Reconstruction 10.3 (2010): Inventions of Activism

Jan 25, 2011 by Farhang Erfani

Editors’ Introduction: What is Outsider Criticism? (open-access journal)

Outsiders

Evolution, Popular Culture, and the Nature of Scientific Knowledge, by James Clinton

Whose America is This, Anyway?: Class, Identity, and the Critical Voice in Cultural Texts, by Mike S. Dubose

Urban Passion by Barie Fez-Barringten

Defining ‘In between definition’: Jamal Mahjoub and Modern African Literature, by Chimdi Maduagwu

War Reporting

The Art of War Reporting: Theorising Contemporary Embedded Journalism as Public Discourse, by Rob Cover and Jay Reid

The Outside of the Document: On et al and the maintenance of social solidarity, by Baylee Britts

Trauermarsch: German history as remembered by the Extreme Right, by Emily Turner-Graham

Kitchen Debates

The Migrant Homemaker: Historicizing Gender between Nations in Yamina Benguigui’s Inch’Allah dimanche, by Olivia Donaldson

Making over Myth: The Rhetorical Use of the Puritan Conversion Narrative in Kitchen Nightmares, by Joseph Bowling

Me and Betty Crocker, or, from WASPy White to Mestiza: 75 Years of General Mills, by Linda Heidenreich

Theoria

Regarding You: Lacanian Gaze and Ethics in Kiarostami’s Close-up, by Farhang Erfani

Honneth and the Stuggles for Moral Redemption, by Raphael D. Pangilinan

Rectification of Human Names”: E.P. Thompson and Contemporary Debates on Historical and Epistemological Discourse, by Manuel Yang

Poetics

Narratives of African American Female Preachers in the 21st Century, by Cécile Coquet-Mokoko, Ph.D

Hauntology and the New Poetics of Magick, by Alan Clinton

Poems, by Amanda Tai