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A Moment to Celebrate? Art of the Caribbean at the Venice Biennale (2020)
Journal Article
Asquith, W., & Wainwright, L. (2020). A Moment to Celebrate? Art of the Caribbean at the Venice Biennale. Journal of Curatorial Studies, 9(1), 40-68. https://doi.org/10.1386/jcs_00010_1

In recent years, the sporadic presence of various Caribbean national pavilions at the Venice Biennale – Jamaica (2001), Haiti (2011), Bahamas (2013), Grenada (2015, 2017, 2019), Antigua and Barbuda (2017, 2019), Dominican Republic (2019) – has on eac... Read More about A Moment to Celebrate? Art of the Caribbean at the Venice Biennale.

From Russia with Love: Dissidents, Defectors and the Politics of Asylum in Cold War India (2020)
Journal Article
McGarr, P. M. (2020). From Russia with Love: Dissidents, Defectors and the Politics of Asylum in Cold War India. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 48(4), 736-779. https://doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2020.1741835

During the Cold War defectors were invariably paraded as propaganda trophies. The wider political significance of defections has hitherto been interrogated almost exclusively in an East–West binary. Utilising recently declassified documents from thre... Read More about From Russia with Love: Dissidents, Defectors and the Politics of Asylum in Cold War India.

The Novel of American Authoritarianism (2020)
Journal Article
Phelps, C. (2020). The Novel of American Authoritarianism. Science and Society, 84(2), 232-260. https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2020.84.2.232

Fictional literature portraying the descent of the United States into dictatorship is assessed critically and divided into three cultural-historical phases, each specific in class modality. Ignatius Donnelly’s Caesar’s Column (1890) and Jack London’... Read More about The Novel of American Authoritarianism.

William Dean Howells's Periodical Time (2019)
Journal Article
Thompson, G. (2019). William Dean Howells's Periodical Time. Arizona Quarterly, 75(4), 77-106. https://doi.org/10.1353/arq.2019.0021

© 2019 by Arizona Board of Regents. This essay uses the example of William Dean Howells to redefine periodical time and suggest new ways in which extraliterary time manifests itself in literary form and content. Howells spent his early life typesetti... Read More about William Dean Howells's Periodical Time.

Understanding Bharati Mukherjee (2019)
Book
MAXEY, R. (2019). Understanding Bharati Mukherjee. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvgs0bhh

Bharati Mukherjee was the first major South Asian American writer and the first naturalized American citizen to win the National Book Critics Circle Award. Born in Kolkata, India, she immigrated to the United States in 1961 and went on to publish eig... Read More about Understanding Bharati Mukherjee.

Fake News, Forgery, and Falsification: Western Responses to Soviet Disinformation in Cold War India (2019)
Journal Article
McGarr, P. M. (2021). Fake News, Forgery, and Falsification: Western Responses to Soviet Disinformation in Cold War India. International History Review, 43(1), 34-53. https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2019.1662471

This paper examines Soviet Cold War disinformation activity in India. It recovers the importance of nonaligned nations in the story of Cold War covert propaganda. Over the course of a decade, that began with the outbreak of the Sino-Indian border war... Read More about Fake News, Forgery, and Falsification: Western Responses to Soviet Disinformation in Cold War India.

Full spectrum dominance : irregular warfare and the war on terror (2019)
Book
RYAN, M. (2019). Full spectrum dominance : irregular warfare and the war on terror. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press

America's war on terror is widely defined by the Afghanistan and Iraq fronts. Yet, as this book demonstrates, both the international campaign and the new ways of fighting that grew out of it played out across multiple fronts beyond the Middle East. M... Read More about Full spectrum dominance : irregular warfare and the war on terror.

Realism and the Profession of Authorship (2019)
Book Chapter
Thompson, G. (2019). Realism and the Profession of Authorship. In K. Newlin (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism (301-320). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190642891.013.16

This chapter examines tensions between authorship and publishing in the era of American literary realism. The publishing industry changed with the emergence of literary agents, the growing financial significance of magazines and syndication, and the... Read More about Realism and the Profession of Authorship.

Traumatic memory in the art of Freddy Rodriguez (2019)
Book Chapter
Lewthwaite, S. (2019). Traumatic memory in the art of Freddy Rodriguez. In D. Göttsche (Ed.), Memory and postcolonial studies: synergies and new directions (187-213). Oxford: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.3726/b14024

Hanging, the Electric Chair, and Death Penalty Reform in the Early Twentieth-Century South (2019)
Book Chapter
Miller, V. (2019). Hanging, the Electric Chair, and Death Penalty Reform in the Early Twentieth-Century South. In A. L. Wood, & N. J. Ring (Eds.), Crime and Punishment in the Jim Crow South. University of Illinois Press

This chapter focuses on the transition from hanging to electrical execution in Florida and the changing role of the sheriff as executioner in the 1920s.