College Literature articles from March 2009

College Literature archives from March 2009

Putting black culture on stage: August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle.(Essay)
March 22, 2009... Patricia M. Gantt Putting Black Culture on Stage: August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle In "Putting Black Culture on Stage: August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle," Patricia M. Gantt offers an overview of Wilson's life and work, including his...

Framing African American cultural identity: The Bookends Plays in August Wilson's 10-Play Cycle.(Essay)
March 22, 2009... Sandra G. Shannon Framing African American Cultural Identity: The Bookends Plays in August Wilson's 10-Play Cycle In various interviews, August Wilson admitted that a" special relationship" exists between his so-called bookend plays:...

Some losses remain with us: impossible mourning and the prevalence of ritual in August Wilson's The Piano Lesson.(Essay)
March 22, 2009... Jermaine Singleton Some Losses Remain with US: Impossible Mourning and the Prevelence of Ritual in August Wilson's The Piano Lesson Despite psychoanalytic criticism's universalizing, ahistorical, and imperialist inclinations, it...

"... if you live long enough the boat will turn around": The Birth and Death of Community in Three Plays by August Wilson.(Essay)
March 22, 2009... Richard Noggle "... if you live long enough the boat will turn around": The Birth and Death of a Community in Three Plays by August Wilson The article "'If you live long enough the boat will turn around': The Birth and Death of...

"She make you right with yourself": Aunt Ester, masculine loss and cultural redemption in August Wilson's cycle plays.(Essays)(Critical essay)
March 22, 2009... Cynthia L. Caywood and Carlton Floyd "She Make You Right with Yourself": Aunt Ester, Masculine Loss and Cultural Redemption in August Wilson's Cycle Plays August Wilson proclaimed the centuries old matriarch, Aunt Ester, his most...

"Their baggage a long line of separation and dispersement": haunting and trans-generational trauma in Joe Turner's come and gone.(Essays)(Critical essay)
March 22, 2009... Sinikka Grant "Their baggage a long line of separation and dispersement": Haunting and Trans-generational Trauma in Joe Turner's Come and Gone In August Wilson's play Joe Turner's Come and Gone traumatic events in the lives of past...

The shattered mirror: what August Wilson means and willed to mean.(Essays)(Critical essay)
March 22, 2009... Sergei Burbank The Shattered Mirror: What August Wilson Means and Willed to Mean This personal and analytical essay combines an appraisal of August Wilson's history cycle with one multi-racial actor's account of his career thus far in...

Introduction; special issue on August Wilson.
March 22, 2009... While the slave narratives, spirituals, blues, and migration narratives record the dispossession and dispersion of African Americans, none bears greater witness than the work of August Wilson. Wilson's plays combine the traditions of the Hill,...

Print Culture studies and technological determinism.(Essay)
March 22, 2009... According to an anonymous poem printed in Philadelphia in 1758, "On the Invention of Letters and the Art of Printing," the printing press was the key mechanical invention in the advance of human knowledge and liberty: Her bold Machine...

Receiving Austen and Scott.(The Reception of Jane Austen and Walter Scott )(Critical essay)
March 22, 2009... Annika Bautz's The Reception of Jane Austen and Walter Scott compares readers' reactions to Austen and Scott from the Regency period to 2003, beginning with Austen and Scott as readers of one another's work. Austen complains in a letter to her...

The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in America.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Carter, Julian B. 2007. The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in America, 1880-1940. Durham: Duke University Press. $79.95 he. $22.95 sc. ix + 219 pp. Early in his book The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in...

The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social. Durham: Duke University Press.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Clough, Patricia Ticineto, with Jean Hailey, eds. 2007. The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social. Durham: Duke University Press. $84.95 hc. $23.95 sc. xiii + 313 pp. To the numerous turbulent and productive "turns" of the 1990s, Patricia...

Books received October 16, 2008 to January 15, 2009.
March 22, 2009... Abate, Michelle Ann. 2008. Tomboys: A Literary and Cultural History. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. $52.00 hc. 328 pp. Allen, Nicola. 2008. Marginality in the Contemporary British Novel. New York: Continuum. $120.00 hc. xi + 191 pp....

College Literature referees.
March 22, 2009... The scholars listed below ensure the continuing vitality of College Literature and uphold its standards through their detailed critiques of submissions forwarded for their review. Depending on individual areas of expertise, some are called upon...