Trauma And The Representation Of The Unsayable In Late Twentieth-Century Fiction,
2010
CUNY Graduate Center
Trauma And The Representation Of The Unsayable In Late Twentieth-Century Fiction, Katina Rogers
Publications and Research
This dissertation explores the ways in which several fiction writers from France, the U.S., and Latin America experiment with the form of their works in writing about traumatic experience, as they navigate the tension between a propulsion toward expression and toward silence. Some of these traumas are vast, as in Edmond Jabès’ Le livre des questions (1963-1973), which addresses not only the Holocaust, but also questions of exile and identity. Others are on a smaller scale, such as Jacques Roubaud’s Quelque chose noir (1986), Julio Cortázar's Los autonautas de la cosmopista (1983), and Macedonio Fernández’s Museo de la Novela de …
More Than Words, More Than Wounds: (Re)Writing 'Wounded' Women And Healing Pedagogies,
2010
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
More Than Words, More Than Wounds: (Re)Writing 'Wounded' Women And Healing Pedagogies, Rachel Nicole Spear
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
This project reconceptualizes how women and their personal stories of trauma have been read and represented in literary, feminist, and pedagogical studies, asserting that these authors and their texts should be recognized respectively as wounded healers and healing narratives. By situating my study within links among trauma, women, and writing, I argue that women and their personal stories of trauma exist in marginal, or rather, wounded positions. I problematize scholarship where links among these three commonly emerge (namely psychoanalytic, autobiographical, and feminist fields) to challenge monolithic readings and re-write these women and texts as more than wounded. More than Words, …
Reading Out Of Doors: How Nature Becomes Text And Vice-Versa,
2010
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
Reading Out Of Doors: How Nature Becomes Text And Vice-Versa, Richmond Minor Eustis
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The tensions between city and country, the artificial and the natural, the real and the fake are at the heart of attempts to render nature in writing. In many such texts, nature—especially wilderness—is the realm of the real, authentic, and pure, while the city is the realm of the artificial and corrupt. This placement of value in nature, members of the critical theory camp tend to counter, is misguided. Any effort to render nature in text is by its “nature” artificial—far more about human values embedded in language itself than about some extra-textual world. With an approach derived from theorists …
The Mother Tongues Of Modernity: Modernism, Transnationalism, Translation,
2010
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
The Mother Tongues Of Modernity: Modernism, Transnationalism, Translation, Roland K. Végső
Department of English: Faculty Publications
The relation of modernism to immigrant literatures should not be conceived in terms of an opposition between universalistic and particularistic discourses. Rather, we should explore what can be called a modernist transnationalism based on a general universalist argument. Two examples of this transnationalism are explored side by side: Ezra Pound’s and Anzia Yezierska’s definitions of the aesthetic act in terms of translation. The readings show that the critical discourses of these two authors are structured by a belief in universalism while showing opposite possibilities, both generated by modernist transnationalism. The essay concludes that we now need to interpret the cultures …
Forest Of Eyes: Selected Poetry Of Tada Chimako,
2009
Western Michigan University
Forest Of Eyes: Selected Poetry Of Tada Chimako, Jeffrey Angles
Jeffrey Angles
One of Japan's most important modern poets, Tada Chimako (1930-2003) gained prominence in her native country for her sensual, surreal poetry, and fantastic imagery. Although Tada's writing is an essential part of postwar Japanese poetry, her use of themes and motifs from European, Near Eastern, and Mediterranean history, mythology, and literature, as well as her sensitive explorations of women's inner lives make her very much a poet of the world. Forest of Eyes offers English-language readers their first opportunity to read a wide selection from Tada's extraordinary oeuvre, including nontraditional free verse, poems in the traditional forms of tanka and …
“The Necessity Of Reading And Being Read”: Barbara Johnson And The Literary Politics Of Narcissism,
2009
Occidental College
“The Necessity Of Reading And Being Read”: Barbara Johnson And The Literary Politics Of Narcissism, Samuel Solomon
Samuel Solomon
This article traces some of the crossings of the literary, political, moral, and epistemological valences of “narcissism” in the work of literary critic Barbara Johnson, exploring how Johnson implicitly works within and against the view, as expounded by the Practical Criticism and others, of “morality” as a conduit between literature and politics. In contrast, Johnson works to read the differences within moral and epistemological schemas, betraying the pretenses of any moral “stance” without evading the necessity of holding political positions. The author follows Johnson's writings on Ovid, Heinz Kohut, and Nella Larsen, tracing the ways in which she articulates the …
Mob Rule In New Orleans: Anarchy, Governance, And Media Representation,
2009
Occidental College
Mob Rule In New Orleans: Anarchy, Governance, And Media Representation, James Ford
James Ford
This article deconstructs the terms "anarchy" and "mob rule," which are used to restore legitimacy to failed hegemonic structures and to misrepresent collective governance working outside those structures. I use this argument to reinterpret Mob Rule in New Orleans by Ida B Wells, and ultimately, to contribute to a new theory of "crisis."
Review Essay: Dreamland,
2009
Utah Valley University
Review Essay: Charles Bowden/Alice Leora Briggs/Kelly Leslie's "Dreamland",
2009
Utah Valley University
Review Essay: Charles Bowden/Alice Leora Briggs/Kelly Leslie's "Dreamland", Scott Abbott
Scott Abbott
No abstract provided.
Miss Cather Talks On Technique,
2009
Selected Works
Hermeneutic Adventures In Home Teaching: Mary And Richard Rorty,
2009
Utah Valley University
Hermeneutic Adventures In Home Teaching: Mary And Richard Rorty, Scott Abbott
Scott Abbott
No abstract provided.
Recreating The Self: Stations Of The Cross In Peter Handke’S The Left-Handed Woman,
2009
Utah Valley University
Recreating The Self: Stations Of The Cross In Peter Handke’S The Left-Handed Woman, Scott Abbott
Scott Abbott
No abstract provided.
Review Essay: Charles Bowden/Alice Leora Briggs/Kelly Leslie's "Dreamland",
2009
Utah Valley University
Review Essay: Charles Bowden/Alice Leora Briggs/Kelly Leslie's "Dreamland", Scott Abbott
Scott Abbott
No abstract provided.
The African Roots Of Michael Echeruo’S Poetry: A Close-Reading Of ‘Sophia’,
2009
University of Massachusetts Boston
The African Roots Of Michael Echeruo’S Poetry: A Close-Reading Of ‘Sophia’, Chukwuma Azuonye
Chukwuma Azuonye
This paper argues that, contrary to widespread opinion, the poetry of first generation, postcolonial, modernist Nigerian poet, Michael J. C. Echeruo, draws some of its core and defining tropes from indigenous African system of thought and symbolism. The much maligned early poem "Sophia" is subjected to line-by-line close-reading to illustrate this argument. The analysis suggests that, as a matter of fact, "Sophia" can be read as a portal to Echeruo's poetic corpus as a whole.
Achebe's Igbo Poems: Oral Traditional Resources And The Process Of ‘Deschooling’ In Modern African Poetics,
2009
University of Massachusetts Boston
Achebe's Igbo Poems: Oral Traditional Resources And The Process Of ‘Deschooling’ In Modern African Poetics, Chukwuma Azuonye
Chukwuma Azuonye
The present paper examines the diction, imagery and other features of language and style in Chinua Achebe's two Igbo poems ("Uno Onwu Okigbo" and "Akuko Kpulu Uwa Iru"). Disposing of charges of plagiarism levied on Achebe on account of his modeling of the poems on well-known Igbo folk songs, the paper argues that what is rather involved in the compositional process is a process of "deschooling" from the strictures of European or Eurocentric conventions of versification. It concludes that a process of "deschooling" of this kind is one way in which African writers can begin their journey back with undivided …
Ogbuu-Kay! The "After Laugh" Lingers On (Memorial Tribute To Ogbu Uke Kalu, 1942-2009),
2009
University of Massachusetts Boston
Ogbuu-Kay! The "After Laugh" Lingers On (Memorial Tribute To Ogbu Uke Kalu, 1942-2009), Chukwuma Azuonye
Chukwuma Azuonye
No abstract provided.
Landslide - Interview With The Descendants Of Titsian Tabidze,
2009
University of Bristol
Landslide - Interview With The Descendants Of Titsian Tabidze, Rebecca Gould
Rebecca Gould
No abstract provided.
Becoming A Georgian Women,
2009
University of Bristol
Review Of Andrew Cusack's "The Wanderer In 19th-Century German Literature,
2009
Utah Valley University
Review Of Andrew Cusack's "The Wanderer In 19th-Century German Literature, Scott Abbott
Scott Abbott
No abstract provided.
Review Of Erhard Bahr's "Weimar On The Pacific,
2009
Utah Valley University
Review Of Erhard Bahr's "Weimar On The Pacific, Scott Abbott
Scott Abbott
No abstract provided.
