There is a rhythm to putting out four issues of a journal each year, and it is a highly collaborative dance involving serial negotiations with authors, reviewers, board members, book review editors, ...graduate editorial assistants, copyeditors, and production and marketing staff at the press. Another highlight was my collaboration with Amanda Cobb-Greetham, then editor of American Indian Quarterly, and Beth Piatote, who agreed to serve as my guest coeditor, for a special combined issue of AIQ and SAIL as a follow-up to the SAI Centennial Symposium; that combined issue appeared in summer 2013 and featured sixteen highly accomplished essays across multiple disciplines, plus high-resolution reproductions of original documents and photographs from the SAI's first multidisciplinary meetings at Ohio State in 1911. ...I need to thank our cadre of anonymous SAIL reviewers (you know who you are), who deserve special acknowledgment for the essential service they provide to individual colleagues and to the broader profession. ...I am extremely pleased to be handing over the editing of SAIL to my respected colleagues and friends Michelle Raheja of the University of California Riverside and Siobhan Senier of the University of New Hampshire.
Continuing the important work he began in a 2013 special issue of sail devoted to animal studies, Hudson explicates the central crisis of Indigenous confinement in D'Arcy McNickle's The Surrounded ...and John Oskison's Brothers Three in terms of these novels' complex discourses on the domestication of nonhuman animals. ...in order to better understand how McNickle and Oskison confront the settler politics of Indigenous confinement, Hudson urges us not to simply choose between figurative and literal readings of key scenes involving nonhuman animals, such as cattle and horses, but rather to combine these approaches to analysis.
Origins and Plans of the American Indian Association" Studies in American Indian Literatures and American Indian Quarterly, both published by University of Nebraska Press, have combined forces to ...produce this special issue devoted to locating the Society of American Indians historically, politically, and discursively, and to assessing the ongoing significance of its several legacies. ...on the one hand, the issue highlights the strategic nature of the sai s original conception and, on the other, argues the need for new approaches to sai scholarship. ...I would like to thank Amanda Cobb-Greetham, editor of American Indian Quarterly, and the University of Nebraska Press for helping to make the idea of this combined special issue a reality.
