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Worlding America
Worlding America explores the circulation of short narratives in the early Americas through a combination of neglected primary materials and scholarly commentary. Building on recent reconsiderations of American literature in light of transnational and hemispheric approaches, it follows the migration of stories from various backgrounds and demonstrates how forms and themes developed in a new literary market that spanned the Atlantic world.
While short narratives prior to 1800 have been largely excluded from critical discussions as well as anthologies, they give insight into the conditions of publishing and writing as well as the demand for brief, entertaining pieces that was met by a wide variety of sources, including sermons, letters, diaries, travelogues, and, eventually, magazines and newspapers. Breaking with traditional concepts of period, authorship, and genre, Worlding America groups the different types of narratives it anthologizes according to key subject areas such as \"Life Writing,\" \"Female Agency,\" or the \"Cultures of Print.\" Each section is introduced by a headnote that explains relevant historical and literary developments, situating each narrative in its cultural context and providing its publication history. Suggestions for further reading will also be appreciated by scholars and students wishing to pursue research in these underrepresented forms.
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Religious Periodicals and Publishing in Transnational Contexts
This volume explores the interrelationship of religion and print practices, and sheds new light on the history of religious publishing in a globalizing world and its changing media consumption. Periodicals have recently become of interest to scholars in book history and religious studies, as they try to determine how magazines, journals, newsletters, and newspapers meet the diverse spiritual demands of believers conditioned by an increasingly translocal and pluralistic religious landscape in modern America and beyond. Existing publications in this field have produced new insights into the multilayered nineteenth- and twentieth-century publishing enterprises, as well as the numerous actors behind them, often crossing ethnic, gender, and national boundaries. This volume focuses instead on the socio-economic conditions, institutional organizations, action networks, and communicative environments that shape religious publishing and its medial apparatus in transnational contexts. In doing so, the authors study the material devices, business structures, and cultural networks needed for circulating words and images that nourish specific formations of religious adherence.
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Native American Periodicals
This essay explores Native American periodicals as a topic that is still under-studied and suggests a model for investigating them as relational media objects in the context of settler-colonial and Native American printscapes. Drawing on a Deleuzian terminology, it reads Native American periodicals as assemblages and argues for analyzing periodicals as distinctive material-semiotic artifacts based on their properties, periodicity, mediality, and miscellaneity. It highlights the expansive Native American publishing business appearing in the early twentieth century in an atmosphere of assimilationist policies as inspired by Red Progressivism. In doing so, the essay examines interactions between the so-called periodicalists (i.e., Native American editors, writers, contributors) and the periodical medium using as brief examples Cherokee editor Ora V. Eddleman and Muskogee writer Charles Gibson. It concludes with a call to interrogate Native American periodicals as an innovative form of print activism for creating and maintaining visions of Indigenous life-worlds.
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A Peculiar Mixture
Through innovative interdisciplinary methodologies and fresh avenues of inquiry, the nine essays collected in A Peculiar Mixture endeavor to transform how we understand the bewildering multiplicity and complexity that characterized the experience of German-speaking people in the middle colonies. They explore how the various cultural expressions of German speakers helped them bridge regional, religious, and denominational divides and eventually find a way to partake in America’s emerging national identity. Instead of thinking about early American culture and literature as evolving continuously as a singular entity, the contributions to this volume conceive of it as an ever-shifting and tangled “web of contact zones.” They present a society with a plurality of different native and colonial cultures interacting not only with one another but also with cultures and traditions from outside the colonies, in a “peculiar mixture” of Old World practices and New World influences. _x000B_Aside from the editors, the contributors are Rosalind J. Beiler, Patrick M. Erben, Cynthia G. Falk, Marie Basile McDaniel, Philip Otterness, Liam Riordan, Matthias Schönhofer, and Marianne S. Wokeck.
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Migrant Fictions: The Early Story in North American Magazines
In the following, I will focus on processes of textual travel and transformation that characterize the early American story. In doing so, the paper seeks to demonstrate how some of the so-called first ‘American’ short stories (such as “The Child of Snow,” 1792) emerge from complex cultural translations and traffic. One of my essay’s goals is to reframe the national paradigm of American literary history by taking into consideration the multilingual sources of the early American story, which are now for the first time widely accessible through numerous electronic databases. This paper also intends to go beyond the search for structural and generic elements, which characterize the ‘emergence’ of the American short story, to ask questions about how early stories that migrated from Europe to America have been re-classified by editors for changing audiences, times, and circumstances. I will argue that the early American story is less a creation of a single author than an editorial product. Its success, or its ‘becoming American,’ depends less on its being ‘original,’ that is, penned by an American writer (most stories were published anonymously, anyway) than by its brevity and variety, those features most essential to the medium that the story was published in: the magazine, meant to be a type of eighteenth-century periodical exclusive of newspapers not primarily concerned with conveying intelligence, whose miscellaneous sections on art, poetry, literature, and science are frequently compared by editors to a “Bee Hive, enriched by the aromaticks of every field.”
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