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A Response to “Experience, Exchange, and Education: The Hull House Women, an International Network, and Chicago’s Immigrant Population,” by Alice Bailey Cheylan
No full textA Response to “Experience, Exchange, and Education: The Hull House Women, an International Network, and Chicago’s Immigrant Population,” by Alice Bailey Cheyla
A Woman’s Work is Never (Un-)Done: A Response to “Contemplating Women’s Imperial Service: Mabel Bent as Photographer, Travel Writer, and Collector,” by Esther Wetzel
No full textA Woman’s Work is Never (Un-)Done: A Response to “Contemplating Women’s Imperial Service: Mabel Bent as Photographer, Travel Writer, and Collector,” by Esther Wetze
Antisemitismus vor Gericht: Probleme – Potenziale – Perspektiven: Bericht zur Veranstaltung aus der Reihe »Recht interdisziplinär«
No full textDie fünfte Ausgabe der Veranstaltungsreihe "Recht interdisziplinär" widmete sich dem vielschichtigen Umgang des Rechts und der Justiz mit Antisemitismus. Der Bericht gibt einen Überblick über die von Christoph Schuch moderierte Podiumsdiskussion zwischen Prof. Dr. Martin Heger, Christina Kreis und Till Hendlmeier
Franz Wieacker (1908-1994). Kontinuitäten und Zäsuren in einer Juristenkarriere
No full textBis heute ist nicht abschließend geklärt, mit welcher Motivation der renommierte Rechtshistoriker und Privatrechtler Franz Wieacker im System des Nationalsozialismus auftrat. Dieser Aufsatz soll daher einen Beitrag dazu leisten, Kontinuitäten und Zäsuren in der akademischen Vita Wieackers aufzuzeigen und dadurch Rückschlüsse auf den Handlungsantrieb für seine Karriere in der Zeit von 1933 bis 1945 zu ermöglichen
Fieldwork through Filmmaking: Listening to Narrative Medicine in “Tåhdong Marianas”
No full textIn-person interactions were drastically altered in the unincorporated territory island of Guåhan (Guam) and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. This article seeks to investigate how lålai (CHamoru chant) and music making are resurgent forms of sound-based cultural practices that can be understood as “narrative medicine.” The latter has the potential to be a model for musical sensemaking, whereby Indigenous storytelling maintains connections among kin and heals from colonial trauma. Critically reflecting on a community grant film project entitled, “Tåhdong Marianas: Storytelling Across the Marianas,” I explore how a young group of Indigenous CHamorus use the medium of film to adapt to the situation of COVID-19 while calling into question conventional parameters of fieldwork. I analyze how the privileging of work done by and for Indigenous people actively foregrounds the sonic potential of narrative medicine by focusing on the sensory experiences of island peoples to music in ways that undo the epistemic violence of Indigenous knowledge erasure and extraction
The “Thingness” of the American Middlebrow:: The GREAT GATSBY and GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES in Conversation
No full textIn this paper, I examine the ways in which Anita Loos’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby both critique and engage with materialism and consumerism as middlebrow texts. Bill Brown’s discussion of the power and meaning of “things” of literature (2003; 16-17) serves as a framework through which I analyze the double “thingness” of the middlebrow as depicted in these novels—that is, the simultaneous investment in and critique of consumer objects. To that end, I analyze both the print culture histories and content of Blondes (which is widely considered a middlebrow text in academic scholarship) in conversation with Gatsby (which is not always thought of as a middlebrow text). I argue that, rather than view middlebrow within a high/low brow paradigm, we should instead consider the ways in which the middlebrow operates with and within mass consumer culture as well as provides a critique of that culture. Because the American middlebrow has a distinct socioeconomic history, I demonstrate how these novels also grapple with the “thingness” of American identity and the Americanness of “things” by centering the protagonists’ engagement with material objects in the construction of their identities. Gatsby and Blondes demonstrate the middlebrow American quality of things through their narrative content, and the novels’ histories as print objects reflect their circulation as commercial things themselves.
This article challenges understandings of the “middlebrow” as a genre unto itself by examining the historical situatedness of the term and its evolving definitions. This article also invites renewed conversation around the middlebrow by proposing a new perspective and an alternative approach to the understanding of middlebrow literature. I argue that these novels present an ideal re-entry into discussion of the middlebrow because of their disparate print culture histories and the cultural capital (or lack thereof) they signify in the present day. This article thus traces the print histories of these two novels alongside analyses of their reception histories and critiques the concept of a middlebrow literature, turning again to contradictory definitions of the term to suggest a more fluid understanding of the middlebrow in scholarship should be able to account both for the continuing appeal of early twentieth-century middlebrow literature and the ways in which the middlebrow itself as an aspirational aesthetic and consumerist ethic has evolved and is ubiquitous in the twenty-first century.
Where Is Utopia in a Time of Disaster and Catastrophe? A Conversation with Allegra Hyde
No full textIn search of new literary voices that might present an answer to Amitav Ghosh’s 2016 lament on the failure of contemporary literary fiction to find forms that adequately express the multiple challenges of the Anthropocene, I came across a review of Allegra Hyde’s debut novel in the Los Angeles Times. The novel’s title, Eleutheria, was suggestive enough to pique my interest: etymologically, it evokes the concepts of liberty and freedom; geographically, it calls to mind the small island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas that was colonized in the late 1640s by a group of English Puritans known as the Eleutheran Adventurers. Add to this that Willa Marks, the novel’s narrator-protagonist, is a twenty-two-year-old member of Generation Z, the same generation as the students we teach these days, and Eleutheria (2022) becomes a worthy candidate for an American Studies syllabus. What kind of narrative tapestry was the author able to weave out of the materials of history, climate change, and a young generation’s growing frustration with the ecological and political state of the world? I was ready to discuss these and similar questions with a group of students in a seminar on Anglophone Literature in the Anthropocene during the summer semester 2023. Serendipitously, the son of an American colleague and long-time friend studied with Allegra Hyde at Oberlin College, where she is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing. He suggested that she might be willing to discuss her novel with a group of German students. When I issued the invitation to join us digitally for one session, she accepted. I interviewed Hyde, who is also the author of two short story collections – Of This New World (2016) and The Last Catastrophe (2023)– a few days later. The following text is the transcript of that conversation. It has been edited for readability
A Response to “Serving in the Household and the Imagination: The Brontës, Alcott and the Interconnected Roles of a Neglected ‘Transatlantic’ Female Figure,” by Paula Guimarães: Maurizio Vaudagna, in grateful memory
No full textA Response to “Serving in the Household and the Imagination: The Brontës, Alcott and the Interconnected Roles of a Neglected ‘Transatlantic’ Female Figure,” by Paula Guimarãe
“Grief became my friend, my work:” Mary Todd Lincoln’s Uneasy Union with Memory in LeAnne Howe’s SAVAGE CONVERSATIONS (2019)
No full textThis essay examines the politics of service vested in the First Lady role and her affective labors by turning to a contemporary fictional representation of Mary Todd Lincoln. In Savage Conversations (2019), LeAnne Howe considers issues involving US national memory, White womanhood, and settler colonial violence. The play imagines Lincoln’s insanity episode in the Bellevue asylum in the 1870s, where, as Lincoln told her doctor, an “Indian” visited her every night, scalping her and wiring her eyelids open. By outlining Mary’s performance of caring widow and her petitioning for compensation for her public service, Howe reveals Mary’s complicity in the Lincoln presidency’s settler violence. The play recalibrates the gendered renditions of (public) service inherent to the narratives of mourning, motherhood, and insanity tied to Mary’s persona and shows the flip side of the care narrative, connecting the long 19th century to the First Lady persona of the present