College Literature articles from January 2003

College Literature archives from January 2003

Editors' preface.
January 1, 2003... Our first issue published in 1990 under CL'S new editorship was a double issue on "The Politics of Literature" (17.1/2, 1990) followed shortly thereafter by a second issue, "The Politics of Literature II" (19.1, 1992). It was clear to us from...

Guest-editor note.(Editorial)
January 1, 2003... The present collection of essays on Algeria was conceived in 1998, after watching a program on W (alias WTN) in which Rachida spoke movingly about her family, most of whom were killed by the Islamicists and/or State police. Apart from extending...

Memory.(Poem)
January 1, 2003... Memory Stop. Frozen time. Where were you when it happened? Who were you, anyway? Who are you now? Cheat. Just this once. Why did you have to do it? Why do you regret it so? How has it changed you? Lie. Through you...

Introduction: Colonialism, Islamism, Terrorism.
January 1, 2003... L'Algerie, c'est le hors champ et le con- trechamp, l'ailleurs de cet ailleurs qui vient troubler et contaminer 1'ici et maintenant de 1'espace. (Safaa Fathy, Tourner les mots) It is always hard to write the history of recent times, and...

Rachida: Letters from Algeria.(Poem)
January 1, 2003... Rachida: Letters from Algeria My country's future is uncertain. From day to day, nobody knows what will happen. I've even begun to wish for a terrible earthquake so people will look to...

Letter to Zohra Drif.
January 1, 2003... I have not written this letter. It is still there. Speechless, present, shy, it is my letter to Zohra Drif. It stays with me, unwritten, patient. I have a blank letter that does not leave. It is addressed To Zohra Drif But it is held back. This...

Of Algeria: Childhood and Fear.(Short Story)
January 1, 2003... [B]arely understanding my world...I too could begin only with the externals of things. To do more, as I soon had to, since I had no idea or illusion of a complete world waiting for me somewhere, I had to find other ways. (VS. Naipaul, Reading &...

Taking a Stand for Algeria.(French philospher Jacques Derrida on Algerian politics)
January 1, 2003... Concerning the crisis which Algeria experiences today, only the Algerians can find political solutions. Yet these cannot be born in the isolation of the country. Everybody recognizes the complexity of the situation; diverging analyses and...

Dis/Abling the Narrative: The Case of Tombeza.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2003... We were told we were making the music of Satan. It wasn't just us Rai singers who were threatened, though. The fundamentalists used to kill all the journalists as well as the musicians.... They kept saying to me: "We'll kill you if you say...

For a Chance at Warmth.(Poem)
January 1, 2003... For a Chance at Warmth The wind howls low in the grim labyrinth of stone and concrete, the dingy soot-stained walls rising high, choking out the stars above. With gnarled hands I pull my cardboard blanket closer, against the...

Culture, Art and Violence.(Algerian artistic community)
January 1, 2003... Beardless, face covered in acne, he is barely fourteen years old. He enters the BeauxArts bookshop on Didouche Mourad Street right in the heart of the city of Algiers. His hand does not even tremble as he takes his weapon from the inside pocket...

No Way Out.(Short Story)
January 1, 2003... The city, that appeared from a distance to be peaceful and acquiescent, unfurled endlessly beneath Mahmoud's feet. Imprisoned by his confusion, driven by his anxiety he felt panic slithering through his exhausted limbs. Like an ill tempered...

A Note on the Cover Art: Fathering "Garden".
January 1, 2003... I want the meaning to be imbedded in the material that I'm using. I choose the material as an extension of the concept or sometimes in opposition to it, to create a contradictory and paradoxical situation of attraction/repulsion, fascination...

Walt Whitman and new biographical criticism.(The Erotic Whitman)(Whitman and the Irish)(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Pollak, Vivian R. 2000. The Erotic Whitman. Berkeley: University of California Press. $50.00 hc, $18.95 sc; xxiv + 261 pp. Krieg, Joann P. 2000. Whitman and the Irish. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. $39.95 hc, $19.95 sc; xvii...

Mining the law/literature enterprise.(Literary Criticisms of the Law)(Minding the Law)(The Genesis of Justice: Ten Stories of Biblical Injustice that Led to the Ten Commandments and Modern Law)(Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law, Literature, and Theology)(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Binder, Gyora, and Robert Weisberg, 2000. Literary Criticisms of the Law. Princeton: Princeton University Press. xv + 539 pp. Amsterdam, Anthony G., and Jerome Bruner, 2000. Minding the Law. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 291 pp. ...

Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Harris, Trudier. 2001. Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. $18.95sc. 272pp. Trudier Harris has been one of the most prolific, if under-recognized, presences in...

Reconstituting Authority: American Fiction in the Province of the Law, 1880-1920. .(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Moddelmog, William E. 2000. Reconstituting Authority: American Fiction in the Province of the Law, 1880-1920. Iowa City. University of Iowa Press, 2000. $32.95 hc. 276 pp. Caught up as we are in the current "turn of the century," it is not...

Manifesto: A Century of Isms.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Caws, Mary Ann, ed. 2001. Manifesto: A Century of Isms. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. $35.00 SC. XXXVi + 713 pp. The nineteenth-century drive to collect and name new species is, apparently, alive and well in Mary Ann Caws,...

The Demon of the Continent: Indians and the Shaping of American Literature. .(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Bellin, Joshua David. 2001. The Demon of the Continent: Indians and the Shaping of American Literature. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. $49.95hc. S24.95sc. 274 pp. Finding the intersections of cultures and determining...

Palace-Burner: The Selected Poetry of Sarah Piatt.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Bennett, Paula Bernat. ed. 2001. Palace-Burner: The Selected Poetry of Sarah Piatt. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. $29.95. 1x + 195 pp. In the Introduction to Nineteenth-Century American Women Poets: An Anthology (1998), Paula...

Books received.
January 1, 2003... July 15, 2002 to October 15, 2002 Alexiou, Margaret. 2002. After Antiquity: Greek Language, Myth, and Metaphor. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. xvii + 567pp. Bacon, Jacqueline. 2002. The Humblest May Stand Forth: Rhetoric,...

Algeriance, exile, and Helene Cixous (1).(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2003... My way of thinking was born with the thought that I could have been born elsewhere, in one of the twenty countries where a living fragment of my maternal family had landed after it blew up on the Nazi minefield. With the thought of the...