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Reconciling Chicana Lesbian Identity through the Space of the Kitchen
No full textFeminist and queer food studies scholars have read the kitchen simultaneously as a place of oppression and of liberation, where the regulations of the heteropatriarchy are enacted but also subverted. This space has been explored by Chicana lesbian poets such as Alicia Gaspar de Alba, who in “Making Tortillas” uses the images, sounds, smells, and flavors of Mexican cuisine as metaphors for sex and intimacy between women, reclaiming and, at the same time, queering her heritage. By drawing from Chicana and food studies scholarship, I argue that Gaspar de Alba uses cooking in her poem as a tool to reconcile her sexual and cultural identities, and that the kitchen is a particularly suited space for the work of mestizaje—the epistemology proposed by Monica Torres, based on Gloria Anzaldúa’s theories, which moves away from dichotomies to give place for assumed contradictions to coexist and interact
Teresa Balough, Kay Dreyfus: Distant Dreams: The Correspondence of Percy Grainger and Burnett Cross, 1946-60
No full textWodrow's News: Correspondence and Politics in Early 18th‐Century Scotland
No full textThis article examines the creation and consumption of scribal news by the early 18th‐century Scottish Presbyterian minister Robert Wodrow (1679–1734). It argues that Scottish news culture depended on the interaction of printed newspapers, professionally produced newsletters from London, personal letters and oral communication. For Wodrow, at least, personal letters were the most important source. No widely circulated commercial newsletter was produced in Scotland, and personal letters were vital for communicating information about the Scottish parliament, the church courts and the Westminster parliament after the Anglo–Scottish Union. News provided as a gift, rather than a commodity, served social functions. The article explores two moments at which Wodrow paid particular attention to parliamentary news: the ratification of the Union in 1706–7, and the passage of the Episcopalian Toleration, Patronage and Yule Vacation Acts in 1712
Theater
No full textTaking my lead from Ric Knowles’s analysis of interculturalism 'from below’ (Knowles, 2017, 2), the focus of this essay is on the representation of ‘otherness’ in three productions of Ireland’s multi‐award‐winning company ANU Productions: their 2014 play Vardo about ‘travellers’ in an inner‐city community; their 2016 play Sunder, in which contemporary Chinese characters were placed in a centenary production about Ireland’s failed revolution; and in their 2019 production, Faultline, where a previously unknown Black British singer emerges from the Irish Queer Archive. ANU Productions’ intercultural strategy contests monocultural constructions of Ireland, by throwing spectators, without exposition, into often historical scenes featuring characters from other worlds, nations, races and ethnicities. These characters, by their very visual and aural presence in performances ostensibly of monocultural historical experiences, refract and at times challenge essentialist tendencies to write histories of nation. ANU’s focus has always been on ‘others’, the bystanders to history, on those absent from historical constructions. But in their folding of the present into the performed past, a folding the company calls ‘NOW THEN NOW’, new ‘others’ emerge as bystanders, inviting us to stand by them as well
Gender, Violence, and the State in Contemporary Speculative Fiction (II)
No full textWhen we wrote the introduction to the first part of our double issue on “Gender, Violence, and the State in Contemporary Speculative Fiction,” published as issue 80 (2021), there were signs everywhere of political and social developments that were putting increasing pressure on women, gender-non-conforming folks, and queer people. Scholarly discourses in Europe and the United States, that is those discourses we are most familiar with, registered these developments and scholars alongside activists on both sides of the Atlantic began their efforts to historicize, contextualize, and explain them. At the same time, many researchers gradually had to come to terms with the fact that cultural critique and theory do not necessarily impact the world outside the academy. Despite having seen the warning signs of strengthening anti- feminist, anti-queer, anti-gender, and anti-trans agitations for many years and being intellectually aware of the need to critique Western narratives of progress, many of “us”—if we may evoke such a tenuous collectivity for a moment—had been too naive in our stubborn hope for a future marked by less violence and discrimination (whether institutionalized or not), more equality before the law, and more opportunities for marginalized individuals and groups to see their concerns represented and have their grievances heard and addressed. These hopes have not been confirmed, or at least, they have not been confirmed evenly
The Trump Presidency
No full textJoel Richard Paul is currently Alfred and Hanna Fromm Professor at University of California Hastings Law where he teaches constitutional and international economic law. He is the author of Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times, and the forthcoming Indivisible: Daniel Webster and the Birth of American Nationalism, among other books
