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Articles 1 - 13 of 13
Full-Text Articles in American Literature
American Missionaries And Gender Politics In South Asia: Mark Twain's Following The Equator And Harriet Winlsow's Memoir, Brian Yothers
American Missionaries And Gender Politics In South Asia: Mark Twain's Following The Equator And Harriet Winlsow's Memoir, Brian Yothers
Brian Yothers
Abstract published in South Asian Review 29.4 (2008): 68.
International Terrorism:Role ,Responsibility And Operation Of Media Channles, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr
International Terrorism:Role ,Responsibility And Operation Of Media Channles, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr
Ratnesh Dwivedi
"Terrorism" is a term that cannot be given a stable defintion. Or rather, it can, but to do so forstalls any attempt to examine the major feature of its relation to television in the contemporary world. As the central public arena for organising ways of picturing and talking about social and political life, TV plays a pivotal role in the contest between competing defintions, accounts and explanations of terrorism. Which term is used in any particular context is inextricably tied to judgemements about the legitimacy of the action in question and of the political system against which it is directed. …
Permeable Borders And American Prisons: Malcolm Braly's On The Yard, Katy Ryan
Permeable Borders And American Prisons: Malcolm Braly's On The Yard, Katy Ryan
Katy Ryan
No abstract provided.
Mamie Bradley's Unbearable Burden: Sexual And Aesthetic Politics In Bebe Moore Campbell's Your Blues Ain't Like Mine, Koritha Mitchell
Mamie Bradley's Unbearable Burden: Sexual And Aesthetic Politics In Bebe Moore Campbell's Your Blues Ain't Like Mine, Koritha Mitchell
Koritha Mitchell
This essay offers a reading of Bebe Moore Campbell's 1992 novel Your Blues Ain't Like Mine, which re-imagines the 1955 murder of Emmett Till and its aftermath. I argue that the novel is a tribute to Till and his mother, Mamie Bradley, but that it also illustrates the agony of being the survivor whose pain occasions such tributes. Through Delotha Todd, the character loosely based on Bradley, Campbell imagines the mother's burden to have been especially unbearable because so many strangers, including Campbell herself, claimed to share it. In the process of acknowledging the many facets Delotha's pain, Campbell …
Using The Novel To Teach Multiculturalism, Michelle Loris
Using The Novel To Teach Multiculturalism, Michelle Loris
Michelle Loris
Description of a fourteen week course taught by Michelle Loris, professor of English at Sacred Heart University. The course, titled Recent Ethnic American Fictions, introduced students to several concepts from contemporary literary theory. The theories included New Criticism, Deconstruction, Cultural Studies, New Historicism, and Feminist Theory. The assumption was that these concepts would give students the tools to become critical readers, which would then provide them with a deeper understanding of these multicultural novels and their particular cultural contexts. For a semester, reading and thinking about these multicultural novels engaged and challenged the students' assumptions about themselves and the America …
Edwards - Thoreau - Dillard: Reading/Writing Nature And The Awakened/Awakening Self, Michael Ditmore
Edwards - Thoreau - Dillard: Reading/Writing Nature And The Awakened/Awakening Self, Michael Ditmore
Michael Ditmore
No abstract provided.
Reader Response And The Interpretation Of "Hop-Frog," "How To Write A Blackwood Article," And "The Tell-Tale Heart", Brian Yothers
Reader Response And The Interpretation Of "Hop-Frog," "How To Write A Blackwood Article," And "The Tell-Tale Heart", Brian Yothers
Brian Yothers
This essay discusses ways in which reader response can enrich the teaching of Poe's short fiction.
'O Supreme Being': Religious Indifference, Theodicy, And Prayer In Crevecoeur's Letters From An American Farmer, Michael Ditmore
'O Supreme Being': Religious Indifference, Theodicy, And Prayer In Crevecoeur's Letters From An American Farmer, Michael Ditmore
Michael Ditmore
No abstract provided.
Mystics Of Desolation: Craig Childs And Ellen Meloy, Jan Wellington
Mystics Of Desolation: Craig Childs And Ellen Meloy, Jan Wellington
Jan Wellington
No abstract provided.
Fresh Networks: Science, Literature, Feminism, And Cultural Studies, Randall Knoper
Fresh Networks: Science, Literature, Feminism, And Cultural Studies, Randall Knoper
Randall Knoper
No abstract provided.
Demystifying The Black Student Experience At Ucla, La'tonya R. Rease-Miles
Demystifying The Black Student Experience At Ucla, La'tonya R. Rease-Miles
La'Tonya R. Rease-Miles
Explores the specific challenges facing Black students at UCLA and discusses how to create and sustain meaningful dialogue about racial diversity.
Crooning On The Fault Lines: Theorizing Jazz And Pop Vocal Singing Discourse In The Rock Era, 1955-1978, Vincent L. Stephens
Crooning On The Fault Lines: Theorizing Jazz And Pop Vocal Singing Discourse In The Rock Era, 1955-1978, Vincent L. Stephens
Vincent L Stephens
The critical boundaries drawn between pop crooning and jazz singing are less discrete than commonly perceived by critics and historians. Commercial choices rather than clear-cut aesthetic differences have influenced classifications of non-improvisers like Tony Bennett and Peggy Lee as “jazz” singers, a category presumed to represent the ultimate in vocal interpretation. Comparatively, singers like Johnny Mathis and Barbra Streisand are aesthetically similar to prerock crooners (PRCs) but typically understood as pop singers and thus on a lower interpretive tier. This article interrogates the binary by examining the overlaps and divergences between PRCs whose recording careers (mostly) began during the big …
Literature For Social Change: From Realism To Modernism, Randall Knoper
Literature For Social Change: From Realism To Modernism, Randall Knoper
Randall Knoper
No abstract provided.