ICYMI: New & Notable Articles (19 Aug 2024)

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 

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”

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

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

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

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
 

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

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 

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

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

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. 

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.

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.

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.