The Lesbian South

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaime Harker
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Queer Studies ◽  
Alice Walker ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Dorothy Allison ◽  
Gay Liberation ◽  
Southern Women ◽  
A Site ◽  
Literary Renaissance

In this book, Jaime Harker uncovers a largely forgotten literary renaissance in southern letters. Anchored by a constellation of southern women, the Women in Print movement grew from the queer union of women’s liberation, civil rights activism, gay liberation, and print culture. Broadly influential from the 1970s through the 1990s, the Women in Print movement created a network of writers, publishers, bookstores, and readers that fostered a remarkable array of literature. With the freedom that the Women in Print movement inspired, southern lesbian feminists remade southernness as a site of intersectional radicalism, transgressive sexuality, and liberatory space. Including in her study well-known authors—like Dorothy Allison and Alice Walker—as well as overlooked writers, publishers, and editors, Harker reconfigures the southern literary canon and the feminist canon, challenging histories of feminism and queer studies to include the south in a formative role.

“Publishing” the Gospel, Reading the Nahda: Protestant Print Culture in Late Ottoman Syria

2019 ◽  
pp. 85-142
Author(s):  
Deanna Ferree Womack
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Reform Movements ◽  
Greek Orthodox ◽  
Arabic Poetry ◽  
Jesuit Missionaries ◽  
American Mission ◽  
A Site ◽  
Late Ottoman ◽  
Literary Renaissance

Chapter 2 turns to the American Mission Press in Beirut, which was a site of American-Syrian collaboration and a resource for Syrian Protestants to participate in the Arab cultural and literary renaissance. Locating the Nahda in Beirut within the context of broader nineteenth-century Ottoman reform movements, the chapter explores the socio-cultural contributions of Protestant men who wrote for the American Mission Press beginning in the 1870s. It demonstrates that these authors - including the nahdawi scholar Ibrahim al-Hurani - engaged in Nahda production not only through Arabic poetry, scientific studies, and other “secular” publications, but also in their writings on Islam and through press debates with Jesuit missionaries, Syrian Catholics, and Greek Orthodox leaders.

This Book Is an Action

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Print Culture ◽  
Margaret Atwood ◽  
Alice Walker ◽  
The Other ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
The One ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
Literary Renaissance ◽  
Foundational Belief

The Women's Liberation Movement held a foundational belief in the written word's power to incite social change. This book investigates the dynamic print culture that emerged as the feminist movement reawakened in the late 1960s. Works created by women shined a light on taboo topics and offered inspiring accounts of personal transformation. Yet, as the chapters reveal, the texts coalesced into something far greater: a distinct and influential American literary renaissance. On the one hand, feminists took control of the process by building a network of publishers and distributors owned and operated by women. On the other, women writers threw off convention to venture into radical and experimental forms, poetry, and genre storytelling, and in so doing created works that raised the consciousness of a generation. Examining feminist print culture from its structures and systems to defining texts by Margaret Atwood and Alice Walker, this book suggests untapped possibilities for analyzing the diverse range of literary production during feminism's second wave.

The Peach Blossom Spring’s Long History as a Sacred Site in Northern Hunan

T oung Pao ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 107 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-39
Author(s):  
Mark Meulenbeld
Keyword(s):  
Religious Studies ◽  
Sixth Century ◽  
Hunan Province ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Sacred Site ◽  
History Of ◽  
A Site ◽  
Tao Qian

Abstract Though long seen uniquely from the perspective of the Chinese literary canon, Tao Qian’s 陶潛 (365?–427) famous “Record of the Peach Blossom Spring” (“Taohuayuan ji” 桃花源記) may find an even more fruitful disciplinary home in religious studies. The story refers itself to a grotto at Wuling 武陵 (present-day northern Hunan province), a site that has been associated with Daoist transcendents (shenxian 神仙) at least since the middle of the sixth century. A Daoist monastery on that same site, the Peach Spring Abbey (Taoyuan guan 桃源觀) or Peach Blossom Abbey (Taohua guan 桃花觀), became officially recognized in 748 and received imperial support not long after. This article studies the long history of Peach Spring as a sacred site, or, as Tao Qian referred to it in his poem, a “divine realm” (shenjie 神界).

Salvaging Marginalized Men: How the Department of Defense Waged the War on Poverty

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 373-400
Author(s):  
JOHN WORSENCROFT
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Department Of Defense ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Social Welfare Policy ◽  
War On Poverty ◽  
Military Installations ◽  
Male Breadwinner ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Military

AbstractArchitects of social welfare policy in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations viewed the military as a site for strengthening the male breadwinner as the head of the “traditional family.” Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Robert McNamara—men not often mentioned in the same conversations—both spoke of “salvaging” young men through military service. The Department of Defense created Project Transition, a vocational jobs-training program for GIs getting ready to leave the military, and Project 100,000, which lowered draft requirements in order to put men who were previously unqualified into the military. The Department of Defense also made significant moves to end housing discrimination in communities surrounding military installations. Policymakers were convinced that any extension of social welfare demanded reciprocal responsibility from its male citizens. During the longest peacetime draft in American history, policymakers viewed programs to expand civil rights and social welfare as also expanding the umbrella of the obligations of citizenship.

Returning to rurality

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 513-535
Author(s):  
Danny M. Barreto
Keyword(s):  
Queer Studies ◽  
Cultural Shift ◽  
Cultural Events ◽  
Rural Space ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Literature Culture ◽  
A Site

In recent years, LGBTQ literature, culture, and communities have begun returning to the rural as a space from which to articulate a queer Galician identity. Drawing on rural queer studies, literature, and cultural phenomena, this article seeks to understand both how the rural became associated with heteropatriarchy and how contemporary non-metronormative LGBTQ narratives reimagine rural space as a site of resistance, redirecting the cultural shift away from the urban that has characterized contemporary Galician society and culture during the last century. Under consideration is a wide range of literature, art, cultural events, and ephemera from the Rexurdimento to the present day.

Generations

2019 ◽  
pp. 51-71
Author(s):  
Lisa Woolfork
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Lost Cause ◽  
African American Authors ◽  
Black Life ◽  
A Site ◽  
Post Civil Rights ◽  
American Authors

This essay explores the ways in which African American authors of that era reclaim the slave past as a site of memory for a nation eager to forget. Lucille Clifton’s Generations (1976), Alex Haley’s Roots (1976), Ishmael Reed’s Flight to Canada (1976), and Octavia Butler’s Kindred (1979) are the chapter’s main focus. These works resist the tide of historical amnesia and “lost cause” mythology that would minimize or relegate the enslaved to mere props in the larger Civil War drama of rupture and reconciliation. By centering the stories of the enslaved as ancestral foundations of post-civil rights black life, these authors promote a model for historical memory and genealogy that elevates black resilience.

“Look!! Look!!! at This!!!!”: The Radical Typography of David Walker's Appeal

PMLA ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 126 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcy J. Dinius
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
The United States ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
The World ◽  
Printed Word

From the first publication of David Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World in 1829 through its incorporation into the contemporary literary canon, readers have recognized it as a fiery indictment of slavery and of the contradictions in Christianity and in the United States' founding. Yet the striking typography of Walker's Appeal has become invisible in our critical focus on the text's relation to African American oratory and even in considerations of the pamphlet's significance in early black print culture. An analysis of this graphic text reveals how it materially registers Walker's impassioned voice and argument and how it visually directs readers to voice his call to the illiterate. Walker attempts to resolve the opposition of the spoken and the printed word by exploiting his text's typography.

Contesting Race on Sundays: Making Meaning out of the Rise in the Number of Black Quarterbacks

2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Buffington
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
National Football League ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Racial Formation ◽  
Demographic Shift ◽  
Civil Rights Era ◽  
Making Meaning ◽  
Political Ideologies ◽  
A Site ◽  
Post Civil Rights

This is a study of the process of racial formation; specifically how a rise in the number of Black quarterbacks playing in the National Football League (NFL) was interpreted in print-media articles. Analysis reveals a number of competing and overlapping interpretations, suggesting that sport is “contested racial terrain” (Hartmann, 2000). The contested nature and the tendency for these articles to express language and ideas borrowed from dominant American political ideologies indicate how important sport is as a site for the construction of race. Using Gramscian cultural theory, these interpretations, as well as narrative formations capable of assimilating this demographic shift within preexisting racial configurations, are discussed in light of changes in the articulation of race in the post-civil rights era.

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