College Literature articles from January 2001

College Literature archives from January 2001

Introduction.(cannibalism, consumption and appropriation)(Cover Story)
January 1, 2001... The moral question is thus not, nor has it ever been: should one eat or not eat, eat this and not that, the living and the non-living, man or animal, but since one must eat in any case and since it is and tastes good to eat, and since there's...

Flesh Trade.
January 1, 2001... Postindustrial civilization requires citizens not primarily as producers, but as consumers. Technology puts raw materials to new uses and produces new materials--plastics, fiberglass, silicon. It contrives methods to use energy ever more...

Legal Hunger: Law, Narrative, and Orality in Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller and Almanac of the Dead.
January 1, 2001... American law is not usually considered through the lens of orality. Contract law, as well as the notions of intent and consent, has in courts' efforts to establish "objective" standards of conduct, evolved away from what were seen as primitive...

Disorderly Consumption and Capitalism: The Privilege of Sex Addiction.
January 1, 2001... A familiar theme of Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality (1978) involves the establishment of sexual normalcy through the discursive production of myriad perversions. Ultimately, as a taxonomic system of abnormalities, the discourses on...

Ripping the Bodice: Eating, Reading, and Revolt.(relationship between eating disorders and romance novels)
January 1, 2001... Secretly eating large amounts of "forbidden" high calorie food is, along with reading the romance, a particularly female behavior often indulged in when other avenues for pleasure and fulfillment are closed. [1] While the long running feminist...

Eating Their Words: Consuming Class a Ia Chaplin and Keaton.(relationship between eating and social classes in the films of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton)
January 1, 2001... [Steak] figures in all surroundings of alimentary life: flat, edged with yellow, like the sole of a shoe, in cheap restaurants; thick and juicy in the bistros which specialize in it; cubic, with the core all moist throughout beneath a light...

The Representation of the Cannibal in Ballantyne's The Coral Island. Colonial Anxieties in Victorian Popular Fiction.
January 1, 2001... [The colonial stereotype has a] phantasmic quality--the same old stories of the Negro's animality, the Coolie's inscrutability or the stupidity of the Irish must be told (compulsively) again and afresh, and are differently gratifying and...

Orality, Divinity, Sublimity: Jonathan Edwards and the Ethics of Incorporation.
January 1, 2001... For the instructor of American literature, the question of how to teach the Puritans often becomes one of whether to teach them. Veterans of this struggle know well how students resist these earliest figures in the canon, and the more that...

Bitter Milk: The Vasa Menstrualis and the Cannibal(ized) Virgin.
January 1, 2001... In a series of strangely compelling photographs first shown in New York in 1990, artist-photographer Cindy Sherman appropriates early modern portraiture by posing in mimetic tableau, including in her work several depictions of the Blessed...

Conversion and Oral Assimilation in Sarah Kofman [1].
January 1, 2001... I would like to bring together some thoughts linking maternity to both the production of art and to an understanding of the ways in which culture confines, regulates, and controls the status of the foreigner, the immigrant, and particularly,...

Homer, 1715-1996.(Review)
January 1, 2001... DeJong, Irene J. F., ed. 1999. Homer; Critical Assessments. 4 vols. New York: Routledge. $704.00hc. Volume 1: The Creation of the Poems. 406pp. Volume 2: The Homeric World. 471pp. Volume 3: Literary Interpretation. 511pp. ...

Millennium Approached: Reflections on the State of Queer Literary Studies at the Fin-de-Siecle.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Corber, Robert J. 1997. Homosexuality in Cold War America: Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity. Durham: Duke University Press. $49.95 hc. $16.95 sc. v + 240 pp. McRuer, Robert. 1997. The Queer Renaissance: Contemporary American...

The Measure of what You Bring: Three Recent works on Hemingway.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Clifford, Stephen P. 1998. Beyond the Heroic "I": Reading Lawrence, Hemingway, and "Masculinity." Cranbury: Associated University Presses. $48.50 hc. 352 PP. Eby, Carl P. 1999. Hemingways Fetishism: Psychoanalysis and the Mirror of...

Reading the World Through the Word: The Power of Literacy in a New Media Age.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Brantlinger, Patrick. 1998. The Reading Lesson: The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. $19.95 Sc. 254 pp. O'Donnell, James J. 1998. Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to...

Women and Power: The Politics of Myth Poetic Identity.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Stocker, Margarita. 1998. Judith, Sexual Warrior: Women and Power in Western Culture. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. $30.00 hc. viii + 278 pp. Hogue, Cynthia. 1998. Scheming Women: Poetry, Privilege, and the Politics of...

Relocations and Border Crossing.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Curti, Lidia. 1998. Female Stories, Female Bodies: Narrative, Identity and Representation. NewYork: NewYork University Press. $55.00 hc. $17.50 sc. xviii + 232 pp. Roberson, Susan L., ed.1998. Women, America, and Movement: Narratives of...

Closed Encounters: Literary Politics and Public Cultures.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Wallen, Jeffrey. 1998. Closed Encounters: Literary Politics and Public Cultures. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. $18.95 sc. 232 pp. Of the multiple embarrassments Americans endured during the Clinton impeachment crisis, what...

New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism Between the Wars.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Maxwell. William J. 1999. New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism Between the Wars. New York: Columbia University Press. $40.50 hc. $17.50 sc. 254 pp For the past fifty years, a powerful cultural narrative has define...