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Abstract: We present the critical fora in our Fall 2022 issue with warm anticipation of the conversations they will extend and inspire. In this issue, readers will find two distinct constellations of scholarly debate around major considerations of the field. Our issue's two forums, "New Approaches to Comics" and "Computational Periodicals," pick up important questions about form, seriality, mediation, and access that represent long-standing interests for the journal. We have been delighted with the generosity of our many contributors to this issue, and would love to discuss its riches on Twitter @AmPeriodicals!In 2016, the forum "Digital Approaches to American Periodicals" (American Periodicals 26, no. 1) offered "a snapshot ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-09T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Before the emergence of the graphic novel and the more recent rise of webcomics, most American comics were thoroughly defined by their status as content for periodical carrier media such as the daily newspaper, the weekly comic supplement, or the monthly comic book. However, despite these media's centrality in the history of comics, the relationship between graphic narratives and periodical formats has thus far remained undertheorized. In part, this oversight seems connected to the prevalence of semiotic approaches to comic art, which, as Lukas R. A. Wilde has noted, tend to background the materiality of carrier media along with the historical, "cultural and institutional contexts" in which titles are produced ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-09T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Many of the earliest comic strips to appear in the United States were not published in newspapers (as is often thought), but in magazines. Sequential, multi-panel comic strips appeared in US magazines at least as early as the late 1840s—and debatably into the 1930s, depending on how broadly one wants to define the idea of "the comic strip."1The most important category of publications to feature comic strips were the folio-size monthly humor magazines. From the 1850s through 1870s, comic strips experienced a minor boom with their prominence in folio-monthlies, such as Yankee Notions, Nick Nax, Comic Monthly, Leslie's Budget of Fun, and Wild Oats. These publications enjoyed circulation numbers in the tens of ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-09T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: On or about December 1913, Frank King had an idea. The cartoonist was growing bored with the formulaic, predictable comics he was frequently tasked to complete. Having attended the International Exhibit of Modern Art—known colloquially in New York as the Armory Show—when it travelled to the Art Institute of Chicago in the spring, King likely felt inspired by the experimental works he saw on display. Many of these works were adopting, consciously or not, the visual grammar of comics; Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, so shocking to some members of the general public, might have looked pleasantly familiar to an artist like King, who had already been using motion lines and other forms of pictorial ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-09T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: On August 20, 1934, the Atlanta Constitution ran a story about a white woman, Margaret Brooks, who had been sentenced to labor at a dairy farm in Georgia. Brooks said she attempted suicide multiple times because of what she endured there, which included being put in a sweat box for hours with very little food and water. The chairman of the prison committee denied that she had been in a sweat box because "only Negro women were punished in this way."1 When African American Newspaper the Pittsburgh Courier reported the story a few days later with the headline, "'I'd Rather Die than Go Back,' Says Ofay," they called attention to the authorities "shamelessly" admitting they did this to Black women.2 Wilbert L. ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-09T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Second-wave feminist comics series like Wimmen's Comix (1972–1992) and Tits & Clits (1972–1987) provided space for women to publish their comics and improve their form, but both series encountered difficulties getting distributed and advertised by feminist ventures due to their irreverent, humorous approach.1 Underground cartoonist Trina Robbins championed these series' feminism in her comics herstories, which contextualized the contributions of these comics amidst a larger recovered history of women in comics.2 Building on that foundational work, scholars in recent years have recovered the feminist complexity of these series and examined how they theorized feminism differently in the comics form as their ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-09T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Even though serial publication structure, here defined as stories published in installments over time, is an integral aspect of comics cultures around the world, little attention has been given to the subject within comics studies or within print culture studies. Yet as those who research serial narratives at other points in time, such as the Victorian period, suggest, serial publication allows for audiences to more closely identify with characters and their stories, integrating those stories into their everyday lives.1 The primacy of the "graphic novel" in scholarship—which can refer to anything from a collection of fictional stories originally published serially to long form autobiographical stories published all ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-09T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The way we look for things has changed. The digital tools and methods that have become standard for research in the humanities are changing even as we speak, as is our understanding of them. These changes have impacted campus culture and academic research. It was only a few years ago when a set of merchandise urging students to "JSTOR and chill" swept across the small liberal arts college campus where I taught as a visiting professor. That phenomenon spurred an in-class discussion with librarian and professor Elizabeth Rodrigues, who explained the nuances and limitations of JSTOR and the uses of interlibrary loan (ILL). And whereas even a few years ago it might have been appropriate, if not edgy, to discuss the ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-09T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Like many other periodical studies scholars, the digitization of early American newspapers has benefited me greatly; there are invaluable datasets and digital projects, such as the Viral Texts Project, the Ohio Black Press in the 19th Century, and Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers to name a few from the past decade. In turn, they offer numerous potentialities; any number of computation methods, as this forum reflects upon, can bring forth new information on both popular as well as less-recognized newspapers.1 Because the possibilities of the corpora of data available, using quantitative methods to analyze periodicals remains an interesting and complex means of, as Lauren F. Klein refers to it ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-09T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: When the University of Michigan Library licensed access to xml-coded plain text files of several newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, from ProQuest, our research team saw a unique opportunity to extend our research project exploring the rhetoric of place, migration, and land development in regional periodical fiction in the late nineteenth-century American West. California periodicals like the Los Angeles Times were a space for laying claim to ideas about Western identity, and the plain text files would allow us to examine those claims at scale. We soon discovered, however, that the questions that we could ask of the dataset were limited by factors such as size (2.4 million files), the inaccuracy of the ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-09T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: This article introduces the digital humanities project Periodical Poets (periodicalpoets.com), a catalogue of over 700 poems printed in New York City periodicals run by Black editors in the nineteenth century. These periodicals include Freedom's Journal, the Anglo-African Magazine, the Weekly Anglo-African, the Rights of All, the Colored American, and the New York Age. Editors like Samuel Cornish, Thomas Hamilton, John Brown Russwurm, Philip Alexander Bell, Charles Bennett Ray, James McCune Smith, and Timothy Thomas Fortune cultivated readerships devoted to their coverage and advancement of Black voices and causes. Though many of these publications were short-lived because of funding, their impact both in and ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-09T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Entering scholarly conversations about seriality as media form and narrative strategy demands commitment. As critical frameworks, "seriality studies" and "serial studies" are two distinct approaches to the study of serial narratives and other media forms (Rojek 13). Both seek to explore "narratives told in parts" (Rojek 19) that have specific commercial purposes (to reach a swath of consumers over time) and might be associated with a surprising range of aesthetic registers, from dime novels and "trash TV" to "quality monthlies" and prestige television drama. Currently, major conversations about seriality are organized around two general media forms: television series and printed texts, mainly periodicals ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-09T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Examining working-class solidarity across popular genres that still rarely garner serious study, Cross-Racial Protest in Antebellum American Literature keeps company with such crucial scholarship as Michael Denning's Mechanic Accents, Shelley Streeby's American Sensations, and Lori Merish's Archives of Labor. Helwig uncovers "the cross-racial strategies that manifest broadly in white- and black-authored texts" to explore how "class solidarity" could "boldly transcend racial difference" (3). His book thus contributes to urgent discussions about how to contest and critique the manner in which US capitalism historically promotes zero-sum racial antagonisms that result in widespread suffering and yawning inequality. ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-09T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The sizeable archive of the early twentieth-century Spanish-language press remains a rich yet relatively unplumbed source for understanding the growth and transformation of Hispanic communities across the United States as well as the role of periodicals in modulating American ethnic and transnational identities. The Antifascist Chronicles of Aurelio Pego: A Critical Anthology, edited by Montse Feu, brings attention to this archive by recovering the satirical writings of a significant contributor to New York's Hispanic press, the Spaniard Aurelio Pego. The Antifascist Chronicles of Aurelio Pego culls and republishes 118 of Pego's short, satirical pieces published between 1940 and 1973 in the New York periodical ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-09T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Kinohi Nishikawa's Street Players and Brooks Hefner's Black Pulp work complexly at the intersections of African American literature, popular genre fiction, and periodical studies. Taken together these powerful monographs open a path toward a reorientation of scholarship in these fields. They show that understudied twentieth-century periodicals marketed to Black readers provided crucial institutional spaces for creators, editors, and readers to experiment with configurations of race and genre. As both studies show, the fiction published in these venues differentiates itself from both mainstream popular genre fiction and the emerging tradition of African American literature. These compellingly readable works of ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-09T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: We are pleased to share this year's Scholarship Roundup, a collection of books and articles of interest to periodicals researchers, published the previous year. The Scholarship Roundup provides a one-stop location for information about what is new in our field, allowing readers multiple avenues of scholarly entry: in this feature, you can find items you may have overlooked, watch trends, and draw connections. What we see when we survey the field of scholarship published in a single year is a diverse, creative, and engaging collection of research, all working together to tell the story of American periodicals. Note: we include in this additional 2020 studies that were not included in last year's Roundup.Alexander ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-09T00:00:00-05:00
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