Roberta Ulrich, American Indian Nations from Termination to Restoration, 1953-2006.

This volume painstakingly researches a historical event that few know about, especially outside the U.S., but which is of paramount importance in understanding what leftist intellectuals like Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky continue to decry as the unceasingly destructive mixture of American imperialism and exceptionalism. In 1954, “[i]n the name of freeing the Indians from government restrictions Congress removed the tribal status of more than nine dozen tribes with nearly 13,000 members from O..

Bare Bodies, Unbearable Bodices in Migdalia Cruz and Lynn Nottage

This paper aims at a comparative analysis of the dress code in two plays by contemporary American women playwrights, newyorican Migdalia Cruz’s 1995 Fur and African-American Lynn Nottage’s 2005 Intimate Apparel. The minority status of both playwrights becomes an autobiographical impetus for each play, where the contrast between performative nakedness and clothing serves as an extended metaphor for the mainstream American politics of labeling, cannibalizing, and attempting to culturally assimilate the Other. The many forms by which Otherness appears in the plays—the freak, the marginal, the female, the poor, the single, the minority, the immigrant—are interwoven to show the complexity of identity issues stemming from a world violently (almost post-apocalyptically) thrown together by the capitalist globalized maelstrom. These find in the innovative interplay of nakedness and dress an ideally “suited” code to speak for that which, like our naked physicality, is always darkly proximate to the “civilized” self, yet only admitted into public view as abject and apotropaic spectacle, or as performative provocation. The plays offer a parodic performance on Lévi-Strauss’s structuralist distinction between the Raw and the Cooked, showing how women/minorities are coaxed and “cooked” into clothes that define their victimized role, thus bringing alive on-stage the linguistic conjunction between a “well-dressed” meat and a “Naked Lunch.” Once bared, Cruz’s and Nottage’s protagonists have nothing to fear anymore, while the art of sewing, initially seen as female creativity and empowerment, is revealed as a trap of Althusserian interpellation. Finally, the dress code of these plays works as an allegory for the nature of acting, and the tricky interplay between the costume-role and the “uniqueness” of the actor’s personality and talent shining through onstage to sate the appetites of both consuming Dionysoi and audiences

Christopher Bigsby, Viewing America: Twenty-First-Century Television Drama.

In his critical overview of American theatre titled Modern American Drama, 1945-2000, Christopher Bigsby quoted Arthur Miller as saying that “Watching a play is not like lying on a psychiatrist’s couch or sitting alone in front of the television. In the theatre you can sense the reaction of your fellow citizens along with your own reaction”—a communality of experience that, along with self-knowledge, “brings a certain relief—the feeling that you are not alone” (119). This, as Bigsby had astut..

Attractivité du territoire et entrepreneuriat universitaire. Vers un modèle spécifique aux jeunes apprenants (Towards a specific model for young student)

En termes de développement entrepreneurial, les seules mises à disposition de moyens techniques, humains et financiers conséquents ne suffisent plus à créer une dynamique locale, au mieux elles accompagnent un équilibre précaire. Pour se développer, dans un contexte d’une économie mondiale, il ne suffit pas d’accumuler de la terre, du travail et du capital. Mais il faut aussi stimuler la qualification, le partenariat et les investissements en organisation. Ces facteurs représentent la capacité d’un territoire à produire son propre développement. Par rapport au modèle de développement impulsé de l’extérieur qui souvent débouche sur des problématiques de déplacements des activités, il est primordial qu’un territoire stimule la dynamique entrepreneuriale qui part de l’intérieur et tire profit des réseaux de ressources locales à partir d’un dispositif adapté. In terms of entrepreneurial development, making available technical, human and financial means are not anymore sufficient tools to create a local dynamics; at best, they accompany a precarious equilibrium. In a context of a world economy, development needs more than accumulating land, labour and capital. In fact, it is crucial to stimulate qualification, partnership and investment in organisation. These factors represent the capability of a territory to produce its own development. Compared to the development model impelled from the outside, and which often leads to activities transfer problems, it is primordial that a territory stimulates the entrepreneurial dynamics which stems from the inside and takes advantage of local resources networks through an adapted device.Territory attractiveness, University entrepreneurship, Young students

Billy J. Stratton, Buried in Shades of Night: Contested Voices, Indian Captivity, and the Legacy of King Philip’s War. With a Foreword by Frances Washburn and an Afterward by George E. Tinker.

The Lord hath showed me the vanity of these outward things....that they are but a shadow, a blast, a bubble, and things of no continuance. That we must rely on God Himself, and our whole dependence must be upon Him. Mary Rowlandson, Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson The above words, spoken at the close of the Twentieth Remove as a form of conclusion to the whole narrative, contain an unintended irony: as it is made clear by the Narrative itself, but mostly by ..

William Benemann, Men in Eden: William Drummond Stewart and Same-Sex Desire in the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade.

The narrative begins and (virtually) ends with the same absurd scene: a frolicking medieval fair, gents only, in full swing—costumes and all—on the shores of Fremont Lake, in the North Platte of the wild Rocky Mountains, in the summer of 1843. By the end of the book, however, the absurdity of that camp has been clarified as the projection of another sort of camp, that of the creator and financer of the expedition, William Drummond Stewart, nineteenth Lord of Grandtully, seventh Baronet of Mur..

Eric Carl Link and Gerry Canavan, eds. The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction

Eric Carl Link and Gerry Canavan, eds. The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction The Cambridge Companion Series. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. 254 ISBN: 978-1-107-05246-8. Christina Dokou National and Kapodistrian University of Athens This volume proclaims itself the successor of the earlier (2003) Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction, edited by Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn, and indeed adheres to the key virtues of the previous volume: it feat..

L’innovation en PME le role de l’accompagnement managerial et industriel innovation and SMES the role of managerial and industrial accompaniment

La mondialisation et la globalisation des marchés semblent compromettre la pérennité de la plupart des PME dont la situation stratégique est, d’ordinaire, fragile. Dans ce contexte, elles disposent, pourrait-on dire, d’une ultime alternative: l’innovation globale. Il en résulte sa maîtrise par une double action. La première prescrit de l’envisager dans la totalité de ses multiples formes pour ne pas réduire les opportunités internes et externes. La deuxième consiste à s’appuyer sur des synergies. Celles-ci ont une double origine. La première est de type organisationnel et fonde la culture de l’innovation. La seconde est externe et produite par l’accompagnement managérial et industriel. Celui-ci façonne et assure de surcroît la continuité des valeurs culturelles en terme d’innovation globale Globalization seems to question the durability of smes, whose strategic situation is in general fragile. In this context, they have an ultimate alternative: global innovation. The sme masters global innovation, through two main actions. The first consists in considering innovation in its various forms in order to avoid reducing internal and external opportunities. The second is to rely on synergies. These synergies stem from the organization which builts the culture of innovation and also from the managerial and industrial accompaniment. This one builts and ensures the durability of cultural values in terms of global innovationinnovation, SME’s, managerial accompaniement, industrial accompaniement