Transportation narratives: servants, convicts, and the literature of colonization in British America
(2017)
Book Chapter
Pethers, M. (2017). Transportation narratives: servants, convicts, and the literature of colonization in British America. In N. Coles, & P. Lauter (Eds.), A History of American-Working Class Literature, 7-24. Cambridge University Press (CUP). doi:10.1017/9781316216439.002
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Nonviolence Crowned or Dethroned? (2017)
Book Chapter
Ling, P. (2017). Nonviolence Crowned or Dethroned?. In J. Street, & H. K. Lozano (Eds.), The Shadow of SelmaUniversity of Florida Press
Ray watching: the highly protected, British prison experience of Martin Luther King’s killer (2017)
Journal Article
Ling, P. (2017). Ray watching: the highly protected, British prison experience of Martin Luther King’s killer. Comparative American Studies, 15(1-2), 72-90. https://doi.org/10.1080/14775700.2017.1411829The arrest of James Earl Ray at London Airport on 8 June 1968 marked the final stage of an international manhunt that had begun with the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. on 4 April. Arrested for travelling on a false passport and with an unlicensed f... Read More about Ray watching: the highly protected, British prison experience of Martin Luther King’s killer.
The political perils of Cold War foreign relations: Adlai Stevenson’s democrats and foreign policy in the 1956 presidential election (2017)
Journal Article
Sewell, B. (2017). The political perils of Cold War foreign relations: Adlai Stevenson’s democrats and foreign policy in the 1956 presidential election. Diplomacy and Statecraft, 28(4), 619-645. https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2017.1386450This article uses the case of the 1956 presidential election between Adlai Stevenson and Dwight Eisenhower to highlight the ways that an obsession with foreign relations could, in fact, prove problematic to a campaign. Focusing primarily on Stevenson... Read More about The political perils of Cold War foreign relations: Adlai Stevenson’s democrats and foreign policy in the 1956 presidential election.
American scientists and their fictions: professional authorship and intellectual identity, 1870-1900 (2017)
Journal Article
Vandome, R. (2017). American scientists and their fictions: professional authorship and intellectual identity, 1870-1900. Journal of American Studies, 53(2), 478-506. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875817001852Copyright © Cambridge University Press and British Association for American Studies 2017 Writers and critics in the Gilded Age United States frequently debated the relations between literature and science. A common contemporary interpretation of this... Read More about American scientists and their fictions: professional authorship and intellectual identity, 1870-1900.
The Information Research Department, British covert propaganda, and the Sino-Indian War of 1962: combating communism and courting failure? (2017)
Journal Article
McGarr, P. M. (2019). The Information Research Department, British covert propaganda, and the Sino-Indian War of 1962: combating communism and courting failure?. International History Review, 41(1), 130-156. https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2017.1402070Britain's post-war interventions in former colonial territories remain a controversial area of contemporary history. In the case of India, recent releases of official records in the United Kingdom and South Asia have revealed details of British gover... Read More about The Information Research Department, British covert propaganda, and the Sino-Indian War of 1962: combating communism and courting failure?.
Neoliberal feminism and the future of human capital (2017)
Journal Article
Rottenberg, C. (2017). Neoliberal feminism and the future of human capital. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 42(2), 329-348
Writing settlement after Idle No More: non-indigenous responses in Anglo-Canadian poetry (2017)
Journal Article
Roberts, G. (2017). Writing settlement after Idle No More: non-indigenous responses in Anglo-Canadian poetry. Journal of Canadaian Studies / Revue d'études canadiennes, 51(1), https://doi.org/10.3138/jcs.51.1.64This article examines the representation of settlement in Canada in the wake of Idle No More in recent Anglo-Canadian literature. It argues that Idle No More engendered a new vocabulary for settler-invader citizens to position themselves in relation... Read More about Writing settlement after Idle No More: non-indigenous responses in Anglo-Canadian poetry.
Slum Plays, Salvation Stories, and Crook Pictures: The Gangster Regeneration Cycle and the Prehistory of the Gangster Genre (2017)
Journal Article
Heffernan, N. (2017). Slum Plays, Salvation Stories, and Crook Pictures: The Gangster Regeneration Cycle and the Prehistory of the Gangster Genre. Film History, 29(2), 32-65. https://doi.org/10.2979/filmhistory.29.2.02Recent scholarship exhorts film historians to attend to production cycles in order to interrogate established conceptions of genres. This essay identifies and examines a neglected cycle of gangster regeneration films that flourished between 1910 and... Read More about Slum Plays, Salvation Stories, and Crook Pictures: The Gangster Regeneration Cycle and the Prehistory of the Gangster Genre.
“As Usual, I'll Have to Take an IOU”: W. E. B. Du Bois, the Gift of Black Music and the Cultural Politics of Obligation (2017)
Journal Article
Heffernan, N. (2018). “As Usual, I'll Have to Take an IOU”: W. E. B. Du Bois, the Gift of Black Music and the Cultural Politics of Obligation. Journal of American Studies, 52(4), 1095-1121. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021875817000883In The Souls of Black Folk (1903) W. E. B. Du Bois described African American music as a “gift” to America, contesting the tendency to regard white interest in black culture as appropriation or theft. Yet this metaphor invoked the complex circuits of... Read More about “As Usual, I'll Have to Take an IOU”: W. E. B. Du Bois, the Gift of Black Music and the Cultural Politics of Obligation.