Material Poetics in Hemispheric America

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Kosick
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Poetry ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Poetic Tradition ◽  
Anne Carson ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
The Look ◽  
Juan Luis Martinez

Material Poetics in Hemispheric America examines poets and artists in the Americas during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries to show how they worked to make language into material objects and material objects into language. It builds a theory of ‘material poetics’ that provides an alternative account of poetry in hemispheric America. It argues that by reframing American poetry to prominently include object-oriented practices within and beyond the United States, material poetry can be seen as representing a significant branch of the American poetic tradition. This book puts contemporary theories of objects and matter into conversation with a variety of American approaches to material poetics. These approaches result in one-word poems more concerned with the look of language than its meaning, artworks that invite viewers to physically engage with language, poems assembled from networks of out-of-place words and things, poetic monuments that meditate on (and take up) space, and poetry that attempts to materialise the remnants of lyrics and lives. By examining five case studies, drawn from Brazil, Chile, the United States, and Canada, it investigates five ways of conceptualizing these poetic objects—as autonomous, relational, assembled, architectural, and posthuman. Poets and artists featured include Haroldo de Campos, Décio Pignatari, Augusto de Campos, Ferreira Gullar, Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Pape, Juan Luis Martínez, Ronald Johnson, and Anne Carson.

Commercials as Discursive Assemblages

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colleen T. Dunagan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Foreign Markets ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Direct Address ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Television Film ◽  
Cultural Formations

Chapter Two demonstrates how commercials employ genre-specific codes and conventions to operate as discursive assemblages. The author adopts Grossberg’s concept of cultural formations as a model for analyzing dance in advertising. Through close readings of several commercials created for US companies produced between 1948 and 2012, the chapter offers an historicized reading of the strategic intersections between dance, television, film, and advertising within commercials to produce a form of marketing that simultaneously reinforces and destabilizes disciplinary boundaries. Several concepts central to the larger project are introduced here, including liveness, advertising positioning strategies, direct address and hailing, montage, and film musical conventions. While the study focuses on an analysis of the history and conventions of dance-in-advertising in the United States during the mid-to-late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, it also includes examples of commercials created to advertise US products in foreign markets.

The Age of Auden

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aidan Wasley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Central Place ◽  
American Poetry ◽  
Poetic Tradition ◽  
James Merrill ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Global Catastrophe ◽  
Literary Histories ◽  
American Poets

W. H. Auden's emigration from England to the United States in 1939 marked more than a turning point in his own life and work—it changed the course of American poetry itself. This book takes, for the first time, the full measure of Auden's influence on American poetry. Combining a broad survey of Auden's midcentury U.S. cultural presence with an account of his dramatic impact on a wide range of younger American poets—from Allen Ginsberg to Sylvia Plath—the book offers a new history of postwar American poetry. For Auden, facing private crisis and global catastrophe, moving to the United States became, in the famous words of his first American poem, a new “way of happening.” But his redefinition of his work had a significance that was felt far beyond the pages of his own books. This book shows how Auden's signal role in the work and lives of an entire younger generation of American poets challenges conventional literary histories that place Auden outside the American poetic tradition. The book pays special attention to three of Auden's most distinguished American inheritors, presenting major new readings of James Merrill, John Ashbery, and Adrienne Rich. The result is a persuasive and compelling demonstration of a novel claim: In order to understand modern American poetry, we need to understand Auden's central place within it.

Ethnic Politics in American History

2020 ◽  
pp. 294-311
Author(s):  
James J. Connolly
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
Ethnic Politics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Civic Life ◽  
Immigration Restriction ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Late Twentieth

This chapter traces the ways that ethnic politics evolved in the United States. During the mid-nineteenth century, amid heavy immigration from Europe, ascendant mass parties mobilized newcomers rapidly, spurring nativism. Although the incorporation of immigrants gradually slowed after 1870 and Congress established immigration restriction laws during the 1920s, pluralism remained strong enough to allow the gradual integration of ethnics into the nation’s civic life. The revival of immigration after 1965, chiefly from Latin America and Asia, reinvigorated arguments about ethnic inclusion and nationalism. These debates developed in an altered civic environment, one marked by interest group activism and an emphasis on multiculturalism. Despite these differences, the preponderance of evidence suggests that the incorporation of ethnics during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries proceeded at a pace and in a manner comparable to previous eras.

“Great Surface Appeal”

2020 ◽  
pp. 123-142
Author(s):  
Paul M. Renfro
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Child Safety ◽  
United States Department ◽  
Department Of Justice ◽  
States Department ◽  
Child Abduction ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Great Surface

Chapter 4 recounts how the United States Department of Justice obstructed missing child legislation in the early eighties but eventually buckled under pressure from activists, who deployed an affective politics of child safety to paint the DOJ as cruel and obstinate. The DOJ subsequently transformed into the federal entity most committed to the child safety cause, working to publicize and combat the problems of child abduction, exploitation, sexual abuse, and pornography. The Department’s “conversion” proved vital to the making of a punitive child safety regime in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Why Labor History Still Matters

2018 ◽  
pp. 294-300
Author(s):  
Matthew Hild ◽  
Keri Leigh Merritt
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Textile Industry ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
The United States ◽  
The North ◽  
Foreign Labor ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Textile And Apparel ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Textile And Apparel Industries

The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries posed new challenges for working-class southerners even as old problems persisted. Some of the new problems resulted from the globalization of the American economy. For most of the twentieth century, textile manufacturing was a major source of jobs in the South (as well as elsewhere in the United States). In 1973, more than 2.4 million Americans worked in the textile and apparel industries. By 1996 that figure had dropped to 1.5 million, and by 2012 it had plummeted to 383,600. Between 1997 and 2006, Georgia lost more than 100,000 manufacturing jobs, about 60 percent of them in the textile and apparel industries. The replacement of American labor with cheaper foreign labor in the textile industry reached its fruition after the United States ratified the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1993 and increased further after China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001.

scholarly journals Discussion on macro, meso and microstructures in the mass migration Mexico-United States: late twentieth century and the early twenty-first. A different perspective to understanding the phenomenon of great importance for Mexico

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (7) ◽  
pp. 37-46
Author(s):  
Eduardo Fernández Guzmán
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Social Process ◽  
The United States ◽  
Historical Trends ◽  
Transnational Communities ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Late Twentieth

En este artículo se propone, a la luz de novedosos planteamientos teórico e historiográficos,This paper proposes a novel view of theoretical and historiographical approaches, as a first attempt, discussing the multicausal nature of contemporary international migration Mexico- United States. The intention is not going deeper into the different causal mechanisms, but only list them and ponder their interaction to better understand this phenomenon that goes beyond the macro-level considerations (economic and political). Migration, understood as a social process, manifests various causes and consequences in their past and present. And, in the case of the mass migration of Mexicans to the United States in recent decades, it is givable to think that this is a product of historical trends, economic asymmetries, of deep social inequalities and poverty in Mexico, of push and the pull factors, tradition and socialization migrant, social networks, transnational communities, symbolisms and collective imaginaries, modernization in transport and communication, migration industry, cultural values and psychological components, among others. It proposal is to analyze briefly this binational contemporary phenomenon under the epistemological consideration that migration is a social process. For this, macro, meso and microstructures will be essential in the explanation.

scholarly journals Introduction: Public and Private Provision of Urban Public Goods

2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol E. Heim
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Goods ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Public ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Late Twentieth

What is public, what is private, and what is the relationship between them? Can the public interest be clearly identified and protected? What role should government play in the lives of ordinary citizens? These are questions currently engaging policy makers and the general public as well as scholars in a range of disciplines. The provision and financing of urban public goods is one arena in which such questions have arisen. Historically, governments, private entities, and mixed forms such as public-private partnerships have undertaken these activities in the United States and other countries (Beito et al. 1989; Dyble 2010; Goodrich 1960; Hodge et al. 2010; Jacobson and Tarr 1995). In the late-twentieth- and early-twenty-first-century United States, tax revolts and concerns about “big government” led to increased scrutiny of the appropriate role of government. Contracting out of government activities and privatization both assumed increased importance (Dyble 2012; Light 1999).

Japanese Multinationals in the United States: Continuity and Change, 1879–1990

1990 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 585-629 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mira Wilkins
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
The United States ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Historical Survey ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

A great deal of attention has recently been focused on the extent of Japanese direct investment in the United States. In the following historical survey, Professor Wilkins details the size and scope of these investments from the late nineteenth century, showing that Japanese involvements in America have deep historical roots. At the same time, she analyzes the ways in which late twentieth century Japanese direct investment differs from the earlier phenomenon and attempts to explain why it has aroused such concern among both business leaders and the general public.

scholarly journals Corporate Defaults, Workouts, and the Rise of the Distressed Asset Investment Industry

2015 ◽  
Vol 89 (2) ◽  
pp. 305-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Cumming ◽  
Grant Fleming
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Scale Effects ◽  
The United States ◽  
Corporate Restructuring ◽  
Specific Focus ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

We examine the formation and growth of the distressed asset investment industry during the late twentieth century, with specific focus on the strategies of the leading firms. The distressed asset investment industry is dominated by firms based in the United States and is relatively concentrated, due in large part to early movers developing distinctive investment capabilities through participation in landmark transactions, relationship-specific resources, and exploitation of scale effects. We argue that the participation of these firms in the bankruptcy and corporate restructuring markets has resulted in private-sector workouts becoming more competitive and more efficient over the last thirty years, especially in the United States.

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