Recently added articles from Studies in the Literary Imagination:
Leaping into the Fire: Women in United States Race Riots.(Essay)
Sep 22, 2007; ... <Text rich="yes"> Wilmington, North Carolina. Atlanta, Georgia. Washington, DC. Boston, Chicago, Detroit, East St. Louis, Knoxville, Los Angeles, Montgomery, Nashville, Newark, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, Springfield, Tulsa: some of the many cities that have been home to race ...
"Literally Devoured": Washington, D.C., 1919.(Essay)
Sep 22, 2007; ... <Text rich="yes"> On a hot evening in July 1919, Carrie Minor Johnson shot and killed Harry Wilson in a second floor bedroom of her house in northwest Washington, District of Columbia. Johnson was a seventeen-year-old African American woman, and Wilson a detective sergeant of the ...
Margie Polite, the Riot Starter: Harlem, 1943.(Essay)
Sep 22, 2007; ... <Text rich="yes"> When on September 11, 1943, Magistrate Charles E. Ramsgate sentenced thirty-five-year-old African American Margie Polite to a year's probation for her role in the Harlem riots that broke out on the night of August 1, she had already been in jail for six weeks. Although ...
Women in the Crowd: Gender and the East St. Louis Race Riot of 1917.(Essay)
Sep 22, 2007; ... <Text rich="yes"> The notorious East St. Louis race riot was one of the bloodiest outbursts of white mob violence in twentieth-century American history. Trouble erupted on the morning of July 2, 1917, and the city was very rapidly plunged into a chaotic carnival of violence that lasted ...
"They Think Their Fannies Are as Good as Ours": The 1943 Detroit Riot.(Essay)
Sep 22, 2007; ... <Text rich="yes"> INTRODUCTIONThe Detroit riot of 1943 stands as one of the most violent riots in the United States prior to the 1960s. Its battles claimed thirty-four lives and left almost 800 people injured. One million hours of war production were lost to the riot and its ...
"Mister, This Is Not Your Fight!": The 1961 Montgomery Freedom Ride Riots.(Essay)
Sep 22, 2007; ... <Text rich="yes"> When the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) undertook what it had decided to call "Freedom Ride 1961," the organization was well aware that the participants of this Jim Crow challenge on the nation's highways and byways would likely meet with violent reactions. This ...
Gender, Genre, Race, and Nation: The 1863 New York City Draft Riots.(Essay)
Sep 22, 2007; ... <Text rich="yes"> When Martin Scorsese's film <Italic>Gangs of New York</Italic> was finally released in 2002 (the film had been in the works since the 1970s (1)), it was met with mixed reviews for its melodramatic vengeance narrative set against the backdrop of Civil War-era New York ...
Scripting Urban Culture I.(Work overview)
Mar 22, 2007; ... <Text rich="yes"> The papers collected in this issue, the first of two to be published by this journal on representations of the city, cohere around the notion that the city is, in Walter Benjamin's important formulation, a <Italic>shauplatz</Italic> or theatre where investments in ...
Romantic London: John Corry and the Georgic City.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2007; ... <Text rich="yes"> The idea of Romantic London is as immense and as contradictory as the idea of Romanticism itself. For William Blake, probably its most visionary observer, it is literally the universe. Blake's London is at once poignantly local, its immediate environs reflecting a life ...
Scandals in Sodom: The Victorian City's Queer Streets.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2007; ... <Text rich="yes"> In 1845, Friedrich Engels described the urban territory inhabited by the English working classes as an "ill-built, ill-kept labyrinth of dwellings" (582). Forty years later, the filthy, labyrinthine tangle of streets through which W. T. Stead, the editor of the ...
From Arsonists and Bastards to Vampires and Zombies: Urban Spatio-Pathologies in Strindberg's Chamber Plays.(August Strindberg)(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2007; ... <Text rich="yes"> When August Strindberg returned to his native Stockholm after nearly fifteen years of self-imposed exile in Paris, Berlin, and other parts of Europe, he also returned to writing plays. During the first decade of the twentieth century, he wrote his most formally audacious ...
Boardinghouse Life, Boardinghouse Letters.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2007; ... <Text rich="yes"> In 1842, journalist-poet Walt Whitman could pronounce "the universal Yankee nation" "a boarding people." He went on to explain that "[m]arried men and single men, old women and pretty girls; milliners and masons; cobblers, colonels, and counter-jumpers; tailors and ...
Empty Spaces: Remapping the Chaotic Milieu of the Modernist City in "Sunrise".(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2007; ... <Text rich="yes"> <Preformatted type="other"> The history of modernism is caught between two poles of attraction: on the one hand, a visionary utopianism, built around an ideal of mass production, rational organization and machine technology harnessed to an aestheticized sense of ...
Totalizing the City: Eliot, de Certeau, and the Evolution of "The Waste Land".(Michel de Certeau, T.S. Eliot)(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2007; ... <Text rich="yes"> In his 1974 essay, "Walking in the City," Michel de Certeau theorizes a vision of urban landscape that depends on descending from "above"--a perspective from which the view is rigid, panoptic, totalizing, and false--into "the city's grasp" (92), where one may interact ...
Generations: women, age, and difference.
Sep 22, 2006; ... Initially, this project took the form of a conference we organized in 2000 at the University of Northumbria. The conference invited delegates to think beyond the crude and limited oppositions distinguishing "second-wave" from "third-wave" feminism. More specifically, we were troubled by ...
Screening the old: femininity as old age in contemporary French cinema.
Sep 22, 2006; ... In the introduction to her extensive 1970 essay on old age, Simone de Beauvoir states that her primary objective is to break a "conspiracy of silence": apart from specialized sociological and medical works, she protests, old age is never talked about. This comment certainly applies to ...
Simone Signoret: aging and agency.
Sep 22, 2006; ... Simone Signoret is not the only French actress to have continued working into middle age and beyond. Arletty, Danielle Darrieux, Jeanne Moreau, and Catherine Deneuve are all stars who have also continued working well into their sixties and in some cases beyond, and Moreau and Deneuve have ...
"Women's time": women, age, and intergenerational relations in Doris Lessing's The Diaries of Jane Somers.
Sep 22, 2006; ... Old age exposes the failure of our entire civilization.--Simone de Beauvoir, Old Age (543) In Western society, obsessed with youth and youthfulness, old age is Other--but it is also that which we must become. In this it differs radically from gender, race, and even class as ...
Growing up single: the postfeminist novel.
Sep 22, 2006; ... The problematic dynamics of intergenerational relationships are an integral part of the phenomenon known as postfeminism. The very implication inherent in the use of the prefix "post" is that this is a new-style feminism, which has outgrown its figurative "mother": the second-wave feminism ...
Identity-in-difference: re-generating debate about intergenerational relationships in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club.
Sep 22, 2006; ... Recently, Gary Pak asserted that "the test" for a new generation of Asian-American writers, now in their third period, (1) "is to transcend 'your typical Asian American mother/daughter sweet stories, your cross-generational stuff, your intercultural relationship jive'" (qtd. in Sarna 22) ....