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Mainely Gay (November/December 1979), Susan Henderson, Peter Prizer

Mainely Gay (1978-1980)

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Mainely Gay (September/October 1979), Susan Henderson, Peter Prizer

Mainely Gay (1978-1980)

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Mainely Gay (July/August 1979), Susan Henderson, Peter Prizer

Mainely Gay (1978-1980)

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Mainely Gay, Vol.5, No.6 (March/April 1979), Susan Henderson, Peter Prizer

Mainely Gay (1978-1980)

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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.

Black Eve Or Madonna? A Study Of The Antithetical Views Of The Mother In Black American Literature, Daryl Cumber Dance

English Faculty Publications

Within these two extreme views of woman - the mother who brings death and destruction versus the mother who brings life and salvation - where does the Black American mother stand? It seems to me that it would not be inappropriate to look at the literature, not as mere fiction, but rather as an interpretation and compilation of history, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and a host of other areas. Thus the true literary artist reveals life more accurately and with more insight than any historical facts and statistical details, because he deals with the truth of the human heart, with the …