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American Periodicals : A Journal of History, Criticism, and Bibliography
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ISSN (Print) 1054-7479 - ISSN (Online) 1548-4238
Published by Project MUSE

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  Abstract: The editors at American Periodicals are thrilled to share this fall's issue with readers. This special issue on Indigenous Periodicals is one result of ongoing and generative collaborations across scholars, colonial nations, and Indigenous Nations. Our guest editors' "Introduction" describes how the essays collected in this special issue were initially drawn from a series of panels and symposia in what is now called Pennsylvania (Philadelphia or Lënapehòkink, the ancestral homelands of the Lenape People) and Germany. Working with these editors and our own editorial community at American Periodicals, we have together endeavored to present a range of essays studying aspects of Indigenous Periodical cultures ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-11-10T00:00:00-05:00
"You Could Speak the Truth with a Tongue of Fire": The Cultural and
Political Work of Indigenous Periodicals
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  Abstract: This special issue originates from a January 2022 MLA roundtable session organized by Oliver Scheiding and Cristina Stanciu, which was followed by a symposium at the Obama Institute in Mainz, Germany, in July 2022, on Indigenous print cultures, media, and literature. At the MLA, a group of six scholars of Native American literatures and cultures offered ways to rethink both the materiality and the cultural-political work of Indigenous newspapers, suggesting new ways to rethink the intersections of Indigenous periodicals and other print media alongside conversations about materiality, archives, print networks, cosmopolitanism, bilingualism, and settler colonialism. The speakers showed that, although scholars read ... Read More
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"Keep Up the Fight": Indigenous Editorial Practices, Collaboration, and
Networks of Exchange in the Early Twentieth Century
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  Abstract: In 1903, Anishinaabe editor Gus Beaulieu published the first issue of The Tomahawk on the White Earth Reservation.1 Beaulieu offered the following statement of purpose: "Believing that 'The pen is mightier than the sword,' we start out on the war-path with a paper tomahawk, and we expect to do more effective and satisfactory work towards protecting and securing the rights of the Chippewa Indians then our red brethren did at Sugar Point with their tomahawks and Winchester rifles" (see fig. 1).2Here Beaulieu references an oft-repeated adage by English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton to frame his paper not just as a means of conveying information, but also as a weapon of war, a "paper tomahawk" wielded in the struggle for ... Read More
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Indian Territory Reimagined: Ora Eddleman Reed's Twin Territories
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  Abstract: Responding to a reader's question in her Twin Territories column "What the Curious Want to Know"1 in August 1902, Ora Eddleman Reed put a white man from Indiana firmly in his place:2I am surprised that you, who have been a reader of TWIN TERRITORIES for nearly three years, can ask such a question and refer to the girls of Indian Territory as "squaws." Really, your case is hopeless. If you haven't, in this time, after all TWIN TERRITORIES' efforts, learned that the Indian girls of this country aren't "dying for white husbands to manage their allotments," you had better give up. Your ignorance is appalling, and your abilities for learning seem fearfully skim.3Here Eddleman Reed pulls no punches as she challenges ... Read More
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"Battlefield and Classroom": Indigenous Student-Soldiers and US
Imperialism in the Carlisle Indian School Press
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  Abstract: In September 1901, two years into the Philippine-American War (1899–1912), General Jacob H. Smith ordered the killing of all Filipinos over the age of ten on the island of Samar in retaliation for the death of forty-eight American soldiers by so-called Filipino "insurrectos."1 The resulting massacre by US soldiers was one of the war's most violent episodes, in which US soldiers killed an estimated 2,500 to 50,000 Filipino peoples. While the war would go on to be "forgotten" in popular US memory, colonization of the Philippines was controversial at home, and Smith's court-martial was covered across US newspapers, including those of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School.2 A 1902 issue of the school's newspaper, the ... Read More
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Little Chahta News Bird: Indigenous Periodicals and the Performance of
Nationhood
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  Abstract: Indigenous periodicals are a burgeoning subject of interest among those invested in periodical studies, print culture, literary studies, and Native American and Indigenous studies. The analytical possibilities of these often-underexplored archives are extensive. Books focusing on historical Indigenous print culture and newspapers such as Noenoe Silva's Aloha Betrayed and Phillip Round's Removable Type demonstrate how Indigenous print and periodical culture are active, political spaces of resistance and creation in which arguments for sovereignty, self-determination, cultural identity, land, and more are central.1 Simultaneously, conversations in Native American literary and nonfiction studies have developed nuanced ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-11-10T00:00:00-05:00
Working Children in the History of American Periodicals
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  Abstract: In histories of American periodicals, we rarely encounter stories about children who participated in newspaper production and management by working as newsies. Although we are familiar with the newsboy archetype from a range of popular culture representations, from Horatio Alger's Ragged Dick to the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Newsies, newsies have not received enough scholarly attention. Perhaps this is the case because the majority of children working as newsies were born into the political and economic margins of American society, and also because their often temporary and replaceable labor was considered insufficiently impactful on the development of the newspaper. It is remarkable, then, that two ... Read More
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(Re)Framing Caribbean Periodical Archives
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  Abstract: From my perspective as an early Caribbeanist navigating the imperial and nationalistic boundaries that continue to shape Caribbean print studies, two recently published books illustrate the rewards and challenges of pushing against those limits. The first, Chelsea Stieber's Haiti's Paper War: Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804–1954, digs deeply into the archive to reframe questions about Haitian print culture of the long nineteenth century and its implications for American (post)colonial studies more broadly. The second, Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann's Writing the Caribbean in Magazine Time, looks at literary magazine production in the Caribbean (Martinique, Cuba, and Barbados ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-11-10T00:00:00-05:00
Authorizing Superhero Comics: On the Evolution of a Popular Serial Genre
by Alex Beringer (review)
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  Abstract: For fans of superhero comics, the lore surrounding the artists and writers behind favorite heroes sometimes echo the mythic quality of the stories themselves. Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, teenagers who struggled to get girls and experienced anti-Semitism, invented Superman as a response to pain and tragedy. Harvard psychologist William Moulton Marston came up with Wonder Woman to sneak feminism into the reading habits of children of the 1940s. And Marvel heroes like Iron Man and the Hulk were created by failed novelist Stan Lieberman who reinvented himself as famed comics impresario "Stan Lee." These tales of superhero creators make for great stories in no small part because they resonate with the core superhero ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-11-10T00:00:00-05:00