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The Significance Of John S. Mbiti's Works In The Study Of Pan-African Literature, Babacar Mbaye
The Significance Of John S. Mbiti's Works In The Study Of Pan-African Literature, Babacar Mbaye
Babacar Mbaye
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Idealization And Desire In The Hundred Acre Wood: A.A. Milne And Christopher (Robin), Laura Bright
Idealization And Desire In The Hundred Acre Wood: A.A. Milne And Christopher (Robin), Laura Bright
Laura E Bright
Argues that A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner represent the conscious rejection, unconscious reproduction, and re-imaging of the author's traumatic Victorian childhood.
Women And Sisters, Maureen T. Reddy
Women And Sisters, Maureen T. Reddy
Maureen T. Reddy
Jean Fagan Yellin's Women and Sisters: The Antislavery Feminists in American Culture, on the iconography of the women's abolitionist movement, is a brilliant example of interdisciplinary thought and study. Crossing the boundaries of history, feminist theory, African American studies, and literary analysis, Yellin illuminates the complex intersections of art and politics in American life. Women and Sisters traces the history of the "Woman and Sister" emblem that the antislavery feminists adopted, examining its permutations in texts both graphic and literary from the 1830s to the 1850s.
A Poetics Of History: Karen Cushman's Medieval World, Joseph Zornado
A Poetics Of History: Karen Cushman's Medieval World, Joseph Zornado
Joseph L Zornado
Historical fiction occupies an uncertain space in the field of children's literature. Offer a teacher or scholar a work of historical fiction in any genre, from picture book to novel, and you are sure to get a varied, contentious response about what makes historical fiction work. Why? Because historical fiction has ambitious, ambiguous aims. For instance, should historical fiction be good history, even if this means the story might be, say, a little dull? Or, on the other hand, should the author take liberties with setting, dialogue, and character in order to provide the audience with "a good read?" What …
Melba Boyd, Karen Gevirtz
Melba Boyd, Karen Gevirtz
Karen Bloom Gevirtz
This article has been reprinted in a revised edition of the Oxford Companion to African American Literature (Oxford University Press, 1997). It describes the life and career of Melba Boyd.
Play, Death, And Apotheosis, Kirby Farrell Prof
Play, Death, And Apotheosis, Kirby Farrell Prof
kirby farrell
This chapter develops the argument in "Self-Effacement and Autonomy in Sx," extending it to fantasies of apotheosis in the poems and plays.