Archive for February, 2019

The Black and White Art Film in the Age of its Digital Distribution

In 2018, two of the most acclaimed international films, Roma and Cold War, were auteurist movies shot in digital black-and-white and distributed by two newcomers to the field of prestige cinema —…

Introduction

What’s “contemporary” about the Academy Awards? Maybe nothing. From the red carpet to the closing credits, the show borrows its choreography from a formula perfected between the 1930s (when it…

A 3 Hour Tour . . . A 3 Hour Tour

You may be busy pregaming the Oscars so I’ll make the takeaways clear and portable: The chaos surrounding the Oscars telecast matters because it is the funhouse mirror reflection of…

Postcolonial, Still

This series on the Global Anglophone grapples with what it might mean to shift from the object of inquiry named by the postcolonial to something more nebulous and still in…

The Ends of Entanglement: Conjectures on a Future Politics for Global Anglophone Literature

During the rapidly globalizing 1990s a term used in quantum physics to describe “spooky relations” between particles “at a distance” made its way into the humanities, where it was adapted…

Fragments of a World That “Doesn’t End”: The Apocalyptic Impulse in a Time of Perpetual War

9/11 and the subsequent “War on Terror” have produced temporalities of indefinite deferral and perpetual war. Literary scholars have noted the pervasive presence of this phenomenon in contemporary Global Anglophone…

Mood, Health, and the Global Anglophone Novel

A maximal definition of the Global Anglophone Novel would, as we know, include all novels written in English, regardless of origin.1 The cost of inclusivity is definitional crisis: such a…

The Form of Global Anglophone Literature is Grenfell Tower

On 14 June 2017, shortly after midnight, a fire broke out in the public housing flats at Grenfell Tower in North Kensington, London. The fire spread rapidly, due in large…

What’s in a Name?: the Global Anglophone, the Anglosphere, and the English-Speaking Peoples

What does it mean to “do” Global Anglophone Studies at a time when an ordinary conversation in Spanish in a New York restaurant could propel a customer into such a…

Introduction: Forms of the Global Anglophone

What does the term “Global Anglophone” signify? As a new Assistant Professor of Global Anglophone and English Literature, I should ostensibly have an answer to this question since it was…