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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/10.1080/07075332.2017.1402070

Britain'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.51.1.64

This 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.29.2.02

Recent 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/s0021875817000883

In 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.

Bush the transnationalist: a reappraisal of the unilateralist impulse in US foreign policy, 2001–2009 (2017)
Journal Article
Ryan, M. (2017). Bush the transnationalist: a reappraisal of the unilateralist impulse in US foreign policy, 2001–2009. International Politics, 54(5), 561-582. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-017-0054-8

This article challenges the common characterisation of George W. Bush’s foreign policy as “unilateral.” It argues that the Bush administration developed a new post-9/11 understanding of terrorism as a transnational, networked phenomenon shaped by the... Read More about Bush the transnationalist: a reappraisal of the unilateralist impulse in US foreign policy, 2001–2009.

Character and charismatic authority in Robert Penn Warren’s All The King’s Men and Edwin O’Connor’s The Last Hurrah (2017)
Book Chapter
Hutchison, A. (2017). Character and charismatic authority in Robert Penn Warren’s All The King’s Men and Edwin O’Connor’s The Last Hurrah. In M. Griffin, & C. Hebert (Eds.), Stories of Nation: Fictions, Politics, and the American Experience. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press

Pragmatism, religion, and John Foster Dulles’s embrace of Christian internationalism in the 1930s (2017)
Journal Article
Sewell, B. (2017). Pragmatism, religion, and John Foster Dulles’s embrace of Christian internationalism in the 1930s. Diplomatic History, 41(4), 799-823. https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhx029

This article focuses on John Foster Dulles's engagement with religion and the role it played in his worldview. In doing so, it argues that his embrace of Christian internationalism should be seen as a part of an intellectual progression shaped by Pra... Read More about Pragmatism, religion, and John Foster Dulles’s embrace of Christian internationalism in the 1930s.

The 'war on terror' and the new periphery (2017)
Book Chapter
Ryan, M. (2017). The 'war on terror' and the new periphery. In B. Sewell, & M. Ryan (Eds.), Foreign policy at the periphery: the shifting margins of international relations since World War II. University Press of Kentucky

This chapter exmaines the emergence of 'peripheral' fronts in the Bush administration's 'war on terror.' Since this 'war' was conceived from its inception as global in scope, it permitted the development of both 'core' and 'peripheral' fronts - the l... Read More about The 'war on terror' and the new periphery.

The sexuality of Malcolm X (2016)
Journal Article
Phelps, C. (2017). The sexuality of Malcolm X. Journal of American Studies, 51(3), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875816001341

This article engages the controversy over whether Malcolm Little, who would become Malcolm X, had same-sexual encounters. A minute sifting of all evidence and claims, augmented by new findings, yields strong indication that Malcolm Little did take pa... Read More about The sexuality of Malcolm X.

The United States, Britain and the Sino-Indian Border War (2016)
Book Chapter
McGarr, P. (2016). The United States, Britain and the Sino-Indian Border War. In L. M. Lüthi, & A. Das Gupta (Eds.), The Sino-Indian War of 1962: new perspectives (105-123). Routledge

John Foster Dulles, Illness, Masculinity and US Foreign Relations, 1953–1961 (2016)
Journal Article
Sewell, B. (2017). John Foster Dulles, Illness, Masculinity and US Foreign Relations, 1953–1961. International History Review, 39(4), 713-747. https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2016.1230768

In the last two decades, scholars have increasingly looked to understand the way that socially constructed norms and values have influenced the course of international diplomacy. Yet while much work has been produced on areas such as gender, far less... Read More about John Foster Dulles, Illness, Masculinity and US Foreign Relations, 1953–1961.

“To Preserve My Features in Marble”: Post-Civil War Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, and Sketches of Frederick Douglass. An Illustrated Essay (2016)
Journal Article
Bernier, C.-M. (2016). “To Preserve My Features in Marble”: Post-Civil War Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, and Sketches of Frederick Douglass. An Illustrated Essay. Callaloo, 39(2), 372-399. https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2016.0042

Revising the Archive: Documentary Portraiture in the Photography of Delilah Montoya (2016)
Book Chapter
Lewthwaite, S. (2016). Revising the Archive: Documentary Portraiture in the Photography of Delilah Montoya. In Routledge Companion to Latina/o Popular Culture, 226-236. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Recovering mestiza genealogies in contemporary New Mexican art: Delilah Montoya’s El sagrado corazón (1993) (2016)
Journal Article
Lewthwaite, S. (2016). Recovering mestiza genealogies in contemporary New Mexican art: Delilah Montoya’s El sagrado corazón (1993). Frontiers, 37(1), 118-150. https://doi.org/10.5250/fronjwomestud.37.1.0118

“Seeing in the dark”: the aesthetics of disappearance and remembrance in the work of Alberto Rey (2016)
Journal Article
Lewthwaite, S. (2017). “Seeing in the dark”: the aesthetics of disappearance and remembrance in the work of Alberto Rey. Journal of American Studies, 51(2), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875816000979

This article examines how contemporary Cuban American artists have experimented with visual languages of trauma to construct an intergenerational memory about the losses of exile and migration. It considers the work of artist Alberto Rey, and his lay... Read More about “Seeing in the dark”: the aesthetics of disappearance and remembrance in the work of Alberto Rey.

National stories and narrative voice in the fiction of Joshua Ferris (2016)
Journal Article
Maxey, R. (2016). National stories and narrative voice in the fiction of Joshua Ferris. Critique, 57(2), 208-216. https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2015.1019410

In his début novel, Then We Came to the End (2007), Joshua Ferris narrates his story of a pre-9/11 Chicago advertising agency in the first-person plural. Such narrative experimentation recurs across his fiction and is often linked to national concern... Read More about National stories and narrative voice in the fiction of Joshua Ferris.

From Mind to Hand: Paper, Pens and the Materiality of Letter Writing (2016)
Book Chapter
Thompson, G. (2016). From Mind to Hand: Paper, Pens and the Materiality of Letter Writing. In The Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing

A rather tedious and unfortunate affair: the Rahi saga and the troubled origins of Indo–Soviet cinematic exchange (2016)
Journal Article
McGarr, P. M. (2016). A rather tedious and unfortunate affair: the Rahi saga and the troubled origins of Indo–Soviet cinematic exchange. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 36(1), 5-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2015.1134106

This article breaks new ground by reframing the context in which the governments of India and the Soviet Union arrived at an understanding that determined the course of cinematic exchange between the two countries during the cold war. It suggests tha... Read More about A rather tedious and unfortunate affair: the Rahi saga and the troubled origins of Indo–Soviet cinematic exchange.

The After-Image: Frederick Douglass in Visual Culture (2016)
Book Chapter
Trodd, Z. (2016). The After-Image: Frederick Douglass in Visual Culture. In C. Bernier, & H. Durkin (Eds.), Visualising Slavery: Art Across the Black Diaspora, 129-152. Liverpool University Press

By the time of his death in 1895, Frederick Douglass had sat for approximately 160 different photographs. This makes him the most photographed American of the nineteenth century, rather than Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman or General Custer (all previo... Read More about The After-Image: Frederick Douglass in Visual Culture.