College Literature articles from March 1999

College Literature archives from March 1999

Abjection and degeneration in Thomas Hardy's "Barbara of the House of Grebe.".
March 22, 1999... Thomas Hardy's Gothic tale, "Barbara of the House of Grebe" (1891), dramatizes the horrid consequences of belief in the Victorian myth of degeneration. Only months after writing Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Hardy creates another tragedy in the...

Who has the right to say? Charles W. Chesnutt, whiteness, and the public sphere.
March 22, 1999... Most critics who have tried to account for Charles W. Chesnutt's failure to publish any novels after 1905 have argued that two pressures combined to make him give up his writing career and return full-time to his business. With the relative...

Willa Cather's "pioneer" novels and (not new, not old) historical reading.
March 22, 1999... In a generally admiring review of Paradise, Toni Morrison's 1998 novel set in an all-black town in Oklahoma and ranging from 1976 back through the Civil Rights and post-World War II periods to Reconstruction, Brent Staples pays tribute to...

"The paralysis of the instant": the stagnation of history and the stylistic suspension of time in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'La hojarasca.'.
March 22, 1999... Gabriel Garcia Marquez's first novel, La hojarasca (1955), has often been deemed "too Faulknerian," and Garcia Marquez himself criticized for not yet having developed a voice of his own, differentiated from that of the southerner.(1) To be...

Double (de)colonization and the feminist criticism of 'Wide Sargasso Sea.'.
March 22, 1999... The shifts characterizing the history of Jean Rhys criticism since the publication of her last novel in 1966 are evidence that the social and political meanings of a text are not solely determined by the ideologies of the time of its production...

Thoughts about doing Fanonism in the 1990s.
March 22, 1999... A society that drives its members to desperate solutions is a non-viable society, a society to be replaced. . . . No pseudonational mystifications can prevail against the requirement of reason. Fanon After the "Fanonism" of the 1970s (see...

Raymond Williams and the idea of cultural revolution.
March 22, 1999... In our generally retrograde post Cold War age, it might be anachronistic to try to resuscitate any interest in what my daughter calls another "dead white male." Raymond Williams, now legendary founding figure (with Richard Hoggart and E.P....

'Black Elk Speaks' and literary disciplinarity: a case study in canonization.
March 22, 1999... "The canon . . . must arise through the responsible exercise of principles of exclusivity and inclusivity" (Krupat 1989, 236). In his conclusion to The Voice in the Margin: Native American Literature and the Canon, Arnold Krupat thus calls for...

Lyrical culture: rethinking Western literature after reading 'The Book of Songs.'.
March 22, 1999... I was trained in west-west comparative literature (Latin American/United States), so that when I initially taught the first semester of a sophomore-level world literature survey - even though I specialized in twentieth-century literatures - I...

Teaching African-American literature in Turkey: the politics of pedagogy.
March 22, 1999... I teach at Bilkent University, the first private university to be founded in Turkey, where I am now an associate professor. The university located in Ankara, the capitol city of Turkey, provides students with American-oriented research and...

Teaching texts for literature and medicine.
March 22, 1999... With the advent of The On-Line Database of Literature, Arts and Medicine (revised 1996), through the Hippocrates Project at the New York University School of Medicine, it has became plausible once more (as it had with Joanne Trautmann and Carol...

Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Couser, G. Thomas. 1997. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. $55.110 hc. $24.95 sc. xiv + 314 pp. With the advent of The On-Line Database of Literature, Arts and Medicine (revised 1996), through the Hippocrates Project at the New York...

Between Doctors and Patients: The Changing Balance of Power.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Furst, Lilian R. 1998. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. $37.50 hc.xii + 287 pp. With the advent of The On-Line Database of Literature, Arts and Medicine (revised 1996), through the Hippocrates Project at the New York...

Picturing Health and Illness: Images of Identity and Difference.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Gilman, Sander L. 1995. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. $29.95 hc. 200 pp. With the advent of The On-Line Database of Literature, Arts and Medicine (revised 1996), through the Hippocrates Project at the New York University...

Fragments of Death, Fables of Identity.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Panourgia, Neni. 1995. New Directions in Anthropological Writing. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. $55.00 hc. $16.95 sc. 224 pp. With the advent of The On-Line Database of Literature, Arts and Medicine (revised 1996), through the...

Somatic Fictions: Imagining Illness in Victorian Culture.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Vrettos, Athena. 1995. Stanford: University Press. $39.50 hc. $14.95 sc. xii + 250pp. With the advent of The On-Line Database of Literature, Arts and Medicine (revised 1996), through the Hippocrates Project at the New York University...

To Live in the Center of the Moment: Literary Autobiographies of Aging.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Waxman, Barbara Frey. 1997. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. $36.50 hc. x + 185 pp. With the advent of The On-Line Database of Literature, Arts and Medicine (revised 1996), through the Hippocrates Project at the New York...

The ethics of reading in the age of multiculturalism.
March 22, 1999... Andrew Bennett's overview in Readers and Reading (London and New York: Longman, 1995) of the progression of reader-oriented criticism from its "high point" in the late 1970s to the early 1990s, suggested that the reader theory had reached a...

Reading Cultures: The Construction of Readers in the Twentieth Century.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Travis, Molly Abel. 1998. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press. $17.95 sc. 173 pp. Andrew Bennett's overview in Readers and Reading (London and New York: Longman, 1995) of the progression of reader-oriented...

Ethics After Idealism: Theory-Culture-Ethnicity-Reading.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Chow, Rey. 1998. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. $29.95 sc. xxiii + 235. Andrew Bennett's overview in Readers and Reading (London and New York: Longman, 1995) of the progression of reader-oriented criticism from its "high point" in...

Race matters in American culture.
March 22, 1999... In 1963, when Thomas F. Gossett's Race: The History of an Idea in America first appeared, race was a rare topic of investigation for white literary critics. At the end of the twentieth century, however, Americanists in particular, of whatever...

Race: The History of an Idea in America.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Gosett, Thomas F. 1997. New York: Oxford University Press. $45 hc. $19.95 sc. xxii + 526 pp. In 1963, when Thomas F. Gossett's Race: The History of an Idea in America first appeared, race was a rare topic of investigation for white...

Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Hartman, Saidiya V. New York: Oxford University Press. $50 hc. $19.95 sc. 281 pp. In 1963, when Thomas F. Gossett's Race: The History of an Idea in America first appeared, race was a rare topic of investigation for white literary critics....

Whiteness: A Critical Reader.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Hill, Mike, ed. 1997. New York: New York University Press. $55 hc. $22.55 sc. 356 pp. In 1963, when Thomas F. Gossett's Race: The History of an Idea in America first appeared, race was a rare topic of investigation for white literary...

Resisting normalization: queer theory in an interval.
March 22, 1999... "I don't feel any burning need to go to Washington again." For my friend the Artist, the 1993 march had been profoundly moving. Hundreds of thousands of lesbians and gay men gathered proudly, ironically, at the symbolic center of the nation to...

Virginia Woolf: Lesbian Readings.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Barrett, Eileen and Patricia Cramer, eds. 1997. New York University Press. The Cutting Edge. $55 hc. $18.95 sc. 288 pp. "I don't feel any burning need to go to Washington again." For my friend the Artist, the 1993 march had been profoundly...

Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Kosofsky Sedgwick, Eve, ed. 1997. Durham: Duke University Press. Series Q. $59.95 hc. $21.95 sc. 518 pp. "I don't feel any burning need to go to Washington again." For my friend the Artist, the 1993 march had been profoundly moving....

Feminism Meets Queer Theory.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Weed, Elizabeth and Naomi Schor, eds. 1997. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Books From Differences. $39.95 hc. $17.95 sc. 341 pp. "I don't feel any burning need to go to Washington again." For my friend the Artist, the 1993 march had...

The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Lehman, David. 1998. New York: Deubleday. $27.50 hc. 433 pp. TERENCE DIGGORY SKIDMORE COLLEGE The poets of the New York School emerged after the Second World War in a time of major cultural transition. New York claimed to have captured...

Race-ing Representation: Voice, History, and Sexuality.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Myrsiades, Kostas, and Linda Myrsiades, eds. 1998. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. $55 hc. $19.95 sc. 281 pp. PETER SCHMIDT SWARTHMORE COLLEGE For this volume the editors have assembled thirteen recent essays on race and...

Migrant Song: Politics and Process in Contemporary Chicano Literature.(Review)
March 22, 1999... McKenna, Teresa. 1997. Austin: University of Texas Press. $27.50 hc. $12.95 sc. xii + 158 pp. JOSE GONZALEZ THREE RIVERS COMMUNITY COLLEGE In Migrant Song, Teresa McKenna has composed an eclectic medley which, like a poetic folk...