Recently added articles from The Arizona Quarterly:
Jean Toomer and Cane: "Mixed-Blood" Impossibilities
Dec 01, 2008; ... EVEN THOUGH JEAN TOOMER WAS black and white, his fascination with miscegenation in his hybrid short-story cycle Cane (1923) was puzzling and untimely. Joel Williamson writes that by 191 5 the one-drop rule had been accepted by both blacks and whites in the North and South (109). Hence, mixed ...
Losing the Whole in the Parts: Identity in The Professor's House
Dec 01, 2008; ... He was soon to have done with calendared time, and it had already ceased to count for him. He sat in the middle of his own consciousness; none of his former states were lost or outgrown. They were all within reach of his hand Willa Cather, Deam Comes For The Archbishop AT THE ...
Light in August in Light of Foucault: Reexamining the Biracial Experience
Dec 01, 2008; ... COMPARATIVELY LITTLE CURRENT CRITICISM of Foucauldian racial theory exists, primarily because Foucault never formulated a full-blown racial theory. Some critics, such as Robert J. C. Young and Ann Laura Stoler, have successfully used Foucauldian principles to inform their views of race studies ....
The Character of Race: Adoption and Individuation in William Faulkner's Light in August and Charles Chesnutt's The Quarry
Dec 01, 2008; ... "Am I not still a Negro?" Donald Glover in Charles Chesnutt's The Quarry (1928) "If I'm not, damned if I haven't wasted a lot of time." Joe Christmas in William Faulkner's Light in August (1932) THE ADOPTED CHILD OF UNCERTAIN OR UNKNOWN race is a seldom-noticed ...
Wallace Stevens' Owl's Clover and the Dialectic of Deceit
Dec 01, 2008; ... IN HIS 1943 TALK AT MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE, Wallace Stevens read a quotation from Two Sources of Morality and Religion, a book that represents the culmination of Henri Bergson's political thought. The quotation is highly elliptical, consisting of four splintered sentences, culled from three ...