From the Editors
My previous (and first) editor’s note opened with a mild joke about how endless the opening month or so of 2020 had seemed. Simpler times: “the beforetime,” as we all seem to have spontaneously agreed to call it.
The onset of the COVID-19-era has not made putting out a journal any easier: pretty much everything we’ve worked on from the first half of this year has been, or still is, late. The not-so-new still-not-normal has really...Read more
Current Print Issue
“The World’s Heavy Gaze”: Cin-aereality in the Postwar Avant-Gardes
Paula Amad
Exceeding Modernism: Romantic Artists in the Twentieth Century
Paul Cuff
Lateness and...Read more
FORUMS
Cluster
In 1954, Maya Angelou performed in a production of George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess that toured through Italy. This United States-sponsored initiative brought African American performance to European stages in an effort to combat Soviet propaganda about American racism. As Melanie Masterton Sherazi shows in her contribution to this cluster, Angelou’s own memoirs of the trip recall not only the staged productions on the tour, but also...
Oct 15, 2019
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