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Carlos Bulosan And Filipino Collective Memory: Teaching, Transgression, And Transformation, Jeffrey Cabusao
Carlos Bulosan And Filipino Collective Memory: Teaching, Transgression, And Transformation, Jeffrey Cabusao
English and Cultural Studies Journal Articles
Who is Carlos Bulosan? Why is he significant? Why teach Bulosan in our classrooms? These questions function as points of departure for this lecture delivered in Summer 2021 for the UNITAS International Lecture Series cosponsored by CLASS and Kritika Kultura. By reviewing the significance of Carlos Bulosan, this talk provides an opportunity to examine the continued relevance of Bulosan and his works for the twenty-first century. A pioneering Filipino writer of the twentieth century, Bulosan developed a unique transgressive aesthetic that travels across national and literary boundaries and, in the process, reimagines the boundaries of Filipino identity and literary categorization. …
Book Review: Bodies In Flux: Scientific Methods For Negotiating Medical Uncertainty, Ella Browning
Book Review: Bodies In Flux: Scientific Methods For Negotiating Medical Uncertainty, Ella Browning
English and Cultural Studies Journal Articles
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Asking For It: Rape Myths, Satire, And Feminist Lacunae, Viveca S. Greene, Amber Day
Asking For It: Rape Myths, Satire, And Feminist Lacunae, Viveca S. Greene, Amber Day
English and Cultural Studies Journal Articles
Although the outpouring of discussion about sexual violence following the allegations against film producer Harvey Weinstein caught many by surprise, the topic has been brewing as a cultural battleground for decades, particularly in the world of comedy. Today there are more high-profile female performers than ever before, bringing new perspectives to mainstream audiences and a heightened interest in exposing rape culture. Concurrently, rape culture has become a flash point for conservatives, leading to vitriolic online attacks. Just as rape jokes are constitutive of rape culture, we contend that satire that addresses dimensions of that culture is vital to challenging it. …
Throwing Our Voices: Ventriloquism As New Media Activism, Amber Day
Throwing Our Voices: Ventriloquism As New Media Activism, Amber Day
English and Cultural Studies Journal Articles
In the fall of 2010, Chevron released an ad campaign designed to respond to consumer worries about the conduct of oil companies. Each ad depicted “customers” voicing rather nonspecific concerns about oil companies, answered by the “We Agree” slogan and information about something positive the company is doing in particular communities. Just before the campaign’s official roll-out, the anti-corporate activist group known as the Yes Men produced a series of sophisticated parody ads that spoke in more detail about the damage the company has done in specific countries. Designed to be mistaken for the real, the dummy campaign was distributed …
Reading Carlos Bulosan/Documenting The Filipino Diaspora: An Editorial Introduction To Writer In Exile/Writer In Revolt: Critical Perspectives On Carlos Bulosan, Jeffrey Arellano Cabusao
Reading Carlos Bulosan/Documenting The Filipino Diaspora: An Editorial Introduction To Writer In Exile/Writer In Revolt: Critical Perspectives On Carlos Bulosan, Jeffrey Arellano Cabusao
English and Cultural Studies Journal Articles
This editorial introduction to Writer in Exile/Writer in Revolt: Critical Perspectives on Carlos Bulosan (2016) sheds light on the diasporic scope of Bulosan’s literary imagination and the literary scholarship on his diverse body of writing. Writer in Exile/Writer in Revolt gathers for the first time nearly sixty years of literary criticism by scholars in the United States and the Philippines on Bulosan, a pioneering twentieth-century Filipino writer in the United States. The editorial introduction highlights the ways in which Writer in Exile/Writer in Revolt documents the unfolding of Bulosan’s radical literary imagination which straddles the colonial and neocolonial periods of …
Shifting The Conversation: Colbert's Super Pac And The Measurement Of Satirical Efficacy, Amber Day
Shifting The Conversation: Colbert's Super Pac And The Measurement Of Satirical Efficacy, Amber Day
English and Cultural Studies Journal Articles
Stephen Colbert’s announcement in 2011 that he was starting his own Super PAC oneupped The Colbert Report’s already substantial commitment to boundary muddling. By raising real money, producing commercials, and exploring the nuances of campaign finance regulations, Colbert acted out his critique of current law in tangible form. The novelty of the experiment created anticipation amongst fans and commentators that the project would have a direct effect on attitudes about campaign finance, or that Colbert would veer into clear advocacy work. Indeed, expectations matched the standard assumptions about satire: that efficacy should be gauged by measurable influence on individual opinions. …
Spectacle, Maintenance And Materiality: Women And Death In Modern Brittany, Maura Coughlin
Spectacle, Maintenance And Materiality: Women And Death In Modern Brittany, Maura Coughlin
English and Cultural Studies Journal Articles
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Representing Heritage And Loss On The Brittany Coast: Sites, Things And Absence, Maura Coughlin
Representing Heritage And Loss On The Brittany Coast: Sites, Things And Absence, Maura Coughlin
English and Cultural Studies Journal Articles
This is an essay about the interplay of objects, art and visual culture in several community museums and historical sites dedicated to local social history in coastal Brittany. There, in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Breton maritime culture invented a range of compensatory ritual objects, sites and practices to account for loss of life at sea. The presentation of this material culture of mourning in small museums, regional museums and ecomuseums on the Breton North Coast and the islands of Sein and Ouessant are examined in this essay. These material objects once bore material witness to crucial moments …
Satire And Dissent: A Theoretical Overview, Amber Day
Satire And Dissent: A Theoretical Overview, Amber Day
English and Cultural Studies Journal Articles
In an age when Jon Stewart tops lists of most-trusted newscasters and Michael Moore becomes a focus of political campaign analysis, the satiric register has attained renewed and urgent prominence in political discourse. Day focuses on three central contemporary forms: the parodic news show, the satiric documentary, and ironic activism. She highlights their shared objective of circumventing the standard conduits of political information and the highly stage-managed nature of current political discourse. In so doing, she argues, they provide fans with a sense of community and purpose notably lacking from organized politics in the twenty-first century.
Live From New York, It's The Fake News! Saturday Night Live And The (Non)Politics Of Parody, Amber Day, Ethan Thompson
Live From New York, It's The Fake News! Saturday Night Live And The (Non)Politics Of Parody, Amber Day, Ethan Thompson
English and Cultural Studies Journal Articles
Though Saturday Night Live's “Weekend Update” has become one of the most iconic of fake news programs, it is remarkably unfocused on either satiric critique or parody of particular news conventions. Instead, the segment has been shaped by a series of hosts who made a name for themselves by developing distinctive comic personalities. In contrast to more politically invested contemporary programs, the genre of fake news on Saturday Night Live has been largely emptied to serve the needs of the larger show, maintaining its status as just topical, hip, and unthreatening enough to attract celebrities and politicians, as well …
Reading Lessons: Sentimental Literacy And Assimilation In "Stiya: A Carlisle Indian Girl At Home" And "Wynema: A Child Of The Forest", Janet Dean
English and Cultural Studies Journal Articles
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Narratives, Images And Objects Of Piety And Loss In Brittany, Maura Coughlin
Narratives, Images And Objects Of Piety And Loss In Brittany, Maura Coughlin
English and Cultural Studies Journal Articles
How can material culture studies offer new perspectives on the study of late-19th-century art in France? How can the work of contemporary artists animate a collection of historical and locally specific objects? This paper takes up these questions by a close reading of an installation in St.-Brieuc, along with the collections of two ecomuseums in Brittany and several other historical sites in terms of a politics of display and commemoration. It further engages the collections in a dialogue about historical sites, photographs and paintings of religious ritual in late-19th-century Brittany that focus upon everyday rituals of memory and mourning.
Roundtable On Teaching "Work" As An Interdisciplinary First-Year College Seminar, Maura Coughlin, Bill Dalessio, Janet E. Dean, Terri A. Hasseler, Anthony Martinetti, Rex Nielson, Janice Okoomian, Elizabeth Walden
Roundtable On Teaching "Work" As An Interdisciplinary First-Year College Seminar, Maura Coughlin, Bill Dalessio, Janet E. Dean, Terri A. Hasseler, Anthony Martinetti, Rex Nielson, Janice Okoomian, Elizabeth Walden
English and Cultural Studies Journal Articles
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Crosses, Cloaks And Globes: Women’S Material Culture Of Mourning On The Brittany Coast, Maura Coughlin
Crosses, Cloaks And Globes: Women’S Material Culture Of Mourning On The Brittany Coast, Maura Coughlin
English and Cultural Studies Journal Articles
No abstract provided.
Are They For Real? Activism And Ironic Identities, Amber Day
Are They For Real? Activism And Ironic Identities, Amber Day
English and Cultural Studies Journal Articles
A new breed of political activist has begun to appear on the streets and in the news. They are no longer trying to out-shout their opponents, but are agreeing with them instead, enthusiastically taking their adversary’s position to exaggerated extremes. It is a practice here termed “identity-nabbing,” in which participants pretend to be someone they are not, appearing in public as exaggerated caricatures of their opponents or ambiguously co-opting some of their power. This paper focuses on three groups in particular: The Billionaires for Bush, Reverend Billy, and the Yes Men. Each group stages elaborate, ironically humorous stunts as a …
Media Practice In The Humanities Classroom, Elizabeth Walden
Media Practice In The Humanities Classroom, Elizabeth Walden
English and Cultural Studies Journal Articles
While there is good reason to be suspicious of the enthusiastic rush to integrate technology into the classroom, we in the humanities should embrace the opportunity it presents for media literacy and critical cultural inquiry.
Mr. Stewart And Mr. Colbert Go To Washington: Television Satirists Outside The Box, Amber Day, Jeffrey P. Jones, Geoffrey Baym
Mr. Stewart And Mr. Colbert Go To Washington: Television Satirists Outside The Box, Amber Day, Jeffrey P. Jones, Geoffrey Baym
English and Cultural Studies Journal Articles
The political satirists Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are largely celebrated for their nightly television programs, which use humor to offer useful political information, provide important forums for deliberation and debate, and serve as sites for alternative interpretations of political reality. Yet, when the two satirists more directly intervene in the field of politics—which they increasingly do—they are often met by a chorus of criticism that suggests they have improperly crossed normative boundaries. This article explores Stewart and Colbert’s “out of the box” political performances, which include, among others, the 2010 Rally to Restore Sanity, Colbert’s testimony before Congress in …
Getting Conspiratorial: Review Of: Conspiracy Culture: From Kennedy To The X-Files By Peter Knight, Martha Kuhlman
Getting Conspiratorial: Review Of: Conspiracy Culture: From Kennedy To The X-Files By Peter Knight, Martha Kuhlman
English and Cultural Studies Journal Articles
Peter Knight begins his foray into the conspiratorial corners of popular culture with the following provocation: conspiracy theories are no longer the “delusional rantings” of the fringe elements in society, but rather constitute “many people’s normal way of thinking about who they are and how the world works.” Conspiracy theories, in his view, reflect a general skepticism of governmental authority, covert actions, “official” versions of history, and, more broadly, express a philosophical anxiety about agency and causality in these postmodern, poststructural times—and he argues that this skepticism is largely justified.
Review Of The Culture Of Lies And The Museum Of Unconditional Surrender By Dubravka Ugresic, Martha Kuhlman
Review Of The Culture Of Lies And The Museum Of Unconditional Surrender By Dubravka Ugresic, Martha Kuhlman
English and Cultural Studies Journal Articles
In 1993, a Danish critic reviewing Dubravka Ugrešić's novel Fording the Stream of Consciousness, a clever satire of a literary conference, accused her of engaging in a crass form of literary escapism when she should have been writing about the"bloody war" raging at home in her native Yugoslavia. Since the novel was first published in 1988, this criticism was entirely misplaced. In fact, the war has been on her mind the entire time, as is evident from her two most recent books, The Culture of Lies (essays 1991-1998) and The Museum of Unconditional Surrender (1991-1996).
Everything's Zen: Review Of The Body Artist By Don Delillo, Martha Kuhlman
Everything's Zen: Review Of The Body Artist By Don Delillo, Martha Kuhlman
English and Cultural Studies Journal Articles
Reading the beginning of Don DeLillo’s latest book feels like groping through a room in the blinding morning light before you’ve had a cup of coffee. Words flow from one impression to the next through the half-articulated thoughts of Laura, the body artist, who presses the “what’s it called, the lever” of the toaster as she performs her breakfast rituals.
Language Ideologies, Choices, And Practices In Eastern African Hip Hop, Alex Perullo, John Fenn
Language Ideologies, Choices, And Practices In Eastern African Hip Hop, Alex Perullo, John Fenn
English and Cultural Studies Journal Articles
Hip hop emerged as a musical and cultural force during the late 1970s in the United States and has followed a global trajectory ever since. Artists and fans around the world filter North American hip hop styles through their own local musical, social, and linguistic environments, making hip hop a highly visible (and audible) example of the intersection of global and local youth cultures. Young people in Tanzania and Malawi, neighboring African countries in the eastern region of the continent, are no exception to this creative process. Both countries have vibrant hip hop communities that draw on youth knowledge of …