Eng 390: Multicultural Literature
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390 Multicultural Literature Last Updated: 03/11/03
Readings for Oral Reports Essays for Oral Presentations (Available from Stacey or via Ebsco Academic Search Elite OR you are welcome to find a published literary analysis on one of the texts on your own—you might want to run it by me first.)
With Life in the Iron Mills Hood, Richard A. “Framing a ‘Life in the Iron Mills.’” Studies in American Fiction 23.1 (Spring 1995): 73-84. Molyneaux, Maribel. “Sculpture in the iron mills: Rebecca Harding Davis’s Korl Woman.” Women’s Studies 17 (1990): 157-177. Morrison, Lucy. “The Search for the Artist in the Man and Fulfillment in Life in Rebecca “Harding Davis’s ‘Life in the Iron Mills.’” Studies in Short Fiction 33.2 (Spring 1996):245 (9). Ebsco. Schocket, Eric. “’Discovering Some New Race’: Rebecca Harding Davis’s Life in the Iron Mills and the Literary Emergence of Working Class Whiteness.” PMLA 115.1 (Jan 2000): 46- 59. First Search.
With Maggie, Girl of the Streets Gandal, Keith. “Stephen Crane’s ‘Maggie’ and the Modern Soul.” ELH 60 (1993): 759-785. Irving, Katrina. “Gendered space, Racialized Space:
Nativism, the Immigrant Woman and Stephen Crane’s ‘Maggie’.” College Literature 20.3
(Oct. 1993): 30 (14). Ebsco. With The Bluest Eye Alexander, Allen. “The Fourth Face: The Image of God in The Bluest Eye.” African American Review 32.2 (Summer 1998): 293 (11pp). Ebsco. Cormier-Hamilton, Patrice. “Black Naturalism and Toni Morrison: The Journey Away from Self Love in The Bluest Eye.” MELUS 19.4 (Winter 1994): 109 (19pp). Ebsco. Dittmar, Linda. “’Will the Circle Be Unbroken’? The Politics of Form in The Bluest Eye.” Novel: A Forum on Fiction 23.2 (Winter 1990): 137 (19). Ebsco. Kuenz, Jane. “The Bluest Eye: Notes on History, Community and Black Female Subjectivity.” African American Review 27.3 (Fall 1993): 421 (11pp). Ebsco. Malmgren, Carl D. “Texts, Primers, and Voices in The Bluest Eye.” Critique 41.3 (Spring 2000): 251 (12pp). Ebsco. Mbalia, Doretha Drummond. “The Bluest Eye: The Need
for Racial Approbation.” Chapter 2 from Toni Morrison’s Developing Class Consciousness.
New Jersey: Association of University Presses, 1991. 28-38. McKittrick, Katherine. “’Black and ‘Cause I’m Black I’m Blue’: Transverse Racial Geographies in The Bluest Eye.” Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 7.2 (June 2000): 125 (18pp). Ebsco. Moses, Cat. “The Blues Aesthetic in The Bluest Eye.” African American Review. 33.4 (Winter 1999): 623 (15pp). Ebsco. Munafo, Giavanna. “’No Sign of Life’—Marble-Blue Eyes and Lakefront Houses in The Bluest Eye.” LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory. Vol. 6. 1999: 1-19. Ebsco. Yancey, George. “The Black Self Within a Semiotic Space of Whiteness: Reflections on the Racial Deformation of Pecola Breedlove in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.” CLA Journal 43.3 (March 2000): 299 (21). Ebsco. With Goodbye, Columbus Dickstein, Morris. “Never Goodbye, Columbus: The Complex Fate of the Jewish American Writer.” Nation 273.12 (22 Oct 2001): 25(9). Ebsco. Halio, Jay. “Nice Jewish Boys: The Comedy of ‘Goodbye, Columbus’ and the Early Stories.”Short Stories for Students 12 (1992): 7p. Gale Literature Resource Center. Nilsen, Helge Normann. “Love and Identity: Neil Klugman’s Quest in ‘Goodbye, Columbus.’”English Studies 68.1 (1987): 79-88. Gale Literature Resource Center. Sacks, Karen Brodkin. “How Jews Became White.”
Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study. Ed. Paula S. Rothenberg.
4th ed. New York: St. Martin’s, 1998: 100-114. (on E-Reserve) With The Great Gatsby Bewley, Marius. “Scott Fitzgerald’s Criticism of America.” The Sewanee Review 62 (1954). Rpt. in Modern Critical Interpretations: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1986. 11-27. Donaldson, Scott. ”Possessions in The Great Gatsby.” The Southern Review 37.2 (Spring 2001):187+. Gale Literature Resource Center. Giltrow, Janet and David Stouck. ”Style as Politics in The Great Gatsby.” Studies in the Novel 29.4 (Winter 1997): 476 (15). Gale Literature Resource Center. O’Meara, Lauraleigh. ”Medium of Exchange: The Blue Coupe Dialogue in The Great Gatsby.” Papers on Language and Literature 30.1 (Winter 1994): 73 (15). Gale Literature Resource Center. With Bastard Out of Carolina Albelda, Randy and Chris Tilly “Women, Income, and Poverty: There’s a Family Connection.”Ed. Paula Rothenberg. Race, Class and Gender in the U.S., 5th ed. New York: Worth, 2001. 315-320. Bouson, J. Brooks. “’You Nothing But Trash’: White Trash Shame in Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina.” Southern Literary Journal 34.1 (Fall 2001): 101-123. Ebsco. Donlon, Jocelyn Hazelwood. “’Born on the Wrong Side of the Porch’: Violating Traditions in Bastard Out of Carolina.” Southern Folklore 55.2 (Fall 1998): 133-144. Gale Literature Resource Center. Hooks, Bell. “White Poverty: The Politics of Invisibility.” Where We Stand: Class Matters. London: Routledge, 2000. 24-37. (Reserve) McDonald, Kathlene. “Talking Trash, Talking Back: Resistance to Stereotypes in Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina.” Women’s Studies Quarterly (1998): 15-25. Rodriguez, Richard. “The Achievement of Desire.”
Hunger of Memory. New York: Godine, 1983. Rpt. in Rpt. in Created Equal: Reading and Writing About Class in America. Ed. Benjamin DeMott. New
York: HarperCollins, 1996. Rose, Mike. “The Struggle and Achievements of
America’s Underprepared.” Lives on the Boundary. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989. Rpt. in
Created Equal: Reading and Sandell, Jillian. “Telling Stories of ‘Queer White
Trash’: Race, Class and Sexuality in the Work of Dorothy Allison.” White Trash: Race and Class in
America. London: Routledge, 1997. 211-230. Literature Resource Center. Sample Oral Report Outline Corbett, Edward P.J. “Raise High the Barriers,
Censors.” America 104 (January 7, I. Like “Huck Finn”, “Catcher” is an oft-banned novel, though popular with post-WWII readers. [His review is 10 years after the book was published.] Corbett defends the novel against its critics. II. Critics: The books language is “crude, profane, obscene.” Corbett: Need to see language in context---Holden uses it subconsciously, not to be “one of the boys.” Even Phoebe needs to remind him to stop….and he never apologizes for using the language, as a good prep school boy would in front of women. BUT he responds with anger when seeing the f-word on Phoebe’s school walls. Foul language is used for realism, to emphasize Holden’s distress, and as another onslaught against childhood innocence. III. Critics: “Scandalous” incidents in the book. Corbett: Quotes Cardinal Newman: “we cannot have a sinless literature about a sinful people.” Notes that immorality or vice in a novel doesn’t mean the novel is immoral. It depends on the author’s and character’s response to the immorality. As with language, context is key. Holden’s date with the prostitute is portrayed as something he’s trapped into, and he can’t go through with it. He is embarrassed, and at one point pities the prostitute. The scene is not depicted as a sexy scene. IV. Critics: Holden himself is a phony.
V. Corbett concludes that the book is not immoral or corrupting, “but that it is a subtle, sophisticated novel that requires an experienced, mature reader.”
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