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Zeitgeist Shift: Too Little Too Late, Michael I. Niman Ph.D. Nov 2007

Zeitgeist Shift: Too Little Too Late, Michael I. Niman Ph.D.

Michael I Niman Ph.D.

No abstract provided.


Transforming English With Graphic Novels: Moving Toward Our "Optimus Prime", James Carter Oct 2007

Transforming English With Graphic Novels: Moving Toward Our "Optimus Prime", James Carter

James B Carter

I argue for the transformative potential of graphic novels in the English classroom.


Voice In Writing Again: Embracing Contraries, Peter Elbow Oct 2007

Voice In Writing Again: Embracing Contraries, Peter Elbow

Peter Elbow

"Voice in writing" has fallen into a kind of limbo as a topic: it's vexed; it's discredited by most composition scholars; it's not much written about recently; and yet it remains widely used by readers, teachers, and writers. I examine good reasons for paying lots of attention to voice when we read and teach writing; and also good reasons for ignoring it. And finally insist that we can usefully do both.


Kissing Ass And Other Performative Acts Of Resistance: Austin, Fanon, And New Orleans Tourism, Lynnell L. Thomas Aug 2007

Kissing Ass And Other Performative Acts Of Resistance: Austin, Fanon, And New Orleans Tourism, Lynnell L. Thomas

Lynnell Thomas

“Kissing Ass and other Performative Acts of Resistance: Austin, Fanon, and New Orleans Tourism” examines Frantz Fanon’s “Algeria Unveiled” as a reconceptualization of J. L. Austin’s theory of the performative. Austin, whose examples of the performative all assume an equal, if not harmonious, relationship, overlooks instances of incompatibility and inequality. Fanon’s post-colonial framework, on the other hand, illustrates the markedly different types of intentions, uptake, and conventions which inform the speech act in cases of extreme inequality. In these cases, the powerless and seemingly voiceless use tacitly agreed upon conventions “inappropriately” to attain what they would not be able to …


Armored Bodies, Elaine Cardenas, Ellen Gorman, Joanne Dillman Mar 2007

Armored Bodies, Elaine Cardenas, Ellen Gorman, Joanne Dillman

Joanne Clarke Dillman

The Hummer: Myths and Consumer Culture is a study of the notorious automobile/sports utility vehicle. Featuring more than fifteen essays, this collection analyzes the Hummer through a wide array of disciplines, including material culture, marketing and advertising, popular culture, military technology, urban planning, and political economy. It provides a complete overview of the vehicle: production, marketing aspects, and cultural significance. The only book of its kind, The Hummer is of great value to cultural studies and American studies scholars and students, as well as to any general reader with an interest in contemporary American culture.


Should We Invite Students To Write In Home Languages? Complicating The Yes/No Debate, Peter Elbow Mar 2007

Should We Invite Students To Write In Home Languages? Complicating The Yes/No Debate, Peter Elbow

Peter Elbow

No abstract provided.


Working On The Railroad (Book Review), Linda Niemann Feb 2007

Working On The Railroad (Book Review), Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

Review of the book "Working on the Railroad", by Brian Solomon. Osceola, WI: Voyageur Press, 2006.


The Voices Of Transformational Archetypal Energies: The Psychic Energy Behind Ahp's Mission, Carroy U. Ferguson Dr. Feb 2007

The Voices Of Transformational Archetypal Energies: The Psychic Energy Behind Ahp's Mission, Carroy U. Ferguson Dr.

Carroy U "Cuf" Ferguson, Ph.D.

I want to use this opportunity to expand on my previous message, which I called “Path of the Bridger,” a path nurtured by what I have called Archetypal Energies. Again, these are Higher Vibrational Energies with their own transcendent value, purpose, quality, and “voice” unique to the individual that operate deep within our psyches, at both individual and collective levels. And, we tend to experience them as “creative urges” to move us toward our highest good or optimal realities. My purpose in offering this perspective is simply to suggest to AHP members, and other kindred spirits, that there has been …


Building Literacy Connections With Graphic Novels: Page By Page, Panel By Panel, James Carter Dec 2006

Building Literacy Connections With Graphic Novels: Page By Page, Panel By Panel, James Carter

James B Carter

A book devoted to using graphic novels in the classroom for authentic literacy experiences, focusing upon pairing graphica with young adult or canonical texts. The URL is to the book's page at the publisher's.


Carving A Niche: Graphic Novels In The English Language Arts Classroom, James Carter Dec 2006

Carving A Niche: Graphic Novels In The English Language Arts Classroom, James Carter

James B Carter

An introduction to the roles that graphic novels can play in the secondary English Language Arts classroom.


Imagetext In The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time, James Carter Dec 2006

Imagetext In The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time, James Carter

James B Carter

Notions of WJT Mitchell's imagetext are explored as they are revealed in Mark Haddon's young adult novel *The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time*. Christopher Boone's particular way of reading the world illuminates imagetext relationships.


Politics And Language, Max Skidmore, Andrew Cline Dec 2006

Politics And Language, Max Skidmore, Andrew Cline

Max J. Skidmore

A collection of essays dealing from various points of view with the political effects of language usage


Reading/Photography: Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins’S Four Girls At Cottage City, Victoria Earle Matthews And The Woman’S Era, P. Foreman Dec 2006

Reading/Photography: Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins’S Four Girls At Cottage City, Victoria Earle Matthews And The Woman’S Era, P. Foreman

P. Gabrielle Foreman

No abstract provided.


Review Of Timothy Marr, The Cultural Roots Of American Islamicism, Brian Yothers Dec 2006

Review Of Timothy Marr, The Cultural Roots Of American Islamicism, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

The link will allow you to view a PDF of this review if you have an institutional subscription to Leviathan.


China: People's Republic Of China, Xiao-Huang Yin Dec 2006

China: People's Republic Of China, Xiao-Huang Yin

Xiao-huang Yin

No abstract provided.


Training And Vision: Roth, Delillo, Banks, Peck, And The Postmodern Aesthetics Of Vocation, Sean Mccann Dec 2006

Training And Vision: Roth, Delillo, Banks, Peck, And The Postmodern Aesthetics Of Vocation, Sean Mccann

Sean McCann

No abstract provided.


Bliss Lost, Wisdom Gained: Contemplating Emblems And Enigmas In Anne Bradstreet's "Contemplations", Michael Ditmore Dec 2006

Bliss Lost, Wisdom Gained: Contemplating Emblems And Enigmas In Anne Bradstreet's "Contemplations", Michael Ditmore

Michael Ditmore

No abstract provided.


Immigrant Transnationals And Us Foreign Relations, Xiao-Huang Yin, Peter Koehn Dec 2006

Immigrant Transnationals And Us Foreign Relations, Xiao-Huang Yin, Peter Koehn

Xiao-huang Yin

No abstract provided.


Why The Rwandan Genocide Seemed Like A Drive-By Shooting: The Crisis Of Race, Culture, And Policy In The African Diaspora, Seneca Vaught Dec 2006

Why The Rwandan Genocide Seemed Like A Drive-By Shooting: The Crisis Of Race, Culture, And Policy In The African Diaspora, Seneca Vaught

Seneca Vaught

From the American perspective, the Rwandan genocide developed amidst a cultural and racial crisis of the 1990s. The American attitude towards the crisis in Kigali provides a complex historical case study on how race and culture have profound and often-ignored policy implications. Specifically, the lack of American intervention in Rwanda reveals the complexity race and policy in American history and the shared fates of Africans throughout the world. Taken as a whole, the domestic cultural background of the early 1990s, including the rise of gangsta rap, rioting, and the dilemma of "black-on-black crime," collectively influenced American policy towards Africa at …


Theory’S Empire—Wrestling The Fogbank, Sean Mccann Dec 2006

Theory’S Empire—Wrestling The Fogbank, Sean Mccann

Sean McCann

No abstract provided.


“‘The City I Used To...Visit’: Tourist New Orleans And The Racialized Response To Hurricane Katrina”, Lynnell Thomas Dec 2006

“‘The City I Used To...Visit’: Tourist New Orleans And The Racialized Response To Hurricane Katrina”, Lynnell Thomas

Lynnell Thomas

This article explores the connections between New Orleans’s late 20th-century tourism representations and the mainstream media coverage and national images of the city immediately following Hurricane Katrina. It pays particular attention to the ways that race and class are employed in both instances to create and perpetuate a distorted sense of place that ignore the historical and contemporary realities of the city’s African American population.


Passing And Its Prepositions, Or, Racial Recovery, Racial Death: An Introduction In Four Parts, P. Gabrielle Foreman, Cherene Sherrard-Johnson Dec 2006

Passing And Its Prepositions, Or, Racial Recovery, Racial Death: An Introduction In Four Parts, P. Gabrielle Foreman, Cherene Sherrard-Johnson

P. Gabrielle Foreman

No abstract provided.


Gospel Tracks Through Texas: The Mission Of Chapel Car Good Will (Book Review), Linda Niemann Dec 2006

Gospel Tracks Through Texas: The Mission Of Chapel Car Good Will (Book Review), Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

Review of the book "Gospel Tracks Through Texas: The Mission of Chapel Car Good Will", by Wilma Rugh Taylor. Texas A&M University Press, 2005.


Recovered Autobiographies And The Marketplace: Our Nig's Generic Genealogies And Harriet Wilson's Entrepreneurial Enterprise, P. Gabrielle Foreman Dec 2006

Recovered Autobiographies And The Marketplace: Our Nig's Generic Genealogies And Harriet Wilson's Entrepreneurial Enterprise, P. Gabrielle Foreman

P. Gabrielle Foreman

No abstract provided.


The Romance Of The Holy Land In American Travel Writing, 1790-1876, Brian Yothers Dec 2006

The Romance Of The Holy Land In American Travel Writing, 1790-1876, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

This book is the first to engage with the full range of American travel writing about nineteenth-century Ottoman Palestine, and the first to acknowledge the influence of the late-eighteenth-century Barbary captivity narrative on nineteenth-century travel writing about the Middle East. Brian Yothers argues that American travel writing about the Holy Land forms a coherent, if greatly varied, tradition, which can only be fully understood when works by major writers such as Twain and Melville are studied alongside missionary accounts, captivity narratives, chronicles of religious pilgrimages, and travel writing in the genteel tradition. Yothers also examines works by lesser-known authors such …


Dark Passages: Jazz And Civil Liberty In The Postwar Crime Film, Sean Mccann Dec 2006

Dark Passages: Jazz And Civil Liberty In The Postwar Crime Film, Sean Mccann

Sean McCann

No abstract provided.


Tragical-Comical-Pastoral-Colonial: Economic Sovereignty, Globalization, And The Form Of Tragicomedy, Zachary Lesser Dec 2006

Tragical-Comical-Pastoral-Colonial: Economic Sovereignty, Globalization, And The Form Of Tragicomedy, Zachary Lesser

Zachary Lesser

I examine the politics of tragicomedy by focusing on its 1620s shift from pastoral to proto-colonial settings. This formal transformation reveals the genre's connection to economic debates over England's coin shortage and to Thomas Mun's abstract, global model of trade, removed from monarchical authority and naturalized in self-regulating "laws of commerce." Like Mun's model, tragicomedy requires us to imagine the ability of past actions and distant causes to ramify across time and space. Set on a barren, inaccessible island, Fletcher and Massinger's Sea Voyage isolates the nature of money and demonstrates the dangers of transgressing the natural law of commerce.


Mystic Ciphers: Shakespeare And Intelligent Design: A Response To Nancy Glazener, Zachary Lesser Dec 2006

Mystic Ciphers: Shakespeare And Intelligent Design: A Response To Nancy Glazener, Zachary Lesser

Zachary Lesser

A discussion of the Shakespeare "authorship controversy" in relation to the "debate" over evolution and intelligent design.


Vernacular Literacy, Peter Elbow Dec 2006

Vernacular Literacy, Peter Elbow

Peter Elbow

No abstract provided.


"'Mira, Yo Soy Boricua Y Estoy Aquí': Rafa Negrón's Pan Dulce And The Queer Sonic Latinaje Of San Francisco", Horacio N. Roque Ramirez Dec 2006

"'Mira, Yo Soy Boricua Y Estoy Aquí': Rafa Negrón's Pan Dulce And The Queer Sonic Latinaje Of San Francisco", Horacio N. Roque Ramirez

Horacio N Roque Ramirez, Ph.D.

For a little more than eight months in 1996–1997, Calirican Rafa Negron promoted his queer Latino nightclub “Pan Dulce” in San Francisco. A concoction of multiple genders, sexualities, and aesthetic styles, Pan Dulce created an opportunity for making urban space and claiming visibilities and identities among queer Latinas and Latinos through music, performance, and dance. Building on the region’s decades-old lgbt/queer history, and specifically diasporic queer Puerto Rican and Caribbean cultures, Pan Dulce became a powerful site for latinaje: the multilayered hybrid process of creating Latina and Latino worlds and cultures from below. In the context of HIV and AIDS, …