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Abstract: BEHROUZ BOOCHANIIn May 2013, Kurdish Iranian writer, journalist, and human rights activist Behrouz Boochani fled Iran after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had raided the offices of the Kurdish-language political magazine Werya three months earlier. Werya was based in Ilam, the third largest Kurdish city in Iran. Situated near the border with Iraq, Ilam is the city where Boochani was born and lived until he went to study political science, political geography, and geopolitics in Tehran. An advocate of Kurdish autonomy and co-founder of Werya, Boochani was arrested by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in 2011 and had been under surveillance since. When the Werya offices were raided, eleven of Boochani’s ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In her article on “Shore to Shore,” the 2016 summer reading tour of Britain by poets Carol Ann Duffy, Gillian Clarke, Imtiaz Dharker, and Jackie Kay, Anne Varty writes of the carefully plotted “performance” that throughout the tour “created an interface between poetry, politics and private experience, in which the poets’ work was completed and embellished by the audience’s contexts of place and time” (Varty 138). Of these, perhaps the most salient—and certainly the most immediate—was the June 2016 referendum on the membership of the United Kingdom in the European Union, a vote that precipitated the highly fractious, often chaotic Brexit negotiations. In organizing the event a year earlier, Duffy could not have ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In her travelogue America Day by Day (1947), Simone de Beau-voir recounts an argument over literature she had with Dwight MacDonald, Lionel Abel, William Phillips, and possibly Philip Rahv, key members of the New York Intellectuals. Since the mid-1930s, a handful of American novelists had been in vogue in France, prominent among them William Faulkner, John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Erskine Caldwell, Dashiell Hammett, and Richard Wright. Rahv had already complained in 1940 that “[t]he intellectual is the only character missing in the American novel, which contains everything except ideas” (414), and this seems to have been the central complaint as Beauvoir tells it. They scorned recent American ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In late October 1987, Ralph Ellison wrote a letter to his friend John Kouwenhoven with a complaint about the way black people might be blamed for the stock market crash and the hidden role that Ronald Reagan and computers played in it: “one of the worst things that could have happened to increase the panic on Wall Street was naming the day of its onset ‘Black Monday.’ Why not ‘Reagan Monday’' Or democratize it and call it ‘S. H. F. Day’' Or they could substitute ‘computer’ for ‘F,’ as in fan” (“To John Kouwenhoven” 937). Written following an unusually hot summer when his “writing reached a point that I dared not interrupt,” Ellison’s letter articulates a problem of racial representation in terms of a surprising ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: On September 23, 2014, at the opening ceremony of the United Nations Climate Summit in New York City, the Marshallese spoken word poet Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner stood in front of an audience composed of more than one hundred world leaders and presidents—including the UN Secretary-General, the Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and the President of the World Bank Group. She looked out across the assembled representatives, seated behind platinum titles engrained with the names of countries and institutions, and performed a poem addressed to her infant daughter, Matafele Peinam:Jetñil-Kijiner’s delivery intensifies as she describes the lagoon’s rising waters, her voice gaining momentum and volume as ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In 2021, Motown Records announced that it would be relaunching its short-lived Black Forum sub-label, rereleasing all of its 1970s pressings, and offering what they call “a platform to a new generation of writers, thinkers and poets.” Between 1970 and 1973, Motown’s Black Forum released overtly political spoken-word recordings by black activists and poets, but how many listeners today would remember' Although the roster of recordings included Martin Luther King, Jr., Stokely Carmichael, Elaine Brown, Langston Hughes and Margaret Danner, and Amiri Baraka, the label lasted only three years and for decades the records remained out of print. The announcement, made by Motown’s first female President, Ethiopia ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The striking cover of Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror, 1817–2020 excerpts a key visual detail from Friedrich Graetz’s “The kind of ‘Assisted Emigrant’ . . .”: a skeletal figure riding the mast of a ship. In its full scale, Graetz’s image tells an epic tale of supernatural epidemiology: a skeletal figure of death wearing a belt bearing the word “cholera” rides the mast of a ship, while below British imperial boats of the “Board of Health” aim canons of carbolic acid at the offending “‘assisted emigrant’ we cannot afford to admit” (Raza Kolb 77). That the image was published in 1883 in the US magazine Puck is hardly surprising: images of “uncivilized” or “barbaric” regions like the Philippines in ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-03T00:00:00-05:00
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