Recently added articles from Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies:
Introduction: poetries
Apr 01, 2006; Chasar, Mike; Bean, Heidi R; Morris, Adalaide ... In calling this issue of the Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies "poetries," we aim to expose a series of hoaxes: among them, the idea that poetry is dead (it's not), the belief that it belongs to the academy (it doesn't), and the suspicion that it takes one or another singular shape (it is many, ...
Enigma Variations: Poetry and Modern Nightlife
Apr 01, 2006; Tiffany, Daniel ... Pitch Taverns and nightclubs are places where casual social interaction, business, and even crime, coexist in a place governed ostensibly by pleasure. They are also sites where the illicit and often subversive habits (or "trades") of the demimonde become intelligible-and available-to ...
Only Death Can Part Us: Messages on Wartime Cards
Apr 01, 2006; Nelson, Cary ... One of the major challenges for a historically-based cultural studies is the absence from our archives of any substantial record of how ordinary people in earlier periods interacted with various discursive regimes. One may, for example, gauge the role literature played in the lives of those who ...
"Writing Another Kind of Poetry": James Norman Hall as "Fern Gravel" in Oh Millersville!
Apr 01, 2006; Brunner, Edward ... I am writing another kind of poetry, And some of my poems are beautiful to me. I hope, someday, people will travel To see the home of the poetess, Fern Gravel, Like they go to Longfellow's home, and Whittier's, And then I'll remember the day I wrote this ...
Sylvia Plath and Electracy
Apr 01, 2006; Clinton, Alan Ramón ... I. The Impossible Archive Sylvia Plath's short story "Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams," written in 1958, reads like an archival fantasy. Its narrator, a secretary in a mental hospital, spends each day "facing the door of the office and [typing] up other people's dreams" (17). In ...
Def Poetry's Public: Spoken Word Poetry and the Racial Politics of Going Mainstream
Apr 01, 2006; Somers-Willett, Susan B A ... It's imperative that these spoken word artists be catapulted to the mainstream and be recognized. Finally the marriage between hip-hop and spoken word can begin the arduous task of reconciliation. -Bruce George, former Executive Producer of Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry Rap ...
Poetries, Micropoetries, Micropoetics
Apr 01, 2006; Damon, Maria ... I liked absurd paintings, pictures over doorways, stage sets, carnival backdrops, billboards, colored prints, old-fashioned literature, Church Latin, erotic books badly spelled, the kind of novels our grandmothers read, fairy tales, little children's books, old operas, silly refrains, naive ...
Reading Lines Forum
Apr 01, 2006; Anonymous ... Paula Bernat Bennett Of the various texts that led to my adopting a cultural studies approach to my field-nineteenth-century American women's poetry-the two that affected me the most were The Heath Anthology of American Literature, edited by Paul Lauter, and The West as America: ...