ICYMI: New & Notable Articles (26 Aug 2024)

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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: 

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Adolescent Medical Transition is Ethical: An Analogy with Reproductive Health

Florence Ashley

Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal
Volume 32, Number 2, June 2022

In Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, Florence Ashley argues that adolescent medical transition is ethical by analogizing it to abortion and birth control. Read free thru 31 August.

Florence Ashley is also one of the contributors to The Promise and Peril of CRISPR, a new collection of essays from Hopkins Press focusing on the pressing possibilities and risks of gene-editing technology.
 

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Track 5: Summertime as Performed by Janis Joplin

Jericho Brown

Callaloo
Volume 32, Number 1, Winter 2009

Our penultimate #SummerLit Friday is a poem by Jericho Brown, from Callaloo

Read free thru 6 September

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The Walking Dead in a Dead New York: Family and the Specter of 9/11 in Zone One 

Jay N. Shelat

Studies in American Fiction
Volume 51, Issue 1, Spring 2024

In the new Studies in American Fiction, Jay N. Shelat considers the ways notions of family and home teeter on the precipice of ruin amongst the zombies wandering an apocalyptic New York in Colson Whitehead’s novel Zone One.

Read free on Project MUSE thru 31 Aug

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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”

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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

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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

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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

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"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
 

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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

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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 

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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

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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

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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
 

 

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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.

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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?
 

 

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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.

 

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

Sundara Vadlamudi

Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies
Volume 6. Number 2, 2022

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.

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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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