Literature – #WaynePop

Behind Closed Doors: Connecting Joyce’s ‘Wandering Rocks’ with Morrison’s Rock Poetry, Cornelius Fortune

Posted on September 21, 2020September 23, 2020 by Shelby

“Did you have a good world when you died? Enough to base a movie on?” ––Jim Morrison, “The Movie,” from An American Prayer Everyone has a story to tell with a unique vision to tell ... Read More

Antiwar Literature and Anti-Censorship at the Dawn of the Atomic Age: John Hersey’s Hiroshima in Context, Kelly Roy Polasek

Posted on September 21, 2020September 23, 2020 by Shelby

This essay examines John Hersey’s 1946 report, Hiroshima, as a piece of cultural production that aimed to resist and rearrange the hegemonic narrative surrounding the first-ever use of atomic weapo... Read More

“Bitch McConnell”: The Pop Cultural Tweaking of History, Trinidad Linares

Posted on September 21, 2020September 23, 2020 by Shelby

The Performance of Continuity: Longbourn and Late Capitalist Rhetoric of History, Zachary Williamson

Posted on September 21, 2020September 23, 2020 by Shelby

Culture in its manifold and blurred forms works either explicitly or implicitly from an occupation with the past as a way to lean into the futures contained in its present. Given this, how is it... Read More

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Behind Closed Doors: Connecting Joyce’s ‘Wandering Rocks’ with Morrison’s Rock Poetry, Cornelius Fortune

Antiwar Literature and Anti-Censorship at the Dawn of the Atomic Age: John Hersey’s Hiroshima in Context, Kelly Roy Polasek

“Bitch McConnell”: The Pop Cultural Tweaking of History, Trinidad Linares

The Performance of Continuity: Longbourn and Late Capitalist Rhetoric of History, Zachary Williamson