http://hdl.handle.net/11089/48509 Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:51:54 GMT 2026-04-04T04:51:54Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/48987 Periodicals and Nation-Building: The Public Sphere, Modernity, and Modernism in Modern Review and Visva Bharati Quarterly Singh, Akansha The paper analyzes selections from Modern Review and Visva Bharati Quarterly, to study the complex act of nation-building taking place in India during the first half of the twentieth century. Through these periodicals, it discusses three interconnected occurrences that contributed to the envisioning of new India: firstly, the construction of a politically aware public sphere through nationalistic sentiments and anti-imperial internationalism; secondly, India’s localization of modernity as oscillating between the colonial subjects’ reactionary modernity and the colonially administered modernity of domination; and thirdly, the emergence of a modernism that was more immersed in restructuring social and political systems of power than being restricted to formal and aesthetic novelty. Thus, drawing on writings published in Modern Review and Visva Bharati Quarterly, the paper assesses the degree to which the two periodicals realized the identity of new India. Wed, 20 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11089/48987 2023-12-20T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/48989 Grande Dame Guignol at 60: A Review of Crazy Old Ladies: The Story of Hag Horror by Caroline Young (BearManor Media, 2022) Fisiak, Tomasz Wed, 20 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11089/48989 2023-12-20T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/48988 “All of history a rehearsal for its own extinction”: A Review of Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger (Knopf, 2022) Tardi, Mark Wed, 20 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11089/48988 2023-12-20T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/48985 Harry Styles as a Cecaelia: Sexuality, Representation and Media-lore in “Music for a Sushi Restaurant” Giuffre, Liz; Hayward, Philip The music video for Harry Styles’s 2022 track “Music for a Sushi Restaurant” (directed by Aube Perrie) provides a surprising representation of the pop star (arguably at the peak of his career) appearing as a cecaelia (a monstrous figure with a human head, arms and torso giving way to tentacles around its midriff). The video is notable in two distinct contexts. First, in terms of Styles’s trajectory as a popular music performer who has received intense media attention because of his fan base, artistic persona and ambiguous sexual identity; and second, in terms of the articulation of a relatively minor media-loric (i.e. modern folkloric) entity in a high profile popular cultural context. The article discusses these aspects before moving to an analysis of the music video showing how Styles’s role as a cecaelia serves as a representation of his career position, public profile and desire to assert his creative-industrial agency in the early 2020s. The music video thereby illustrates the potential of media-loric figures to represent complex themes in contemporary cultural discourse. Wed, 20 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11089/48985 2023-12-20T00:00:00Z