College Literature articles from June 2003

College Literature archives from June 2003

What if you're an "incredibly unattractive, fat, pastrylike-fleshed man"?: teaching Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place.
June 22, 2003... Drawing from Audre Lorde's ideas on power and language, extant essays about Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place, and the text itself, "What If You're an 'Incredibly Unattractive, Fat, Pastrylike-fleshed Man'?" develops a strategy for teaching A...

The missionary position: Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible.
June 22, 2003... This essay reveals how Barbara Kingsolver illustrates the hypocrisy of religious rhetoric and practice that sacrifices the many for the good of the few in power, drawing a clear parallel between a missionary's attitude and colonial imperialism....

Wrapping the hole in the middle of it all: Tanizaki's narrative packages.
June 22, 2003... In the early 1990s, anthropologist Joy Hendry, analyzed the importance of wrapping in Japanese culture, arguing that the meaning of a presentation cannot be properly understood without a careful consideration of its wrapping. The layers of...

Playing in the dark with Welty: the symbolic role of African Americans in Delta Wedding.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2003... Using theories of Toni Morrison and Ralph Ellison, this essay explores the symbolic role that African American characters play for white characters in Eudora Welty's early novel, Delta Wedding. Entzminger's main intent is not to explicate...

Cultivating critical self-reflection in an international context: the development of an American studies curriculum in Turkey.
June 22, 2003... Many literature professors in the U.S. strive to foster skills of critical self-reflection: we ask students to be responsible to textual evidence, historical context, and the implications of the interpreter's acts. Recent teaching also stresses...

The ourang-outang situation.(Edgar Allen Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2003... The crime at the heart of Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is the slave insurrection, but the real mystery of this story concerns why this reading is not more obvious. A discussion of the classroom challenges of this interpretation reveals...

Cyborg or goddess: postmodernism and its others in John Fowles's Mantissa.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2003... John Fowles's Mantissa defines its title, and by implication, its whole enterprise, as a mere "addition of comparatively small importance, especially to a literary effort or discourse"(Fowles 182). This paper offers a feminist and...

Forget the legend and read the work: teaching two stories by Ernest Hemingway.
June 22, 2003... This essay discusses the writer's strategies and experiences teaching two stories by Ernest Hemingway: "Indian Camp" and "Hills Like White Elephants." Bauer uses these stories as an opportunity to show students that they should not make...

Romanticisms, histories, and romantic cultures.(reviews of four books on Romanticism)(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Connell, Philip. 2001. Romanticism, Economics, and the Question of Culture. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. $60.00 hc. 352 pp. Hofstetter, Michael J. 2001. The Romantic Idea of a University: England and Germany, 1770-1850....

Wu, Duncan. 2002. Wordsworth: an Inner Life.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers Ltd. $69.95 hc. xviii + 378 pp. Few readers will regard Duncan Wu's Wordsworth: An Inner Life as an easy book. It is nevertheless an important one, written by a distinguished Wordsworthian whose earlier work...

Devlin, Kimberly J. 2002. James Joyce's "Fraudstuff.".(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Gainesville: University Press of Florida. $55.00 hc. xv + 201pp. Throughout the twentieth century, the issue of fraudulence has held a central place in discussions of aesthetics. The problem at hand is the nature of reality itself. What is...

Ramazani, Jahan. 2001. The Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in English.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Chicago: University of Chicago Press. $50.00 hc. $17.50 sc. x + 223 pp. Classrooms and journals in the United States devoted to poetry save space for recent Iowa workshop graduates and for nineteenth-century magazine poets but not,...

Marrouchi, Mustapha. 2002. Signifying with a Vengeance: Theories, Literatures, Storytellers.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Albany: State University of New York Press. $81.50 hc. x + 344 pp. "Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)" Walt Whitman's charmingly insouciant acknowledgment might well stand as an...

Books received: January 16, 2003 to April 15, 2003.
June 22, 2003... Adamson, Joni, Mei Mei Evans, and Rachel Stein, eds. 2002. The Environmental Justice Reader. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. $45.00 hc. $21.95 sc. x + 395 pp. Alexander, Jacqui, et. al, eds. 2003. Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray: Feminist...