Comparing Postcolonial Literatures: Dislocations. (review)

Review of book edited by Ashok Berry and Patricia Murray. Copyright 2002 MHRA, and included in the repository with permission

'Dis ain't gimme, Florida': Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

Who owns Zora Neale Hurston? That was the question asked in 1990 by Michele Wallace, in an analysis of the ways in which Hurston has been appropriated by later scholars. Wallace's pungent comparison of later critics to so many 'groupies descending on Elvis Presley's estate' in their haste to turn Hurston to their own purposes strikes a cautionary note for any subsequent writer. As she notes, the risk of canonization is that the work will be misused to derail the future of blackwomen in literature and literary criticism. For Wallace, Harold's introduction to his Modern Critical Views anthology of 1986 is a case in point. This article is copyright 2003 MHRA, and is included in this repository with permission

'Dis ain't gimme, Florida': Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

Who owns Zora Neale Hurston? That was the question asked in 1990 by Michele Wallace, in an analysis of the ways in which Hurston has been appropriated by later scholars. Wallace's pungent comparison of later critics to so many 'groupies descending on Elvis Presley's estate' in their haste to turn Hurston to their own purposes strikes a cautionary note for any subsequent writer. As she notes, the risk of canonization is that the work will be misused to derail the future of blackwomen in literature and literary criticism. For Wallace, Harold's introduction to his Modern Critical Views anthology of 1986 is a case in point.This article is copyright 2003 MHRA, and is included in this repository with permission

Beyond the Red Notebook: Essays on Paul Auster (review)

Review of this text edited by Dennis Barone. This article is copyright the Modern Humanities Research Association 1998, and is included in this repository with permission

Comparing Postcolonial Literatures: Dislocations. (review)

Review of book edited by Ashok Berry and Patricia Murray.Copyright 2002 MHRA, and included in the repository with permission

The Readerly Politics of Western Domination : Emily Prager’s “A Visit from the Footbinder”

Orpheline de mère, Emily Prager a passé une partie de son enfance en Chine. Elle y est revenue pour adopter sa fille. Dans “ A Visit from the Footbinder ”, la Chine est présentée comme un endroit très maternel. Le rapport que la mère entretient avec son enfant devient ici un tracé pour aborder plusieurs thématiques : la problématique du développement et de la modernisation ; les oppositions entre l'Ouest et l’Est, l’homme et la femme ; enfin, la transformation de la blessure humaine en produit littéraire consommable. Par le truchement de son narrateur omniscient, Prager confronte et renverse les principes standards du modèle de lecture occidental pour s’engager activement dans les thèses défendues par Julia Kristeva (dans Des Chinoises, 1974)

The Readerly Politics of Western Domination : Emily Prager’s “A Visit from the Footbinder”

Orpheline de mère, Emily Prager a passé une partie de son enfance en Chine. Elle y est revenue pour adopter sa fille. Dans “ A Visit from the Footbinder ”, la Chine est présentée comme un endroit très maternel. Le rapport que la mère entretient avec son enfant devient ici un tracé pour aborder plusieurs thématiques : la problématique du développement et de la modernisation ; les oppositions entre l'Ouest et l’Est, l’homme et la femme ; enfin, la transformation de la blessure humaine en produit littéraire consommable. Par le truchement de son narrateur omniscient, Prager confronte et renverse les principes standards du modèle de lecture occidental pour s’engager activement dans les thèses défendues par Julia Kristeva (dans Des Chinoises, 1974)

Expressions 1986

https://openspace.dmacc.edu/expressions/1007/thumbnail.jp

Beyond the Red Notebook: Essays on Paul Auster (review)

Review of this text edited by Dennis Barone. This article is copyright the Modern Humanities Research Association 1998, and is included in this repository with permission