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1995

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Racial Protest, Identity, Words And Form In Maya Angelou's "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings", Pierre A. Walker Sep 1995

Racial Protest, Identity, Words And Form In Maya Angelou's "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings", Pierre A. Walker

Pierre Walker

There is difficulty in critically reading African American literature as apolitical text; all create a political impact whether this is the initial and conscious motive or not. Maya Angelou's autobiography is one such case. Though written in response to an aesthetic challenge - that an autobiography cannot be written as literature (from the Formalist/New Critics point of view) - Angelou's organic unity became a vehicle for her political protest. A critical reading shows how she was able to achieve this.

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Foul Is Fair: What Shakespeare Really Thought About Lawyers, Judith Fischer Jan 1995

Foul Is Fair: What Shakespeare Really Thought About Lawyers, Judith Fischer

Judith D. Fischer

This is a discussion of the meaning and background behind some of Shakespeare's references to lawyers. It explains the common misinterpretation of the famous quotation “Let’s kill all the lawyers." The line actually compliments lawyers, indicating that those who want anarchy must first get rid of lawyers. Review of Daniel J. Kornstein’s book, Kill All the Lawyers? Shakespeare’s Legal Appeal (1994).

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Past-On Stories: History, Ontology, And The Magically Real -- Morrison And Allende, On Call, P. Foreman Dec 1994

Past-On Stories: History, Ontology, And The Magically Real -- Morrison And Allende, On Call, P. Foreman

P. Gabrielle Foreman

The relation between ontology and naming is explicitly figured in both Isabel Allende's House of the Spirits and Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon. Morrison locates the defining power in speech and listening, survival skills quite distinct from talking and passive hearing. Allende subverts the Adamic power of literal naming and so posits a new genesis. In both novels, women become the site of a history that survives and so nurtures the present.

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"I'Ll Go The Limit And Then Some:" Gun Molls, Desire And Danger In The 1930s, Claire B. Potter Dec 1994

"I'Ll Go The Limit And Then Some:" Gun Molls, Desire And Danger In The 1930s, Claire B. Potter

Claire Potter

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