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Full-Text Articles in English Language and Literature
The Vigil Of Astonishment, Kevin Clark
Automitografías: The Border Paradigm And Chicana/O Autobiography, Juan Velasco
Automitografías: The Border Paradigm And Chicana/O Autobiography, Juan Velasco
English
For Chicana/o cultural critics, the border paradigm has defined the boundaries of writing and experience in contemporary Chicana/o autobiography, and has constituted a valuable contribution to American Studies. In fact, the unique voices coming from Chicana/o autobiography are expressed through a network of cultural codes involving liminality and hybridity, the rewriting of borders, and the challenging of boundaries created by mainstream cultures and official truth. Based on this deep relationship of border paradigm, Chicana/o experience, and the writing and representation of that experience, in this article I will discuss the possibility of building an organic and systematic methodology for studying …
Review Of The Dramatic Art Of Athol Fugard: From South Africa To The World, Jeanne M. Colleran
Review Of The Dramatic Art Of Athol Fugard: From South Africa To The World, Jeanne M. Colleran
English
No abstract provided.
The Grapes, Kevin Clark
The New Naturalism And The New Nature Poet: Ralph Black’S Lyric Of Doubt, Kevin Clark
The New Naturalism And The New Nature Poet: Ralph Black’S Lyric Of Doubt, Kevin Clark
English
No Abstract.
Review: Time And Space In American Literary History, Michelle Burnham
Review: Time And Space In American Literary History, Michelle Burnham
English
In one of the 26 contributing essays to Finding Colonial Americas, Kevin Hayes reconstructs the reading experience of the early eighteenth-century historian Thomas Prince, who scrupulously read the Virginia texts of John Smith and consulted French historiographic as well as English and colonial American historical texts before writing his own history of New England. The essay wonderfully illustrates the dependence of this local history on a transregional and intercontinental network of texts. The many books Prince consulted helped him to define the temporal mode of his history as well as its spatial shape, for among Prince's sources was Pierre Le …
Cast-Mistresses: The Widow Figure In Oroonoko, Kristina Bross, Kathryn Rummell
Cast-Mistresses: The Widow Figure In Oroonoko, Kristina Bross, Kathryn Rummell
English
No abstract provided.
Loss, History And Melancholia In Contemporary Latin American Cinema, Juan Velasco
Loss, History And Melancholia In Contemporary Latin American Cinema, Juan Velasco
English
No abstract provided.
Can The Cosmopolitan Speak: The Question Of Indian Novelists’ Authenticity, John C. Hawley
Can The Cosmopolitan Speak: The Question Of Indian Novelists’ Authenticity, John C. Hawley
English
The marketing of books is often beyond the control of their authors; nonetheless, dust jackets sometimes offer amusing evidence of the audience that publication houses, if not authors, wish to reach. Thus, in Red Earth and Pouring Rain ( 1995), Vikram Chandra apparently offers readers the sto1y of "an eighteenth-century wan-ior poet (now reincarnated as a typewriting monkey) and an Indian student home from college in America ... [and] ranging from bloody battles in colonial India to college anomie in California, from Hindu gods to MTV." By way of context, consider Lee Siegel's academic novel, Love in a Dead Language …
Review Of Wired To The World, Chained To The Home: Telework In Daily Life By Penny Gurstein, Mary A. Armstrong
Review Of Wired To The World, Chained To The Home: Telework In Daily Life By Penny Gurstein, Mary A. Armstrong
English
No abstract provided.
Firdaus Kanga, John C. Hawley
Firdaus Kanga, John C. Hawley
English
Firdaus Kanga was born in Bombay with osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease), a condition that prevented his bones from growing beyond a certain point. Also this condition meant that his bones had the potential of breaking easily. As a result, he spent most of his early years bedridden, not attending school, leaving his home only occasionally to attend the cinema with his family. It was not until he was nineteen that he obtained his first wheelchair. Kanga 's family expected him to become a solicitor, but he did not find his experiences in law school satisfying. On the other hand, …
Ardashir Vakil, John C. Hawley
Ardashir Vakil, John C. Hawley
English
Ardashir Vakil was born in Bombay; his father was a nationally famous lawyer ("vakil" means lawyer, in fact) and his mother established a number of bookstores. Vaki l attended St. Mary's School and finished his schooling at The Doon School in the footh ills of the Himalayas before moving to Great Britain to take an English degree at Magdalene College in Cambridge. He lives in London with his wife and two daughters. He currently teaches at the Homsey School for Girls. While continuing to teach four days a week, he is working on his second novel, which is set in …
Review Of Susan Wells, Out Of The Dead House: Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians And The Writing Of Medicine, Amy Propen, Mary M. Lay
Review Of Susan Wells, Out Of The Dead House: Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians And The Writing Of Medicine, Amy Propen, Mary M. Lay
English
No abstract provided.
R. K. Narayanswami B.A.B.L. Engine Driver": Story-Telling And Memory In The Grandmother’S Tale, And Selected Stories, John C. Hawley
R. K. Narayanswami B.A.B.L. Engine Driver": Story-Telling And Memory In The Grandmother’S Tale, And Selected Stories, John C. Hawley
English
Much like the Nambi of this tale, R. K. Narayan has merited his reputation as a marvelous storyteller. Noted for his laser-beam focus on the closely-imagined Malgudi, he has come to be recognized as "the" Indian novelist, from whose pen many readers expected all the accumulated wisdom of the subcontinent's abiding concern for transcendence. While such "guru-ization" amused Narayan, it also elicited his quietly sustained argument against procrustean templates by which the west insisted on reading him as "typically Indian."2
Toni Morrison's Beloved: Transforming The African Heroic Epic, Kathryn Rummell
Toni Morrison's Beloved: Transforming The African Heroic Epic, Kathryn Rummell
English
No abstract provided.
"Your Legs Must Be Singing Grand Opera": Masculinity, Masochism, And Stephen King's Misery, Douglas Keesey
"Your Legs Must Be Singing Grand Opera": Masculinity, Masochism, And Stephen King's Misery, Douglas Keesey
English
No abstract provided.
Floral Counterdiscourse: Miscegenation, Ecofeminism, And Hybridity In Lydia Maria Child's A Romance Of The Republic
English
No abstract provided.
Cal Poly Land: A Field Guide, Steven Marx
Cal Poly Land: A Field Guide, Steven Marx
English
This book is about the “community to which we belong”–we, the students, faculty and staff of Cal Poly University and our neighbors. Cal Poly Land encompasses nearly 10,000 acres in four large parcels--two in San Luis Obispo county, and two in Santa Cruz county--making us the second largest university landholder in California and one of the largest in the nation. This land comprises one of Poly's most valuable assets. Its “outdoor teaching and learning facilities” provide laboratories for education and research, house ecosystems and lifeforms, grow food and fiber, inspire recreation and renewal, and remain our legacy from past to …
Performing Multiple Identities: Guillermo Gómez-Peña And His Dangerous Border Crossings, Juan Velasco
Performing Multiple Identities: Guillermo Gómez-Peña And His Dangerous Border Crossings, Juan Velasco
English
Guillermo Gómez-Peña is one of the few Mexican performance artists who, since he came to the United States in 1978, has been able to create and explore the merging of visual language and text in the complexities of cross-cultural identities through controversial issues. Labeled by some as one of the most significant performance artists of the late twentieth century, he uses multiple media: video, performance, installation art, and bilingual poetry. In his "Performance Diaries" he explains the process of performance in his work as "a vast conceptual territory where my eclectic and ever-changing ideas and the ideas of my collaborators …
Greenaway's Books, Steven Marx
Greenaway's Books, Steven Marx
English
Peter Greenaway's adaptation of The Tempest is titled Prospero's Books, renaming and representing Shakespeare's play as a work made of books. Prospero begins imagining, speaking and writing The Tempest in his bath while turning the pages of "The Book of Water." It and the other 23 books which inspire and empower him appear in Greenaway's version both as props in the narrative and as "real" documents located in a separate picture plane, where they are described by a donnish voice distinct from that of the protagonist-author.
They Kill For Love: Defining The Erotic Thriller As A Film Genre, Douglas Keesey
They Kill For Love: Defining The Erotic Thriller As A Film Genre, Douglas Keesey
English
No abstract provided.
The Bombay Boys Of Mira Nair, Firdaus Kanga And Ardashir Vakil, John C. Hawley
The Bombay Boys Of Mira Nair, Firdaus Kanga And Ardashir Vakil, John C. Hawley
English
The valorization of traditional sources that has come to be termed nativism has a broad politics that can distort the historical record by romanticizing the past. When Leopold Senghor or Amilcar Cabral speak of a "national culture"1 as the source for post-independence development and Frantz Fanon warns against the exoticization of "native"2 culture, the contours of the argument seem to be obvious: critics in one camp seek first to counter colonial cultural dominance; critics in the other camp wish to temper such rejection with a "domestication" of European culture. Westerners, even well-meaning ones, can get caught in related entanglements when …
Highball, Princeton Station, Kevin Clark
Platter, Kevin Clark
Stay With Me, Susan Steinberg
Moses And The Egyptian: Religious Authority In Olaudah Equiano's Iteresting Narrative, Eileen Razzari Elrod
Moses And The Egyptian: Religious Authority In Olaudah Equiano's Iteresting Narrative, Eileen Razzari Elrod
English
From the first image that greeted readers of his book, Olaudah Equiano presented the self of his 1789 autobiographical narrative as a pious Christian, one whose religious conversion meant a kind of freedom as significant as his manumission from slavery. In the striking frontispiece portrait Equiano sits with biblical text in hand, insisting-in his visual as in his textual presentations of himself-that the Christianity he embraces is the defining feature of his life-story. He responds, as Susan Marren has suggested, to two paradoxical imperatives: one, to write himself into creation as a speaking subject and, two, to write an antislavery …
Appraising The Whole Motion: Dickey's Place In Literary History, Douglas Keesey
Appraising The Whole Motion: Dickey's Place In Literary History, Douglas Keesey
English
No abstract provided.
Our Children Playing Catch In The Evening Of No Warning, Kevin Clark
Our Children Playing Catch In The Evening Of No Warning, Kevin Clark
English
No abstract provided.
Book Review: Joanne M. Braxton. Maya Angelou's I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 162p., Kathryn Rummell
Book Review: Joanne M. Braxton. Maya Angelou's I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 162p., Kathryn Rummell
English
No abstract provided.
My Mother's Legacy: Trying To Make A Difference Through Teaching And Research, Marilyn Edelstein
My Mother's Legacy: Trying To Make A Difference Through Teaching And Research, Marilyn Edelstein
English
Asked to write about how I became interested in social justice research, I realized that the question had two parts for me: how I got interested in social justice and how I got interested in research. To answer these questions, I found myself thinking back to my early adolescence, and to my mother. I remember a day when I was about 12 and saw a TV news report on poverty and hunger in some 49 underdeveloped" part of the world. When it was over, I flung myself across my mother's bed, crying. My mother came into the room and asked …