http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/ucr_chass_eng_oapolicydeposits/rss Recent eScholarship items from Department of English Open Access Policy Deposits Sat, 1 Aug 2026 22:26:43 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7vv8w9d1 Through analysis of an educational short film, an oral history, and an sf television episode, each rehearsing human space flight, this article explores how Black women undertake the practical and imaginative tasks that make human habitation in space possible. These performances “fem[me] the future,” in the words of Afrofuturist artist and philanthropist Janelle Monáe. Nichelle Nichols’s science communications activism, Sharon McDougle’s oral history for NASA’s Johnson Space Center, and actor Dominique Tipper’s starring role in The Expanse all cast them as “space workers”: non-astronauts whose work renders the space age a pluralistic endeavor rather than a stage for reproducing heroic myths. Their roles emphasize the performative rather than constative meaning of “Black femme” to embody possible futures. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7vv8w9d1 Thu, 9 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Carrington, andré https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4274-8087 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7sw8h5wt From blaxploitation to fan service: watching Wakanda https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7sw8h5wt Thu, 9 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Carrington, André https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4274-8087 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1gv9r5z7 Black life in the modern world makes incisive demands on the cultural politics of imaginative fiction as well as social movement rhetoric. Recent scholarship supplements the ongoing efflorescence of Afrofuturist art by reconstructing the history of speculative, utopian, and cautionary tales in Black writing. Isiah Lavender's Afrofuturism Rising and Alex Zamalin's Black Utopia join a growing body of intellectual history prepared for the task of historicizing fantastic Black aesthetics. Sami Schalk's more contemporary intervention, Bodyminds Reimagined, demonstrates the integral value of Black women's speculative fiction to rethinking the role of dis/ability - conspicuously including the radical difference signified by "madness"- in the panoply of power relations that stand to be transformed by Black radical thought in action. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1gv9r5z7 Thu, 9 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Carrington, André https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4274-8087 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0dr1c6dj Abstract The socially symbolic figure of the superhero comes into close contact with vernacular intellectual critiques of race and modernity through the much-anticipated film adaptation of Marvel’s Black Panther comics. This article analyzes the implications for queer approaches to black popular cultural production of the knowledge practices that inspire Black Panther’s depiction of an African utopia. The intertexts involved include histories, travel writings, and other comics. Focusing on the divergent treatments by authors Christopher Priest (1998–2003) and Ta-Nehisi Coates (2016) of the title character’s black female comrades-in-arms, this reading interrogates how race consciousness and colonial legacies inform the discourses of desire operating within the text. The term desiring blackness describes an orientation to reading that defers to African Americanist and black diasporic considerations to ground the task of interpretation in conditions that elicit compromise among disparate... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0dr1c6dj Thu, 9 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 carrington, andré https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4274-8087 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/00z0m4pd Libraries, Archives, Properties https://escholarship.org/uc/item/00z0m4pd Fri, 5 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Ganim, John M https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9nb5k3pv Thomas A. Prendergast, Poetical Dust: Poets’ Corner and the Making of Britain . (Hanley Foundation Series.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Pp. xiv, 235; 19 black-and-white figures. $59.95. ISBN 978-0-8122-4750-3. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9nb5k3pv Thu, 4 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Ganim, John M https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5mz1f6tt The President's Address 2017 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5mz1f6tt Thu, 4 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Ganim, John M https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3wn0r52t Atlas for a Destroyed World: Frank Day's Painting as Work of Nonvital Revitalization https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3wn0r52t Wed, 26 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Leon https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8ds4p118 Alethurgy's Shadow https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8ds4p118 Wed, 1 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Doyle, Jennifer https://escholarship.org/uc/item/276607dp The Grift of Death?: The Ethics of Murder Narratives https://escholarship.org/uc/item/276607dp Tue, 3 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Baker, Courtney https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8199-5534 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3389s08d In 2014, Amanda Thomashow filed a complaint against Larry Nassar at Michigan State University. In its report describing the ensuing investigation, the university cleared Nassar of wrongdoing. A few years later, Nassar was sent to prison for abusing hundreds of girls and women. This essay takes a close look at the report describing that investigation’s finding. Drawing from Miranda Fricker’s work on epistemic injustice, this essay considers the sexual politics of knowing and unknowing within the context of a Title IX investigation set against the backdrop of a university’s attempt to overhaul not only its policies but its sexual culture. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3389s08d Sun, 30 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Doyle, Jennifer https://escholarship.org/uc/item/039050sw Abstract Literature in Singapore is written in the country’s four official languages: Chinese, English, Malay, and Tamil. The various literatures flourished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with the rise of print culture in the British colony, but after independence in 1965, English became emphasized in both the education system and society at large as part of the new government’s attempts to modernize the country. Chinese, Malay, and Tamil were seen as mother tongue languages to provide Singaporeans with cultural ballast while English was regarded as a language for administration, business, and scientific and technological development. Correspondingly, literatures in other languages than English reached a plateau in terms of writerly output and readership during the 1970s and 1980s. However, since 1999, with the state’s implementation of the Renaissance City Plan to revitalize arts and culture in Singapore, there have been various initiatives to increase the visibility... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/039050sw Tue, 2 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Gui, Weihsin https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5392-2824 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4627m116 Rethinking a Case of Paranoia as a Workplace Complaint https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4627m116 Thu, 16 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000 Doyle, Jennifer https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6sx6w357 “Wrestling Ideology” absorbs the insight of recent scholarship in martial arts studies in order to analyze feminist performance art grounded in combat sports. Anchored by an analysis of Jennifer Locke's performance video Match, this essay explores how, where the “street fight” operates as the “real” for martial arts disciplines, sexual violence is positioned in martial arts discourse, and in sports more generally, as the “real” for which women athletes train. Nevertheless, physical competition between men and women is prohibited by nearly every sport. Locke's work manifests how the enforcement of that segregation lies at the heart of rape discourse. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6sx6w357 Thu, 11 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Doyle, Jennifer https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0214h75w Fiona Cheong's two novels about Singapore, The Scent of the Gods and Shadow Theatre, should be read as gothic tales of self-writing in which the protagonist emerges as an objective rather than a subjective self. This essay draws on Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault's discussion of technology and poetics, together with Jacques Rancière's conceptualization of aesthetics, to argue that Cheong's novels are a narrative renovation of an older literary genre (the gothic) for contemporary purposes. Scent's invocation of the gothic spaces complicate the allegorical yoking of family history and nation formation, while Shadow Theatre's polyphonic and gynocentric structure creates an alternative social and narrative space within heroic, patriarchal nationalism. Both novels deploy gothic tropes immanently to critique the postcolonial Singaporean state's neoliberalizing technologies that shape individuals and the entire population as entrepreneurial subjects. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0214h75w Wed, 3 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Gui, Weihsin https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5392-2824 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/87s7j291 Affect and logistic : Trollops's postal work https://escholarship.org/uc/item/87s7j291 Wed, 20 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Zieger, S https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9zj8185v In a discussion of the problem that Caster Semenya's velocity poses to the category woman, the introduction to this special issue shifts focus from Semenya's body (which has been the topic of much discussion during Semenya's temporary suspension from competition while officials debated whether she could compete as a woman) to the problem of being the fastest woman in the world. That move — from sex to speed (as an escape from the category of sex) — sets the tone for the special issue's consideration of athleticism as a set of discursive practices. The essays focus on queer practices that engage effeminacy, the feminine, and the female — queer figures of athleticism that cross, defy, redefine (that trans) not only categories of sex but also the category of the human. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9zj8185v Tue, 19 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Doyle, Jennifer https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4fs768qv Tactical Objectivism: Recognizing the Object within the Subjective Logic of Neoliberalism in the Fiction of Tash Aw and Lydia Kwa https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4fs768qv Tue, 19 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Gui, Weihsin https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5392-2824 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3p58m97h This essay is a meditation on writing and reading with José Esteban Muñoz. There was a shift from feeling to sense. From affect to something different. A shared sense, a combine. Not an assemblage: something more fluid or precarious, environmental but flesh-bound. Injured or harmed but not abject. Not propertied but shared out, burning and brown. Something else: an unfinished conversation about mothers. It was another thought, a branching out. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3p58m97h Tue, 19 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Doyle, Jennifer https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0dh0r84t A series of articles exploring Nao Bustamante's work with the history of women's participation in the Mexican Revolution. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0dh0r84t Tue, 19 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Arrizόn, A Tobias, J Alfaro, J Medina, M Orzulak, J Manshel, H Kraeher, R Zuniga, T