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A Reckless Verisimilitude: The Archive In James Ellroy’S Fiction, Bradley J. Wiles
A Reckless Verisimilitude: The Archive In James Ellroy’S Fiction, Bradley J. Wiles
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
The archive as both plot element and narrative presentation factors significantly into the work of James Ellroy’s novels in the L.A. Quartet and USA Underworld Trilogy series. This article examines the important role of the archive as a source of information and evidence that Ellroy’s characters utilize in their attempts at either maintaining or attacking the status quo. Through these novels, Ellroy conveys the potential power archives wield over the trajectory of history and our understanding of it by demonstrating how the historical record is often shaped in favor of the powerful. Yet even if the archive is a manifestation …
Traditional Knowledge And Digital Archives: An Interview With Kim Christen, Kimberly Christen, Leslie Davis, Zachary Griffith, Jacob Neely
Traditional Knowledge And Digital Archives: An Interview With Kim Christen, Kimberly Christen, Leslie Davis, Zachary Griffith, Jacob Neely
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
Dr. Kim Christen is a Professor in the Department of English, the Director of the Digital Technology and Culture Program, the Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation, and the Director of Digital Initiatives for the College of Arts and Sciences at Washington State University. Christen is also the Director of the Plateau Peoples’ Web Portal, a collaboratively curated site of Plateau cultural materials; Mukurtu CMS, a content management system and community digital archive platform built around the particular needs of indigenous peoples globally; and co-Director with Jane Anderson of Local Contexts, an educational website for innovative traditional …
Togetherness With The Past: Literary Pedagogy And The Digital Archive, Madeline B. Gangnes
Togetherness With The Past: Literary Pedagogy And The Digital Archive, Madeline B. Gangnes
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
Archival materials are invaluable to an understanding of the historical, cultural, and material contexts in which literary texts were published. Materiality, paratextual elements, and other key characteristics of literature cannot be discerned from recent editions. Yet original and rare versions of literary texts are difficult or impossible for most scholars, let alone their students, to access. Digital facsimiles provide opportunities to examine archival texts over the Internet, alleviating logistical and financial barriers. In Dust: The Archive and Cultural History (2001), Carolyn Steedman writes: “The Archive is a place in which people can be alone with the past” (81); archives are …
At Home In The Free-Market World: The Neoliberal Cosmopolitan Man In Salman Rushdie's Fury, Mary J. Nitsch
At Home In The Free-Market World: The Neoliberal Cosmopolitan Man In Salman Rushdie's Fury, Mary J. Nitsch
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
This article offers an exploration of the concept of cosmopolitanism in Salman Rushdie's novel, Fury. Through both Rushdie's and his protagonist's cosmopolitanism, the ambivalence of the position is revealed in particular through the latter's (un)easy access to global commodities and problematic exploitation of women. The economic and gender exploitations oddly converge in Solanka's latest creative project, the success of which glosses over the problematics of class and gender privilege. Ultimately, the protagonist’s cosmopolitanism truly impedes any critique cosmopolitanism might afford: he is readily swept up in the rising tide of the 90s financial boom and the frequently misogynist sexuality …
Regimes Of Prestige And Power: Transnational Authorship And International Acclaim In Rutu Modan's Exit Wounds, Kyle Eveleth
Regimes Of Prestige And Power: Transnational Authorship And International Acclaim In Rutu Modan's Exit Wounds, Kyle Eveleth
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
This essay will examine the reception of Rutu Modan’s international-award-winning graphic novel Exit Wounds (2007) in the massive cultural centers of the United States and France by situating its success within the inter/transnational dynamics of the contemporary comics market, or what James English would term an “economy of prestige.” My essay reconsiders Exit Wounds beyond its popular status as an international phenomenon—that is, one that crosses national borders but which maintains distinctions between those nations it enters and its home state—by considering it a transnational work—one which blurs the lines between nation-states in its form, function, and reception. To do …
Capitalism And "Blithedale": Exploring Hawthorne's Response To 19th Century American Capitalism, Kyle G. Phillips
Capitalism And "Blithedale": Exploring Hawthorne's Response To 19th Century American Capitalism, Kyle G. Phillips
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
With the intensive migration of the American public from rural to urban settings in the mid-nineteenth century came many logistical problems. Chief among them was the contention that the city was a place fundamentally void of, or else lax with morals. The examination into these issues explores why Americans felt the city was a catalyst for immorality, specifically examining prostitution and the exploitation of the working poor. It seeks to answer these questions within the framework of the anchor text, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Blithedale Romance”.
Six Poems On Sixteenth-Century Maps, Jeremy Dae Paden
Six Poems On Sixteenth-Century Maps, Jeremy Dae Paden
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
Enclosed are seven poems that explore the topic of mapping. Six of these form part of a series of ekphrastic poems on sixteenth-century "mappa mundi." They use the trope of the "cosmographic heart" or the "cordiform map" to tell the story of early European and American contact. Four of them use actual sixteenth-century mappa mundi (Fineaus's cordiform map, Bunting's clover-leaf map, Hand an anonymous Flemish map that uses Ortellius's cordiform map as the face of a jester) as points of departure. These maps by iconographically distorting the world make visible through representation the Early Modern Europe had with understanding the …
A Posture Of Removal: Mary Rowlandson’S Location, Position, And Displacement, Aaron Cloyd
A Posture Of Removal: Mary Rowlandson’S Location, Position, And Displacement, Aaron Cloyd
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
Drawing on work from autobiographical studies that distinguishes between but correlates position and location, this paper examines Mary Rowlandson’s situatedness in The Sovereignty and Goodness of God and argues that she is a figure of removal and displacement. Although Rowlandson seeks to position herself through voice, actions, and text, such expressions of agency occur within the locating structures of culture, expectation, and memory. The resultant tension between self- positioning and other-locating leaves Rowlandson perpetually removed as she is unable to fully reposition herself within any significant site.
For This Earth Too Long Hauled / Later Valorization, Bob Mulligan
For This Earth Too Long Hauled / Later Valorization, Bob Mulligan
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
No abstract provided.
Some Breaks Remain / While We’Re On The Topic Of The Quatrain, Andrew Calis
Some Breaks Remain / While We’Re On The Topic Of The Quatrain, Andrew Calis
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
No abstract provided.
The Embodiment Of Collective Exclusion: Transcending The Borders Of Social Segregation In Harry Potter, Alyssa Hunziker
The Embodiment Of Collective Exclusion: Transcending The Borders Of Social Segregation In Harry Potter, Alyssa Hunziker
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
No abstract provided.
Checked Bags: A Litany Of Potentially Explosive Things, Sherrin Frances
Checked Bags: A Litany Of Potentially Explosive Things, Sherrin Frances
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
No abstract provided.
The Abandonment Of Modernity: Bare Life And The Camp In Homo Sacer And Hotel Rwanda, Carolyn Ownbey
The Abandonment Of Modernity: Bare Life And The Camp In Homo Sacer And Hotel Rwanda, Carolyn Ownbey
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
No abstract provided.
Finding Myself In Fiction, Lori D'Angelo
Finding Myself In Fiction, Lori D'Angelo
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
No abstract provided.
The X-Rayed Memory Of A Cancerous Breast, Calalina Florina Florescu
The X-Rayed Memory Of A Cancerous Breast, Calalina Florina Florescu
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
No abstract provided.
From "Life Stories", Paul Hetherington
From "Life Stories", Paul Hetherington
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
No abstract provided.
Self-Portrait # 3: A Dream, Don Adams
Self-Portrait # 3: A Dream, Don Adams
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
No abstract provided.
Telling Stories: Discussions With Sidonie Smith, Keith Knapp, And Terry Castle
Telling Stories: Discussions With Sidonie Smith, Keith Knapp, And Terry Castle
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
No abstract provided.
Wild Minds Searching: Early Scholars Groping In The Gap, Joy Denise Scott, Jane Grellier
Wild Minds Searching: Early Scholars Groping In The Gap, Joy Denise Scott, Jane Grellier
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
No abstract provided.
Glimpses Of Ecstasy: The Public Shaping Of Personal History In Carlos Bulosan's America Is In The Heart, Nicholas A. Henson
Glimpses Of Ecstasy: The Public Shaping Of Personal History In Carlos Bulosan's America Is In The Heart, Nicholas A. Henson
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
No abstract provided.
What's Love Got To Do With It?: Family, Sex, And Domestic Violence In Contemporary Irish Women's Fiction, Mary Ryan
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
No abstract provided.
Three Poems, Daniele Pantano
Three Poems, Daniele Pantano
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
No abstract provided.
Sara Suleri: A Study In The Idioms Of Dubiety And Migrancy In Boys Will Be Boys And Meatless Days, Rachel Tudor
Sara Suleri: A Study In The Idioms Of Dubiety And Migrancy In Boys Will Be Boys And Meatless Days, Rachel Tudor
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
No abstract provided.
Two Poems, Jessica Beaufils
Two Poems, Jessica Beaufils
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
No abstract provided.
The Limits Of Empathy: An Interview With Marianne Noble, Rebecca Lane, Jeffrey Zamostny
The Limits Of Empathy: An Interview With Marianne Noble, Rebecca Lane, Jeffrey Zamostny
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
No abstract provided.
Andy Warhol: Folk Artist In The Age Of Mechanical Reproduction, T. D. Richardson
Andy Warhol: Folk Artist In The Age Of Mechanical Reproduction, T. D. Richardson
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
No abstract provided.
Consumed With (And By) Collecting: Museology As A Narrative Strategy, Gretchen E. Henderson
Consumed With (And By) Collecting: Museology As A Narrative Strategy, Gretchen E. Henderson
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
No abstract provided.
After The Garden Is Gone: Megachurches, Pastoral, And Theologies Of Consumption, Andrew Battista
After The Garden Is Gone: Megachurches, Pastoral, And Theologies Of Consumption, Andrew Battista
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
No abstract provided.
An In-Between Place: To Tokelau By Boat, Alice Driver
An In-Between Place: To Tokelau By Boat, Alice Driver
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
No abstract provided.
Xerxes In Drag: Post-9/11 Marginalization And (Mis)Identification In 300, M. Melissa Elston
Xerxes In Drag: Post-9/11 Marginalization And (Mis)Identification In 300, M. Melissa Elston
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
No abstract provided.