College Literature articles from February 1995

College Literature archives from February 1995

Third World women's texts and the politics of feminist criticisms. (Third World Women's Inscriptions)
February 1, 1995... The desire to inscribe the material and aesthetic specificity of third world feminist writings undergirds this project. In some sense, in terms of contemporary elite academic discourses on difference, the impulse was to claim theoretical...

Writing in the margin: maternal and indigenous space in 'Entrada libre.' (novel by Argentine author Ines Malinow) (Third World Women's Inscriptions)
February 1, 1995... Entrada libre (Free Entry, 1978),(1) by the Argentine Ines Malinow, presents a series of "cultures" in conflict: Hispanic/indigenous; Christian word/Quechua magic; paternal/maternal; and conscious/unconscious. In each case, the dominant culture...

A politics of location in Simone Schwarz-Bart's 'Bridge of Beyond.' (Third World Women's Inscriptions)
February 1, 1995... The split between a "maternal Africa" and a "tutelary France" has been the focus of much scholarly work on the Antilles (see Fanon, Black Skin), and has led at least one writer to situate the Antillean imagination in a mythical elsewhere,...

The female quester in Myriam Warner Vieyra's 'Le Quimboiseur l'avait dit' and 'Juletane.' (Third World Women's Inscriptions)
February 1, 1995... Francophone literature of the Caribbean reflects the quest of an uprooted colonized people to appropriate history and geography, the collective memory and geographical landscape of islands haunted by the legacy of slavery. As the descendants of...

The hybrid terrain of literary imagination: Maryse Conde's Black Witch of Salem, Nathaniel Hawthorne's Hester Prynne, and Aime Cesaire's heroic poetic voice. (Third World Women's Inscriptions)
February 1, 1995... Literature is not only fragmented, it is henceforth shared. In it lie histories and the voice of peoples. (Edouard Glissant, Caribbean Discourse) "Women have no mouth," claims a Cameroon proverb (Schipper 20). The corollary to such "common...

"This Englishness will kill you": colonial(ist) education and female socialization in Merle Hodge's 'Crick Crack, Monkey,' and Bessie head's 'Maru.' (Third World Women's Inscriptions)
February 1, 1995... I am convinced that they have other reasons for disapproving of me. They do not like my language, my English, because it is authentic and my Shona, because it is not! They think that I am a snob, that I think I am superior to them because I do...

Purging a plate full of colonial history: The 'Nervous Conditions' of silent girls. (Tsitsi Dangarembga's novel) (Third World Women's Inscriptions)
February 1, 1995... Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga is currently writing the sequel to her first novel, Nervous Conditions (1988).(1) Indeed, the conclusion seems to invite a sequel: It was a process whose events stretched over many years and would fill...

Anger in a small place: Jamaica Kincaid's cultural critique of Antigua. (Third World Women's Inscriptions)
February 1, 1995... Jamaica Kincaid's first three works - At the Bottom of the River (1983), Annie John (1985), and A Small Place (1988) - which are focused on life on Antigua, Kincaid's native island, reflect a deep hostility toward that world. Though the books...

The mirrored self: Helena Parente Cunha's 'Mulher no Espelho.' (Third World Women's Inscriptions)
February 1, 1995... Bringing together the master narratives of autobiography, psychoanalysis, and the inherited discourse of the literary canon, Brazilian author Helena Parente Cunha uses her fiction to challenge those conventions that define women in restrictive...

The monsters of her mind: reading wise^ in Amanda Labarca Hubertson's "Defenseless." (Third World Women's Inscriptions)
February 1, 1995... The monsters of our life, are they not reducible perhaps to beautiful princesses, trapped underneath grimacing masks which call out to us for help? ("The Foundation of Virtue" [Serres 282-83]; my translation). To speak of postmodernity in...

On the bodies of Third World women: cultural impurity, prostitution, and other nervous conditions. (Third World Women's Inscriptions)
February 1, 1995... It is women everywhere in what is called the Third World who are changing things. (Doris Lessing, African Laughter) Individual women from the [third world] appear on the feminist stage as representatives of the millions of women in their own...

Reinscribing identity: nation and community in Arab women's writing. (Third World Women's Inscriptions)
February 1, 1995... One of the most difficult tasks confronting Arab women writers in inscribing themselves as subjects lies in resisting and renegotiating their role within a master national narrative that not only homogenizes the concept of national identity...

"He neo-Tarzan, she Jane?": Buchi Emecheta's 'The Rape of Shavi.' (Third World Women's Inscriptions)
February 1, 1995... Although Buchi Emecheta's fiction has attracted considerable interest and attention, one novel, The Rape of Shavi (1983) has been passed over in critical silence. Reviewers were nevertheless not slow to recognize the quality of the novel.(1) For...

Arab women's literary inscriptions: a note and extended bibliography. (Third World Women's Inscriptions)
February 1, 1995... Fiction by women writers in North Africa and the Arab world goes back sixty years.(1) In this relatively short time we can trace a remarkable pace - and breadth - of development in theme, form and technique. Beginning with a preoccupation with...

"Re-inventing ourselves a million times": narrative, desire, identity, and Bharati Mukherjee's 'Jasmine.' (Third World Women's Inscriptions)
February 1, 1995... We are the outcasts and deportees, strange pilgrims visiting outlandish shrines, landing at the end of tarmacs, ferried in old army trucks where we are roughly handled and taken to roped-off corners of waiting rooms where surly, barely wakened...

Other worlds, other texts: teaching Anita Desai's 'Clear Light of Day' to Canadian students. (Third World Women's Inscriptions)
February 1, 1995... My teaching of Commonwealth/Third World/Postcolonial/South Asian/Indian literature is deeply influenced by my consciousness of my cultural and linguistic differences from the host society, Canada.(1) These differences structure my consciousness...

Between and beyond boundaries in 'Wide Sargasso Sea.' (Third World Women's Inscriptions)
February 1, 1995... Oppositions - such as those between self and other, feminine and masculine, black and white, fiction and history - abound in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea. As Judith Moore has pointed out, critics who have addressed this novel have therefore...

By the Sweat of the Brow: Literature and Labor in Ante-Bellum America.
February 1, 1995... Criticism, writes Jerome Loving, "attempts to recover the dream - or the theme of the work - but in doing so it creates a new fiction by reshaping a reality already reshaped or experienced" (140). This formula well suits Loving's project in Lost...

Telling Time: Levi-Strauss, Ford, Lessing, Benjamin, de Man, Wordsworth, Rilke.
February 1, 1995... In the prologue to her most recent book, Telling Time, Carol Jacobs promises to do more than simply explore the thematic similarities among the otherwise disparate texts she writes about, all of which her title would indicate have something to do...

Official Knowledge: Democratic Education in a Conservative Age.
February 1, 1995... Official Knowledge, the latest volume in Michael Apple's ongoing critique of American public schooling, serves also as a battlefield report in the culture wars. There are a "them" and an "us" in this account of the conflict over the school...

Taking it Like a Man: Suffering, Sexuality and the War Poets: Brooke, Sassoon, Owen, Graves.
February 1, 1995... As Adrian Caesar's title predicts, the theme of suffering is central to the lives and work of the famous World War One trench poets who are the subject of his study. Because of their upbringing and because of various dominant ideological...