Recently added articles from College Literature:
The Orients of Gertrude Stein.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... "The Orients of Gertrude Stein" reads two well-known texts by Stein in which the Orient makes a significant appearance: Stein's portrait-poem "Susie Asado"(l913) and her opera Four Saints in Three Acts (written in 1927). The first case features an intimate, eroticized Orient at its heart, ...
The postcolonial orphan's autobiography: authoring the self in Jamaica Kincaid's Mr. Potter and Calixthe Beyala's La Petite fille du reverbere.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... The genre of autobiography in the hands of an orphan might seem ironic: The writing of history by an individual without knowable pre-history. Yet, there is logic to the orphan's life writing if one views autobiography as the written record of a self-made life. This paper explores the ...
Speakers and sleepers: Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker, Whitman, and the performance of Americanness.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Focusing on Chang-rae Lee 1995 "post-ethnic" classic Native Speaker, this article dwells on the novel's "legend" theme to suggest that Lee's book itself is a legend twice: first, because it furnishes the "legible" appearance, the story in which Lee comes before his readers, and second, ...
Pride and prestige: Jane Austen and the professions.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... This essay focuses on Jane Austen's portrayal of the growing prestige of the professions in her later and final novels, Mansfield Park (1914), Emma (1816), and Persuasion (1818). While Austen's early novels focus on a mainly leisure class, the gentry and minor aristocracy, the later novels ...
"Other and more terrible evils": anticapitalist rhetoric in Harriet Wilson's Our Nig and proslavery propaganda.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Much more than a straightforward document supporting black uplift and condemning northern racism, showing "that slavery's shadows fall even there." Harriet Wilson's Our Nig (1859) replicates the anticapitalist rhetoric common to proslavery propaganda of the era. Wilson fully exploited ...