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From: The Southern Literary Journal[(essay date 1986) In the following essay, Doherty comments on Harriet Jacobs's skilled application of the narrative conventions of the popular sentimental novel to her Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.] In 1853,...
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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 19, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn 1853, the fugitive slave Harriet Jacobs confided her literary ambitions to the poet and abolitionist Amy Post. "Don't expect too much of me, dear Amy," she cautioned, "You shall have truth but not talent" (Sterling...
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From:Cineaste (Vol. 41, Issue 1)Painters in Hollywood are usually the kind who asks the set designer whether he wants one coat or two. A portrait painter--the artsy sort who starves in a garret or thrives in a gallery--gets no end credit in a business...
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From: CineasteBoyz N the Hood is this season's Do the Right Thing: an occasion for clucking conversations and talking head commentary on the American Dilemma. Intrinsic virtue aside, three hooks helped reel in nationwide attention and...
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From:Cineaste (Vol. 29, Issue 3)Outlaws we love, gangsters we admire, monsters we respect, but serial killers--well, serial killers creep us out. This is not to say that we are not fascinated by them, that we are not hypnotized by their true-crime...
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From:Cineaste (Vol. 39, Issue 1)"Written by himself" was the assurance printed under the title of the antebellum slave narrative--that most American of genres, predating even the Western dime novels, though not a literary innovation to brag about. The...
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From: Southern Literary JournalIn the following essay, Doherty examines Jacob's use of the conventions of the sentimental genre and describes the shortcomings of Incidents as a sentimental novel. Rather, he argues that Jacobs “ingeniously inducts...
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From:Cineaste (Vol. 37, Issue 3)Any invitation to revisit the luminous Chinatown--in this case, a new Blu-ray edition, with many of the extra feature goodies imported from previous DVD editions, plus the bonus of a choice new commentary track--is...
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From:Books to Film: Cinematic Adaptations of Literary Works (Vol. 1. )Forgetting that Kansas, the land of Dorothy Gale and Clark Kent, was also “bleeding Kansas,” the bloodsoaked battlefield in the run-up to the Civil War, Truman Capote cast the heartland location of his masterpiece as a...