Studies in the Humanities articles

Recent articles from Studies in the Humanities

Critical vanguard studies: an inter(re)view.(Mike Sell)(Interview)
June 1, 2008... On March 8, 2008, Professor Mike Vanden Heuvel, Chair of the Theater and Drama Department at University of Wisconsin-Madison, conducted an interview with Dr. Mike Sell, English Professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, with some questions contributed by M.A. and Ph.D. students from...

Transformative practices and historical revision: Suheir Hammad's born Palestinian, born Black.(Critical essay)
June 1, 2008... As readers, we need to approach this literature [Arab-American] not with fixed expectations but in a spirit of open inquiry. As writers, our task is not only to claim and reshape the meanings of both "Arab" and "American," but also to explore an identity still in the process of being...

Heidegger's aesthetics: the art object and history.(Martin Heidegger)(Critical essay)
June 1, 2008... "In the vicinity of the artwork we are suddenly somewhere else than we usually tend to be." --Heidegger "Pure art... is the creation of an evocative magic, containing at once the object and the subject, the world external to the artist and the artist himself." --Baudelaire (1)...

The female, the feminist and the feminine: re-reading Tayeb Salih's season of migration to the North.(Critical essay)
June 1, 2008... This paper inquires into the dynamics and the inner dialectics in the construction of Arab women's identities in Tayeb Salih's "Mawsim al-Hijrah ila Shimal" (Season of Migration to the North 1969). The novel, (henceforth Season) has been acclaimed in the East and the West for its excellent...

Waiting for the End: Gender and Ending in the Comtemporary Novel.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... WAITING FOR THE END: GENDER AND ENDING IN THE COMTEMPORARY NOVEL, by Earl G. Ingersoll. Cranbury: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2007. 288pp. $55.00, hardback. In his critical work, Waiting for the End: Gender and Ending in the Contemporary Novel (2007), Earl G. Ingersoll examines the narrative...