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Angela Frattarola

in Modernist Soundscapes: Auditory Technology and the Novel

Modernist Soundscapes encourages the reader to become receptive to the arousal of the inner ear that the modernist novel so often elicits. The novels discussed are aligned with the modernist ... More

Modernist Soundscapes encourages the reader to become receptive to the arousal of the inner ear that the modernist novel so often elicits. The novels discussed are aligned with the modernist movement, where there is a sincere drive to record the seemingly insignificant details of life, the psychological oscillations of the mind, and heightened moments—epiphanies—in the ordinary. Modernist Soundscapes shows how these gradual and small changes in auditory perception may have prompted modernist writers to take up the challenge of making their narratives auditory. Celebrating the breaking of literary conventions, as well as of the dominant ideologies of patriotism, sexism, and classism, modernists made music from the noises crashing around them.Less

Doctoring, Durham, and Dearly Beloved

Blake Hill-Saya

in Aaron McDuffie Moore: An African American Physician, Educator, and Founder of Durham's Black Wall Street

This chapter examines Moore’s early experience as a physician in Durham and what he learned on the job. When he ran for county coroner, he received many threats and vitriol. The chapter also ... More

This chapter examines Moore’s early experience as a physician in Durham and what he learned on the job. When he ran for county coroner, he received many threats and vitriol. The chapter also documents Moore’s marriage to Sarah (“Cottie”) McCotta Dancy on December 18, 1869 and the racism and classism inherent in their match. The chapter also introduces readers to Moore’s two daughters, particularly Lyda Moore Merrick whose reminiscences are quoted.Less

Dressed to Regress? The Retributive Politics of the Retrosploitation Pastiche

David Church

in Grindhouse Nostalgia: Memory, Home Video and Exploitation Film Fandom

By internalizing a blend of ironic distance and earnest appreciation, retrosploitation films tend toward pastiche's evaluatively neutral position between parody and homage—an aesthetic ambivalence ... More

By internalizing a blend of ironic distance and earnest appreciation, retrosploitation films tend toward pastiche's evaluatively neutral position between parody and homage—an aesthetic ambivalence matched by a political ambivalence in their fan reception. This middle position toward their historical referents opens the question of to what degree these contemporary films may also imitate the outdated political attitudes found in past exploitation cinema. Yet, when some viewers excuse the anachronistic political incorrectness of retrosploitation films as a temporary escape from critical engagement with contemporary attitudes, others maintain their fan-cultural appeals to connoisseurship by remaining attuned to the political work that these ostensibly regressive films do. Nostalgia's disjuncture between past and present can thus call attention to unresolved social inequalities, particularly if these films encourage us to identify with the viewing expectations of past audiences. Using textual readings and fan responses, this chapter surveys the representational politics in the retrosploitation cycle and its reception, finding openings for more progressive understandings of these films as well.Less

Alt-Right ‘cultural purity’, ideology and mainstream social policy discourse: towards a political anthropology of ‘mainstremeist’ ideology

Julia Lux and John David Jordan

Elke Heins, Catherine Needham, and James Rees (eds)

in Social Policy Review 31: Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2019

A series of journalistic books and articles exploring the Alt-Right provide detailed empirical data critical to understanding the underpinning social networks of the Alt-Right. However, intensive ... More

A series of journalistic books and articles exploring the Alt-Right provide detailed empirical data critical to understanding the underpinning social networks of the Alt-Right. However, intensive media focus on young, working-class – usually American – white supremacists sharing extremist material over the internet masks incidences of closely related racist, conspiracist, misogynist, and ‘anti-elitist’ ideology in wider, often middle-class mainstream media, politics, and social policy discourse. This article problematises these narratives. Drawing partly on the work of Mary Douglas and Antonio Gramsci, we contribute to ongoing national and international ‘Alt-Right’ debates with an interdisciplinary, political-anthropological model of ‘mainstremeist’ belief and action. This approach highlights the links between ‘fringe’ and ‘centre’ into an entangled social network seeking to deploy social policy as a tool of misogynist, patriarchal, racist, and classist retrenchment. Less