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From: James ThurberV Facts and Fantasy "Dis morning bime by," said his hired man Barney Haller, "I go hunt grotches in de voods." Such a statement set Thurber's mind on fire. "If you are susceptible to such things, it is not difficult to...
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From:Short Stories for Students (Vol. 19. )On either side of Eveline's major life decision about whether to leave her home is a suspect and potentially abusive man. Because of the manner in which Joyce has set up the story, however, she must choose one of them;...
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From: John Updike: A Study of the Short FictionThe often acerbic critical controversy over the stature of John Updike continues, unabated by the publication of Rabbit Redux. It is still too early to tell, of course, how durable will be the total work of a writer so...
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From: Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social ContextThe theme of the immigrant as permanent exile has held a special fascination for Filipino immigrant writer Bienvenido N. Santos, whose short stories set in the Filipino immigrant community in America are attempts to give...
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From:Short Stories for Students (Vol. 19. )In "You're Ugly, Too," Lorrie Moore presents the story of a female character who is a mixture of tradition and modernity. She presents a new style of writing about women that is colorful and charismatic, portraying women...
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From:Short Stories for Students (Vol. 19. )The world that Jhumpa Lahiri creates in "A Temporary Matter" is one in which women are in charge. Women act; men react. This state of affairs is a reversal of traditional gender roles in India, the country from which...
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From: Salmagundi[Karen Lazar:] Nadine, I have some questions to ask you about your involvements as a citizen during the 80s and early 90s, and then a few questions about your more recent work. In America I'm asked, do you think your...
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From:Short Stories for Students (Vol. 19. )Like many other Alice Munro stories, "Meneseteung" explores the biases and obstacles an independent woman must face while living within a provincial culture. Almeda Joynt Roth, the story's protagonist, is a poet, the...
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From:Short Stories for Students (Vol. 19. )Think of the body of Flannery O'Connor's fiction as a patchwork quilt. The quilt's backing--the large piece that underlies the patches and holds them together--is O'Connor's much-written-about Catholic theology. Each...
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From:Short Stories for Students (Vol. 19. )"The Underground Gardens" opens with an epigraph that quotes Franz Kafka's story "The Burrow." It's a fitting introduction: "The Burrow" features an unnamed narrator (perhaps an animal, but with very human concerns) who,...
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From:Short Stories for Students (Vol. 19. )Smiley has become a successful author in part because many of her works contain characters that, while not very flashy, usually elicit sympathy from readers. As Thom Conroy notes in his entry on Smiley for Dictionary of...
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From: "Curanderismo": Mexican American Folk HealingAt least six major historical influences have shaped the beliefs and practices of curanderismo by Mexican Americans in the Lower Rio Grande Valley: Judeo-Christian religious beliefs, symbols, and rituals; early Arabic...
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From:Short Stories for Students (Vol. 19. )Lorrie Moore, in talking about her short stories and novels, has admitted that her work has an underlying theme of sadness. Her narrative is often overlaid with tones of cynicism, one-liners, and wisecracks, which...
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From: John Updike: Studies in the Short FictionMy first books met the criticism that I wrote all too well but had nothing to say: I, who seemed to myself full of things to say, who had all of Shillington to say, Shillington and Pennsylvania and the whole mass of...
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From:Short Stories for Students (Vol. 19. )Santos is known in the United States as a writer who chronicled the difficult lives of Filipino immigrants, especially those "old timers" (as they became known) who came to the country from the 1920s through the 1940s....
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From: Scent of Apples: A Collection of StoriesIn the fall of 1942, Ben Santos was summoned from his studies at Columbia University and assigned a basement desk in the Information Division of the Commonwealth Building (now the Philippine Embassy) in Washington. Some...
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From: Jump at the Sun: Zora Neale Hurston's Cosmic ComedyHurston's comic gifts, simmering in "Muttsy," came to a boil with Fire!! the magazine issued by the "New Negro" group in 1926. "Sweat," the more gripping of her two contributions, details the grim story of hardworking...
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From: Morley CallaghanCallaghan's second collection presents thirty-five selected stories written between 1929 and 1935. All of these had already been published in North American magazines except the title piece. It appeared in This Quarter...
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From:Short Stories for Students (Vol. 19. )The art of "writing in voice," or "writing in character," is a common literary technique that has been used by countless writers over the years. In one of literature's most famous examples, Herman Melville adopts the...
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From:Short Stories for Students (Vol. 19. )When one first reads "Meneseteung," it may seem as if Munro is as delirious as Almeda Roth, the nineteenth-century woman and main character in the narrator's story who succumbs to the blissful escapism of drugs by the...