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5 Poems, Rebecca Ruth Gould

Comparative Woman

These poems examine the challenges facing the woman creator, and focus in particular on the problem of the muse, and how this relates to the feminist reconceptualization of traditional notions of gender and sexuality. As part of this broader poetic inquiry, I also challenge traditional notions of monogamy and heterosexual desire.

Kinship Poems, K. Avvirin Gray

Comparative Woman

In the appended collection of three poems, canopied under the title, ”Kinship Poems” I explore the possibilities for and practice of kinship between Native and African American women. In my first poem, ”Auntie,” a prose poem, I center non-sanguineous kinship affiliation in the decolonial project. In my final poem, I give equal consideration to biological kinship, by staging a speaker’s direct address to her unborn child.

Gotra I Choose, Aparajita Dutta

Comparative Woman

This poem is about kinship terms explored by a Bengali girl who came from West Bengal , India to Louisiana and found a family there after facing discrimination as an independent non-Brahmin woman.

Reverberations Of Boarding School Trauma In Upstate New York, Grace A. Miller

Comparative Woman

The legacy of boarding schools in Upstate New York is one that non-Natives seem to have forgotten. This historical amnesia compounds other acts of genocide, including cultural genocide, of the Haudenosaunee people throughout US history. Established in 1855 at the Cattaraugus Reservation (Seneca), the Thomas Indian School would serve as an institution of forced assimilation and displacement, much like the other Native American boarding schools. While the larger US population has grown to forget these schools' existence, the shadowed legacy of institutions, like the Thomas Indian School, Haskell, and Carlisle Indian Industrial School, the rippling effects of these schools’ practices …

Wolfpen Hollow, Amy Wright Vollmar

Comparative Woman

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A Jewish Garden, Yanping Gao

Comparative Woman

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October, Oceana Wenxin Jin

Comparative Woman

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We Cannot Walk In The Same Snow Again, Oceana Wenxin Jin

Comparative Woman

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Writing In A Snowy Cemetery, Oceana Wenxin Jin

Comparative Woman

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The Long Civil War: New Explorations Of America's Enduring Conflict, Thomas F. Curran

Civil War Book Review

Reviewer Thomas F. Curran writes that The Long Civil War: New Explorations of America’s Enduring Conflict, edited by John David Smith and Raymond Arsenault provides an “expansive spectrum of scholarship being produced” on the Civil War era “that employs a broader chronological understanding of the war.” The collected essays investigate several aspects of the Civil War era—antebellum antislaveryism, Civil War commanders and their tactics, disabled veterans and veteran suicide, historical memory of Lincoln, including that of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the historiography of slavery, and the Civil War era in film culture. The book “provides a taste” of the …

Ghazal Toward Knowing, Nilufar Karimi

Comparative Woman

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Twitter As Limited Digital Rhetorical Forum – The Reproductive Rights Discourse Online, Jacob L. Longini

Comparative Woman

Rhetorical discourse has long been characterized by patriarchal systems, and this reality has persisted in online spaces. How might today’s scholar dissect and better understand the nature of online communities, specifically those that engage in women’s rights discourses? I argue that using Thomas Farrell’s notion of “rhetorical forum”, James P. Zappen’s outline for digital rhetorical theory, and Sonja K. Foss and Cindy L. Griffin’s feminist understanding of rhetorical practice, one can account for the current state of such discourses on Twitter. The patriarchal flaws that Foss and Griffin identify in traditional rhetoric can shed light on the negative aspects of …

Magpies, Bridge And Goddess: Unearthing The Hidden Symbols And Rediscovering The Lost Goddess In Chinese Qiqiao Festival, Juan Wu

Comparative Woman

The Qiqiao Festival, also known as the Qixi Festival, or Chinese valentine’s day, is a festival celebrating the annual meeting of the Cowherd and Weaver Maid in mythology. The most influential version focuses on the romance or love theme; however, it ignores its underlying historical context, gender tension and mythical belief. This paper takes the texts, rituals and materials related to the Qiqiao festival to investigate its origin and evolution. First, it takes the anthological case of the Qiqiao festival in Xihe county to explore its core image of the holy bridge and Goddess Qiao. Second, it traces the bridge …

The Kin-Ship, Zheng Moham Wang

Comparative Woman

This is a group of two English poems the author composed separately in 2019 and 2021 about the imaginary scenes of his grandpa and mother from a Iu-Mien family of Southeast Asia and Southwestern China. The group was submitted to the upcoming Kinship volume of the Comparative Woman journal of Louisiana State University.

“By That Daughter’S Most Devoted Affection”: Anxious And Avoidant Attachments In Opie’S Adeline Mowbray, Meghan E. Hodges

Comparative Woman

Attachment theory, or the theory that one’s personality and social development is informed greatly by the infant-parent bond, largely arises in the 1950s with the work of John Bowlby. Although the phenomenon was only then beginning to be scientifically evaluated, it has long been observed that the relationship one has with one’s parents is a determinant factor in one’s development. This work investigates the impact of the failure to heal the insecure attachment Amelie Opie’s Adeline Mowbray (1808). Adeline, having grown up in her distant mother’s intellectual shadow, develops a neurotic attachment to her mother which causes romantic maladjustment in …

Segregation In The New South: Birmingham, Alabama, 1871 - 1901, Williamjames Hoffer

Civil War Book Review

Reviewer Williamjames Hoffer explains that Segregating the New South "is an important contribution to the history of the New South, Black America, and the origins of Jim Crow" that convincingly challenges the idea that segregation began after Reconstruction, as otherwise argued by "C. Vann Woodward and his successors."

Administering Freedom: The State Of Emancipation After The Freedmen’S Bureau, Dale Kretz, Jeffery Hardin Hobson

Civil War Book Review

Dr. Dale Kretz and editor Jeffery Hardin Hobson discuss Kretz's book, Administering Freedom: The State of Emancipation after the Freedmen's Bureau.

The Democratic Collapse: How Gender Politics Broke A Party And A Nation, 1856-1861, Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz

Civil War Book Review

Reviewer Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz writes that Democratic Collapse is an "engaging and succinct work," in which "Lauren N. Haumesser complicates our understanding of the unraveling of the two-party system in the 1850s, shedding new light on the coming of the Civil War through a careful examination of the gendered rhetoric of Republicans, Democrats, and, ultimately, Constitutional Unionists."

Union Warriors At Sunset: The Lives Of Twenty Commanders After The War, Daniel E. Cone

Civil War Book Review

Reviewer Daniel E. Cone writes that Allie Stuart Povall departs from traditional biographies of Civil War generals by orienting Union Warriors at Sunset around their postwar lives. Union Warriors at Sunset, Cone concludes, is "an easy, casual read" that "serves well for those seeking to know more about the postbellum lives of Civil War generals, without having to flip to the back parts of an assortment of two, three, or four-hundred page biographical tomes."

The Northern Home Front During The Civil War, Antoinette Van Zelm

Civil War Book Review

Reviewer Antointette G. van Zelm writes that The Northern Home Front During the Civil War "is engagingly written and chock full of American voices. Both the diversity and dissension that characterized the Northern populace come through prominently."

Civil War Treasures: "Louis Kossuth And The Unwinnable Dilemma Of Slavery", Hans Rasmussen

Civil War Book Review

Hans Rasmussen uses archival material from LSU Library's special collections to examine how and why nineteenth-century-Americans celebrated Louis Kossuth, an anti-Russian-imperialism activist, and how their behavior resembles pro-Volodymyr Zelensky sentiment today.

Civil War Obscura: Miss Ravenel's Conversion From Secession To Loyalty, Meg Groeling

Civil War Book Review

Meg Groeling shows that John William De Forest's Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty is an important wartime novel for its unvarnished portrayal of war. "It was one of the first novels to depict war realistically, with blood, gore, illness, and heartbreak," Groeling explains. Beyond its pathbreaking portrayal of war, the book's Civil War era "Easter eggs" will make it a gratifying read for Civil War buffs.

The Left-Armed Corps: Writings By Amputee Civil War Veterans, Kenneth W. Noe

Civil War Book Review

Reviewer Kenneth W. Noe writes that Allison M. Johnson's curatorship of the writings by Civil War amputees "is an impressive example of historical editing and a worthy monument to soldiers who suffered for their country long after they left the battlefield."

The Last Fire-Eater: Roger A. Pryor And The Search For Southern Identity, Kennon Howell Keiser Jr.

Civil War Book Review

Reviewer K. Howell Keiser, Jr. writes that William A. Link's The Last Fire-Eater: Roger A. Pryor and the Search for Southern Identity shows that R.A. Pryor's "remarkable—and at times contradictory—transformations mirrored the puzzling journey of the South before, during, and after the Civil War."

Hearts Torn Asunder: Trauma In The Civil War’S Final Campaign In North Carolina, Jonathan M. Atkins

Civil War Book Review

In Hearts Torn Asunder: Trauma in the Civil War’s Final Campaign in North Carolina, author Earnest A. Dollar "focuses...on the war's impact on" the soldiers "and on the civilians caught between the two armies" in a "fresh look at...the war's most significant remaining theater after Appomattox" writes reviewer Jonathan M. Atkins

Civil Wars And Reconstructions In The Americas: The United States, Mexico, And Argentina, 1860-1880., Andre M. Fleche

Civil War Book Review

Reviewer Andre M. Fleche writes that E. C. Rothera's Civil Wars and Reconstructions in the Americas: The United States, Mexico, and Argentina, 1860-1880 is "one of the most thorough & sustained analyses yet written of the mid-19th c. relations between the US and Latin America."

Civil-War-Era Historians' New Subjects And Novel Approaches, Jeffery Hardin Hobson

Civil War Book Review

Recent history repeats itself as, yet again, the reviews in this, the first issue of the Civil War Book Review’s twenty-fifth volume, reveal the array of subjects historians of the Civil War era cover. Even when the authors assessed herein cover familiar ground, they use novel approaches that offer fresh insight on well-known topics.

Administering Freedom: The State Of Emancipation After The Freedmen’S Bureau, Robert Colby

Civil War Book Review

Reviewer Robert Colby writes that Dale Kretz's use of the Freedmen's Branch archives in Administering Freedom: The State of Emancipation after the Freedmen's Bureau reveals "Black Americans' fraught relationship with the state" and how "the government . . . funneled that relationship into a severely constrained channel."

Louisiana Agriculture Magazine, Winter 2023

Louisiana Agriculture

Agricultural best management practices are measures that producers can take to reduce — or eliminate — farming byproducts that enter streams and groundwater. Many of these practices address fertilizer and irrigation management and the handling of pesticides and animal waste. LSU AgCenter research has helped establish these practices, and extension agents assist producers in implementing them.

This issue of Louisiana Agriculture highlights the best management practices for many of the state’s most production areas. Aquaculture specialists detail how crawfish farms can save money while meeting best management practices, and sugarcane experts tell how the AgCenter is developing new varieties to …

Human Subthalamic Nucleus Neurons Differentially Encode Speech And Limb Movement, Karim Johari, Ryan M. Kelley, Kris Tjaden, Charity G. Patterson, Andrea H. Rohl, Joel I. Berger, Daniel M. Corcos, Jeremy D.W. Greenlee

Faculty Publications

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus (STN), which consistently improves limb motor functions, shows mixed effects on speech functions in Parkinson’s disease (PD). One possible explanation for this discrepancy is that STN neurons may differentially encode speech and limb movement. However, this hypothesis has not yet been tested. We examined how STN is modulated by limb movement and speech by recording 69 single- and multi-unit neuronal clusters in 12 intraoperative PD patients. Our findings indicated: (1) diverse patterns of modulation in neuronal firing rates in STN for speech and limb movement; (2) a higher number of STN neurons …