College Literature articles from January 2005

College Literature archives from January 2005

The Terror of Neoliberalism: rethinking the significance of cultural politics.
January 1, 2005... If there is a class war in America, my side is winning. (Warren Buffet qtd. in Woodward 2004, para.47) In 1945 or 1950, if you had seriously proposed any of the ideas and policies in today's standard neo-liberal toolkit, you would have...

The moral conditions for genocide in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1).(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2005... Scholars may differ in their moral assessment of Joseph Conrad's fiction, but they all seem to agree that morality is a legitimate lens for interpreting the novels. The problem, of course, is specifying Conrad's orientation toward morality, for...

Fast-fish and loose-fish: teaching Melville's Moby-Dick in the college classroom.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2005... If my own experience teaching at a large state university is at all representative, most high school graduates have never read Moby-Dick. (1) Of the 497 undergraduates to whom I have taught the book over the past thirteen years, only 19, or 3.8...

Resentful Little Women: gender and class feeling in Louisa May Alcott.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2005... In one of the most dramatic and emotionally charged scenes in Louisa May Alcott's 1868 novel Little Women, Amy retaliates against her sister Jo for a perceived slight. Jo refuses to let Amy accompany her on a rare outing to the theater, and...

Globalization and "Asian values": teaching and theorizing Asian American literature.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2005... When I first designed and taught a course titled "Sexuality in Asian American Literature" at a university in the Midwest in the mid-1990s, I intended to employ the word "sexuality" as a term that would evoke the stereotypes of Asians and Asian...

Enacting texts: African American drama, politics, and presentation in the African American literature classroom.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2005... Teaching drama can be made particularly effective by emphasizing how, through performance, drama's accessibility to an audience can be politically potent. Relation of drama to audience remains a rich resource in terms of political expression....

Voluntary conscription: enlisting the children of Lake Wobegone in the battle against grade inflation.
January 1, 2005... As a teacher of composition at a public university, I sometimes feel that a sizable portion of my time goes to alerting students. Like a canary in a coalmine, my prime mission is to provide warning. For example, I warn my students about the...

All about mothers: pronatalist discourses in contemporary Spanish cinema.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2005... "Las mujeres dicen: si quereis que tengamos hijos, ayudarnos; si no hacemos huelga de maternidad. Y los hombres dicen: si quereis libertad, cargad con la maternidad solas." (Emilio Lamo de Espinosa, El Pais, 17 Jan. 2000) ...

"Blown to atoms or reshaped at will": recent books about comics.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Bukatman, Scott. 2003. Matters of Gravity: Special Effects and Supermen in the 20th Century. Durham: Duke University Press. $21.95 sc. xvi + 279 pp. Klock, Geoff. 2002. How to Read Superhero Comics and Why. New York: Continuum. $19.95 sc....

Rereading/misreading Jung: post-Jungian theory.(Jung: A Feminist Revision)(Identities across Texts)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Rowland, Susan. 2001. Jung: A Feminist Revision. Cambridge: Polity Press. $70.95 hc. $29.95 sc. 200 pp. Jensen, George H. 2002. Identities across Texts. Ed. David Jolliffe and Michael William. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. $52.50 hc. $22.95...

South of Tradition: Essays on African American Literature.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Harris-Lopez, Trudier. 2002. South of Tradition: Essays on African American Literature. Athens: University of Georgia Press. $24.95hc. xv + 230 pp. Once again Trudier Harris-Lopez lives up to her reputation of offering insightful and...

Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... McHenry, Elizabeth. 2002. Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies. Durham and London: Duke University Press. $59.95 hc. $18.95 sc. 423 pp. Elizabeth McHenry's Forgotten Readers: Recovering the...

Coming of Age as a Poet.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Vendler, Helen. 2003. Coming of Age as a Poet. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. $22.95 hc. 202 pp. T. S. Eliot once remarked that the apparent purpose of Arthur Symons's Studies of Elizabethan Drama was to "expose" the reader to a...

The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City: Latin America in the Cold War.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Franco, Jean. 2002. The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City: Latin America in the Cold War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. $52.00 hc. $22.95 sc. 352 pp. In The Sociology of Music, Theodore Adorno paints a dour picture of advanced...

Monsters: Evil Beings, Mythical Beasts, and All Manners of Imaginary Terrors.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Gilmore, David. 2002. Monsters: Evil Beings, Mythical Beasts, and All Manners of Imaginary Terrors, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. $24.95 hc. 224 pp. David Gilmore's book Monsters is the most recent contribution to an...

Reggae Wisdom: Proverbs in Jamaican Music.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Prahlad, Sw. Anand. 2001. Reggae Wisdom: Proverbs in Jamaican Music. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. $50.00 hc. $22.00 sc. xxiv + 302 pp. Nearly all studies of reggae music and its Rastafarian "roots"--and especially those...

Books received July 15, 2004 to October 15, 2004.
January 1, 2005... Aasand, Hardin L. 2002. Stage Directions in Hamlet: New Essays and New Directions. Madison: Fairleigh Dickenson University Press. $44.50hc. 234pp. Attridge, Derek, ed. 2004. The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce. Cambridge Companions to...