During this time-not counting courses in Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, or early modern literature-The Tempest has been taught in English departments at the undergraduate or graduate level in freshman seminars surveys of Great Books capstone courses writing and composition courses seminars on literary theory, Marxism, postcolonialism, and race, gender, queer theory early American literature and transatlantic literature courses surveys of American literature and courses on Romanticism, modernism, modern drama, Third World literatures, postmodernism, Chicano/a literatures, Afro-Caribbean literatures, and diaspora literatures. (2014) 27:273–285 DOI 10.1007/s1212-4 ARTICLES Acknowledging Things of Darkness: Postcolonial Criticism of The Tempest Duke Pesta Published online: 31 July 2014 # Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 Over the last forty years, postcolonial criticism has become a dominant mode of critical discourse for the profession of literature and Renaissance studies in particular, with The Tempest serving as terminus a quo for many such discussions across historical periods and academic disciplines.
Allison is also a Video Editor for The Religious Studies Project, producing videos for the podcast and marketing team.Acknowledging Things of Darkness: Postcolonial Criticism of The Tempest Acknowledging Things of Darkness: Postcolonial Criticism of The TempestĪcad. Her research interest is focused on the twentieth-century American Civil Rights Movement and the Catholic Church’s response to racism and the participation of Catholic clergy, nuns, and laypeople in marches, sit-ins, and kneel-ins during the 1950s and 1960s.
#ERRAND INTO THE WILDERNESS TAKAKI DRIVER#
By braiding the development of the modern intelligence agency with the story of postwar American religion, Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors delivers a provocative new look at a secret driver of one of the major engines of American power.Īllison Isidore is the Assistant Director for the American Catholic Historical Association and is an Instructor of Record for the Religious Studies department at the University of Alabama.
As Graziano makes clear, these misconceptions often led to tragedy and disaster on an international scale. But more tellingly, Graziano shows, American intelligence officers were overly inclined to view powerful religions and religious figures through the frameworks of Catholicism. In a practical sense, this was because the Roman Catholic Church already had global networks of people and safe places that American agents could use to their advantage. Graziano argues that the religious approach to intelligence by key OSS and CIA figures like “Wild” Bill Donovan and Edward Lansdale was an essential, and overlooked, factor in establishing the agency’s concerns, methods, and understandings of the world. Fittingly, Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA(U Chicago Press, 2021) investigates the dangers and delusions that ensued from the religious worldview of the early molders of the Central Intelligence Agency. Michael Graziano’s intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in American history: Perry Miller’s Errand into the Wilderness (1956), about the religious worldview of the early Massachusetts colonists, and David Martin’s Wilderness of Mirrors (1980), about the dangers and delusions inherent to the Central Intelligence Agency.
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