Citations with the tag: RACE in literature
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- Race, Space, and "National" Boundaries.
Cutter, Martha J. // MELUS; Spring2008, Vol. 33 Issue 1, p5This article discusses various reports published within the issue, including one by Emily Lutenski about the Southwestern writing of author Jean Toomer and another by Marissa L�pez about the poet Alurista.
- LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
Cutter, Martha J. // Poetry; May2013, Vol. 202 Issue 2, p175The article presents a response from the author of the article "What It Is” in the March 2013 issue, which discusses writing about race.
- Appropriation, dissemination, and imagination.
Bikis, Gwendolyn // Off Our Backs; Dec96, Vol. 26 Issue 11, p18Opinion. Comments on race experience in writing. Author's reflections on her creation of two memorable Black lesbian characters despite of her being white; Sources of inspiration for these characters; Creativity and the race-conscious writer.
- Rewriting Race and Ethnicity across the Border: Mairuth Sarsfield's No Crystal Stair and Nella Larsen's Quicksand and Passing.
Wegmann-Sanchez, Jessica // Essays on Canadian Writing; Fall2001, Issue 74, p136Discusses how Mairuth Sarsfield attempts to create a construction of race in Canadian history in her novel 'No Crystal Stair.' Relation to Harlem Renaissance objections to racial categorization espoused by the novels of Nella Larsen; Changes in the way Canada tabulates Black residents.
- LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
ANTIEAU, STEVEN MICHAEL // Poetry; May2013, Vol. 202 Issue 2, p175The article presents a letter to the editor in response to the article "What It Is" by Reginald Dwayne Betts on writing about being white, or Caucasian, which originally appeared in the March 2013 issue of the periodical.
- Ellison's racial variations on American themes.
Lee, Kun Jong // African American Review; Fall96, Vol. 30 Issue 3, p421Investigates Ralph Ellison's appropriation of early 19th-century American literary nationalism and its centrality in his novels. Origination of American cultural nationalism from the vernacular process; Racial limitations that complicate and undo the liberating visions of blues, jazz, morality,...
- A Bibliography of Work on Racial Narratives for Children.
Drews, Marie // CLCWeb: Comparative Literature & Culture: A WWWeb Journal; Jun2008, Vol. 10 Issue 2, p1This article presents a bibliography of work on racial narratives for children including "The Vanishing Race: Conflicting Images of the American Indian in Children's Literature, 1880-1930," by Brenda Berkman," "Reading Race: Aboriginality in Australian Children's Literature," by Clare Bradford,...
- FORUM ON TEACHING RACE THROUGH FICTION AND MEMOIR.
Drews, Marie // Journal of American Ethnic History; Fall2012, Vol. 32 Issue 1, p70An introduction to a section of the issue that is a forum on teaching the subject of race, and particularly relations between blacks and whites, using fiction and memoir is presented.
- The Delinquent's Sabbath; or, the Return of the Repressed: The Matter of Bodies in `Native Son'
Fishburn, Katherine // Studies in the Novel; Summer99, Vol. 31 Issue 2, p202Discusses how Richard Wright's novel, `Native Son,' is a bodily projection, born of his desire to overcome the pain of living as a black man in a white racist society. Importance of the novel in the re-emergence of an African-American literary tradition of embodied fictions; Effects of the...
- Historicizing Race in Early American Studies: A Roundtable with Joanna Brooks, Philip Gould, and David Kazanjian.
Gustafson, Sandra M. // Early American Literature; Jun2006, Vol. 41 Issue 2, p305Introduces a series of articles on the theoretical implications of the works of Joanna Brooks, Philip Gould and David Kazanjian, for an understanding of race in American literature in the eighteenth century.
- Becoming White: Contested History, Armenian American Women, and Racialized Bodies.
Okoomian, Janice // MELUS; Spring2002, Vol. 27 Issue 1, p213Explores Armenian narratives of origin function in relation to the body's race and gender. Conceptions of race in Armenia and Ottoman Turkey prior to the 1915 genocide; Discussion of how Armenians have been racialized in the U.S.; Interpretation of 'Rise the Euphrates' novel about three...
- Between `race' as construct and `race' as essence: The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man.
Japtok, Martin // Southern Literary Journal; Spring96, Vol. 28 Issue 2, p32Focuses on race as a social construct and essence in the novel, `The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man,' by James Weldon Johnson. Question of identity; Acquisition of double-consciousness; Rhetorical positions on ethnicity.
- Mezzo cammin (Poem).
Brock, Geoffrey // New Criterion; Nov2004, Vol. 23 Issue 3, p26Presents the poem "Mezzo Cammin," by Geoffrey Brock.
- `Black and White and 'Read' All Over'.
LOPEZ, JUDITH A. // Shakespeare Studies; 1998, Vol. 26, p49Argues that a reductive binarism continues to persist in American discussions of race, despite the willingness to acknowledge the existence of persons of mixed race. Information on an article about race, written by George J. Church, which appeared in the May 11, 1992 issue of `Time' magazine;...
- DREAMY WILDERNESS.
Updike, John // New Yorker; 11/3/2008, Vol. 84 Issue 35, p112The article reviews the book "A Mercy," by Toni Morrison.
- Someone's in the Garden with Eve: Race, Religion, and the American Fall.
Stokes, Mason // Color of Sex: Whiteness, Heterosexuality, & the Fictions of Whit; 2001, p82Discusses how authors in the U.S. were dedicated to writing stories, during the latter half of the 19th century to promote whiteness as a universal racial truth. Depiction of the tempter of Eve in the story of the Garden of Eden in the Bible as a black human being or ape; Details on how Buckner...
- Ralph Ellison, Race, and American Culture.
Dickstein, Morris // Raritan; Spring99, Vol. 18 Issue 4, p30Interprets the writings of Ralph Ellison about the role of race and culture in American life. Analysis of Ellison's 1953 novel `Invisible Man'; Excerpts from the book.
- ‘People don’t die here sooner than in Europe’: Conrad, Australia and Contexts of Race and Place in ‘The Planter of Malata’.
PURSSELL, ANDREW // Review of English Studies; Feb2011, Vol. 62 Issue 253, p113This article focuses on ‘The Planter of Malata’, the first of four tales from Joseph Conrad’s 1915 collection of short fiction, Within the Tides. Despite the weight of scholarship devoted to Conrad, this Australian-set story has yet to receive much, comparatively speaking, in the way of...
- Feathers.
PURSSELL, ANDREW // Publishers Weekly; 1/8/2007, Vol. 254 Issue 2, p51The article reviews the book "Feathers," by Jacqueline Woodson.
- Appalachee Red (Book).
Blundell, Janet Boyarin // Library Journal; 10/1/1978, Vol. 103 Issue 17, p2005Reviews the book 'Appalachee Red,' by Raymond Andrews.
- SILENT VALLEY.
Byrne, Jennifer // Australian Women's Weekly; May2012, Vol. 82 Issue 5, p266The article reviews the book "Silent Valley," by Malla Nunn.
- You Are Free.
Byrne, Jennifer // Publishers Weekly; 3/28/2011, Vol. 258 Issue 13, p38The article reviews the book "You Are Free," by Danzy Senna.
- The Fifth Figure.
Startup, Frank // School Librarian; Spring2007, Vol. 55 Issue 1, p52The article reviews the book "The Fifth Figure," by Jean Breeze.
- THE FLOWERS.
Startup, Frank // Kirkus Reviews; 11/15/2007, Vol. 75 Issue 22, p1171The article reviews the book "The Flowers," by Dagoberto Gilb.
- Race--the Power of an Illusion (Book).
Dick, Jeff // Booklist; 8/1/2003, Vol. 99 Issue 22, p1997Reviews the video recording 'Race—The Power of an Illusion.'
- "Some of My Best Friends...": Befriending the Racialized Fiction of Hiromi Goto.
Libin, Mark // Essays on Canadian Writing; Spring2001, Issue 73, p93Establishes a critical proximity to the text of Hiromi Goto that allows one to read them in terms of their difference without foreclosing on their significance. Theme of racialized identity in the novels by Goto; Endorsement of Barthes' theory of writing as seductive by Goto's novel `Chorus of...
- BLACK AND WHITE.
Libin, Mark // Kirkus Reviews; 4/15/2005, Vol. 73 Issue 8, p484Reviews the book "Black and White," by Paul Volponi.
- The (Jewish) White Negro: Norman Mailer's Racial Bodies.
Levine, Andrea // MELUS; Summer2003, Vol. 28 Issue 2, p59This article examines the white appropriation of blackness in the book "The White Negro" by Norman Mailer. Factors that motivate the hipster of Mailer; Language of Hip; Description of the disasters of World War II.
- LOVE MAKES THE FILLY GO.
Sullivan, Frank // Saturday Evening Post; 4/24/1937, Vol. 209 Issue 43, p12Presents the short story "Love Makes the Filly Go," by Frank Sullivan.
- This Property Is Not Condemned.
McHenry, Susan // Black Issues Book Review; Sep/Oct2003, Vol. 5 Issue 5, p12Interviews author Valerie Martin on the challenges of writing novels about race and social change in the U.S. Information on her book "Property"; Reason for writing about the antebellum slavery era; Views on racial brutality.
- Towards a Theory of Difference.
Schneiderman, Jason // American Poetry Review; Jan/Feb2011, Vol. 40 Issue 1, p17An essay is presented on the concept of difference in creative writing workshops. The author reflects on who is qualified to express experience in poetry and his personal experiences as a gay author with tokenism. Other topics include the transparency and opacity of race and racism, gay...
- Shades of Difference: Mythologies of Skin Color in Early Modern England.
Royster, Francesca T. // Shakespeare Studies; 2006, Vol. 34, p187The article reviews the book "Shades of Difference: Mythologies of Skin Color in Early Modern England," by Sujata Iyengar.
- Conflicting discourses on race and nationalism in Mary Gilmore's poetry.
Sheridan, Susan // Social Alternatives; Oct89, Vol. 8 Issue 3, p23The article offers poetry criticism of works by poet Mary Gilmore, focusing on the conflicting discourses on race, nationalism and gender depicted in the works. Topics include themes of ghosts, past, and present in the poem "The Aboriginals," as well as themes of flora and fauna in the poem...
- Mona on the Phone: The Performative Body and Racial Identity in "Mona in the Promised Land."
Lin, Erika T. // MELUS; Summer2003, Vol. 28 Issue 2, p47This article examines how the discourse of the racialized body is deconstructed in the book "Mona in the Promised Land" by Gish Jen through the device of Mona's telephone calls. Comparison made by Mona between her body and colonialism; Description of hyperbolic citation; Correlation of body and...
- Postcolonial Theory and the United State: Race, Ethnicity, and Literature.
Dhar, Tej N. // MELUS; Summer2003, Vol. 28 Issue 2, p236Reviews the book "Postcolonial Theory and the United States: Race, Ethnicity, and Literature," edited by Amritjit Singh and Peter Schmidt.
- The Stereography of Class, Race, and Nation in God's Bits of Wood.
Smith, Craig V. // Research in African Literatures; Spring93, Vol. 24 Issue 1, p51Discusses the interaction of race and class through the relationship between the trade union struggle and anticolonial agitation as seen in Sembene Ousmane's 1960 novel 'God's Bits of Wood.' Significance of race and class in the colonial context; Emergence of a sophisticated and non-binary...
- RACE MIXTURE: Studies in Intermarriage and Miscegenation (Book).
Smith, Craig V. // New Republic; 7/29/31, Vol. 67 Issue 869, p296Reviews the book "Race Mixture: Studies in Intermarriage and Miscegenation," by Edward Byron Reuter.
- The (Jewish) White Negro: Norman Mailer's Racial Bodies.
Levine, Andrea // MELUS; Summer2003, Vol. 28 Issue 2, p59This article examines the white appropriation of blackness in the book "The White Negro" by Norman Mailer. Factors that motivate the hipster of Mailer; Language of Hip; Description of the disasters of World War II.
- Postcolonial Theory and the United States: Race, Ethnicity, and Literature (Book).
Handley, George // Mississippi Quarterly; Winter2001/2002, Vol. 55 Issue 1, p158Reviews the book 'Postcolonial Theory and the United States: Race, Ethnicity, and Literature,' edited by Amritjit Singh and Peter Schmidt.
- Third Spaces and First Places: Jack Butler's Jujitsu for Christ and Hybridity in the US South.
Costello, Brannon // Mississippi Quarterly; Summer/Fall2005, Vol. 58 Issue 3/4, p613This article presents literary analysis of Jack Butler's debut novel "Jujitsu For Christ." This novel depicted racial tensions in the 1960s and uses a black character who has pretended to be white for most of his life as the narrator; that Butler is white gives the device an additional layer of...
- "Unable to Imagine Getting On Without Each Other": Porter's Fictions of Interracial Female Friendship.
Wells, Chandra // Mississippi Quarterly; Summer/Fall2005, Vol. 58 Issue 3/4, p761This article examines female friendship within the stories of Katherine Anne Porter's "The Old Order," a collection of seven short stories. These friendships offer a starting point to delve into interracial and intergenerational relationships between women in the American South. According to the...
- Degenerationism and Mesmerism in Wilkie Collins's "Heart and Science."
Shumaker, Jeanette Roberts // South Carolina Review; Fall2008, Vol. 41 Issue 1, p102Presents literary criticism of the book "Heart and Science" by Wilkie Collins. The author suggests that mesmerism in the book is employed figuratively and literally to emphasize degenerationist fears about science, women, and doctors. Other topics include race in literature, realistic fiction,...
- Colonialism and Race in Luso-Hispanic Literature.
Barbosa, Maria Jos� Somerlate // Luso-Brazilian Review; 2010, Vol. 47 Issue 1, p223The article reviews the book "Colonialism and Race in Luso-Hispanic Literature" by Jerome C. Branche.
- White Negritude.
Arroyo, Jossianna // Luso-Brazilian Review; 2010, Vol. 47 Issue 1, p233The article reviews the book "White Negritude" by Alexandra I. Hammond.
- A Source for Stowe's Ideas on Race in Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Donovan, Josephine // NWSA Journal; Fall95, Vol. 7 Issue 3, p24Examines Harriet Beecher Stowe's treatment of race in 'Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). Colonization scheme with which Stowe ends the novel; Stowe's belief that Africans, because they are 'natura' Christians, are the chosen race; Stowe's vision of a utopian Christian Africa.
- Tempering race and nation: recent debates in diaspora identity.
Kitson, Thomas J. // Research in African Literatures; Summer99, Vol. 30 Issue 2, p88Suggests that writer Ralph Ellison's position on debates in diaspora identity is a simultaneous reaction to defensive affirmations of race in diaspora communities. Ambiguities of the role of alienation in identity problems of Africans; Examination of the need for African and African-American...
- A Legacy of Trauma: Caribbean Slavery, Race, Class, and Contemporary Identity in Abeng.
MURDOCH, H. ADLAI // Research in African Literatures; Winter2009, Vol. 40 Issue 4, p65The disruptions and transformations caused by the slave trade are largely demographic and cultural. It was through this extended and traumatic forced population transfer that Caribbean colonies across the board became dominantly black communities. For these island nations and territories, the...
- Edna Ferber, Jewish American Feminist.
Shapiro, Ann R. // Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies; Winter2002, Vol. 20 Issue 2, p52Discusses visions of racial harmony and female strength in a fictional world in the novels 'Show Boat' and 'Cimarron,' by Jewish-American feminist Edna Ferber. Focus on the strength of a woman and the triumph of the underdog; Representation of Jews in the novels; Connection between Jews and the...
- Fraught with Fire: Race and Theology in Marilynne Robinson's "Gilead."
Bailey, Lisa M. Siefker // Christianity & Literature; Winter2010, Vol. 59 Issue 2, p265Presents literary criticism which explores the themes of race and theology in the novel "Gilead" by Marilynne Robinson. The author notes that Robinson uses fire imagery to illustrate the conflicting mysteries of the world and the gospel of divine grace which helps build a Christian vision. The...
- Listening to Ralph Ellison's music: Farida Belghoul and the question of invisibility.
Talahite-Moodley, Anissa // International Journal of Francophone Studies; 2009, Vol. 12 Issue 2/3, p305Farida Belghoul's use of Ralph Ellison's notion of invisibility, in her novel Georgette! (Belghoul 1986) is an example of the ways in which migrant literature in France is part of litt�rature-monde by engaging in a dialogue with other literatures (in this case an African-American author)...
