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From:Kola (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWe descended into Africa, Becki and I, like birds from the sky, guided by the moon, swooping, turning downwards. When the Air Afrique Boeing 707 landed on the asphalt runway at the airport in Dakar, Senegal, we were...
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From:Crazyhorse (Issue 96) Peer-ReviewedLight as air, nearly, the filament in a lightbulb is made of tungsten. Jar it, shake it, step wrong while climbing the ladder toward the chandelier--even if you don't fall or you land holding the bulb high, cradled in...
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From:New England Review (Vol. 42, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWhen my debut book, a story collection, was nearing its publication date, my publicist--a woman I'd met once--sent me a list of questions. My answers to these questions would be included in the press kit submitted to...
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From:Hecate (Vol. 44, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedSylvia Plath's commitment to the craft of writing has been given extraordinary attention since her suicide in February 1963. What is not widely known is that the poet had once considered art, not poetry, as her first...
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From:Feminist Studies (Vol. 38, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedDuring the 2008 US election, internet images circulated of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin carrying big guns. In a commentary titled "Sarah Palin: Operation 'Castration,'" French Lacanian theorist Jacques-Alain...
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From:African American Review (Vol. 44, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedClem Spender's child--growing up on charity in a Negro hovel, or herded in one of the plague-houses they called Asylums. No: the child came first--she felt it in every fibre of her body.--Edith Wharton, "The Old Maid"...
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From:NWSA Journal (Vol. 17, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe task of mobilizing resistive identities within this historic moment of regressive politics looms large to feminist critics, theorists, and activists. We are challenged to forge connections across borders of...
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From:The Faulkner Journal (Vol. 19, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn his comments on the differences between the original and published versions of Sanctuary, Noel Polk helps readers see the full extent to which Faulkner's second draft of the novel shifts its focus from Horace Benbow...
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From:Feminist Studies (Vol. 40, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedA NEW TREND IS ON THE RISE: suddenly high-powered women are publically espousing feminism and urging renewed public discussion about how to ensure that women can cultivate a better work-family balance. In an era often...
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From:Feminist Studies (Vol. 40, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTHE TRADITION OF THE HIGHWAY NARRATIVE in the United States tends to define the road as a masculine space of freedom and escape. It presumes a dichotomy between the highway and the home--which is defined in terms of...
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From:Ploughshares (Vol. 44, Issue 4)K and I had been married less than a year when we decided to hunt. Neither of us had ever hunted before. My parents were mostly vegetarian. And K's dad, even though hed grown up in Montana, lacked the survivalist grit...
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From:Hecate (Vol. 37, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedDraw me after you, let us run together. Song 1:4 (1) Embodied words Elusive, transgressive, fatherless, godless--finding a genre of investigation, a writing that works for the Song of Songs is a challenge. There...
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From:Feminist Studies (Vol. 42, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedPIONEERING FEMINIST SOCIOLOGIST LILLIAN RUBIN described US women's friendships in 1985 as evoking "the best parts of ourselves" and providing the possibility of having "many selves" that varied with one's "many...
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 95, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedFOR THE TRANSLATOR of Assia Djebars writing, the ear must be(come) the most instrumental "tool," for there is more involved here--more so than with other literary texts--than interpreting the meaning of words, images,...
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From:Twentieth Century Literature (Vol. 60, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe old are as mysterious as idols in a temple; we take off our shoes before we approach them. The whole of our tradition is against unpremeditated intercourse with them; before we speak we sort out what it is proper to...
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From:Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora (Vol. 41, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedIn the photographic series Colored People 1984-1990, Carrie Mae Weems employs a magenta shading over the image of a darker hued Black girl whose gaze is continuously cast downwards. The piece is titled "Magenta Colored...
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From:Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora (Vol. 43, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Lectio Divina , divine reading, is a way of reading scripture slowly and mindfully for the intent of communicating with God and releasing one's attachment to her own ideas and interpretations about what is being read...
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From:Antipodes (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedMIDWAY THROUGH THE 1960s CHRISTINA STEAD'S CAREER was perilously poised. For more than a decade noth. ing new had appeared from her pen. This was a striking hiatus for a writer who previously had been producing novels...
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From:Antipodes (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTO SAY THAT THE POET GWEN HARWOOD WAS A PROLIFIC early in her career would be a vast understatement; in truth she was several . Employing a number of artfully crafted personas, all with his or her own distinct style and...
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From:Hecate (Vol. 45, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedThis article contextualises Jennifer Kent's 2014 film The Babadook (2014) within postmaternal Australia. Theorised by Julie Stephens, the postmaternal refers to a paradigm characterised by the disqualification of...