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From Cannibals to Radicals: Figures and Limits of Exoticism From Cannibals to Radicals Figures and Limits of Exoticism Roger Célestin 1996 Spring
In this fascinating analysis, Roger Célestin examines the concept of exoticism from a historical and literary perspective. Through close readings of works by Montaigne, Diderot, Flaubert, Barthes, and Naipaul, Célestin examines the way these writers have challenged representations of cultural identity in their time.
Getting a Life: Everyday Uses of Autobiography Getting a Life Everyday Uses of Autobiography Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson, Editors 1996 Spring
From résumés to personal ads, from talk shows to self-help groups, autobiographical storytelling has become a central theme of American culture. Getting a Life is an innovative examination of how personal narratives have become central in circulating multiple, overlapping, provisional identities-and how those identities are negotiated or resisted in everyday life. Contributors: Linda Martin Alcoff, Philip E. Baruth, H-Dirksen L. Bauman, Michael Blitz, Traci Carroll, William Chaloupka, Salome Chasnoff, Kay K. Cook, Martin A. Danahay, Laura Gray-Rosendale, Linda S. Kauffman, Louise Krasniewicz, Helena Michie, Sandra Patton, Janice Peck, Robyn R. Warhol, Susan Ostrov Weisser.
Writing Permitted in Designated Areas Only Writing Permitted in Designated Areas Only Linda Brodkey 1996 Spring
One teacher's dispatches from the front lines of the culture wars.
Water Lilies: An Anthology of Spanish Women Writers from the Fifteenth through the Nineteenth Century Water Lilies An Anthology of Spanish Women Writers from the Fifteenth through the Nineteenth Century Amy K. Kaminsky, Editor 1995 Fall
Poetry and prose by Spanish women presented here in both English and Spanish.
Writing Selves: Contemporary Feminist Autography Writing Selves Contemporary Feminist Autography Jeanne Perreault 1995 Fall
Maps the intersection between autobiography and feminist discourse.
Mothers of Invention: Women, Italian Facism, and Culture Mothers of Invention Women, Italian Facism, and Culture Robin Pickering-Iazzi, Editor 1995 Fall
The first in-depth look at culture produced by women in Fascist Italy.
Exotic Parodies: Subjectivity in Adorno, Said, and Spivak Exotic Parodies Subjectivity in Adorno, Said, and Spivak Asha Varadharajan 1995 Spring
This groundbreaking text begins with the premise that postmodernism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, and Marxism continue to present certain problems with the self/other distinction. It goes on to offer the first extended critique of the work of Gayatri Spivak; challenge the critical reception of Adorno in the American academy; examine Said's connection to Adorno; and make the first in-depth use of Adorno's Negative Dialectics in the context of postcolonial theory.
The Ethnic Canon: Histories, Institutions, and Interventions The Ethnic Canon Histories, Institutions, and Interventions David Palumbo-Liu, Editor 1995 Spring
Argues that texts are added to the canon only after an operation that attempts to resolve and neutralize historical and political contradictions and differences. The Ethnic Canon offers a wide variety of critical viewpoints and is unique in its pointed critique of the academy regarding specific authors and texts that have and have not been included in the canon. Contributors include Norma Alarcón, Paula Gunn Allen, Elliott Butler-Evans, Barbara Christian, Lisa Lowe, Colleen Lye, Ramón Saldívar, E. San Juan Jr., Rosaura Sánchez, Jana Sequoya-Magdaleno, and Sau-ling Cynthia Wong
The Year of Passages The Year of Passages Réda Bensmaïa 1995 Spring
Straddling the boundary between fiction and nonfiction, this rich and unconventional novel provokes thought at the turn of every page. The tale is narrated by a North African author exiled to the United States because he has been condemned by religious fanatics after the publication of his novel entitled Dead Letters. Bensmaïa's knowledge of the history, the literature, and the philosophical ideas of our times underlies the novel without intruding into it directly.
Scandal and Aftereffect: Blanchot and France since 1930 Scandal and Aftereffect Blanchot and France since 1930 Steven Ungar 1995 Spring
Why have literary critics, as in the cases of Martin Heidegger and Paul de Man, chosen to ignore or suppress Blanchot's right-wing interwar and wartime writings, focusing instead on his postwar production? Scandal and Aftereffect provides an enlightening and provocative examination of this question, as Steven Ungar looks at 100 articles published under Blanchot's signature between 1932 and 1937 in such right-wing publications as Combat, Le Rempart, and l'Insurgé.
Travelers, Immigrants, Inmates: Essays in Estrangement Travelers, Immigrants, Inmates Essays in Estrangement Frances Bartkowski 1995 Spring
Uses travel writings, U.S. immigrant autobiographies, and concentration camp memoirs to illustrate how tales of dislocation present readers with a picture of the complex issues surrounding mistaken identities. Bartkowski's elegantly written and incisive book stands at the crossroads of contemporary thought in cultural studies and ethnicity, race and gender, nationalism, and the politics and poetics of identity.
The Morals of History The Morals of History Tzvetan Todorov 1995 Spring
Addressed to a broad audience, The Morals of History offers a wide-ranging study of the role of value judgements in culture, as Todorov explores the relationship between facts and values, truth and fiction, interpretation and articulation. Todorov studies a variety of travel narratives from those of Columbus to Amerigo Vespucci to Lamartine, and he analyzes with great clarity the writings of the "ideologues" of both colonialism and anticolonialism.
The Subaltern Ulysses The Subaltern Ulysses Enda Duffy 1994 Fall
Reveals that James Joyce's Ulysses can be seen as a guerrilla text written to resist colonialism.
Film, Politics, and Gramsci Film, Politics, and Gramsci Marcia Landy 1994 Fall
Studies history as a form of folklore and reveals Gramsci's contributions to a rethinking of Marxism.
The Names of History: On the Poetics of Knowledge The Names of History On the Poetics of Knowledge Jacques Ranciere 1994 Fall
Reveals the significant impact of historiography on the human sciences during the twentieth century.