[A Recap of the
month that was in AmericanStudying.]
March
4: Remembering the Alamo: The Two Films: For the battle’s anniversary, an
Alamo series kicks off with what separates the 1960 and 2004 films and a
telling shared detail.
March
5: Remembering the Alamo: A Mexican Memoir: The series continues with a
couple takeaways from a controversial but apparently authentic soldier’s
memoir.
March
6: Remembering the Alamo: Lone Star: Two exchanges in my favorite film that
captures the complexities of collective memory, as the series fights on.
March
7: Remembering the Alamo: Phil Collins?!: A couple ways to AmericanStudy a
strange and telling 21st century story.
March
8: Remembering the Alamo: The Historic Site: The series concludes with two
significant problems with the mission statement of an important preservationist
effort.
March
9-10: Tejano Traditions: Following up the Alamo series with a special
weekend post on three products of South Texas Tejano culture (including my
childhood favorite restaurant, La Hacienda!).
March
11: Irish Americans: Mathew Brady: A St. Patrick’s Day series kicks off
with lesser-known historical contexts for the Civil War’s most famous
photographer.
March
12: Irish Americans: Augustus Saint-Gaudens: The series continues with the
artist whose Irish American and international legacy is written in stone.
March
13: Irish Americans: Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: On the similar
yet opposing pulls of artistic and romantic passions, as the series rolls on.
March
14: Irish Americans: Gene Kelly’s Films: Stand-out moments from of the
legendary actor and dancer’s biggest hit movies.
March
15: Irish Americans: Macklemore’s “Irish Celebration”: The series concludes
with a song that both relies upon yet also transcends ethnic stereotypes.
March
16-17: Irish American Literature: A special weekend post, on five books
that can tell us a lot about the Irish American experience.
March
18: YA Series: Rick Riordan: A series on some of my sons’ favorite YA
series kicks off with some of the reasons why they prefer Riordan’s books to
other YA fantasies.
March
19: YA Series: Wildwood and Ratbridge: The series continues with the limits
and appeals of quirky fantasy series.
March
20: YA Series: Artemis Fowl: The fraught perils of rooting for an anti-hero
and how Eoin Colfer’s series transcends them through world-building, as the
series reads on.
March
21: YA Series: Timmy Failure: The difficult task of appealing to kid and
adult audiences alike, and how Stephan Pastis’s books pull it off in (Sam)
spades.
March
22: YA Series: The Chronicles of Prydain, Revisited: The series concludes
with the nostalgic and new delights of watching my son read one of my childhood
favorite series.
March
23-24: Crowd-sourced YA Lit: One of my richest crowd-sourced posts yet,
featuring the responses and recommendations of many fellow YALitStudies—add
yours here or in comments there, please!
March
25: NeMLA Recaps: Imbolo Mbue: A series recapping the 2019 NeMLA convention
in DC kicks off with two takeaways from Mbue’s wonderful opening night creative
event.
March
26: NeMLA Recaps: My Toni Morrison Panel: The series continues with the
four great talks on the first half of my “African American Literature and the
Ironies of Freedom” panel.
March
27: NeMLA Recaps: Homi Bhabha: Tracing Homi Bhabha’s bracing and inspiring keynote
through three key phrases, as the series rolls on.
March
28: NeMLA Recaps: My Contemporary Af Am Panel: Highlighting the three great
papers on the second half of my African American panel.
March
29: NeMLA Recaps: Other Standout Sessions: The series concludes with three
more excellent and thought-provoking panels from across the conference.
April Fool’s
series starts Monday,
Ben
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