Texas Studies in Literature and Language articles from September 2007

Texas Studies in Literature and Language archives from September 2007

"I stuck the gimlet in and waited for evening": writing and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2007... At a point near the center of Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Linda Brent reports that she has occupied her self-designated "Loophole of Retreat," and sits nearly suffocating in the dark hideaway. She survives in her...

Jim Trueblood and his critic-readers: Ralph Ellison's rhetoric of dramatic irony and tall humor in the mid-century American literary public sphere.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2007... "... I was lost. The more wringlin' and twistin' we done tryin' to git away, the more we wanted to stay... I know there ain't noth-in' like what I went through, I caint tell how it was. It's like when a real drinkin' man gits...

The Brothers Incandenza: translating ideology in Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2007... Should I find it depressing that the young Dostoevsky was just like young U.S. writers today, or kind of a relief? Does anything ever change?--David Foster Wallace ("Feodor's Guide," 28 n. 21). I. Ideology, Belief, and...

Capturing China in globalization: the dialectic of autonomy and dependency in Zhang Yimou's cinema.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2007... In 1992 Zhang Yimou, doubtless China's best-known film director both domestically and abroad, released The Story of Qiu Ju (Qiuju da guansi), a dramatic feature about a peasant woman seeking justice for her injured husband. (1) Qiu Ju signals...