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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.

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

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 …

Tom Robbins' Chink: A Posthumous Zarathustra, Charles S. Taylor

Charles S. Taylor

This essay examines the ideas of one of the central characters in Tom Robbins’ 1977 novel, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues/ in relation to the thinking of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Zarathustra. It makes no argument for any influence of Nietzsche upon Robbins but rather considers similarities in thought as such.

This essay was first published by The Enigma Press, the private-press of Earl R. Nitschke, Professor of Printmaking at Central Michigan University in a limited edition.