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ICYMI: New & Notable Articles (19 Aug 2024)

Each week, we collect the articles that we posted in the last week and put them all in one place, right here on the blog. So no worries if you missed an article we posted to Facebook , X/Twitter , Mastodon , Threads , Bluesky , Instagram and/or LinkedIn . 

Here they are, I n C ase Y ou M issed I t: 

That Stinking Hot Summer

Judith thompson, theatre journal volume 62, number 4, december 2010.

From 2010: That Stinking Hot Summer

Playwright Judith Thompson ’s monologue on summer heat, storytelling, and women in theatre

#SummerLit Friday

Read free in Theatre Journal thru 31 August 

Leaving; or, Wide Awake and Staring into Nothing (with Pet Shop Boys)

Mikko tuhkanen, postmodern culture volume 33, numbers 2 & 3, january 2023 & may 2023.

From “Go West” to “Wiedersehen,” Mikko Tuhkanen studies the “escape anthems” of the Pet Shop Boys, engaging Stefan Zweig, Leo Bersani, West Side Story and more along the way

Free in the new special issue of Postmodern Culture , “Afterlives of the Antisocial”

Pulp Fiction in the Press: 1990s Film Culture Writing and the Creation of Influence

Ryan david briggs, south central review volume 41, number 2, summer 2024.

Print press was instrumental in the canonization of Pulp Fiction among the most influential films of 90s independent cinema, but its impact remains underexamined, argues Ryan David Briggs

Read free in the Pulp Fiction Turns 30 special issue of South Central Review thru 31 Aug

The Olympiad

Ben v. olguín, callaloo volume 31, number 2, spring 2008.

It’s an #OlympicWeek #SummerLit Friday!

Today, we offer “The Olympiad,” a poem by Ben V. Olguín from the Spring 2008 issue of Callaloo

Read free at Project MUSE thru 31 August

De-exceptionalizing Sunisa Lee: Uneven Gymnastics and a Hmong American State-less Critique

Kong pheng pha and kari smalkoski, american quarterly volume 75, number 3, september 2023.

In American Quarterly , Kong Pheng Pha and Kari Smalkoski analyze the media frenzy around Hmong American gymnast Sunisa Lee's rise to stardom during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Read free through 31 Aug

"Darktown Parade": African Americans in the Berlin Olympics of 1936

David clay large, historically speaking volume 9, number 2, november/december 2007.

In “Darktown Parade,” a vintage Historically Speaking article from 2007, David Clay Large explores the the political and social controversies surrounding African-American participation in the 1936 Berlin Olympics

Read free at Project MUSE through 31 Aug  

Spiridon Loues, the Modern Foustanéla , and the Symbolic Power of Pallikariá at the 1896 Olympic Games

James p. verinis, journal of modern greek studies volume 23, number 1, may 2005.

Spiros Loues, marathon champion at the first modern Olympiad in 1896, embraced the foustanéla, a traditional style of dress that helped elevate his mythology as a multlivalent symbol of Greek identity

Read more in Journal of Modern Greek Studies , free thru 31 Aug

Going for the Bronze: Modernism vs. the Old Guard at the Olympic Art Competitions

Miles osgood, modernism/modernity volume 28, number 4, november 2021.

Did you know that from 1912 to 1948, artists could win Olympic medals?

In Modernism/modernity , Miles Osgood explores the history and artistic tensions between Modernism vs. the Old Guard in the Pentathlon of the Muses

Read free thru 31 August 

The Five Rings and the “Imagined Community”: Nationalism and the Modern Olympic Games

Toby c. rider and matthew p. llewellyn, sais review of international affairs volume 35, number 2, summer-fall 2015.

From 2015: Toby C. Rider and Matthew P. Llewellyn explore the numerous forms of nationalism associated with the Olympic Games over the history of the games

Read free in SAIS Review of International Affairs thru 31 Aug

#OlympicWeek

Machado de Assis at the Rio Olympics

Lauren groff, sewanee review volume 125, number 1, winter 2017.

From 2017: Lauren Groff reads Machado de Assis at the Rio Olympics, and meditates on the ways artists and athletes alike “publish new versions of ourselves — win or lose, succeed or fail — over and over again”

Read free in Sewanee Review thru 31 August

Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies joins Hopkins Press

Philip gooding, journal of indian ocean world studies volume 8, number 1, 2024.

We are thrilled to welcome Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies to the Hopkins Press roster as our first platinum open-access journal.

The new issue is out now, including new articles by Mathew Ruguwa and Hans Hägerdal, conversations with associate editor Philip Gooding , and more! 

Read all about it at the Newsroom blog . 

Ocean and Human Health in the Blue Era, Indian Ocean and African Perspectives

Rosabelle boswell, journal of indian ocean world studies volume 6. number 2, 2022.

One of our State of the Field Essays: Boswell draws on her research in the Blue Humanities to make a rubric for integrating locally produced, embodied, and sensorial responses to the challenges of climate change in coastal and oceanic areas  

Africa, the Indian Ocean World, and the ‘Early Modern’: Historiographical Conventions and Problems

Gwyn campbell, journal of indian ocean world studies volume 1. number 1, 2017.

From the first issue: Campbell sets out what’s at stake in Indian Ocean World Studies, including the ability to contest Eurocentric framing devices. Here, he tackles temporal paradigms, especially the so-called ‘early modern’ period.

Reimagining the Aapravasi Ghat: Khal Torabully's poetry and the indentured diaspora

Shanaaz mohammed, journal of indian ocean world studies volume 4. number 2, 2021.

Mohammed challenges current efforts to commemorate the period of indenture in Mauritius. She asks: How can literature inform cultural heritage, especially as they relate to indenture and other forms of bondage?  

Ruth Mostern on The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History

Ruth mostern, journal of indian ocean world studies volume 7. number 2, 2023.

Mostern discusses her award-winning book, The Yellow River, in the JIOWS’ Conversations section. Readers learn of the methodological efforts that underpin one of the most celebrated books in environmental history from the last few years.

Children on Board: Child labor on ships in the Indian Ocean, c. 18th – 19th Centuries

Sundara vadlamudi.

Vadlamudi centres the ocean itself in an important field of Indian Ocean World Studies: the history of slavery and bondage. He shows how children experienced sea voyages as labourers on ship and in the port.

On “The Literal Sense,” a Partial Answers Special Issue in Honor of Jon Whitman

Leona toker, partial answers: journal of literature and the history of ideas volume 22, number 2, june 2024.

MLN Forum: Translators Reimagine Literary Citizenship in the Academy

Eleni theodoropoulos and bradley harmon, mln volume 138, number 5, december 2023.

How and when will translation receive recognition for its crucial role in the academic ecosystem? 

Spanning the Hopkins Press blog & 9 articles in a new special issue of MLN , it's a lively and thoughtful 10-scholar forum, open access for a year thru March 2025  

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