Domination Across Borders: An Introduction

This chapter explores the different dimensions of domination, including whether it has a structural approach, its relation to race and imperialism, and how non-domination can be institutionalized and achieved at a global level

Book Review: No Ivory Tower: Mccarthyism and the Universities. by Ellen W. Schrecker.

Book review: No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities. By Ellen W. Schrecker. New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press. Pp. 437. Reviewed by: John C Chalberg

Book Review: No Ivory Tower: Mccarthyism and the Universities. by Ellen W. Schrecker.

Book review: No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities. By Ellen W. Schrecker. New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press. Pp. 437. Reviewed by: John C Chalberg

Unguessed Kinships: The Undercurrents of Poetic Language in Heart of Darkness and Blood Meridian

This paper explores the similarities in plot, themes, and characterization between Joseph Conrad\u27s Heart of Darkness and Cormac McCarthy\u27s Blood Meridian. The two texts differ, however,· in terms of genre and language style: whereas Heart of Darkness avoids giving explicit details of its depraved character Mr. Kurtz in the Congo, Blood Meridian is frank in its enumeration of violence in southwestern America. Also, whereas the landscape of Heart of Darkness is described in terms similar to Julia Kristeva\u27s female-oriented semiotic language, the landscape of Blood Meridian is similar to Kristeva\u27s male-structured, symbolic language. McCarthy\u27s text thus serves as the explication and fulfillment of the reticence and ambiguity of Heart of Darkness within the American genre. Using Kristeva\u27s poetic languages and Mikhail Bahktin\u27s carnivalesque, this paper also shows how these differences of language style are subverted, yielding a reading of Blood Meridian that is much less phallocentric than a superficial reading would suggest

Fanning the Flames: Interpretations and Reactions to McCarthyism

This project will examine the meaning of “McCarthyism” and the ways in which writers have portrayed Joseph McCarthy and the era named for him. It will start with the initial effect on the United States, in the 1950s and throughout the Cold War. Contemporary scholarly interpretations will look at what effect the era had on academic freedom, how much of a threat Communism actually was, and how it shaped foreign and domestic policy. The second section of the paper will delve deeper into the issues on a local level as it uses over 200 editorials and letters to the editor from the two major Rochester, NY newspapers, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle and the Rochester Times Union, to gauge the reactions and feelings of Rochesterians on the Red Scare. This section also highlights important local court cases of suspected communist activity in the Rochester area. Finally, there is a collection of materials for use by American History teachers on McCarthyism. The material on McCarthyism, and the Red Scare of the 1950s is quite extensive, and therefore, quite unreasonable to use in one unit given the time constraints of the curriculum. Consequently, this work is organized so that teachers can pick and choose various lesson ideas, or materials that would best fit their individual needs. Each document, or collection of documents, will be accompanied by some suggestions for how to use them