Vol. 42, 2024

Contents

Editors’ Note
ERIC FURE-SLOCUM, CRISTINA BĂNICERU,
AND LOREDANA BERCUCI

Crisis and Political Discourse

“The Aftermath of Historic Chaos:” Trumpism 
as a Totalist Worldview in the Testimonies
of Participants in the January 6 Attacks
MIHAI MURARIU AND LOREDANA BERCUCI

The Crisis of the 1930s and American Antisemitism
GABRIELA TUCAN AND DUMITRU TUCAN

Spaces of Crisis

Crisis? What Crisis?: Rethinking
How We Talk about Rural America
STEVEN CONN

“The wrong side of the desk:” Material and Discursive Struggle
in Bud Osborn’s Downtown Eastside
CONNOR ROBINSON

Crisis and Literary Discourse

The Crucible and the Production of Fear in the
Contemporary World: The Future and Persistence in Culture
AAMIR AZIZ

Investigating the Interrelationship between the Desire for a Cohesive Community and Opioid Abuse: A Neuropsychological Study of Demon Copperhead
LEMON SAM

Cultural Politics and Academic Crises in American Campus Fiction:
Francine Prose’s Blue Angel and Tom Wolfe’s I Am Charlotte Simmons
DANA PERCEC

Teaching Crises

Recovered History:
Chicanx Representation in the Dual Credit Classroom
RONNIE K. STEPHENS

Teaching the January 6th Insurrection:
Historical Perspectives on a Crisis in American Democracy
ERIC FURE-SLOCUM

Reviews 

Casey Nelson Blake, Daniel H. Borus, and Howard Brick.
At the Center: American Thought and Culture 
in the Mid-Twentieth Century
GABRIEL C. GHERASIM

Dana Gioia. Christianity and Poetry
ROXANA ELENA DONCU

Canning, Charlotte M. Theatre & the USA
DIANA BENEA

Mihaela P. Harper and Dimitar Kambourov, editors.
Bulgarian Literature as World Literature
ALEXANDRA GLAVANAKOVA