NANO: New American Notes Online Publishes Special Issue on Captivity Narratives

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Dear Community:

City Tech’s Interdisciplinary Peer-Reviewed Journal NANO: New American Notes Online<https://nanocrit.com/> is happy to announce the publication of Special Issue 14: Captivity Narratives Then and Now: Gender, Race, and the Captive in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century American Literature and Culture

How should we understand captivity and the narratives, politics, culture, and art surrounding it? The new issue of NANO: New American Notes Online, an open access City Tech humanities journal, revisits this and related questions by exploring old and new stories of captivity.

Table of Contents:

• Editor’s Introduction for NANO Special Issue 14: Captivity Narratives Then and Now: Gender, Race, and the Captive in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century American Literature and Culture<https://nanocrit.com/issues/issue14/Editors-Introduction-for-NANO-Special-Issue-14-Captivity-Narratives>, by Megan Behrent (New York City College of Technology, CUNY)

• An Interview with Nancy Armstrong, Coauthor of The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life<https://nanocrit.com/issues/issue14/An-Interview-with-Nancy-Armstrong>, by Megan Behrent (New York City College of Technology, CUNY)

• Personal Trials and Social Fears: Examining Reflexivity in Captivity Narratives<https://nanocrit.com/issues/issue14/Personal-Trials-and-Social-Fears-Examining-Reflexivity-in-Captivity-Narratives>, by Leslie Irvine (University of Colorado Boulder) and Wisam H. Alshaibi (UCLA)

• Very Familiar Things: Captivity and Female Fierceness in Stranger Things<https://nanocrit.com/issues/issue14/Very-Familiar-Things-Captivity-and-Female-Fierceness-in-Stranger-Things>, by Elena Furlanetto (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

• Flashback to the Bunker: Reframing Echoes of Captivity in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt<https://nanocrit.com/issues/issue14/Flashback-to-the-Bunker-Reframing-Echoes-of-Captivity-in-Unbreakable-Kimmy-Schmidt>, by Charity Fox (Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg)

• Book Review: Narrative as Performance: American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes, and Trial of Patty Hearst by Jeffrey Toobin<https://nanocrit.com/issues/issue14/Book-Review-Narrative-as-Performance-American-Heiress-The-Wild-Saga-of-the-Kidnapping-Crimes-and-Trial-of-Patty-Hearst>, reviewed by Visola Wurzer



On the Horizon:

Guest Editors Matt Miller (Yeshiva University) and Matthew Lau (Queensborough Community College) are beginning production for Issue 15: Special Issue on Twin Peaks: Season Three




Best wishes,



Sean Scanlan, PhD

Associate Professor of English

New York City College of Technology-CUNY

300 Jay St.

Brooklyn, NY 11201


Founder and Editor, NANO: New American Notes Online

https://nanocrit.com


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