Recently added articles from Studies in American Fiction:
The deracinated self: immigrants, orphans, and the "migratory consciousness" of Willa Cather and Susan Glaspell.
Sep 22, 2007; Carpentier, Martha C. ... On May 10, 1931, in the New York Times, Brooks Atkinson bewailed the awarding of the Pulitzer Prize to Susan Glaspell for her play Alison's House, performed by Eva Le Gallienne's repertory company. "If the drama prize were for Miss Glaspell personally," he writes, "every one would purr ...
Bedside manners in Dorothy Parker's "Lady with a Lamp" and Kay Boyle's My Next Bride.
Sep 22, 2007; Gillette, Meg ... "Viciously unfair and unfunny," said Donald Stewart. (1) "Shrill ... clothes for an elephant on a mouse," wrote Pauline Pfeiffer. (2) Ernest Hemingway's poem about Dorothy Parker, "To a Tragic Poetess--Nothing in her life became her like her almost leaving of it," is famous for its ...
Playing on the "darky": blackface minstrelsy, identity construction, and the deconstruction of race in Toni Morrison's Paradise.
Sep 22, 2007; Williams, Dana A. ... In a Washington Post interview with David Streitfeld only days before the release of her seventh novel, Paradise (1998), Toni Morrison contends that what she wanted to do with Paradise was not to erase race but to force "readers either to care about it or see if it disturbs them" that race ...
Sex and salmon: queer identities in Sherman Alexie's the Toughest Indian in the World.
Sep 22, 2007; Tatonetti, Lisa ... Contemporary queer Native American writing emerged circa 1976 with the publication of two pieces by Mohawk author Maurice Kenny: an essay, "Tinseled Bucks: A Historical Study of Indian Homosexuality," and a poem "Winkte." (1) This beginning was followed in 1981 by Laguna author Paula Gunn ...
"Get your map of America": Tempering dystopia and learning topography. in The Plot Against America.
Sep 22, 2007; Severs, Jeffrey ... Ever since Neil Klugman speculated in the opening pages of Goodbye, Columbus (1959) that the drive up to the hills of the Newark suburbs might bring one "closer to heaven," Philip Roth has made the frustration of longings for utopia one of his major themes. (1) Especially since his ...
Philomela revisited: traumatic iconicity in Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.
Sep 22, 2007; Codde, Philippe ... Art makes up, what fortune has deny'd --Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book VI When the Jewish American novelist Jonathan Safran Foer published his sensational debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated (2002), at the age of 25, it met with rave reviews, instantly casting its ...