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Another Person's Skin: Imagining Race In The Works Of Crane, Dunbar, Cather And Stevens, Lisa M. Durose Aug 1999

Another Person's Skin: Imagining Race In The Works Of Crane, Dunbar, Cather And Stevens, Lisa M. Durose

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This study is interested in the motivations behind certain authors' attempts to, in the words of Willa Cather, "enter into another person's skin"~in the desires compelling writers to cross, transgress, or perhaps transcend those barriers that have historically divided people in the world: barriers of color, class, and gender. In particular it seeks to examine the works of four early twentieth century writers who undertake what these days is considered risky: transracial and transethnic crossings. By relying on biographical, cultural, and historical sources, I explore the strategies American writers Stephen Crane (1871-1900), Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872- 1906), Willa Cather (1873-1947), …


A Bare Unpainted Table: A Manuscript Of Poems, Gladys Cardiff Jun 1999

A Bare Unpainted Table: A Manuscript Of Poems, Gladys Cardiff

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The poems in this collection reflect Cardiff's bi-cultural Native American and Euro-American inheritance. The book title comes from a sixteenth century chronicle in which the native peoples of the Americas are seen as "simple gentiles" living under the "lawe of nature " . These narrative poems refute the Eurocentric notion that American Indians can be likened to a "bare table" or "a blank sheet of paper to be written upon ". The poem s celebrate her Indian heritage and also engage allusively with Western and Asian tradition s and conventions. Sometimes edgy, sometimes honorific, the juxtaposition of traditions in these …


Indoor/Outdoor: Poems, Jeffrey Greer Apr 1999

Indoor/Outdoor: Poems, Jeffrey Greer

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The poems in this manuscript can be sorted into two distinct, but compatible, categories. First, a series of narrative poems attempt to challenge Edgar Allen Poe’s dictum that an American poet cannot successfully write a poem longer than 100 lines. These poems approach coherent subjects through disjunctive forms. There is non-linear and linear movement in these poems that meander along in an attempt to capture a witnessed scene along with the action of making sense of that witnessing. There is a process of breaking the familiar and coherent down into something strange, then reconstituting it again into something newer and …


Chris's Knees, Becky Kosick Jan 1999

Chris's Knees, Becky Kosick

Calliope (1954-2001)

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Calliope Manuscript Day 1999 Jan 1999

Calliope Manuscript Day 1999

Calliope (1954-2001)

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Allison Vs. The Typewriter, Daniel Brooks Jan 1999

Allison Vs. The Typewriter, Daniel Brooks

Calliope (1954-2001)

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The Last Poem Of The Great American Revolution, Daniel Brooks Jan 1999

The Last Poem Of The Great American Revolution, Daniel Brooks

Calliope (1954-2001)

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Baking 101, Lindsey Prudhomme Jan 1999

Baking 101, Lindsey Prudhomme

Calliope (1954-2001)

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My Mother Conquers Her Writer's Block, Krisha Novak Jan 1999

My Mother Conquers Her Writer's Block, Krisha Novak

Calliope (1954-2001)

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Little Brother Syndrome, Mercedes Combs Jan 1999

Little Brother Syndrome, Mercedes Combs

Calliope (1954-2001)

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Standing Firm, Sarah Uchman Jan 1999

Standing Firm, Sarah Uchman

Calliope (1954-2001)

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Fresh Starts, Blake Costello Jan 1999

Fresh Starts, Blake Costello

Calliope (1954-2001)

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Gray Hairs, Geoff Denstaedt Jan 1999

Gray Hairs, Geoff Denstaedt

Calliope (1954-2001)

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After Hours In Cabin B-2, Jessica Ratzow Jan 1999

After Hours In Cabin B-2, Jessica Ratzow

Calliope (1954-2001)

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Untitled #4, Lana Jaeger Jan 1999

Untitled #4, Lana Jaeger

Calliope (1954-2001)

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The Waiting Room At Pro Muffler And Brake Shop, Amy Jewell Jan 1999

The Waiting Room At Pro Muffler And Brake Shop, Amy Jewell

Calliope (1954-2001)

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Uncle Bud, Karyn Deschaaf Jan 1999

Uncle Bud, Karyn Deschaaf

Calliope (1954-2001)

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Rubbings, Tom Wisniewski Jan 1999

Rubbings, Tom Wisniewski

Calliope (1954-2001)

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Color Doesn't Matter, Anne Prussing Jan 1999

Color Doesn't Matter, Anne Prussing

Calliope (1954-2001)

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Again, Heather Ackerman Jan 1999

Again, Heather Ackerman

Calliope (1954-2001)

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Underwater Worid, Carrie Vivian Jan 1999

Underwater Worid, Carrie Vivian

Calliope (1954-2001)

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Choices, Jessica Oja Rohloff Jan 1999

Choices, Jessica Oja Rohloff

Calliope (1954-2001)

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Genuflect, Gentlemen And Other Stories, Matt B. Mullins Dec 1998

Genuflect, Gentlemen And Other Stories, Matt B. Mullins

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Genuflect, Gentlemen is a novella-Iength work of fiction in which Dan Mooney, a recovering drug-addict and former rock star, has a religious awakening that inspires him to write a journal as an attempt to find meaning in his past. This journal, a soapbox for Dan’s newly realized philosophies, focuses primarily in his troublesome experiences as a student at an all-boys Catholic boarding high school; it is essentially Dan’s version of the “story” of those years just before his fame when music was replacing religion as the center of his spirituality. The ultimate conclusion Dan reaches through the reconsideration of that …


The Trout, Will Code Jan 1998

The Trout, Will Code

Calliope (1954-2001)

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Darkness At Dawn, Angela Kovalak Jan 1998

Darkness At Dawn, Angela Kovalak

Calliope (1954-2001)

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Carriers Of The Thunder Stick, Catherine Aiken Jan 1998

Carriers Of The Thunder Stick, Catherine Aiken

Calliope (1954-2001)

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The Scarecrow, Rob Lawrence Jan 1998

The Scarecrow, Rob Lawrence

Calliope (1954-2001)

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Dreams, Shaunna Barr Jan 1998

Dreams, Shaunna Barr

Calliope (1954-2001)

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Funky Miasma, Alyssha "Kat" Holdren Jan 1998

Funky Miasma, Alyssha "Kat" Holdren

Calliope (1954-2001)

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The Rehearsal, Jennifer Yeager Jan 1998

The Rehearsal, Jennifer Yeager

Calliope (1954-2001)

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