caribbean Periodical Archives Candace Ward (bio) Haiti's Paper War: Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804–1954. By Chelsea Stieber. New York: New York University Press, 2020. 380 pp. $89 (hardcover), $30 (paperback). Writing the Caribbean in Magazine Time. By Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2021. 216 pp. $120 (hardcover), $29.95 (paperback), $29.95 (PDF). From my perspective as an early Caribbeanist navigating the imperial and nationalistic boundaries that continue to shape Caribbean print studies, two recently published books illustrate the rewards and challenges of pushing against those limits. The first, Chelsea Stieber's Haiti's Paper War: Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804–1954, digs deeply into the archive to reframe questions about Haitian print culture of the long nineteenth century and its implications for American (post)colonial studies more broadly. The second, Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann's Writing the Caribbean in Magazine Time, looks at literary magazine production in the Caribbean (Martinique, Cuba, and Barbados, to be precise) during the 1940s. Whereas Stieber's study focuses on Haiti and Haitian print culture, Seligmann explores the pan-Caribbean impulses forged and resisted in a more narrowly defined historical moment and through a specific kind of print artifact, the literary magazine. Both books, encountered on their own, have much to offer scholars of American periodicals; read together, they invite participation in ongoing conversations about imperialism, nationalism, cultural sovereignty, and the inheritances of Enlightenment liberalism and literary aesthetics. One contribution both texts bring to this conversation is so obvious that it might be overlooked: the translation into English of French (and sometimes Kreyol) text in Haiti's Paper War and French and Spanish in Writing the Caribbean. For those of us not trained in Comparative Literature but who, nevertheless, feel the urgency of engaging with the Caribbean and, indeed, the wider Atlantic as \"a heteroglossic space across which multiethnic crossings were possible\" (Almeida, Reimagining the Transatlantic, 238) this is hugely beneficial. As Joselyn Almeida pointed out more than a decade ago, the \"monolingual notion of the transatlantic\" that encouraged [End Page 200] scholars to remain siloed in subfields of Anglophone, Francophone, or Hispanophone (post)colonial studies did not reflect the lived experience of those Caribbean subjects busy \"writing the Caribbean\" in the periodicals examined by Stieber and Seligmann (\"London-Kingston-Caracas\" para 3). As Stieber says of her method—of providing English translations in the body of the work, with original French texts in the endnotes—\"though it may distract some,\" it allows for \"substantive engagement with the original materials by both Anglophone and Francophone readers\" (xi). Although Seligmann","PeriodicalId":41855,"journal":{"name":"American Periodicals","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135506623","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":"Editors' Note","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/amp.2023.a911650","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/amp.2023.a911650","url":null,"abstract":"Editors' Note Sarah H. Salter The editors at American Periodicals are thrilled to share this fall's issue with readers. This special issue on Indigenous Periodicals is one result of ongoing and generative collaborations across scholars, colonial nations, and Indigenous Nations. Our guest editors' \"Introduction\" describes how the essays collected in this special issue were initially drawn from a series of panels and symposia in what is now called Pennsylvania (Philadelphia or Lënapehòkink, the ancestral homelands of the Lenape People) and Germany. Working with these editors and our own editorial community at American Periodicals, we have together endeavored to present a range of essays studying aspects of Indigenous Periodical cultures throughout parts of Turtle Island, now more commonly known as the United States. As their introductory essay explains so well, the guest editors of this issue see many opportunities in the turn to Indigenous Periodicals, which are \"complex media artifacts whose relation to the construction of sovereignty is articulated through periodicity, network, mediator, and archive. . . . [They] have served as distinct material carriers of Indigenous information and visual-graphic spaces of communication, knowledge production, and community-building\" (100). Certainly, we at American Periodicals believe our pages represent a welcoming space to explore and unfurl those artifacts and their meanings, even though our title remains complicit in the settler colonialist work of non-Tribal governance. Since the editorial collective at American Periodicals is not replete with experts in Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS), this special issue offered a chance to learn more—indeed, very much—about how our editorial work and publication context might be leveraged as responsible, respectful, and responsive to the ethical and historical considerations of publishing works by and about Indigenous Peoples in what is now the United States (\"America\"). Our Editorial Board includes Jacqueline Emery, who has long done recovery, analytical, and editorial work with the newspaper archives of Native Boarding Schools; many scholars have been consulted and many texts read. Throughout the process, we have been gratified and humbled at the chance to learn from and the chance to feature work on Indigenous print cultures that may benefit readers within and beyond the Native Nations and communities invoked herein. In 2005, Devon Mihesuah called for \"intelligent, complete works\" that can help \"teachers at all . . . levels . . . [to] educat[e] their students about the diversity of Native America and the contributions Natives have made to this country and to the world.\"1 It is our hope that [End Page v] the essays in this special issue will be useful to pedagogical communities as well as research ones for these very purposes. You will see that each essay includes a note about language choices particular to the essay. NAIS is in particular a field where ","PeriodicalId":41855,"journal":{"name":"American Periodicals","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135505416","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":"Authorizing Superhero Comics: On the Evolution of a Popular Serial Genre by Alex Beringer (review)","authors":"Alex Beringer","doi":"10.1353/amp.2023.a911658","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/amp.2023.a911658","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: Authorizing Superhero Comics: On the Evolution of a Popular Serial Genre by Alex Beringer Alex Beringer (bio) Authorizing Superhero Comics: On the Evolution of a Popular Serial Genre. By Daniel Stein. The Ohio State University Press, 2021. 306 pp. $99.95 (hardcover), $34.95 (paperback), $34.95 (ebook). For fans of superhero comics, the lore surrounding the artists and writers behind favorite heroes sometimes echo the mythic quality of the stories themselves. Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, teenagers who struggled to get girls and experienced anti-Semitism, invented Superman as a response to pain and tragedy. Harvard psychologist William Moulton Marston came up with Wonder Woman to sneak feminism into the reading habits of children of the 1940s. And Marvel heroes like Iron Man and the Hulk were created by failed novelist Stan Lieberman who reinvented himself as famed comics impresario \"Stan Lee.\" These tales of superhero creators make for great stories in no small part because they resonate with the core superhero fantasy of an ordinary person acquiring extraordinary powers. Yet, for all its heroic appeal, this creator-centered model does not always make for especially nuanced scholarship given the complex factors that go into the authoring of figures like Superman, Wonder Woman, or the Hulk. Here is where Daniel Stein's new book Authorizing Superhero Comics comes in. For Stein, superheroes are collective creations, influenced not just by individual writers or artists, but by a web of actions and relationships. Stein contends that superheroes were not so much \"created\" by artists or savvy entrepreneurs, so much as they \"evolved\" amid a \"convergence of economic interests, technological possibilities, and the availability of creator teams\" (9–10). Stein thus asks readers to turn away from the conclusion that \"Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel invented Superman, that Bob Kane created Batman, that William Moulton Marston originated Wonder Woman, or that Jack Kirby innovated Captain America\" and instead wants readers to consider how these popular characters were enabled by \"dislocated actions\" along the \"actor-network\" (9). As one might guess, Stein relies heavily on Bruno Latour's actor-network-theory for his methodology, deemphasizing the intentions of individual creators and instead focusing on secondary influences like fan letters, adaptations, editorial commentary and anthologizing practices. [End Page 211] Stein's shift to a collective authorship approach builds on a longstanding project in comics studies. Over the last decade or so, scholars have increasingly puzzled over how to make sense of the fact that many comics—superhero and otherwise—are shaped by their connection to mass audiences and market forces. In 2015, for example, Daniel Worden described a critical mass of scholarship that viewed comics as a form of \"popular modernism\" serving as a \"bridge between the populist, working-class visions [of popular fiction] and the more rarefie","PeriodicalId":41855,"journal":{"name":"American Periodicals","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135505429","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":"\"You Could Speak the Truth with a Tongue of Fire\": The Cultural and Political Work of Indigenous Periodicals","authors":"Cristina Stanciu, Oliver Scheiding, Jill Doerfler","doi":"10.1353/amp.2023.a911651","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/amp.2023.a911651","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT: From the nineteenth century to the present, Indigenous periodicals have served as mediators for both complex citational practices and decolonial translations, as well as an important archive documenting and representing Indigenous people and issues. This special issue of the journal American Periodicals brings together scholars working on Indigenous periodicals to provide a glimpse into the vast array of Indigenous periodical writing as continuous repositories of Indigenous knowledge. The contributions highlighted in this special issue, emerging from an MLA roundtable session and a symposium on Indigenous print cultures, show that Indigenous periodicals serve as distinct material carriers of Indigenous information and visual-graphic spaces of communication, knowledge production, and community-building. They are complex media artifacts whose relation to the construction of sovereignty is articulated through periodicity, network, mediator, and archive. As special issue editors, we seek to broaden existing understandings of Indigenous textualities and interpretative traditions by offering a fresh approach to analyzing periodicals and the role they play in the expansion of Indigenous print, while also highlighting Indigenous periodicals' ongoing political and cultural work of sharing diverse viewpoints, expressing identity, establishing and participating in traditions, and asserting sovereignty.","PeriodicalId":41855,"journal":{"name":"American Periodicals","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135505425","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":"Working Children in the History of American Periodicals","authors":"Jewon Woo","doi":"10.1353/amp.2023.a911656","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/amp.2023.a911656","url":null,"abstract":"Working Children in the History of American Periodicals Jewon Woo (bio) Cub Reporters: American Children's Literature and Journalism in the Golden Age. By Paige Gray. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2019. 132 pp. $28.95 (paperback). Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys. By Vincent DiGirolamo. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 712 pp. $40.95 (hardcover). In histories of American periodicals, we rarely encounter stories about children who participated in newspaper production and management by working as newsies. Although we are familiar with the newsboy archetype from a range of popular culture representations, from Horatio Alger's Ragged Dick to the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Newsies, newsies have not received enough scholarly attention. Perhaps this is the case because the majority of children working as newsies were born into the political and economic margins of American society, and also because their often temporary and replaceable labor was considered insufficiently impactful on the development of the newspaper. It is remarkable, then, that two recent studies shed light on them. Vincent DiGirolamo's Crying the News and Paige Gray's Cub Reporters demonstrate that children not only played an important role in the newspaper industry and journalism but also shaped the meaning of American childhood through their involvement in periodicals. Writing at the intersections of history, journalism, and children's literature, Gray, a literary critic, and DiGirolamo, a historian, reclaim these children's legitimate place in political, cultural, and economic history during a time when American periodicals were evolving quickly and expansively. DiGirolamo's Crying the News offers a comprehensive and compelling history of American newsboys from the rise of the penny press in the 1830s to the New Deal era of the 1930s. The appearance of the cheap daily press in the early nineteenth century not only signaled rising demand for mass-produced print commodities but created demand for contingent laborers in the field of print, including the children for whom paper-peddling became essential to their survival. As DiGirolamo [End Page 192] insists, even though we cannot estimate exactly how many children worked for the newspaper, \"distributing newspapers was one of the first and most formative occupational experiences of America's youth\" and newsboys formed \"one of the nation's first urban youth subcultures\" (3, 41). Unsurprisingly, we learn of famous leaders in various fields who sold newspapers in the street as children, including inventor Thomas Edison, President Grover Cleveland, writer Jack London, and columnist Walter Winchell. DiGirolamo quotes from their memoirs and biographies to offer first-hand accounts of former newsboys' experience. In addition to such testimonies, the author reveals the ubiquity of newsboys whose names were rarely recorded, finding their traces in literature, as well as posters, art, and photographs,","PeriodicalId":41855,"journal":{"name":"American Periodicals","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135505421","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":"Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/amp.2023.a911659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/amp.2023.a911659","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41855,"journal":{"name":"American Periodicals","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135505904","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":"\"Battlefield and Classroom\": Indigenous Student-Soldiers and US Imperialism in the Carlisle Indian School Press","authors":"Alyssa A. Hunziker","doi":"10.1353/amp.2023.a911654","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/amp.2023.a911654","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT: The late nineteenth and early twentieth century saw the beginnings of US empire abroad and simultaneously the crystallization of the US assimilation era at home. While off-reservation Native American boarding schools like the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (1879–1918) developed national recognition, the US began to acquire overseas territories in Cuba, Hawai'i, Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico. Students at schools like Carlisle produced white-edited, school-controlled periodicals like the Indian Helper , the Red Man and Helper , the Arrow , and the Carlisle Arrow . Reading Carlisle's periodicals, this essay traces the experiences of thirty-eight Carlisle students who enlisted in the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars and wrote about their experiences across the US's new empire. Although such periodicals have long been read as colonial documents, these newspapers, newsletters, and magazines nevertheless offer insights into Native students' writing and Native soldiers' voices at war, including their impressions of—and, sometimes, identification with—Filipinos, Puerto Ricans, and Native Hawaiians. Carlisle's administrators often used student-soldiers' reprinted letters to demonstrate successful assimilation which promised to transform Native peoples into patriotic US soldiers. These new \"war correspondents\" could then provide first-hand accounts of some of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars most famous battles. Although largely meant to legitimate assimilative education systems, reprinted letters by Native student-soldiers often detail their everyday lives at war, including interactions with other Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities overseas. This essay ultimately argues for more generous readings of Native voices in these otherwise heavily censored letters. Despite their framing in the periodicals as willing agents of US empire, these reprinted letters by Native students underscore how the US military was likewise a site of trans-Indigenous exchange that provided the material circumstances for connection and solidarity.","PeriodicalId":41855,"journal":{"name":"American Periodicals","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135505906","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":"Little Chahta News Bird: Indigenous Periodicals and the Performance of Nationhood","authors":"Bethany Hughes","doi":"10.1353/amp.2023.a911655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/amp.2023.a911655","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT: This article explores the Biskinik , a monthly newspaper produced by the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and in continuous circulation since 1978. It draws together methodological and theoretical investments from Native American and Indigenous Studies and Performance Studies in order to demonstrate how tribal newspapers such as the Biskinik are active sites of nations performing themselves. They curate actions and enact a story in which the nation is central. Explicating how performance and performativity reveal the ongoing process of Indigenous sovereignty within periodical publication, the article focuses on a 2022 issue of the Biskinik . It argues that the Biskinik should be read as a curation of Choctaw performance and a performance of Choctaw-ness, and as such the newspaper enacts nationhood in a complex and continuous movement of connection.","PeriodicalId":41855,"journal":{"name":"American Periodicals","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135505427","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":"\"Keep Up the Fight\": Indigenous Editorial Practices, Collaboration, and Networks of Exchange in the Early Twentieth Century","authors":"Rochelle Raineri Zuck","doi":"10.1353/amp.2023.a911652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/amp.2023.a911652","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT: This essay explores how Indigenous editors such as Carlos Montezuma (Yavapai), Rev. Philip Gordon (Anishinaabe), and Gus, Theo, and Rev. Clement H. Beaulieu (Anishinaabe) created communities of practice that sought to use the press as a tool to advance what they believed to be the best interests of Indigenous peoples and define the role of the Indigenous editor in the early twentieth century. I first situate these editors and publishers within widening Indigenous periodical networks of the early twentieth century before moving on to discuss their editorial practices and collaborations. Ultimately, I argue that editors such as Montezuma, Gordon, and the Beaulieus sought to leverage Indigenous periodical networks to intervene in massmedia representations of Indigenous people and create spaces for intertribal dialogue that were not mediated by the BIA or white \"friends of the Indian.\"","PeriodicalId":41855,"journal":{"name":"American Periodicals","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135505900","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}