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• 'A Window of Opportunity': An Ethics of Reading Third World Autobiography

  From: College Literature

  October-February 19923,605 words Critical essay I'll never forget the first time I stood in front of a university classroom in the fall of 1966. It was packed with the composition students I would be teaching as a part-timer at a large urban campus in Chicago. Names...

• Athol Fugard's 'Boesman and Lena,'

  From: The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

  Apr. 19782,743 words Critical essay The greatness of Athol Fugard's Boesman and Lena lies in its capacity to extend the range of its unnerving protest far beyond its South African context. The play, so utterly and undeniably South African in its language...

• "Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses," (book review)

  From: Publisher's Weekly

  Jan. 19, 1998220 words Critical essay Sex and food, once celebrated as two of life's great joys, suffer a lot of bad press these days. Genuine epidemics, coupled with monthly findings of new things that are bad for us, have pushed otherwise happy souls into...

• The Rhythm of Reality in the Works of Jamaica Kincaid

  From: World Literature Today

  Summer 1994626 words Critical essay Kincaid's "Girl" may be read as a kind of primer in the manipulative art of rhythm and repetition. The story begins with the mother's voice giving such simple, benevolent, and appropriately maternal advice as "Wash the...