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From: The Massachusetts Review[(essay date Autumn 1981) In the following essay, Rushing argues that the portrayal of African-American women in for colored girls is primarily inspired by Shange's own experiences and does not reflect the lives of most...
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From: Studies in Literature[(essay date 1978) In the following essay, Manheim discusses the initial impact of Raintree County in popular and literary reading circles and attempts to account for the novel's disappearance into oblivion in subsequent...
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From: Journal of Asian Studies[(essay date 1994) In this essay, Heine distinguishes love suicide (shinju) from other forms of suicide in Japanese culture, in order to consider its significance in Confucian and Buddhist frameworks. Heine argues that...
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From:The Hemingway Review (Vol. 35, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedHemingway's 1925 short story "Indian Camp" describes two medical emergencies: the breech presentation-cum-Cesarean section endured by the Ojibwe wife and the wounded foot of the Ojibwe husband. Analysis of early...
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From:Ploughshares (Vol. 46, Issue 1)What I remember, mostly, is the orange tag. It had no place for a name--just ER VISITOR printed in sharp uppercase letters, so that's who I became. For three days, I hid the neon orange beneath the blue stripes of my...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)When African American poet-playwright Ntozake Shange declared in her 1976-77 Broadway debut, for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf, that "bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a...
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From: ANQ n.s[(essay date April 1988) In the following essay, Salemi considers the ambiguous ending of Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and asserts that the demonic imagery in the penultimate paragraph of the 1893 edition of the novel...
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From: Modern Drama[(essay date March 1993) In the following essay, Shepard explores the effects of the feminist movement on the female protagonists of Henley's plays, in particular examining the recurring images of homicide and suicide.]...
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From: Like Hot Knives to the Brain: James Ellroy’s Search for Himself[(essay date 2005) In the following essay, Wolfe explores the effects of early outside forces on the actions of the characters in Ellroy’s novels featuring Lloyd Hopkins.] Ellroy’s fiction endorses Proust’s belief that...
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From: CLA Journal[(essay date September 1996) In the following essay, Page examines the metaphorical image of the abyss in Bailey's Cafe.] In Toni Morrison's Jazz, the imagery of wells is significant. Because Violet Trace's mother...
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From: The Arthur Miller Journal[(essay date 2008) In the following essay, Carpenter carefully considers some of the play’s seemingly flawed sequences of action and characterization, discussing them in relation to Miller’s dramatic intentions.] I...
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From: The Cambridge Quarterly[In the following essay, Roe discusses the internal conflicts that precede Lucrece's suicide, and claims they are drawn from the paradoxical nature of the ideal of chastity and link her to the character of Hamlet.]...
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From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 52, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedNearly all analyses of Ousmane Sembene's novella La Noire de ... (Voltaique, 1962) and its eponymous film adaptation (1966) mention the fact that Sembene found inspiration for his text and film in a French newspaper...
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From:Akroterion (Vol. 57) Peer-ReviewedBoth Otho and Nero are usually regarded as 'bad' emperors in the historical record, and their conduct is often assimilated. Yet Suetonius' treatment of their suicides, while cleverly approximating the two events,...
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From:Christianity and Literature (Vol. 56, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe Encounter of Georges Bernanos and Stefan Zweig The most voluntary death is the finest. Life depends upon the pleasure of others; death upon our own.--Montaigne 167 Countless superlatives have been used to...
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From: Michigan Quarterly Review[(review date summer 1997) In the following review, Kellman discusses In the Name of Mercy in the context of societal debates over doctor-assisted suicide, and compares Delbanco's novel to other books addressing the same...
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From: PMLA[In this essay, Skulsky examines the myriad motivations operating in Hamlet's character, including feelings of honor and nobility, thoughts of cowardice and suicide, and the desire for revenge.] It has always struck me...
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From: RLA: Romance Languages Annual[(essay date 1997) In the following essay, Southerland contends that sacrifice is a central thematic concern in The Day of the Swallows.] Representations of sacrifice pervade Latin American literature and culture,...
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From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 95, Issue 2)In a garden in the town of Otsuchi, in the northern region of Japan, Itaru Sasaki set up a telephone connected to nothing. This is not a cellular phone without a talk, text, and data plan. It is not simply a phone...
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From:CineActionPrelude: 'Efforts' and 'small films' Recently, in Toronto, a rare event: a filmmaker actually had the nerve to attack the reviewers for not liking his film. The filmmaker was David Weaver (who once long ago wrote for...