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Secure The Shadow, Shelly Cato

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 22-26

Genesis, Nick Mcrae

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 125

Hautboys, Andrew Sofer

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 162

The King's Toilet: Cruising Literary History In Reinaldo Arenas' Before Night Falls, LáZaro Lima

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

In this article I will read Before Night Falls as Arenas' queer version of Cuban literary history and his relation to it. Against the commonplace assertions that demand that Before Night Falls be primarily understood, if not exclusively, as an invective against Fidel Castro or, in the other extreme, as an ars moriendi and AIDS testimonial from a sexual dissident, I wish to revisit this text on the twentieth anniversary of its publication to underscore a missed reading that can help situate how Arenas, one of the most transgressive writers theorized in this collection as the Generation of '72, might …

David Foster Wallace And Lovelessness, David P. Rando

English Faculty Research

The article focuses on the American writer David Foster Wallace and his way of expressing emotions in his works. Topics discussed include Wallace using irony in his fictions to express genuine emotions, critics of his work reproducing Wallace's own thoughts to criticize him, and his books "Oblivion," and "Infinite Jest," and the unfinished novel "The Pale King." It also refers to the book "Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf in comparison to deaths in Wallace's works.

Telling The Story Of Mexican Migration: Chronicle, Literature, And Film From The Post-Gatekeeper Period, Ruth Brown

Theses and Dissertations--Hispanic Studies

This study examines how the social process of undocumented Mexican migration is interpreted in the chronicle, literature, and film of the post-Gatekeeper period, which is defined here at 1994-2008. Bounded on one side by the Mexican economic crisis of 1994, and increased border security measures begun in that same year, and on the other by the advent of the global economic crisis of 2008, the post-Gatkeeper period represents a time in which undocumented migration through the southern U.S. border reached unprecedented levels. The dramatic, tragic, and compelling stories that emerged from this period have been retold and interpreted from a …

Recuperando La Memoria De La Guerra Civil Española En Luna Lunera Y La Higuera, Whitney Anne Waites

Theses and Dissertations

Desde el comienzo de la Guerra Civil española en 1936 hasta la Transición a

democracia en los años 1980, España ha sufrido un proceso de "historical and social amnesia" (Cardus i Ros 18). Como resultado surgió una cultura de silencio: no había que hablar de la Guerra Civil española o los años de miedo y de violencia durante la dictadura. Con eso, hoy en día, varios autores españoles intentan combatir dicha amnesia y la cultura del silencio en la forma de la novel de la memoria. Esta investigación analizará como dos novelas de la memoria, Luna Lunera y La higuera, …

Dubbin' The Literary Canon: Writin' And Soundin' A Transnational Caribbean Experience, Warren Harding

Honors Papers

In the mid-1970s, a collective of Jamaican poets from Kingston to London began to use reggae as a foundational aesthetic to their poetry. Inspired by the rise of reggae music and the work of the Caribbean Artists Movement based London from 1966 to 1972, these artists took it upon themselves to continue the dialogue on Caribbean cultural production. This research will explore the ways in which dub poetry created an expressive space for Jamaican artists to complicate discussions of migration and colonialism in the transnational Caribbean experience.

In order to do so, this research engages historical, ethnomusicological, and literary theories …

Pecan Grove Review Volume 14, St. Mary's University

Pecan Grove Review

Creative writings by students, faculty, and staff of the St. Mary's University community.

Dead Men, Walking: Actors, Networks, And Actualized Metaphors In Mrs. Dalloway And Raymond, Elizabeth Outka

English Faculty Publications

This article takes up Rita Felski’s recent call to modernists to explore how Bruno Latour’s latest work on actor-network theory might be adapted for literary studies. It examines two accounts of World War I soldiers who (allegedly) return from the dead in material form: Virginia Woolf’s fictional account of Septimus Smith, who is convinced his friend Evans has come back from the dead, and Oliver Lodge’s best-selling memoir, Raymond, or Life and Death, which recounts in detail how Lodge believed his dead son sent messages to the family to assure them of his continued material existence. That these moments …

Cemetery Gates, Edward Hirsch

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 99

Clearcut, Claudia Emerson

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 3

Church, John Poch

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 144

Autumn In Paradise, Tory Adkisson

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 30

A Commonplace Twilight, Brett Foster

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 75

Sycamore Envies The Cottonwoods Behind Your Place, Kathy Fagan

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 74

Ode To Orange, Matt Zambito

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 178-179

God's Got Gaming Sense, Laura Mccullough

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 118

Birmingham Poetry Review 40 (End Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 196-213

Confidences: A Rendering Of Saint Augustine’S Confessions, Katie Harstock, St. Augustine

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 79-98

Black Widow, L S. Asekoff

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 40

Two Angels, James May

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 116-117

Third, Claudia Emerson

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 5

Ghost, Revenant, Gaylord Brewer

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 47

Brainspin Me Another Wunna Those, Laura Mccullough

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 120

To The Praying Mantis, Nick Mcrae

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 128

The War Reporter Paul Watson Imagines His Father, Daniel O'Brien

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 138

Bare Ruined Choirs, Jane Springer

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 164-165

Epithalamium At An Agriturismo, Todd Portnowitz

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 149

Double Agent, Laura Eve Engel

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 181-183