{"title":"The Terrorist Attack on the Rue Copernic: French Justice Never Abandoned the Case","authors":"Annette Lévy-Willard, Richard J. Golsan","doi":"10.1353/scr.2023.a915858","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scr.2023.a915858","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article discusses the bombing by Lebanese terrorists of a synagogue on the Rue Copernic in Paris that killed four and wounded dozens more in 1980. The terrorists had place a bomb in the satchel of a motorbike. The bomb was set to go off as services ended, but exploded early, which prevented even greater carnage. The perpetrator, now a Sociology professor in Canada. Was tried in Paris in absentia in spring 2023, more than forty years after the attack occurred. The author, who covered the attack and investigation for Libération testified at the trial, which she discusses here as well.","PeriodicalId":42938,"journal":{"name":"South Central Review","volume":"101 1","pages":"74 - 80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139371161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum: Looking Back & Thinking Forward","authors":"Kari Watkins","doi":"10.1353/scr.2023.a915862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scr.2023.a915862","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay offers a brief history of the Oklahoma City Terrorist attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on 19 April 1995, when a truck bomb planted by a former American soldier, Timothy McVeigh, exploded near the building, killing 168 people, including 19 children. It then describes the early commemorative ceremonies taking place on the site, and the gradual transformation of these commemorative efforts into an initiative to create a permanent museum and memorial to honor the victims and to inform visitors to the museum about what occurred that terrible day. The museum and memorial is known today as the Oklahoma National Memorial and Museum. The attack that inspired it remains the worst domestic terrorism attack in US history.","PeriodicalId":42938,"journal":{"name":"South Central Review","volume":"5 1","pages":"133 - 140"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139371378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Critical Discourse in Telugu ed. by K. Suneetha Rani (review)","authors":"Bhagya Shree Nadamala, Priyanka Tripathi","doi":"10.1353/scr.2023.a915866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scr.2023.a915866","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42938,"journal":{"name":"South Central Review","volume":"71 1","pages":"165 - 168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139371665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Oslo July 22 Center's New Site and Exhibit: A Place for Remembrance and Education","authors":"Lena Fahre","doi":"10.1353/scr.2023.a915861","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scr.2023.a915861","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The 22 July Centre was established in 2015 as a temporary information centre in the Highrise-building. It opened on 22 July 2011, four years after the terrorist attack in Oslo and Utøya. The National Support group and AUF were among the initiators of the Centre. Since 1 July 2019, the 22 July Centre is a governmental body under the Ministry of Education. When the new Governmental building is completed, The Centre will be permanently relocated in the Highrise building.From the earliest conception of the Memorial Museum of societies facing terrorism, the role of victims or bereaved themselves has been central in the development of the project. Following this line, the 22 of July Centre has focused on the role the bereaved and survivors might play. In the following paper, different aspects on building a new site and a place for remembrance and education for and together with bereaved and survivors of will be discussed.","PeriodicalId":42938,"journal":{"name":"South Central Review","volume":"26 1","pages":"119 - 132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139371988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"American Ethnic and Immigrant Novels: A Mere Commodity or a Discourse of Resistance and Reformation?","authors":"F. Akhter","doi":"10.1353/scr.2023.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scr.2023.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Over the years critics and scholars have not only accused ethnic and immigrant literature of being hackneyed and apolitical but also of becoming a commodity for the consumption of cultural fetishists. The increase in the publication of literary works produced by ethnic and immigrant American writers in the recent times has yet again sparked the longstanding debate over the commodification of ethnic and immigrant narratives. This paper is an attempt to contend such allegation and make a case for this genre. Centering the discussion on some of the salient literary works of Latino/a American and South Asian American writers and relying on Fredric Jameson's theory of \"political unconscious\" and Ramón Saldívar's theoretical perspective expressed in Chicano Narratives: The Dialectics of Difference, I demonstrate that ethnic and immigrant narratives have ideological subtexts and political and cultural implications. Concurrently, I attest that by experimenting with various writing styles and techniques the writers of this genre successfully navigate between authentic political engagement and commercial success.","PeriodicalId":42938,"journal":{"name":"South Central Review","volume":"40 1","pages":"1 - 23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48224416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"There Are No Good Deaths in War: Rebecca Harding Davis's \"John Lamar\" and the White Feminist Foundations of U.S. Antiwar Literature","authors":"Evan Reibsome","doi":"10.1353/scr.2023.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scr.2023.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Studies of (anti)war literature continue to devalue Rebecca Harding Davis's contributions to the genre. This essay reaffirms Davis's status as a foundational writer of U.S. antiwar literature whose exposure to emergent guerilla conflict in the borderlands of western Virginia made her critical of northern and southern attempts to reconcile the Civil War's carnage with martial codes of conduct and domestic narratives of mourning. Reibsome argues that Davis's 1862 short story \"John Lamar\" employs a multivalent Good Death/Bad Death rhetoric to convey the horror of unconventional warfare and to force readers to contemplate the irreconcilable differences between Confederate and emancipatory war aims. Combining contemporary criticism and new historical research, Reibsome problematizes the story's reconciliationist conclusion, suggesting that Davis's familial participation in slavery distorted her perception of race, as evidenced by her penchant for incorporating racist tropes and caricatures in her writing.","PeriodicalId":42938,"journal":{"name":"South Central Review","volume":"40 1","pages":"114 - 96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44220161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"I ♥ Oklahoma! by Roy Scranton","authors":"Agnes Hanying Ong","doi":"10.1353/scr.2023.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scr.2023.0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42938,"journal":{"name":"South Central Review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41612815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"William Cowper's Wokeness","authors":"D. Dyer","doi":"10.1353/scr.2023.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scr.2023.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Infatuated as he was with his news subscriptions, William Cowper would find in the morning papers all the evidence he needed to build a case against the Empire. Cowper's personal and public-facing writing returns continuously to matters of imperialism taken from the news yet, for all his furious denunciation of the Empire, there remains in Cowper's writing a sense of spiritual doubt that complicates a straight reading of the poet as conscientious objector. Referring to Frantz Fanon's and Paulo Freire's model of white double consciousness, this paper argues that Cowper's spiritual conflict is inherently a racial one, with the poet disassociated from self and country by sympathy for the colonized. The 18th-century newspaper, with its disparate array of anonymously penned articles written for and about the Empire, served as the quintessential voyeur to instigate the sort of culpability and shame that characterizes William Cowper's work.","PeriodicalId":42938,"journal":{"name":"South Central Review","volume":"40 1","pages":"43 - 58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43993941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Future of Human Nature in a Post-human World: Habermas in Dialogue with Jonas' Philosophical Biology","authors":"Ciro Incoronato","doi":"10.1353/scr.2023.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scr.2023.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In two lectures given at the beginning of the 2000s, Habermas focuses on the ethical problems linked to biotechnologies, notably to genetic engineering techniques. In an attempt to warn of the dangers inherent in liberal eugenics, Habermas proposes a definition of human nature with a metaphysical basis. In this paper, I argue that Habermas' analysis of the potential effect of biotechnology on human beings represents the theoretical outcome of a close dialogue with Hans Jonas' biological philosophy. The deconstruction of Habermas and Jonas' arguments not only provides the opportunity to reflect on the internal contradictions of an essentialist conception of human beings—still widespread today and directly or indirectly present in various critiques of post- and trans-humanist dystopias—but also allows for an exploration of some tendencies of 20th century German thought, which seeks to distance itself from the philosophical consequences of Darwinian evolutionism.","PeriodicalId":42938,"journal":{"name":"South Central Review","volume":"40 1","pages":"59 - 75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46881366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Approaches to Teaching the Works of Flannery O'Connor ed. by Robert Donahoo and Marshall Bruce Gentry (review)","authors":"L. Nie","doi":"10.1353/scr.2023.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scr.2023.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42938,"journal":{"name":"South Central Review","volume":"40 1","pages":"123 - 125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43232410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}