Department of English

eScholarship stats: Breakdown by Item for April through July, 2024

Item	Title	Total requests	Download	View-only	%Dnld
2bc4k55r	Chop Suey as Imagined Authentic Chinese Food: The Culinary Identity of Chinese Restaurants in the United States	625	221	404	35.4%
3943t6p3	Twain's Rhetoric of Irony in 'the War-Prayer'	464	89	375	19.2%
28q3p1nv	Emerging from the Shadows: The Visual Arts and Asian American History	398	301	97	75.6%
9jk269dd	Hasty Departures: The Evacuation of American Citizens from Europe at the Outbreak of World War II	380	32	348	8.4%
2qt9w2hh	From the End of History to Nostalgia: <em>The Manchurian Candidate</em>, Then and Now	347	52	295	15.0%
5sb9d392	Owning the Revolution: Race, Revolution, and Politics from Havana to Miami, 1959–1963	341	214	127	62.8%
64j8t6p0	Excerpt from <em>Dead Stars: American and Philippine Literary Perspectives on the American Colonization of the Philippines</em>	320	28	292	8.8%
4k3816ts	Black Atlantic Currents: Mati Diop’s Atlantique and the Field of Transnational American Studies	306	107	199	35.0%
8qn312mm	Anticolonial Anti-Intervention: Puerto Rican Independentismo and the US ‘Anti-Intervention’ Left in Reagan-era Boston	304	7	297	2.3%
5v99h98b	Archipelagic Thinking: The Insular, the Archipelago, and the Borderwaters – A Conversation	294	35	259	11.9%
38356082	Zora’s Politics: A Brief Introduction	273	19	254	7.0%
2bz2s32r	"Demonic Grounds: Sylvia Wynter," excerpt from Demonic Grounds (2006)	254	134	120	52.8%
0s11w0xw	The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire	237	177	60	74.7%
3x8054pt	Consider the Coconut: Scientific Agriculture and the Racialization of Risk in the American Colonial Philippines	231	64	167	27.7%
7188527q	TGI Fridays In Kandahar: Fast Food, Military Contracting, and Intimacies of Force in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars	231	21	210	9.1%
5ps5x93q	The Pacific Proving Grounds and the Proliferation of Settler Environmentalism	227	61	166	26.9%
5gc857tw	The Meaning of the Digital Humanities	222	127	95	57.2%
2bf4k8zq	A Transnational Tale of Teenage Terror: <em>The Blackboard Jungle</em> in Global Perspective	197	120	77	60.9%
19c9k0br	Dismantling Bellicose Identities: Strategic Language Games in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s <em>DICTEE</em>	191	138	53	72.3%
4v0239nj	Hygiene, Whiteness and Immigration: Upton Sinclair and the “Jungle” of the American Health Care System	181	44	137	24.3%
361824dg	The Banality of American Empire: The Curious Case of Guam, USA	180	38	142	21.1%
2jf9d1b9	Dylan	178	22	156	12.4%
82m5j3f5	A Trans<em>national</em> Native American Studies? Why Not Studies That Are Trans-<em>Indigenous</em>?	175	43	132	24.6%
8fz4t188	Colonial Photography Across Empires and Islands	171	84	87	49.1%
16v4g0b1	“Speaking German Like Nobody’s Business”: Anna May Wong, Walter Benjamin, and the Possibilities of Asian American Cosmopolitanism	156	57	99	36.5%
3x68h6kb	Interzone’s a Riot: William S. Burroughs and Writing the Moroccan Revolution	156	12	144	7.7%
57k5g5pc	Introduction: Transnational Nuclear Imperialisms	156	76	80	48.7%
64v9w7r9	From Baldwin’s Paris to Benjamin’s: The Architectonics of Race and Sexuality in <em>Giovanni’s Room</em>	156	135	21	86.5%
30f7r0r1	Introduction from Telling America's Story to the World: Literature, Internationalism, Cultural Diplomacy	155	62	93	40.0%
30m769ph	Imperial Revisionism: US Historians of Latin America and the Spanish Colonial Empire (ca. 1915–1945)	155	108	47	69.7%
70z6w502	‘We’d rather eat rocks’: Contesting the Thirty Meter Telescope in a Struggle over Science and Sovereignty in Hawai‘i	155	23	132	14.8%
6jn4d3fn	Authenticity and Autofiction: John Updike’s “The Bulgarian Poetess”	154	49	105	31.8%
33v8c3xx	The Power of Formalism: The New Historicism	153	131	22	85.6%
98t70856	Migration in Times of Pandemic: Mark Twain’s “3,000 Years Among the Microbes” and the Prospect of Planetary Health	153	35	118	22.9%
47f1c8tc	Why the Negro Won’t Buy Communism (1951)	152	79	73	52.0%
7082m41v	The Making of the American Calorie and the Metabolic Metrics of Empire	151	54	97	35.8%
8787c124	Mental Illness as Cultural Narrative: Dementia, Im/migrant Experience and InterAmerican Entanglements in David Chariandy’s Soucouyant	149	40	109	26.8%
53c6c1kp	Redefining the American in Asian American Studies: Transnationalism, Diaspora, and Representation	144	8	136	5.6%
23h6v6x8	The state of the digital humanities	140	28	112	20.0%
1j69v7rf	"Exploring Japanese-Mexican Relations in Los Angeles and the US-Mexico Borderlands" from Transborder Los Angeles	139	34	105	24.5%
1ks1v1vj	The Politics of Transnational Memory in Amy Tan’s <em>The Joy Luck Club</em>	139	34	105	24.5%
6cx2p4vf	Stuck in the Middle With(out) You: How American Immigration Law Trapped “Defective” Immigrants Between Two Worlds	139	39	100	28.1%
4704p93f	Black Elk Faces East: Beb Vuyk, Cultural Translation, and John G. Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks	136	38	98	27.9%
0pn2w8cs	Looking In, Looking Out: The Chinese-Caribbean Diaspora through Literature—Meiling Jin, Patricia Powell, Jan Lowe Shinebourne	135	41	94	30.4%
15k9x17f	Nothing Synthetic about It: Translating Bob Dylan’s Domestic and International Civil Wars	135	47	88	34.8%
4sj7h85v	Introduction from Uncle Tom's Cabins: The Transnational History of America's Most Mutable Book (2018)	135	27	108	20.0%
0hb42816	The Familial Grotesque in the Poetry of Shirley Geok-lin Lim	134	35	99	26.1%
0wp587sj	Tricontinental Routes of Solidarity: Stokely Carmichael in Cuba	134	28	106	20.9%
88h0r2fn	The Ever-Changin' Times and Myth of Bob Dylan	134	42	92	31.3%
2gz0833f	'cultivated, / Wild, exotic': Nationalism and Internationalism in the Poetry of Shirley Geok-lin Lim	130	12	118	9.2%

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