Criticism, Volume 64, Numbers 3-4, Summer/Fall 2022

Criticism provides a forum for current scholarship on literature, media, music and visual culture. A place for rigorous theoretical and critical debate as well as formal and methodological self-reflexivity and experimentation, Criticism aims to present contemporary thought at its most vital.

Criticism

Summer/Fall 2022, Volume 64, Numbers 3–4

What Is Critical Bibliography?

Lisa Maruca and Kate Ozment

Beyond the Book

Pipestone Books: Indigenous Materialisms and Bibliographical Methods

Daniel Radus

On the Black Book as Durational: Noah Purifoy’s Desert Library

Paul Benzon

Trees and Texts: Indigenous History, Material Media, and the Logan Elm

Mark Alan Mattes

Inscriptive Materiality, Epistemological Violence, and the Inka Khipu

Travis Sharp

“In the Cards”: The Material Textuality of Tarotological Reading

Jesse R. Erickson

Uncovering Labor

Critique! Critique! Critique! Black Labor in the Early American Book Trade

John J. Garcia

Beast and Man in India: Undoing John Lockwood Kipling’s Imperial Citation

Oishani Sengupta

Craftivism and Cottonian Bindings: “The Handiwork of Greta Hall”

Helen Williams

Surface Reading Paper as Feminist Bibliography

Georgina Wilson

Access in Book History Methodology and Pedagogy: Report from the “Touch to See” Workshop

Amanda Stuckey

Rethinking Catalogs and Archives

Barbara Grier’s Enumerative Bibliographies: Iterating Communal Lesbian Identities

Julie R. Enszer

On Feminist Practice in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Trade: Buying, Cataloging, and Selling

Rebecca Romney

Black Best-Selling Books and Bibliographical Concerns: The Essence Book Project

Jacinta R. Saffold and Kinohi Nishikawa

Toward an Experimental Bibliography of Hemispheric Reconstruction Newspapers

Joshua Ortiz Baco, Benjamin Charles Germain Lee, Jim Casey, and Sarah H. Salter

Activist Bibliography as Abolitionist Pedagogy in the American Prison Writing Archive

Kirstyn J. Leuner, Catherine Koehler, and Doran Larson

Acts of Disruption in the Eighteenth-Century Archives: Cooperative Critical Bibliography and the Ballitore Project

Danielle Spratt, Deena Al-halabieh, Stephen Martinez, Quill Sang, Joseph Sweetnam, Stephanie Guerrero, and Rachael Scarborough King

Bibliographic Knowledge(s)

Listening to Bamewawagezhikaquay’s Teachers: Jane Johnston Schoolcraft’s Citational Cosmopolitics

Shelby Johnson

Citing Seeds, Citing People: Bibliography and Indigenous Memory, Relations, and Living Knowledge-Keepers

Megan Peiser, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

Make Mine Melody: Building Beloved Community in Bibliography Using Mad Citation Practice

sarah madoka currie

“Come Think With Me”: Finding Communion in the Liberatory Textual Practices of Kameelah Janan Rasheed

Jehan L. Roberson

Making Mary Ann Waters Is a Free Black Woman: Critical Fabrication as Bibliographic Method

Kadin Henningsen

What Could a Trans Book History Look Like? Toward Trans Codicology

D. Sargan