7 research outputs found
"Heads, You Win": Newsletters and Magazines of the Polio Nation
No full textThis article examines a range of polio rehabilitation center newsletters and polio-related quarterly publications from the late 1930s to the late 1960s. Drawing on the writings of disability and textual scholars, it determines that these print materials enabled the formation of polio-affected communities, or even a politically motivated polio nation, whose shared interests, concerns, and newly formed identities were represented in these works. The more grassroots and somacentric the orientation of these periodicals, the more therapeutic they may have been
"Extraordinarily convenient neighbors" : African-American characters in white-authored post-atomic novels
No full textKate A. Baldwin, The Racial Imaginary and the Cold War Kitchen: From Sokol′niki Park to Chicago's South Side (Dartmouth, NH: Dartmouth College Press, 2016, $45.00). Pp. 256. isbn
No full textEnemies Within: The Cold War and the AIDS Crisis in Literature, Film, and Culture
Get PDFBook discussing the literature and film of the Cold War and AIDS eras in an effort to link the two with the fear they created; "not only the political and biological illnesses...but also the fear and panic they engender." Index starts on page 235
