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[ecrea] Canadian Review of American Studies 42.2 August 2012 now available online

Tue Aug 07 17:08:23 GMT 2012



*Canadian Review of American Studies ***

*Volume 42, Number 2, August 2012 *

http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/u1953756228x/

This issue contains:

*Rhetorical Insurgents: Biopolitics and the Insurrectionary Rhetoric of McLuhan's Cool Media*

Stuart J. Murray

This essay examines the subversive political potential of censored cartoons by the Guantánamo prisoner, Sami al-Hajj. In McLuhan's terms, these cartoons constitute cool media, which I read as a rhetorical response to biopolitical (Foucault) forms of governmental power. I conclude by reflecting on the ethical demands of such media.

http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/72521215736623p4/?p=14bbf51d7d224c9a9e61205a63e6f662&pi=0 <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/72521215736623p4/?p=14bbf51d7d224c9a9e61205a63e6f662&pi=0>

DOI: 10.3138/cras.42.2.123

*Tipping Point Discourse in Dangerous Times*

Chris Russill, Chad Lavin

The concept of the tipping point has reshaped how crisis is perceived and understood in public discourse. We study this trend in selected instances, including the 2005 Iraqi elections, the 2005 flooding in Louisiana, and the climate-change crisis, before situating Malcolm Gladwell's theory of the tipping point in historical context. We discuss how Gladwell interprets key dimensions of the epidemiological approach in an overly selective manner in order to advance a particular political perspective on public policy. This perspective restricts an understanding of the way social inequalities shape the environmental conditions, contexts, and politics of social problems.

http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/p62lh5702n822881/?p=14bbf51d7d224c9a9e61205a63e6f662&pi=1 <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/p62lh5702n822881/?p=14bbf51d7d224c9a9e61205a63e6f662&pi=1>

DOI: 10.3138/cras.42.2.142

*Cinéma américain, communication politique et information*

Isabelle Gusse

L'auteure appréhende le cinéma en tant que support de communication politique dans l'axe informateur/information. Il se dégage de l'analyse qualitative de trois films historiques américains (Good night, and good luck, Bobby et Across the universe) produits entre 2006 et 2007 et de leurs notes de production deux figures de l'informateur : réalisateurs et personnages expriment et relaient certains idéaux démocratiques liés au respect des droits fondamentaux du citoyen.

The author examines cinema as a medium for political communication along the informant/information axis. From the qualitative analysis of three American historical films (Good Night, and Good Luck, Bobby, Across the Universe 2006--7) and of their production notes, two types of informants emerge: directors and characters express various democratic ideals having to do with respect for citizens' fundamental rights.

http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/05g8g1142767q7j0/?p=14bbf51d7d224c9a9e61205a63e6f662&pi=2 <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/05g8g1142767q7j0/?p=14bbf51d7d224c9a9e61205a63e6f662&pi=2>

DOI: 10.3138/cras.42.2.164

*Blood Money: Gresham's Law, Property, and Race in Faulkner's Go Down, Moses*

Ross Bullen

This paper examines the relationship in William Faulkner's Go Down, Moses between the "one-drop rule" and the economic precept known as Gresham's Law. I explore the connection between these two laws of circulation in Faulkner's text, situating the novel's sustained interest in both biological and financial inheritance within a broader history of the relationship between slavery and the monetization of gold.

http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/g05x57l710207028/?p=14bbf51d7d224c9a9e61205a63e6f662&pi=3 <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/g05x57l710207028/?p=14bbf51d7d224c9a9e61205a63e6f662&pi=3>

DOI: 10.3138/cras.42.2.194

* "It's Almost Like Being There": Speculative Fiction, Slave Narrative, and the Crisis of Representation in Octavia Butler's Kindred*

Nadine Flagel

Octavia Butler's novel Kindred (1979) combines characteristics of two primary genres: slave narratives and speculative fiction. Employing the conceptual framework of métissage, the article examines the interaction of generic attributes. Some generic qualities simply overlap. More frequently, Butler's novel imaginatively defamiliarizes and revitalizes each generic cluster of attributes as a critique of the other. Such a critique often pushes toward the literal: for instance, speculative fiction's latent investment in aliens and the master-slave dialectic is made manifest; slave narratives' reliance on literacy is exposed. The novel's commitment to reinvigorating perceptions of slavery complicates and compromises certain types of representation---particularly literary or discursive representation---thus contributing to a crisis of representation characteristic of black feminist postmodernity.

http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/13456358500n3346/?p=14bbf51d7d224c9a9e61205a63e6f662&pi=4 <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/13456358500n3346/?p=14bbf51d7d224c9a9e61205a63e6f662&pi=4>

DOI: 10.3138/cras.42.2.216

* "A Knowing So Deep It's Like a Secret": Recent Approaches to Race, Identity, and Transformation in Toni Morrison's Fiction*

Katrina Harack

In the burgeoning field of Toni Morrison studies, three scholars have recently made original contributions to the field with their interdisciplinary scholarship, showing a trend in Morrison studies of forging new readings through the use of comparative and cross-cultural techniques. In so doing, Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber, K. Zauditu-Selassie, and Rebecca Hope Ferguson help to elucidate Morrison's complex relationship to the past and to African and American culture as well as the consistent ethical concerns across her body of work. Zauditu-Selassie focuses primarily on Morrison's references to African cosmology, while Ferguson and Schreiber take interdisciplinary approaches to key themes (transition, exchange, and the concept of home) in Morrison's work. While Ferguson and Schreiber tend to problematize Morrison's relationship to an African past, Zauditu-Selassie takes a much more celebratory approach regarding her use of cultural and spiritual references.

http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/h3413804414g2656/?p=14bbf51d7d224c9a9e61205a63e6f662&pi=5 <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/h3413804414g2656/?p=14bbf51d7d224c9a9e61205a63e6f662&pi=5>

DOI: 10.3138/cras.42.2.246

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