{"title":"Writing Stories of Anthropocene Extinction: Barbara Kingsolver’s Fiction and Nonfiction","authors":"Abhra Paul, Vidya Sarveswaran","doi":"10.1080/14775700.2024.2370696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14775700.2024.2370696","url":null,"abstract":"Humans are the most numerous big animals on Earth, deciding the fate of other species. As the massive geological force in the current epoch, the Anthropocene, human-driven alterations of the Earth’...","PeriodicalId":501026,"journal":{"name":"Comparative American Studies An International Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141742160","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":"Jaws, From the Shark’s Point of View","authors":"Brett Mills","doi":"10.1080/14775700.2023.2247817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14775700.2023.2247817","url":null,"abstract":"‘This is the story of my death’. How would the shark in Jaws (Spielberg 1975) make sense of, and respond to, the representational forms and cultural norms they are entrapped within? Would they see ...","PeriodicalId":501026,"journal":{"name":"Comparative American Studies An International Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140932625","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":"Animals in the American Imagination","authors":"Michael Fuchs, Anna Marta Marini","doi":"10.1080/14775700.2024.2326746","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14775700.2024.2326746","url":null,"abstract":"This introduction to this special issue of Comparative American Studies outlines the significance of animals - in particular animal representations - to the US imagination. As the two national anim...","PeriodicalId":501026,"journal":{"name":"Comparative American Studies An International Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140932651","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":"Maritime Encounters in the American Midwest","authors":"Alison Fields","doi":"10.1080/14775700.2024.2325272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14775700.2024.2325272","url":null,"abstract":"During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, public displays of both humans and animals helped to reinforce a sense of natural order and progress in the rapidly developing United States....","PeriodicalId":501026,"journal":{"name":"Comparative American Studies An International Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140196679","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":"Field Station Bahia: Brazil in the Work of Lorenzo Dow Turner, E. Franklin Frazier and Frances and Melville Herskovits, 1935-1967","authors":"Thomas Cryer","doi":"10.1080/14775700.2024.2327161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14775700.2024.2327161","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Comparative American Studies An International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":501026,"journal":{"name":"Comparative American Studies An International Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140147800","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":"Life Lessons: Experiences of Gender Studies in Zines in the 1990s and 2000s","authors":"Charlie Jeffries","doi":"10.1080/14775700.2023.2278371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14775700.2023.2278371","url":null,"abstract":"The early years of gender studies in the US academy can be traced through their impact on zinesters, who parsed their interactions with these studies in their self-made and distributed publications...","PeriodicalId":501026,"journal":{"name":"Comparative American Studies An International Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140007614","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":"Press X to Pet: A Critical Analysis of Dog-Petting Mechanics in High-Profile (MMO)RPGS","authors":"Samantha Baugus","doi":"10.1080/14775700.2023.2301192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14775700.2023.2301192","url":null,"abstract":"Within high-profile RPGs, dogs (and other nonhuman animals) often cannot be petted. This state of affairs has been changing, though, in response to player demand. In this article, I argue that play...","PeriodicalId":501026,"journal":{"name":"Comparative American Studies An International Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139413794","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":"Shark Tales: Hawaiian Epistemologies and Indigenous Resistance in Kiana Davenport’s Shark Dialogues and Kawai Strong Washburn’s Sharks in the Time of Saviors","authors":"Kirsten Møllegaard","doi":"10.1080/14775700.2023.2291936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14775700.2023.2291936","url":null,"abstract":"The literary trope of the shark has been exploited as a symbol of monstrosity in classic Western literature, from the great sea novels by Herman Melville, Jules Verne, and Ernest Hemingway to Peter...","PeriodicalId":501026,"journal":{"name":"Comparative American Studies An International Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138816404","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":"Yes, Die Hard is a Christmas Movie: A Semantic, Syntactic, Pragmatic Approach to Resolve the Debate Over Die Hard’s Genre Status","authors":"Nathan Scoll","doi":"10.1080/14775700.2023.2277073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14775700.2023.2277073","url":null,"abstract":"Sometime early in the second decade of the 21st Century, many people began taking to their holiday Facebook statuses, dating app profiles and other social media to make would-be clever remarks abou...","PeriodicalId":501026,"journal":{"name":"Comparative American Studies An International Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138742182","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":"Introduction: Christmas Studies, American Studies, Area Studies","authors":"Thomas Ruys Smith","doi":"10.1080/14775700.2023.2276581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14775700.2023.2276581","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Comparative American Studies An International Journal (Vol. 20, No. 3-4, 2023)","PeriodicalId":501026,"journal":{"name":"Comparative American Studies An International Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138686937","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}