American Studies Scholarly Works
https://hdl.handle.net/1808/9930
2024-03-28T22:24:24ZAUMI-Futurism: the Elsewhere and "Elsewhen" of (Un)Rolling the Boulder and Turning the Page
https://hdl.handle.net/1808/27381
AUMI-Futurism: the Elsewhere and "Elsewhen" of (Un)Rolling the Boulder and Turning the Page
Stewart, Jesse; Tucker, Sherrie; Williams, Peter; Haaheim, Kip
This article discusses two performances that used the movement-to-music technology known as the "Adaptive Use Musical Instrument" or AUMI to allow differently-abled participants to collaborate with one another: (Un)Rolling the Boulder: Improvising New Communities, a multimedia, mixed-ability improvisation that was staged at the University of Kansas in October 2013 and Turning the Page, an interdisciplinary musical theatre piece premiered in Ottawa, Canada in April 2014. We theorize these performances as examples of "AUMI-Futurism”, combining insights gleaned from two different sources: the Afrofuturist philosophy of composer, improviser, and bandleader Sun Ra, and the work of disability studies scholar Alison Kafer. This essay examines the collaborative, improvisatory processes that surrounded (Un)Rolling the Boulder and Turning the Page, focusing in particular on the role that the AUMI software played in imagining and performing new communities.
2018-01-10T00:00:00Z“Suppose for a moment, that Keanu had reasoned thus”: Contagious Debts and Prisoner–Patient Consent in Nineteenth-Century Hawai‘i
https://hdl.handle.net/1808/27355
“Suppose for a moment, that Keanu had reasoned thus”: Contagious Debts and Prisoner–Patient Consent in Nineteenth-Century Hawai‘i
Perreira, Christopher
This article considers the 1884 criminal case and medical archive of Keanu, a Native Hawaiian prisoner sentenced to death in the Hawaiian courts for murder. Keanu’s sentence was commuted to “life in prison” after he consented to experimental leprosy (Hansen’s disease) inoculations. The article examines the tensions between Keanu’s prisoner–patient value and US imperialism as a discourse of social debt in nineteenth-century Hawai‘i. It argues that the figure of the prisoner–patient raises broad questions about the historical function of racialization, criminalization, and disease across medical discourse at that time. More specifically, it interrogates how those discourses were constructed around the figure of Keanu and reveals a transformation in his status from devalued social death to that of valuable social debt.
2017-01-01T00:00:00ZEast L.A., Seoul, and Military Mysteries in Martin Limón’s Slicky Boys and The Wandering Ghost
https://hdl.handle.net/1808/21210
East L.A., Seoul, and Military Mysteries in Martin Limón’s Slicky Boys and The Wandering Ghost
Kim, Joo Ok
2014-06-01T00:00:00ZReview of Children of the Dark House, Noel Polk
https://hdl.handle.net/1808/20606
Review of Children of the Dark House, Noel Polk
Lester, Cheryl
This is the published version.
1997-01-01T00:00:00Z