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*Canadian Review of American Studies*

Volume  46, Number 2, Summer 2016

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*ARTICLES*

*Hashtagging Gaddis: /#OccupyGaddis’s/ Residual Adoption of William 
Gaddis’s /J R/*

Philip Miletic

In 2012, Lee Konstantinou started an online reading group called 
/#OccupyGaddis/ to discuss William Gaddis’s novel, /J R/. I argue that 
#/OccupyGaddis/ rethinks Gaddis’s cynicism toward communication 
technologies and reimagines the novel as a cultural study of how to 
write and negotiate (fragmented) identities in the current global, 
media-dominated culture. *http://bit.ly/crasaopj16g*

*For the Progress of “Faustus and Helen”: Crane, Whitman, and the 
Metropolitan Progress Poem*

Jeremy Colangelo

This essay is meant to invigorate a critical discussion of the progress 
poem—a genre that, while prevalent in American literature, has been 
virtually ignored by critics and scholars. In lieu of tackling the genre 
in its entirety, a project too large for just one article, the author 
focuses the argument through the well-known alignment between Walt 
Whitman and Hart Crane on the subject of the modern city. It is through 
the progress poem genre that Crane and Whitman’s peculiar place in 
metropolitan poetics can best be understood, and it is through their 
poetry that scholars can begin to approach the broader issue of the 
progress poem’s place in American literature. *http://bit.ly/crasaopj16h*

*Paradoxical Essentialism: Reading Race and Origins in Jane Jeong 
Trenka’s Asian Adoption Memoirs*

Jenn Heijun Wills

I argue that anti-essentialism assumes a neutral or default subject for 
whom biology and origins are both coherent and reliable. Analyzing Jane 
Jeong Trenka’s two adoption memoirs, /The Language of Blood/ and 
/Fugitive Visions/, I argue that anti-essentialism is a privileged 
posture not afforded to everyone.***http://bit.ly/crasaopj16*

*Neoliberal Labour in Ramin Bahrani’s Films: Uneven Development, 
Entrepreneurial Governmentality, and Political Resistance*

Polina Kroik

The essay analyzes representations of neoliberal labour in two films by 
the U.S. filmmaker Ramin Bahrani: /Man Push Cart/ (2005) and /Chop Shop/ 
(2007). By focusing on working-class labour in New York’s informal 
economy, the films undermine the prevalent characterization of 
contemporary labour as “immaterial” and fundamentally new. The essay 
argues that, in the latter film, the Willets Point neighbourhood appears 
as an area of “uneven development,” which gives the working-class 
characters a modicum of autonomy and a chance to transform their spaces. 
Yet the films’ greatest strength is their resistance to clichéd 
representations of working-class characters as oppressed 
“others”—objects of ethnographic fascination and paternalistic sympathy. 
Instead, Bahrani encourages the audience’s identification with the 
characters by using innovative filmmaking practice and focusing on the 
structures of “entrepreneurial governmentality,” usually associated with 
white-collar work. Bahrani’s films also highlight the contradictions of 
contemporary filmmaking and neoliberal culture. *http://bit.ly/crasaopj16b*

*Archival Futurism in Paul Auster’s /The Book of Illusions/*

David Huebert

Through a reading of Paul Auster’s 2002 novel /The Book of Illusions/, 
this article explores the archival impulse in the context of queer 
theorist Lee Edelman’s schematization of “reproductive futurism.” I 
argue that /The Book of Illusions/ positions the archive, rather than 
the child, as the object of futurity and suggest that Auster explores 
what I term “archival futurism” through two competing visions of the 
archive: David Zimmer, the protagonist of /The Book of Illusions/, seeks 
to extend human life through the archive, exhibiting a pathological 
archive mania following the death of his family; Hector Mann, in 
contrast, exemplifies a queered vision of the traditional archive, 
rejecting futurity by destroying the archive of films he has been making 
for sixty-odd years. Mann ultimately overcomes the archive while Zimmer 
remains feverishly devoted to it.***http://bit.ly/crasaopj16c*

*Amiri Baraka: A Lifetime of Saying the Unsayable*

Naila Keleta-Mae

Through the analysis of three poems written at distinct moments in his 
prolific fifty-year career, this article argues that a central legacy of 
the work of Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) is the creation of art and 
scholarship that publicly critiques and provokes the status quo—time and 
time again, Baraka said the unsayable. *http://bit.ly/crasaopj16a*

*AMERICAN STUDIES IN REVIEW*

*The Minoritarian Turn in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies*

Justin Rogers-Cooper

Three recent publications in nineteenth-century American literary 
studies are compelling examples of the field’s turn toward 
“minoritarian” criticism, a mode of inquiry that draws on a variety of 
“minor” movements in scholarship such as queer studies and critical race 
and ethnic studies. The collection of essays in /Unsettled States/ 
exemplify the minoritarian impulse to treat literary and archival texts 
as theoretical objects coeval with the authority of contemporary 
scholarship and cultural theory. One of the contributors to /Unsettled 
States/, Kyla Wazana Tompkins, also authored /Racial Indigestion/, a 
foundational text in recent food studies that authoritatively traces the 
erotic politics of the mouth over the long nineteenth century. In /The 
Delectable Negro/, the late Vincent Woodward provocatively addresses the 
ways bodies of enslaved African Americans were cannibalized, 
metaphorically and literally, by parasitic slave masters. All three 
texts stake out new practices, objects, and methods for the field, and 
suggest vital new directions for future scholarship. 
*http://bit.ly/crasaopj16f*

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