New directions in print culture studies: archives, materiality, and modern American culture [Book Review]

Round, Siân 2023. New directions in print culture studies: archives, materiality, and modern American culture [Book Review]. Journal of Modern Periodical Studies 14 (1) , pp. 95-99. 10.5325/jmodeperistud.14.1.0095

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Abstract

Jesse B. Simple, the protagonist of Langston Hughes’s “Simple Stories,” finds himself on the subway with a Spanish-language comic book that he bought by mistake. Exchanging it with a Puerto Rican, he thinks about the possibilities of an anti-racist humor publication that would poke fun at white Americans, written in both English and Spanish. It is, Simple shows, print culture that connects people to their communities. Hughes himself valued African American newspapers more than any other reading material, stating that, without them, he felt “as though I [was] completely out of this world.”1 Just as much as it reflects the world, print culture creates it. Jesse W. Schwartz and Daniel Worden use the example of Simple in their excellent introduction to New Directions in Print Culture Studies: Archives, Materiality, and Modern American Culture, a collection of essays that explore the different resonances of what it means to study...

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	English, Communication and Philosophy
Publisher:	Penn State University Press
ISSN:	1947-6574
Last Modified:	18 Dec 2023 10:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/164724

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