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Pigs, Pastures, Pepper Pickers, Pitchforks: Carl Sandburg’S Rootabaga Stories And The Tall Tale, Michael Heyman
Pigs, Pastures, Pepper Pickers, Pitchforks: Carl Sandburg’S Rootabaga Stories And The Tall Tale, Michael Heyman
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Past studies of American nonsense literature have tended to lump it together with the British, for many good reasons. This article, however, distinguishes American nonsense from the British by way of its folk origins and cultural context. One of the least-recognized writers of nonsense is Carl Sandburg, who is famous for his iconic American poetry, but his Rootabaga Stories (1922–30) are some of the best and most distinctive representatives of the genre. Sandburg’s nonsense short stories are lyrical and strange, but their value lies also in their distinctive American origins. They are distinguished in having particularly American themes, cultural tendencies, …
Salvation Through Community And Protest, Hannah K. Griggs
Salvation Through Community And Protest, Hannah K. Griggs
Audre Lorde Writing Prize
This essay examines the theodicies of Nancy Pineda-Madrid, Kelly Brown Douglas, and Dorothee Soelle to strategize ways for Christians to combat rising threats to marginalized communities. Synthesizing the arguments of these three feminist Christians, I argue that only a theodicy of protest succeeds in accounting for structural injustice caused by kyriarchal relationships. As Christians come to terms with America’s current political situation, I call for a reimagining of Anselm’s salvation narrative. My protest theodicy theorizes a new Christian narrative that strives to alleviate this-worldly suffering in order to produce salvation through radical community, by “signifyin’” to disrupt power, and using …