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Double Margins: Yolanda Martines-San Miguel Discusses Lgbtq Hispanic Caribbean Lit, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

In her talk, "Families of Desire: Migration and Sexuality in New York's Caribbean Enclaves," Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel explored the representation of same-sex affective and sexual relationships in the works of one lesbian and two gay Hispanic Caribbean authors, all of whom migrated to New York from their island of origin and who portray this Diasporic experience in their writing. Her presentation forms part of a broader, book-length project on cultural representations of migration among Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and New York, including literature, popular music, graffiti, and photography.

Vol. 21, No. 1 (2001), Bob Wilkinson, Masaru Inoue, M. Thomas Inge

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

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Editors' Foreward (Volume 1), William Bedford Clark, James A. Grimshaw Jr.

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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Robert Penn Warren: The Anxiety Of Critical Influence, Charlotte H. Beck

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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Idealism And Rage In Proud Flesh, John Burt

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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Warren's Audubon And Coleridge's "Kubla Khan": Two Visions, Steven T. Ryan

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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"The World / In Which All Things Are Continuous": On The Unity Of Or Else, Randolph Paul Runyon

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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Title Page (Volume 1), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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Contents (Volume 1), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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"Language Barrier": Warren At The "Inevitable Frontier" Of Postmodern Ism, Anthony Szczesiul

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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All Lhe King's Men Revisited, Lesa Carnes Corrigan

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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Giles, Janice (Holt), 1905-1979 (Sc 1300), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1300. Letter, 16 June 1973, written to Dolores Hayford, Oakland, California, by Janice Holt Giles, Knifley, Kentucky, responding to Hayford's comments about her book "The Kinta Years" and expressing her views on child-parent relationships.

Swinford, Mac, 1899-1975 (Sc 1449), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1449. Letter, 21 April 1970, of U.S. District Court Judge Mac Swinford, Lexington, Kentucky, to Crawford Crowe, Bowling Green, Kentucky, fulfilling a request for a copy of his book Kentucky Lawyer. He declines to vouch for the accuracy of the book's historical facts "other than as legend."

The Representations Of Masculinities In 1920s American Literature: Ernest Hemingway And Willa Cather, Omar Agustin Moran

Theses Digitization Project

This thesis examines how masculinity is attained through various displays of violence, ambivalence, heterosexuality, and sentimentality in the works of Ernest Hemingway and Willa Cather.

In Search Of The Self: An Analysis Of Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl By Harriet Ann Jacobs, Rhonda Kay Roddy

Theses Digitization Project

In her bibliography, Incidents in the life of a Salve Girl, Harriet Ann Jacobs appropriates the autobiographical "I" in order to tell her own story of slavery and talk back to the dominant culture that enslaves her. Through analysis and explication of the text, this thesis examines Jacobs' rhetorical and psyshological evolution from slave to self as she struggles against patriarchal power that would rob her of her identity as well as her freedom. Included in the discussion is an analysis of the concept of self in western plilosophy, an overview of american autobiography prior to the publication of Jacobs' …

New Formalist Poets Of The American West, April Linder

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

In the late 1970s and early eighties, when most American poets were writing autobiographical free-verse lyrics, a handful of mavericks flouted literary fashion. They used rhyme, meter, and regular form—both traditional and innovative—and tried narrative, satire, and light verse. In an essay entitled “Can Poetry Matter?” (1991) one of these poets, Dana Gioia, accused contemporary poets of writing mostly for each other. “The poetry boom has been a distressingly confined phenomenon,” he wrote. “Decades of public and private funding have created a large professional class for the production of teachers, graduate students, editors, publishers, and administrators. Based mostly in universities, …

Taking Another Look At Women And Gender In Hemingway's Works, Gwendolyn Dale Binks

Theses Digitization Project

This project supports the contrary argument that Hemingway provided a voice for the post-Victorian woman, a woman exercising her strength within relationships, her sexuality, her femininity, and her freedom from oppression during the twentieth century women's movement.

About The Center (Volume 1), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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About The Circle (Volume 1), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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''Faint Angel Voices I Didn't Always Savvy": T. S. Eliot And The Mystical Subtext Of All The King's Men, Steve Marsden

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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Whatever Happened To "You" ? -- A Poetic Odyssey, Victor Strandberg

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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Robert Penn Warren And James Farmer: Notes On The Creation Of New Journalism, James A. Perkins

Robert Penn Warren Studies

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"The Perils Of Disembodied Readership", Tim Engles

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

Review of American Dream, American Nightmare: Fiction since 1960 by Kathryn Hume and Violence in the Contemporary American Novel by James R. Giles.

Gretel Ehrlich, Gregory L. Morris

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

As a Western writer, Gretel Ehrlich is something of a curious case. By birth a Californian, Ehrlich has nevertheless shaped her identity as a Western writer by experience gathered elsewhere in the West. At the same time, while Ehrlich has lived and written extensively about her life in north-central Wyoming—and built her considerable reputation upon that work—the arc of her experience has carried her for the moment back to her native California. This movement from place to place (Ehrlich has been a writer of many places in her career) suggests a dominant tension in her life and work: that of …

Facts, Shapes, Our Relationship With The Landscape: A Conversation With David Quammen, David Thomas Sumner

Faculty Publications

This interview with David Quammen is part of a series of conversations with contemporary western writers about the ethical and cultural implications of nature writing.

Nature Writing, American Literature, And The Idea Of Community: A Conversation With Barry Lopez, David Thomas Sumner

Faculty Publications

This interview with Barry Lopez is part of a series of conversations with contemporary western writers about the ethical and cultural implications of nature writing.

Table Of Contents

The Dark Man: The Journal of Robert E. Howard & Pulp Studies

Editor's Welcome, by Frank Coffman

When Kull Rode the Range, by Fred Blosser

All Fled, All Done, by Rusty Burke

The Tower of the Elephant: A Modern Fable, by Gary Romeo

Escape from Eden: Genesis Subverted in the "Garden of Fear," by Charles Hoffman

James Allison's Incarnations, by Joe Marek

Soldiering for Fortune: Robert E. Howard's Kirby O'Donnell and "The Treasures of Tartary," by Dr. Gary Hoppenstand

Dating "Wolfshead," by Edward Waterman

"Ghor Kin-Slayer," review by Fred Blosser

The Cairn (Letters from Contributors), Introduced by Frank Coffman

Lock Box 313 (Letters from Contributors), Introduced by Frank Coffman

A Previously Unpublished …

Desert Literature: The Early Period, Peter Wild

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

Although not entirely free, ours is a fairly easy ride when it comes to living on deserts. Today, in order to survive, few people out in the lands of the giant cactus and the Gila monster eat grasshoppers or spend day after day hoeing beans in the punishing 110° heat. Instead, today’s residents enjoy a created world of air-conditioned homes, schools, and shopping malls. The point is that few people live in the desert anymore. They live on it. Theirs is a colonial society, imposed on the land, fed from the outside, and infused with the life-giving juice of energy …

Reading Wallace Stegner's Angle Of Repose, Russell Burrows

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

Wallace Stegner must have felt he was gambling as he settled on Angle of Repose (1971) as the title for his most important novel—the one that would go on to win a Pulitzer Prize (1972). “Angle of repose” happens to be a bit of technical jargon from mining, and Stegner meant to extend it to marriage. This unlikely metaphor begins with the practical understanding that mine debris will tumble downhill only so far, because as a slope levels out, the rocks and the gravels and the like will start to pile up at their respective “angles of repose.” And so, …

Walt Whitman: The Optimism Of An Evolutionary Pantheist, Katherine R. Hults

Masters Theses

E.M. Forster may have best described Walt Whitman's prevailing optimism in the following passage:

He is the true optimist—not the professional optimist who shuts his eyes and shirks ... but one who has seen and suffered much and yet rejoices. He is not a philosopher or theologian; he cannot answer the ultimate question and tell us what life is. But he is absolutely certain that it is grand, that it is happiness, and that 'wherever life and force are manifested, beauty is manifested.' (Allen, World 52)

Whitman was aware of the social taboos and social evils of his time, witnessing …