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{"title":"Poetic Form as Détournement in the Documentary Work of Layli Long Soldier, Marwa Helal, and Reginald Dwayne Betts","authors":"Tara Ballard","doi":"10.1111/jacc.13609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13609","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Like many writers have done, Ruth Wilson Gilmore considers Audre Lorde's powerful statement that “the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house” (<span>2007</span>, 112) in order to wrestle with its parameters and deliberate on its terms. In <i>Abolition Geography: Essays Toward Liberation</i>, Gilmore, in effect, further develops what Lorde states and poses a similar premise in question form: “Rather, who controls the conditions and the ends to which any tools are wielded?” (<span>2022</span>, 79). Gilmore follows this line of inquiry by asserting an expansion of Lorde's original idea: “If the master loses control of the means of production, he is no longer the master” (<span>2022</span>, 79). In other words, if those who labor determine the manner in which something might be made, or, if those who labor decide upon the circumstances in which a tool might be employed, the status quo could then be destabilized. Here, then, lies a possibility for rupture, and, when applied to poetry, the likelihood of something politically provocative as well. A clear parallel can be found between Gilmore's reformulation and the practice of contemporary documentary poetry, which is broadly defined as a subgenre that references, considers, or reformulates historical happenings or integrates sociopolitical, cultural, or historical documentation into poem form wherein the poet themselves may be regarded as “documenter.” With this practice in mind, it is possible for a poet, as text-worker, to identify a tool used by the master and to redeploy that tool for other purposes. An example of such redeployment exists in the documentary poems of Layli Long Soldier, Marwa Helal, and Reginald Dwayne Betts, all of whom repurpose tools in order to disrupt, reclarify, or provide a counter-narrative to that which is declared by the state to be accurate.</p><p>To better examine the manner in which these three writers determine the purpose of poem production, I turn to the concept of “détournement” as developed by Guy Debord in collaboration with Gil J. Wolman. In <i>The Society of the Spectacle</i>, for example, Debord argues for “the reversal of established relationships between concepts” so that the “reversed genitive” may serve “as an expression of historical revolutions distilled into a form of thought” which would intend to “resto[re…] subversive qualities to past critical judgments that have congealed into respectable truths—in other words, that have been transformed into lies” (1994, 144). Debord claims that such a reversal allows for a restoration of a “kernel of truth” that is “capable of disturbing or overthrowing any existing order” as it emerges from a sense of “self-knowledge in conjunction with historical action” (1994, 146). Ian Buchanan synopsizes Debord's and Wolman's use of the concept in their “A User's Guide to Détournement” in his own <i>A Dictionary of Critical Theory</i>. Buchanan writes that détournement “must negate the ideological condition","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"48 1","pages":"23-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jacc.13609","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143581700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Drawn to history: The portrayal of museums in animated sitcoms","authors":"Michael Scott Van Wagenen","doi":"10.1111/jacc.13596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13596","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"47 4","pages":"316-328"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143253089","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 spires still point to heaven: Cincinnati's religious landscape, 1788–1873 By Matthew Smith, Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. 2023. pp. 259. ISBN: 9781439922958","authors":"Mark Sullivan","doi":"10.1111/jacc.13597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13597","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"48 1","pages":"38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143581969","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":"Liminal Spaces in Children's and Young Adult Literature: Stories From the In BetweenBy Mark I. West, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2024. 216 pp. ISBN: 978-1-66693-887-6","authors":"Kirsten Møllegaard","doi":"10.1111/jacc.13600","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13600","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"48 1","pages":"41-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143582054","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":"Space fantasy: Nagaoka Shusei's contributions to Afrofuturist visual culture","authors":"Nathan Hesselink","doi":"10.1111/jacc.13598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13598","url":null,"abstract":"<p>With the success of the <i>Black Panther</i> movies (2018 and 2022) and extended franchise, and the high-profile exhibit and publication of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, titled <i>Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures</i> (Strait & Conwill, <span>2023</span>), academics working within the large and diverse field of Afrofuturism must feel their work is finally coming to be understood by the general public. A movement with ties to visual art, design, fashion, architecture, film, music, theater, literature, dance, and grassroots organizing, Afrofuturism has flourished as an international phenomenon, with scholars now acknowledging a third stage in its long development (Anderson, <span>2023</span>, pp. 59–60).</p><p>The foundations of Afrofuturism lie in the efforts and aspirations of African, African American, and other African diasporic actors. And yet in the realm of African American popular music, there was a special window in time when a diasporic Japanese illustrator based in Los Angeles, California—Nagaoka Shusei—worked to create some of the most iconic and well-loved album covers in the Afrofuturist pantheon (including the two LPs described in the epigraphs). This article examines in detail his contributions to such Afrofuturist visual culture, primarily through the lens of his album cover work with the African American super group Earth, Wind & Fire. Central to this artistic endeavor was the special relationship Nagaoka nurtured and maintained throughout his life with Earth, Wind & Fire's founder, Maurice White. In combination with the lyrics, themes, costumes, choreography, and, of course, the music, Nagaoka's art would complete White's vision for his band. Their collaboration was also appreciated in a special way among Earth, Wind & Fire's Japanese fan base.</p><p>Space and fantasy were passions in Nagaoka Shusei's visual universe, the two terms and images coming together in a way that would permanently bind together Nagaoka with Earth, Wind & Fire. It is a story of Japanese and African American synergies, sympathies, and respect between two individuals with a shared view of humanity, one that embraced difference and looked past the artificial boundaries of race and nationality. It also serves as an example of imagination as expressed through the medium of science fiction and technology that speaks to the potential of alternative, positive presents and futures for all oppressed diasporic peoples.</p><p>Nagaoka Shusei (Nagaoka Sh<span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mover>\u0000 <mi>u</mi>\u0000 <mo>¯</mo>\u0000 </mover>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math>sei長岡秀星; family name, given name)<sup>2</sup> came into the world during one of the most tumultuous periods between his birth country of Japan and his adopted home of the United States. His relationship ","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"48 1","pages":"3-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jacc.13598","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143581948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tastemakers, collectors, and patrons: Collecting American art in the long nineteenth century By Linda S. Ferber and Margaret R. Laster (Eds.), University Park, PA: The Frick Collection and Pennsylvania State University Press. 2024. pp. 222. ISBN: 978-0-271-095-240","authors":"Joy Sperling","doi":"10.1111/jacc.13599","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13599","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"48 1","pages":"39-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143582050","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":"Woman up: Invoking feminism in quality television By Julia Havas, Detroit: Wayne State University Press. 2022. pp. 271. ISBN: 978-0-8143-4656-3","authors":"Sandra Eckard","doi":"10.1111/jacc.13593","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13593","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"48 1","pages":"35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143581960","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":"Private spaces in public places: Comfort stations, fitting rooms, public baths, and locker rooms in America, 1880–1930 By Laura Walikainen Rouleau, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2023. pp. 136. ISBN: 978-1-4214-4999-9","authors":"Kathy Merlock Jackson","doi":"10.1111/jacc.13594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13594","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"48 1","pages":"36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143582027","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":"Class, identity, and finding the right wine in Schitt's Creek By James Deys, Kellie Deys, Nikkie Anderson (Eds.), Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2024. pp. 165. ISBN: 978-1-66692-759-7","authors":"Theodore Bain","doi":"10.1111/jacc.13595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13595","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"48 1","pages":"37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143582055","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":"Self-made nerd: The revenge of the nerds as a new myth of American social mobility","authors":"Ben Latini","doi":"10.1111/jacc.13592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13592","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"47 4","pages":"306-315"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252793","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}