Turbulent Democracy: A Closer Look at JML 43.3

Take a closer look at JML 43.3 (Spring 2020). Author Seth McKelvey considers how Joan Didion's 1984 novel Democracy speaks into our present moment of national unrest. "In Democracy," he notes, "'turbulence' is not a threat to this thing we call democracy, but rather its essence." 

Read the full post HERE

His essay is a read-for-free feature: follow the links in the post to access it.

Linguistic Politics: JML 43.3 (Spring 2020) is now live

JML 43.3 (Spring 2020) on the theme “Linguistic Politics” is now live on JSTOR and on Project Muse.

Content includes the following:

Isabelle Parkinson
Democrat or “imbecile”? Gertrude Stein’s Useful Knowledge and Discourses of Intellectual Disability in the To-day and To-morrow Pamphlet Series
READ FOR FREE

Grant Scott
The Duplicity of the Word in Lynd Ward’s Vertigo (1937) 

Florian Gargaillo
Wistful Lies and Civil Virtues: Randall Jarrell on World War II Propaganda 

Jiang Yunqin
Dialectic of Desire and the Populist Subject in All the King’s Men

Rebecca Couch Steffy
Steve Benson’s “Views of Communist China”: Experimental Form and the Orientalist Trace 

Raymond Blake Stricklin
“I Have Nothing to Say” — John Cage, Biopower, and the Demilitarization of Language

Seth McKelvey
Unstate: Disarticulating State Knowledge and Joan Didion’s Democracy
READ FOR FREE

Alexander Hartley
Beckett’s Legal Scuffles and the Interpretation of the Plays

Tracy A. Stephens
Disrupting the Homoerotic Appeal of State Power in Caryl Churchill’s Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? 

Kirsten Sandrock
Border Temporalities, Climate Mobility, and Shakespeare in John Lanchester’s The Wall 

Elizabeth Scheer
When Artists Respond: Charles Andrews’s Writing Against War 

Daniel Rosenberg Nutters
Aesthetics and Politics Again?

Sean Weidman
Encountering Anew the Ghosts of Modernism