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"Kick[ing] the perpendiculars outa right anglos" : Edward Dorn's multiculturalism. (poet)

Contemporary Literature

| March 22, 1997 | Foster, Thomas | COPYRIGHT 1997 University of Wisconsin Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

To have a body is, finally, to permit oneself to be described.

Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain

The total .44 recurred in the Slinger's hand and spun there then came home like a sharp knock and the intruder was described--a plain, unassorted white citizen.

Edward Dorn, Gunslinger

We've pretty much come to the end of a time when you can have a space that is "yours only"--just for the people you want to be there.... There is no hiding place. There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. It's over. Give it up.

Bernice Johnson Reagon, "Coalition Politics"

Disappearance of the "Other"

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