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The pragmatic face of the covert idealist: the role of Allen Dulles in US policy discussions on Latin America, 1953–61 (2011)
Journal Article
Sewell, B. (2011). The pragmatic face of the covert idealist: the role of Allen Dulles in US policy discussions on Latin America, 1953–61. Intelligence and National Security, 26(2-3), https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2011.559319

Assessments of the CIA’s role in Latin America during the 1950s have tended to focus predominantly on the twin case-studies of Guatemala and Cuba. Consequently, the Agency’s role – and, more broadly, that of its head Allen Dulles – has come to be see... Read More about The pragmatic face of the covert idealist: the role of Allen Dulles in US policy discussions on Latin America, 1953–61.

Dance anthropology and the impact of 1930s Haiti on Katherine Dunham's scientific and artistic consciousness (2011)
Journal Article
Durkin, H. (2011). Dance anthropology and the impact of 1930s Haiti on Katherine Dunham's scientific and artistic consciousness. International Journal of Francophone Studies, 14(1-2), https://doi.org/10.1386/ijfs.14.1-2.123_1

Katherine Dunham (1909-2006) was one of the most critically and commercially successful dancers of the twentieth century. She established and ran the Katherine Dunham Dance Company, the earliest self-supporting predominantly black dance company and o... Read More about Dance anthropology and the impact of 1930s Haiti on Katherine Dunham's scientific and artistic consciousness.

Periodizing the '80s: the 'differential of history' in Nicholson Baker's The Mezzanine (2011)
Journal Article
Thompson, G. (2011). Periodizing the '80s: the 'differential of history' in Nicholson Baker's The Mezzanine. MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, 57(2), https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2011.0048

This essay examines how Nicholson Baker’s The Mezzanine shifts engagement with the details of the material world consistently onto the axis of temporality and how, in so doing, it fashions a theory of periodization in which historical and social tren... Read More about Periodizing the '80s: the 'differential of history' in Nicholson Baker's The Mezzanine.

Early modernization theory?: the Eisenhower administration and the foreign policy of development in Brazil (2010)
Journal Article
Sewell, B. (2010). Early modernization theory?: the Eisenhower administration and the foreign policy of development in Brazil. English Historical Review, CXXV(517), https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceq345

Existing views of the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration’s policies in Latin America have tended to portray its approach as being either fixated upon waging the Cold War, or overly concerned with quelling outbreaks of Latin American economic nationa... Read More about Early modernization theory?: the Eisenhower administration and the foreign policy of development in Brazil.

"Balloon madness": politics, public entertainment, the transatlantic science of flight, and late eighteenth-century America (2010)
Journal Article
Pethers, M. (2010). "Balloon madness": politics, public entertainment, the transatlantic science of flight, and late eighteenth-century America. History of Science, 48(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/007327531004800203

A perfect (free-market) world?: economics, the Eisenhower administration, and the Soviet economic offensive in Latin America (2008)
Journal Article
Sewell, B. (2008). A perfect (free-market) world?: economics, the Eisenhower administration, and the Soviet economic offensive in Latin America. Diplomatic History, 32(5), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2008.00732.x

American culture in the 1980s (2007)
Book
Thompson, G. (2007). American culture in the 1980s. Edinburgh University Press

The Business of America: The Cultural Production of a Post-War Nation (2004)
Book
Thompson, G. (2004). The Business of America: The Cultural Production of a Post-War Nation. Pluto Press

Male Sexuality under Surveillance: The Office in American Literature (2003)
Book
Thompson, G. (2003). Male Sexuality under Surveillance: The Office in American Literature. University of Iowa Press

'Dis ain't gimme, Florida': Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God (2003)
Journal Article
Newman, J. (2003). 'Dis ain't gimme, Florida': Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. Modern Language Review, 98(4),

Who owns Zora Neale Hurston? That was the question asked in 1990 by Michele Wallace, in an analysis of the ways in which Hurston has been appropriated by later scholars. Wallace's pungent comparison of later critics to so many 'groupies descending on... Read More about 'Dis ain't gimme, Florida': Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Comparing Postcolonial Literatures: Dislocations. (review) (2002)
Journal Article
Newman, J. (2002). Comparing Postcolonial Literatures: Dislocations. (review). Modern Language Review, 97(4),

Review of book edited by Ashok Berry and Patricia Murray.

Copyright 2002 MHRA, and included in the repository with permission.

Napalm and After: The Politics of Grace Paley's Short Fiction (2001)
Journal Article
Newman, J. (2001). Napalm and After: The Politics of Grace Paley's Short Fiction

Comparatively few contemporary writers have accompanied American POWs home from Hanoi, been arrested on the White House Lawn, or been dragged off in shackles to serve time in the Greenwich Village Women's House of Detention. Paley's pacifist, sociali... Read More about Napalm and After: The Politics of Grace Paley's Short Fiction.

'Dead letters! … Dead men?': the rhetoric of the office in Melville’s ‘Bartleby, the scrivener’ (2000)
Journal Article
Thompson, G. (2000). 'Dead letters! … Dead men?': the rhetoric of the office in Melville’s ‘Bartleby, the scrivener’. Journal of American Studies, 34(3), 395-411. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021875851006449

Although a good deal of recent critical attention to Melville's writing has followed the lead of Robert K. Martin in addressing the issue of sexuality, the predominant themes in discussions of “Bartleby” remain changes in the nature of the workplace... Read More about 'Dead letters! … Dead men?': the rhetoric of the office in Melville’s ‘Bartleby, the scrivener’.

"And that paint is a thing that will bear looking into": the business of sexuality in the rise of Silas Lapham (2000)
Journal Article
Thompson, G. (2000). "And that paint is a thing that will bear looking into": the business of sexuality in the rise of Silas Lapham. American Literary Realism, 33(1),

Beyond the Red Notebook: Essays on Paul Auster (review) (1998)
Journal Article
Newman, J. (1998). Beyond the Red Notebook: Essays on Paul Auster (review). Modern Language Review, 93(1),

Review of this text edited by Dennis Barone.

This article is copyright the Modern Humanities Research Association 1998, and is included in this repository with permission.

La ventriloquia y el otro in El hablador de Vargas Llosa (1998)
Book Chapter
Millington, M. (1998). La ventriloquia y el otro in El hablador de Vargas Llosa. In K. Kohurt, M. Saravia, & S. V. Rose (Eds.), Literatura peruana hoy: crisis y creacion. Vervuert y Iberoamericana

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From "Rational Utopia" to "Will-to-Utopia". On the "Post-modern" Turn in the Recent Work of Agnes Heller (1998)
Journal Article
Tormey, S. (1998). From "Rational Utopia" to "Will-to-Utopia". On the "Post-modern" Turn in the Recent Work of Agnes Heller. Daimon, 17,

Agnes Heller recently described her position as 'postmodernist', suggesting a move from a political radical to a politically liberal or 'neoconservative' position. The aim of this paper is to assess the degree to which Heller can still be regarded as... Read More about From "Rational Utopia" to "Will-to-Utopia". On the "Post-modern" Turn in the Recent Work of Agnes Heller.

James Buchanan and the secession crisis
Book Chapter
Ashworth, J. James Buchanan and the secession crisis. In J. H. Silbey (Ed.), A companion to the Antebellum Presidents, 1837-1861. Wiley-Blackwell

An account of the actions, motives, successes and failure of President James Buchanan as he confronted the collapse of the American nation in 1860-1861

‘It's all the way you look at it, you know’: reading Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson's film career
Journal Article
Durkin, H. ‘It's all the way you look at it, you know’: reading Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson's film career. New Review of Film and Television Studies, 10(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/17400309.2012.658263

This paper engages with a major paradox in African American tap dancer Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson's film image – namely, its concurrent adherences to and contestations of dehumanising racial iconography – to reveal the complex and often ambivalent way... Read More about ‘It's all the way you look at it, you know’: reading Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson's film career.

Teach the children well: young adult literature and queer content
Book
Billingham, S. E. Teach the children well: young adult literature and queer content. University of Nottingham

This paper forms part of a larger project interested equally in literary analysis of young adult texts with LGBTQ content, the institutional contexts within which such texts are produced, and what happens to the texts once they are published. Ultimat... Read More about Teach the children well: young adult literature and queer content.