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Full-Text Articles in American Literature

Manifest In Signs: Reading The Undertell In Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl, P. Foreman Dec 1995

Manifest In Signs: Reading The Undertell In Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl, P. Foreman

P. Gabrielle Foreman

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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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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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Preparation And Confession: Reconsidering Edmund S. Morgan's Visible Saints, Michael Ditmore Dec 1993

Preparation And Confession: Reconsidering Edmund S. Morgan's Visible Saints, Michael Ditmore

Michael Ditmore

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This Promiscuous Housekeeping': Death, Transgression, And Homoeroticism In Uncle Tom's Cabin, P. Foreman Dec 1992

This Promiscuous Housekeeping': Death, Transgression, And Homoeroticism In Uncle Tom's Cabin, P. Foreman

P. Gabrielle Foreman

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Narratives Of Survival: Linda Niemann Interviews Leslie Marmon Silko, Linda Niemann Jun 1992

Narratives Of Survival: Linda Niemann Interviews Leslie Marmon Silko, Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

Interview with Leslie Marmon Silko.

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Generational Theory And Collective Autobiography, John D. Hazlett Dec 1991

Generational Theory And Collective Autobiography, John D. Hazlett

John D Hazlett

Hazlett's essay examines the emergence of generational theory at the beginning of the 20th Century, considers some of the reasons for its popularity, and then shows how generationalism influenced the autobiographical writing of two self-proclaimed generational groups: the writers who came of age in the 1920s, and the group of activists and writers who came of age in the 1960s.

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Looking Back From Zora: Or Talking Out Both Sides My Mouth For Those Who Have Two Ears, P. Foreman Dec 1989

Looking Back From Zora: Or Talking Out Both Sides My Mouth For Those Who Have Two Ears, P. Foreman

P. Gabrielle Foreman

Issues of representation and problematic address are considered in the works of several black women writers, including Zora Neale Hurston and Nella Larsen. These writers "talk out both sides" of their mouths and mediate their messages about representing race, gender and power.

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The Spoken And The Silenced In Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl And Our Nig, P. Foreman Dec 1989

The Spoken And The Silenced In Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl And Our Nig, P. Foreman

P. Gabrielle Foreman

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"Away From Home And Amongst Strangers": Domestic Sphere, Public Arena, And Huckleberry Finn", Randall Knoper Dec 1988

"Away From Home And Amongst Strangers": Domestic Sphere, Public Arena, And Huckleberry Finn", Randall Knoper

Randall Knoper

Despite Mark Twain's situating the story “forty to fifty years ago” and in a rural river valley, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn closely engaged daily dilemmas and concerns of a Northern, urban, middle-class audience. As Carolyn Porter has argued, the familiar comprehension of American fiction as fantasies of escape from society and history, as authorial efforts to light out for the territory, needs to be dislodged by a sensitivity to such writings as acute responses to their immediate context – a developing industrial and capitalist society and culture. Although Huck's world may appear cut off from the landscape and society of …

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