Jean Rhys’S Voyage In The Dark As A Trans-Atlantic Tragic Mulatta Narrative,
2011
Butler University
Jean Rhys’S Voyage In The Dark As A Trans-Atlantic Tragic Mulatta Narrative, Ania Spyra
Ania Spyra
Abstract not available
Reading 9/11 Through The Holocaust In Philip Roth’S The Plot Against America And Art Spiegelman’S In The Shadow Of No Towers,
2011
Purdue University
Reading 9/11 Through The Holocaust In Philip Roth’S The Plot Against America And Art Spiegelman’S In The Shadow Of No Towers, Stella Setka
Re-visioning Terrorism
This essay argues that Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America and Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of New Towers open up new spaces for reading the trauma of 9/11 not simply as the tragic story of a single day in 2001, but as a traumatic event that shares referents with other catastrophes in history, most notably the Holocaust. Further, the author demonstrates that these works are more concerned with the politicization of 9/11 than they are with the terrorist attacks themselves.
Historicizing The Present In 9/11 Fiction,
2011
Western Michigan University
Historicizing The Present In 9/11 Fiction, Todd Kuchta
Re-visioning Terrorism
Reconfiguring the debate on the historical efficacy of postmodern fiction, novels inspired by 9/11 seek to view the present itself as history. McEwan’s Saturday, DeLillo’s Falling Man, and Hamid’s Reluctant Fundamentalist attempt to move beyond the view of history-as-text. Rather than evoking “the presence of the past,” they present characters trying to situate themselves in a new historical reality. Žižek’s account of Lacan illuminates DeLillo’s attempt to historicize the present, while McEwan gestures toward Foucault’s view of the present as exit. Only Hamid engages the historical potential of the present.
Female (Em)Bodied Justice: Terrorism, Self-Sacrifice, And The Joint Primacy Of Gender And Nationality,
2011
Western Michigan University
Female (Em)Bodied Justice: Terrorism, Self-Sacrifice, And The Joint Primacy Of Gender And Nationality, Renee Lee Gardner
Re-visioning Terrorism
In The Terror Dream, Susan Faludi asserts that instead of processing the events of 9/11 – what they might reveal about our culture, how we might thoughtfully grieve them and respond to those who perpetrated them – Americans reverted to a 1950s style domesticity, with the media representing men as heroic rescuers and women as victims of terrorists, in need of rescuing. This is ironic in that the majority of that day’s casualties were men, and the attacks themselves were perpetrated within our commercial and governmental centers. Yet much of the literary fiction that has emerged from 9/11 can …
The Privilege Of Ambivalence: Saturday’S Henry Perowne On The ‘War On Terror’,
2011
Western Michigan University
The Privilege Of Ambivalence: Saturday’S Henry Perowne On The ‘War On Terror’, Jax Lee Gardner
Re-visioning Terrorism
This essay considers the relation between personal privilege (class, race, nationality, sex) and political ambivalence toward the Iraq war as it manifests in the protagonist of Ian McEwan’s Saturday. Henry Perowne “feels culpable somehow, but helpless too” in his shifting opinions of the coming invasion. Throughout the text we are shown Henry’s multiple perspectives regarding Iraq. Such ambivalence is, in itself, a form of complicity in war. Henry neither tangibly opposes the actions of the government (as the protesters do), nor does he consider sacrificing any of his creature comforts in support of the war (as the soldiers do). I …
Nationalism, Alterity, And Cognitive Studies In Mohsin Hamid, Laila Halaby, And Jess Walte,
2011
Purdue University
Nationalism, Alterity, And Cognitive Studies In Mohsin Hamid, Laila Halaby, And Jess Walte, Aaron Derosa
Re-visioning Terrorism
This essay explores the metaphoric construction of the terrorist Other in 9/11 scholarship and literature. While academics demand an ethical engagement with Arab and Muslim Americans, they unwittingly reify a binary distinction of Other-Same that triangulates terrorist identity through ordinary Arabs and Muslims. Looking at Halaby’s Once in a Promised Land and Walter’s The Zero, I suggest an alternative metaphor for terrorism not as a regional or religious population, but as an internal impulse that dwells within us all. Doing so more ethically and productively aligns terrorism with the threat to global security in the post-9/11 era.
Three Romanian Postcards,
2011
Butler University
Three Romanian Postcards, Ania Spyra
Ania Spyra
Whether in memory of some ancient fertility rites, or because of the International Women‟s Day on the eight of the month, March is considered women‟s month in Romania.
No More Tall Buildings: American Superhero Comics And The Shadow Of 9/11,
2011
Purdue University
No More Tall Buildings: American Superhero Comics And The Shadow Of 9/11, Mauricio Castro
Re-visioning Terrorism
No abstract provided.
"Whether Writers Themselves Have Been Changed": A Test Of The Values Driving Writing Center Work,
2011
University of Massachusetts Amherst
"Whether Writers Themselves Have Been Changed": A Test Of The Values Driving Writing Center Work, Michelle Deal
Open Access Dissertations
This project questions a core value that writing center workers have long held about tutoring writing: that we change writers. Applying sociocognitive and Bakhtinian lenses, I was able to complicate theory-practice connections. Tutor-tutee negotiations during tutorials, tutees' perceived learning outcomes, and their revisions were compared with their reasons for revising so that I could investigate what tutees potentially learn from their tutors, how, and why. Data indicated if tutors' information/advice became, in Bakhtin's terms, internally persuasive to tutees. When the authoritative discourses tutors represent or endorse converge with students' internally persuasive discourses, they converge in students' revision choices as tutor-tutee …
Writing The Local-Global: An Ethnography Of Friction And Negotiation In An English-Using Indonesian Ph.D. Program,
2011
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Writing The Local-Global: An Ethnography Of Friction And Negotiation In An English-Using Indonesian Ph.D. Program, Amber Engelson
Open Access Dissertations
Suresh Canagarajah, John Trimbur, Bruce Horner, and others argue that U.S. scholars must begin imagining their academic institutions as part of larger global English conversations, which would involve expanding Western perceptions of "good writing" to allow for the cultural and ideological differences implied by the term "global." Horner and Trimbur, for instance, urge compositionists to take an "internationalist perspective" to writing instruction, to ask, "whose English and whose interests it serves" in relation to the "dynamics of globalization" (624). To better understand what it means to write internationally in English, I conducted ethnographic research at the Indonesian Consortium for Religious …
Milton's Visionary Obedience,
2011
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Milton's Visionary Obedience, Timothy Irish Watt
Open Access Dissertations
This dissertation is a study of the work of John Milton, most especially of his late poems, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes. The early poetry, the prose tracts, and Christian Doctrine are considered in their developmental relation to those late poems. The question my study addresses is this: What does Milton mean by obedience? The critical approach used to address the question is as much philosophical-theological as it is literary. My project seeks to understand the shaping role of Milton's theology on his poetry: that is, to attempt to recreate and understand Milton's thinking on …
Review Of Samuel Otter’S Philadelphia Stories: America’S Literature Of Race And Freedom,
2011
Loyola University Chicago
Review Of Samuel Otter’S Philadelphia Stories: America’S Literature Of Race And Freedom, John Kerkering
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
No abstract provided.
Problematizing Literature Circles As Forums For Discussion Of Multicultural And Political Texts,
2011
University of Iowa
Problematizing Literature Circles As Forums For Discussion Of Multicultural And Political Texts, Amanda Haertling Thein, Megan Guise, Deann Long Sloan
English
In a six-week literature circle unit in a tenth-grade classroom, one group of students discussed Dorothy Allison's novel Bastard out of Carolina. By criteria frequently used to judge the quality of discussion, this literature circle was successful. However, several key moments are highlighted that point to the limits of literature circles as they are typically implemented for engaging students in the full critical depth of multicultural and political texts. Finally, suggestions are offered for rethinking literature circle pedagogy with the goal of offering students a more nuanced and robust experience with such texts.
Contentious Conversations,
2011
Dordt College
Contentious Conversations, Leah A. Zuidema
Faculty Work Comprehensive List
The idea of joining a conversation through reading and writing is not new; in his 1941 book "The Philosophy of Literary Form: Studies in Symbolic Action," Kenneth Burke suggests that the acts of reading and writing are like entering a parlor where others are already conversing. The author explores the place of professional debate within NCTE and in the pages of "English Journal". Regardless, by reading these pages, one is entering into a conversation that is already underway.
A Catholic Childhood In Philadelphia,
2011
Technological University Dublin
A Catholic Childhood In Philadelphia, Eamon Maher
Articles
Published by kind permission of Spirituality
The Singularity Of Puppies,
2011
University of Central Florida
The Singularity Of Puppies, Michael Furlong
Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
The Singularity of Puppies is an unsettling short story set in 1978 in DeLand, Florida. The story concerns the relationship between eight-year-old Joey Brown and his puppy, Fredrick Brown. The story was originally published in The Fantastique Unfettered #3. The Singularity of Puppies is speculative fiction, and a tribute to Fredric Brown (1906-1972), a science fiction and mystery author.
Reading Tehran In Lolita: Seizing Literary Value For Neoliberal Multiculturalism,
2011
Marquette University
Reading Tehran In Lolita: Seizing Literary Value For Neoliberal Multiculturalism, Jodi Melamed
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
In Memoriam: Trevor Howard-Hill, 17 October 1933-1 June 2011,
2011
University of South Carolina - Columbia
In Memoriam: Trevor Howard-Hill, 17 October 1933-1 June 2011, Patrick G. Scott, William Baker
Faculty Publications
Obituary on Trevor H. Howard-Hill (1933-2011), C. Wallace Martin Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, Shakespearean scholar, descriptive bibliographer, compiler of the multi-volume series Index to British Literary Bibliography (1969-2007), and editor of Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America.
The Search For Captain Howdy,
2011
Illinois Wesleyan University
Oral Traditions: An Analysis Of Story Telling And Performance In Paule Marshall’S Praisesong For The Widow,
2011
Kennesaw State University
Oral Traditions: An Analysis Of Story Telling And Performance In Paule Marshall’S Praisesong For The Widow, Dhanashree Thorat
The Kennesaw Journal of Undergraduate Research
Dorothy Noyes, in her essay "Tradition: Three Traditions," notes that the word "tradition" implies "handing over" or "delivery" (Noyes 233). Furthermore, tradition is identified as a communal belonging that involves "the transfer of responsibility for a valued practice or performance" from one generation to the next (233). This essay will apply the characteristics and role of "tradition," outlined by Noyes and others, to develop a critical understanding of two acts of oral tradition pivotal to the spiritual transformation of Avey Johnson, the protagonist of Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow. These two interconnected acts, the story of Ibo Landing and …
