College Literature articles from January 2002

College Literature archives from January 2002

Editor's note.
January 1, 2002... With this issue, College Literature becomes a quarterly. You can now expect to see us every January, April, July, and October. After 30 years as a triannual, the decision to publish four issues instead of three annually has been...

Ghosts in the mirror: colonialism and Creole indeterminacy in Bronte and Sand.(Charlotte Bronte, George Sand)
January 1, 2002... I The colonial encounter raises myriad possibilities for reinscribing the terms of subjectivity in the post-colonial condition. Issues of alienation, difference and desire framed the imperial will to conquest, at the pinnacle of the...

Say it, Jim: the morality of connection in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
January 1, 2002... The American literary tradition has often been defined by its moments of radical autonomy--Thoreau at his pond, Ishmael offering his apostrophe to "landlessness," Huck "light[ing] out for the Territory ahead of the rest" (Twain 1995,265). In...

Inside and outside the ring: manhood, race, and art in American Literary Naturalism.
January 1, 2002... The emergence of spectator sports at the end of the nineteenth century as commercial enterprise, masculine performance, and nascent profession offers a paradigmatic lens through which to understand the artistic ethos of those writers commonly...

Keeping up with the Joneses: the naming of racial identities in the autobiographical writings of LeRoi Jones/ Amiri Baraka, Hettie Jones, and Lisa Jones.
January 1, 2002... So there was a scandal downtown: LEROI JONES Has Left His White Wife. It fit right in with dissolving black-white political alliances.... Close to home, though, it hurt most. There was pressure on all black people to end their interracial...

Writing a history of difference: Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the Cherry and Angela Carter's Wise Children.
January 1, 2002... Reveling in elements of fantasy and grotesquerie and foregrounding a complex intertextual lineage, the fiction of Jeanette Winterson and Angela Carter reveals a host of common stylistic traits and thematic preoccupations. However, an even more...

Rose Cohen and Bella Spewack: the ethnic child speaks to you who never were there.(early twentieth century biography)
January 1, 2002... Beginning in 1880, roughly two million Russian and East European Jews immigrated to the United States over the following three decades. Once here, thousands of newly arrived young immigrant women left their New York tenement homes to find...

Re-ethicizing the classroom: pedagogy, the public sphere, and the postcolonial condition.
January 1, 2002... Despite our diminishing faith in a public sphere that can function independent of corporate and commercial frames of reference and serve as a site for engaged debate, informed opinion, and oppositional activity, we need, as Andrew Ross...

Will the real Howard Roark please stand up?(four books on professorship and academia)(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Aronowitz, Stanley. 2000. The Knowledge Factory: Dismantling the Corporate University and Creating True Higher Learning. Boston: Beacon. $26.00 hc. 217 pp. Caughie, Pamela L. 1999. Passing & Pedagogy: The Dynamics of Responsibility....

Houses divided: processing composition in a post-process time.('Everyone Can Write: Essays Toward a Hopeful Theory of Writing and Teaching Writing,' 'Teaching with Your Mouth Shut' and 'Teaching Composition as a Social Process')(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Elbow, Peter. 2000. Everyone Can Write: Essays Toward a Hopeful Theory of Writing and Teaching Writing. New York: Oxford University Press. $45.00 hc. $18.95 sc. xxiv + 475 pp. Finkel, Donald L. 2000. Teaching with Your Mouth Shut....

Unruly Tongue: Identity and Voice in American Women's Writing, 1850-1930. .(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Cutter, Martha. 1999. Unruly Tongue: Identity and Voice in American Women's Writing, 1850-1930. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. $40.00 hc. xix + 228 pp. Martha Cutter opens Unruly Tongue with a reminder of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman...

The Chaucer Songbook: Celtic Music and Early Music for Harp and Voice.(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Wood, Carol. 2000. The Chaucer Songbook: Celtic Music and Early Music for Harp and Voice. Book and CD set. Pacific. MO: Mel Bay Publishers and Epona Records. $24.95. In recent years, developments in the study of both Medieval...