Modes Of Authorship Research Articles

The Hobo Anomalous: Class, minorities and political invention in the Industrial Workers of the World

This article is an analysis of minority political invention in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Against the tendency in recent social and cultural theory to dichotomize class and difference, it argues that it was in and through the IWW's formulation of class that minority political and cultural invention occurred. Using the framework of Deleuze and Guattari's minor politics, the article shows how the IWW's composition in the simultaneously diffuse and cramped plane of work operated against the major political identities and subjects of worker, immigrant, American, citizen and 'people', and towards the creation of minority political knowledges, tactics and cultural styles premised on the condition that 'the people are missing'. Seeking to understand the IWW's modes and techniques of invention, the article explores the general plane of IWW composition, its particular political and cultural expressions (in songs, manifestos, cartoons and tactics), and its minor mode of authorship. The article focuses in particular on two aspects of IWW minority composition, the itinerant worker, or hobo, and the politics of sabotage.

“a supernal liuely fayth”: Katherine Parr and the authoring of devotion

This article takes as its subject the devotional writings of Katherine Parr and how they interacted with the rapidly changing conditions of the Henrician and Edwardian religious settlements. Initially, points of comparison are established between the modes of authorship of Askew and Parr, leading to an examination of cultural pressures being exerted on women seeking public speaking positions within Tudor society. Subsequent analysis leads to a detailed account of the ways in which Parr engages in and/or disengages from strategies of devotional identity formation in her various writings and acts of patronage. Parr's “Prayers or Medytacions” and “Lamentacion of a Synner” are the dominant foci of interest throughout the article and are studied in the context of wider Reformist thinking and publications during the middle decades of the sixteenth century. The latter phase of this article concentrates on the post-Henrician period of Parr's life and how her (and indeed others') role as patron may be explored in terms of authorship and cultural engagement.