Texas Studies in Literature and Language articles from September 2006

Texas Studies in Literature and Language archives from September 2006

Fraught encounters.(evaluation of essays)(Editorial)
September 22, 2006... The editors thank Jose Limon and Adam Newton for their assistance in selecting the essays for this issue. The three essays in this issue deal with the central contemporary critical issue of the response of alienated consciousness to the...

The vanguard of modernity: Richard Wright's The Outsider.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... (1) When Richard Wright became nationally known through the publication of Native Son in 1940, he had already assumed a "central place in the radical political culture of the international communist movement." (1) Moreover Native Son and...

Dissonant voices in Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory and Luce Irigaray's This Sex Which Is Not One.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... I With the publication of Days of Obligation and, more recently, Brown, Richard Rodriguez's scholarship has begun to recognize the theoretical import inherent in the Hispanic writer's autobiographical essays. Juan de Castro most clearly...

"Oy, a good men!": Urban voices and democracy in Henry Roth's Call It Sleep.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... Even before the start of World War I, Walter Lippmann had already announced that "the world has been altered radically" (9). Lippmann's assertion rested on the tremendous changes he observed everywhere in his American context. In his book Drift...