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- 1From:Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers (Vol. 18, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedJessie Fauset, the Harlem Renaissance's most prolific woman novelist, believed that good literature conveys "the universality of experience." In a 1922 letter to then fledgling writer Jean Toomer, she encourages him to...
- 2From:Twentieth Century Literature (Vol. 42, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedA description of the life of a queen of soldier ants in African-American female author Toni Morrison's work 'Tar Baby' and its comparison to the description of a bee queen from female author Sylvia Plath's bee poetry...
- 3From:Virginia Woolf Miscellany (Issue 69) Peer-ReviewedAll women writers after Woolf owe her an unprecedented debt. I think it is safe to say that women writers of my generation could not have conceived of themselves as they did--conceived of themselves as writers with a...
- 4From:Parergon (Vol. 29, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe critical erotics, modern and early modern, which underwrite the construction of 'early modern women's writing' as a field are figuratively aligned with 'the fruits of sodom'. By attending to the motives,...
- 5From:New Formations (Issue 73) Peer-ReviewedThe lack of attention to reading and reception in postcolonial literary studies makes it easy to forget that one of the field's earliest points of reference is a theory of reading. Fredric Jameson's controversial 1986...
- 6From:Aspasia (Vol. 2) Peer-ReviewedThe article explores to what extent, as well as how and when nationalism, feminism and their intersections facilitated women's entry into the literary field in Slovenia. In particular, this article presents the work of...
- 7From:Texas Studies in Literature and Language (Vol. 47, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedEvans and Cheevers at Malta In 1658, Katharine Evans and Sarah Cheevers, two Quaker preachers whose previous missionary travels had taken them to Scotland, Ireland, and all over England, left London for Alexandria...
- 8From:Hecate (Vol. 30, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Before I begin, I would like to give a brief explanation for this paper's title. It is borrowed from a Canadian play called Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God. Written by Djanet Sears, this play...
- 9From:Kadin/Woman 2000 (Vol. 2, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract In this article, I shall present the following issues: First, the development during the 1970s against a highly politicized background, when the anti-feminist, socialist ideology hindered a free development...
- 10From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 32, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed"Time of the Writer" Festival, sponsored by the Centre for Creative Arts of the University of Natal and the French Institute of South Africa, Durban, South Africa, March 2000 SG: You presented yourself the other...
- 11From:Biography (Vol. 27, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedLandgrafin Karoline Henriette of Hessen-Darmstadt (1721-1774) is an eighteenth-century princess whose posthumous fame makes visible the contradictions imposed on female members of the high nobility. Their membership in...
- 12From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 76, Issue 2)Nightshade Press For occupants of this accelerated world harnessed by technology and other modern contrivances, how easy it is to fall under the spell of a narrator who seems, herself, not fully domesticated. In her...
- 13From:The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Vol. 22, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedYumi Matsuo was born in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, in 1960. After studying English literature at Ochanomizu Women's University, she worked for a major electronic company for several years. Her first publication,...
- 14From:Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers (Vol. 19, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn recent years, the critical understanding of literary modernism has undergone much revision. We no longer perceive modernism simply as a reaction to the devastation of the First World War and the constraining morality...
- 15From:Partisan Review (Vol. 70, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedEdith Kurzweil: I'm glad to have finally caught up with you. I would like you to tell me what you think has changed since the last time I was here in Prague, about ten years ago. I see many superficial changes in this...
- 16From:Australian Literary Studies (Vol. 20, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn 1903 A.G. Stephens, literary editor and mentor, wrote to Miles Franklin about the `bruise' scene in My Brilliant Career. `Is this your experience', he inquired. `Does it represent your own feelings? Why should the...
- 17From:Studies in the Humanities (Vol. 30, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedSalwa Bakr is a prize-winning short story author and novelist. Her works often deal with history, including re-writing history as a way to critique the ideologies of the past and present. Her best-known work available...
- 18From:Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature (Vol. 33, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis essay examines the paradoxical construction of dirt and disease in Lee Maracle's Ravensong. The diseases that infect the Salish and EuropeanCanadian communities in the novel represent both bridges to communication...
- 19From:Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal (Vol. 22)Kerrie Savage, a Ph.D. student at Arizona State University, where she specializes in eighteenth-century studies and textual editing, teaches in the English Department. She lives in Peoria, AZ with her very supportive...
- 20From:Texas Studies in Literature and Language (Vol. 41, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis article focuses on the literary work and critical reception of modernist and experimental writer, Jane Bowles. Topics discussed include the legends associated with Bowles' avant-garde career, biographical approaches...