ICYMI: New & Notable Articles 21.10.2024

October 21, 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, in case you missed it:

Images >> Good Hope

Carla Liesching

Diacritics
Volume 51, Number 3, 2023

South African artist Carla Liesching’s visual and textual assemblage Good Hope explores the Cape of Good Hope as an epicenter of both empire and anti-colonial resistance

View excerpts from Good Hope, free in Diacritics thru 26 Oct

Promotional tile featuring cover art from the Spring 2024 issue of Rhetorica and the text: Pliny’s Empty Ekphrasis: The Tuscan Tour as Memory Palace in Epistulae 5.6 Nicholas R. Wagner Read free thru 26 Oct

Pliny’s Empty Ekphrasis: The Tuscan Tour as Memory Palace in Epistulae 5.6

Nicholas R. Wagner

Rhetorica
Volume 42, Number 2, Spring 2024

Pliny’s Epistulae 5.6 takes his addressee on a virtual walking tour of his Tuscan villa — which, it turns out, is mostly empty — and the result is an ekphrastic Memory Palace exercise

 Take the tour with Nicholas R. Wagner, free in Rhetorica thru 26 Oct

Promotional tile featuring cover art from the June 2024 issue of Reviews in American History and the text: What It Wasn’t: Nature, Mythology, Counterfactuals, and Native American History Adam Jortner Read free thru 26 Oct

What It Wasn’t: Nature, Mythology, Counterfactuals, and Native American History

Adam Jortner

Reviews in American History
Volume 52, Number 2, June 2024

New in Reviews in American History, Adam Jortner examines the “concept of inevitability that haunts Native American historiography” through recent titles by Martin Cruz Smith, Ned Blackhawk, Kathleen DuVal and Pekka Hämäläinen

Read free thru 26 Oct

Promotional tile featuring the Oct 2024 cover art from Twentieth-Century China, a portrait of Lü Bicheng (Figure from the article, ca. 1927–1929. Published as "Ruishi zhi Lü Bicheng" [Lü Bicheng in Switzerland] in Lü Bicheng ji [Collected works of Lü Bicheng], vol. 1 (Shanghai: Zhonghua shuju, 1929). Source: Wikimedia Commons) and the text: Read free thru 26 Oct Reasserting the Buddhist Tradition: Lü Bicheng and Chinese Vegetarianism in a Global Context Matthias Schumann

Reasserting the Buddhist Tradition: Lü Bicheng and Chinese Vegetarianism in a Global Context

Matthias Schumann

Twentieth-Century China
Volume 49, Number 3, October 2024

The transnational activities of poet/journalist Lü Bicheng were transformative to Buddhist vegetarian practices in the increasingly globalized religious sphere of the early 20th century

Read free in Twentieth-Century China thru 26 October

Promotional tile featuring cover art from the July 2024 issue of Journal of Jewish Identities, the cover art from Whistle: A New Gotham City Hero, and the text: Protecting the Deli: Jewish Nostalgia and Social Justice in E. Lockhart's Whistle: A New Gotham City Hero Brian Hillman Read free thru 26 Oct

Protecting the Deli: Jewish Nostalgia and Social Justice in E. Lockhart's Whistle: A New Gotham City Hero

Brian Hillman

Journal of Jewish Identities
Issue 17, Number 2, July 2024

New in Journal of Jewish Identities, Brian Hillman reads E. Lockhart's graphic novel Whistle: A New Gotham City Hero as promoting nostalgia and the pursuit of social justice as components of American Jewishness

Read free thru 26 Oct

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