Sophia A. McClennen

Bio: Sophia A. McClennen is an academic researcher from Pennsylvania State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Terrorism. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 53 publications receiving 454 citations. Previous affiliations of Sophia A. McClennen include Purdue University.

Bibliography of Scholarship in Comparative Latin American Culture and Literature

Abstract: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, the peer-reviewed, full-text, and open-access learned journal in the humanities and social sciences, publishes new scholarship following tenets of the discipline of comparative literature and the field of cultural studies designated as \"comparative cultural studies.\" Publications in the journal are indexed in the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (Chadwyck-Healey), the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Thomson Reuters ISI), the Humanities Index (Wilson), Humanities International Complete (EBSCO), the International Bibliography of the Modern Language Association of America, and Scopus (Elsevier). The journal is affiliated with the Purdue University Press monograph series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies. Contact:

Inter-American studies or Imperial American studies?

Abstract: As inter-American studies gain greater academic visibility, we are now in a position to ask whether the field constitutes an imperial threat to Latin American literary and cultural study, or whether it provides a valuable basis for cross-cultural comparison. Do inter-American studies represent the latest variation on the Monroe Doctrine of policing the region? What do we make of the fact that inter-American studies blossoms just as Latin Americanism becomes increasingly more powerful in the academy? This article argues that while questions of empire and appropriation must be considered as we assess this burgeoning field of inquiry, an inter-American perspective also affords possibilities for studying cultural production. These possibilities include comparative studies of works that have been largely marginalized by scholars of the Americas, such as Brazilian and indigenous literatures. In addition, the inter-American approach is able to put pressure on nationalist and cultural essentialist episte...

Is Satire Saving Our Nation?: Mockery and American Politics

Abstract: Table of contents Preface Chapter 1: The Politics of Seriously Joking Chapter 2: Comedy U: Lessons Learned Where You Least Expect It Chapter 3: Some of the News That's Fit to Print: Satire and the Changing News Cycle Chapter 4: The Dynamic Duo: Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert Redefine Political Satire Chapter 5: When I Mock You, I Make You Better: How Satire Works Chapter 6: Mesmerized Millennials and BYTE-ing satire: Or How Today's Young Generation Thinks Chapter 7: Savin' Franklin: Satire Defends Our National Values Chapter 8: Laughing So Hard I Could Cry: Analyzing the Satire Scare Chapter 9: I'm Not Laughing at You, I'm Laughing With You: How to Stop Worrying and Love the Laughter

The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

Abstract: The central unifying theme in the Manuscripts is the alienation of labour under capitalist conditions of private ownership and its transcendence and abolition under communism. The doctrine of total emancipation which, as I have argued, was crucial in enabling Marx to assimilate ‘class’ and the ‘division of labour’ in his work is much more clearly articulated here and eloquently expressed. Communism, Marx argues, is ‘the positive transcendence of all estrangement’; the abolition of private property, communism: is the genuine resolution of the conflict between man and nature — the true resolution of the strife between existence and essence, between objectification and self-confirmation, between freedom and necessity, between the individual and the species. Communism is the riddle of history solved, and knows itself to be this solution.27 The vision of communism Marx unfolds in the Manuscripts derives much of its force from his remarkable analysis of the alienation of labour and is clearly underpinned by a preconception of truly human, free productive activity. Man’s productive interchange with nature is in fact taken as the defining characteristic of the species: ‘the productive life is the life of the species’; and Marx is careful to point out that while an animal can also be said to engage in production it ‘only produces what it immediately needs for itself or its young’.