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Category Archives: literary studies
Get a Free Ebook of “Octavia E. Butler” by Gerry Canavan
in black studies, eBooks, feminist studies, literary studies, science fiction
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Giveaway alert! We’re offering a free ebook of OCTAVIA E. BUTLER by Gerry Canavan during November. Butler’s experiences as an African American woman in the world of white male-dominated science fiction writing informed her career as a science fiction author. … Continue reading
Linda A. Morris on “What is Personal about Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc?”
in American literature, author commentary, journals, literary studies
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Linda A. Morris is a Professor of Emeritus at UC Davis. Her current research is on gender play in the works of Mark Twain. Her earlier published work focused primarily on women’s humor in nineteenth-century America. Her teaching and research … Continue reading
Q&A with Gary Westfahl, author of “Arthur C. Clarke”
in author commentary, authors, literary studies, science fiction, Uncategorized
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Gary Westfahl, formerly of the University of La Verne and the University of California, Riverside, has now retired to focus exclusively on research and writing. His many books on science fiction include William Gibson and Hugo Gernsback and the Century of Science Fiction. … Continue reading
“Chicana/o and Latina/o Fiction” By Ylce Irizarry Winner of NACCS Book Award
in authors, awards, latino studies, literary studies
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We are pleased to announce that Chicana/o and Latina/o Fiction: The New Memory of Latinidad by Ylce Irizarry has won the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Book Award, which is given to an outstanding new book in the … Continue reading
Nineteen Eighty-Four
in literary studies, politics
Tagged George Orwell, Jeffrey Meyers, Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Today marks the anniversary of the release of George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. An excerpt about the book from Orwell: Life and Art, by Jeffrey Meyers. In Nineteen Eighty-Four the 1930s were the prerevolutionary past, the final phase of capitalism that led … Continue reading
Backlist Bop: Take a Ride on the Reading
in African American Studies, American literature, literary studies
Tagged prisoners, Reading, reading groups, reading machines, self-help books, women writers
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As main man LeVar Burton can attest, you can go twice as high if you take a look, it’s in a book. Reading, though an essential skill to anyone outside politics, is also a topic of intense literary interest. Scholars across … Continue reading
Splattered Ink co-winner of Emily Toth Award
in awards, gender studies, literary studies
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We are pleased to announce that Splattered Ink: Postfeminist Gothic Fiction and Gendered Violence by Sarah E. Whitney is the co-winner of the Emily Toth Award for Best Single Work in Women’s Studies, awarded by the Popular Culture Association/American Culture … Continue reading
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, and political words
in biography, literary studies, politics
Tagged George Orwell, Jeffrey Meyers, language, Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Excerpted from Orwell: Life and Art, by Jeffrey Meyers. The chapter deals with George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The past is one of the dominant themes of the novel. The Party confidently believes: “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls … Continue reading
Sa-lute: Another award for “Funk the Erotic”
in African American Studies, literary studies, music
Tagged gender studies, popular culture, sexuality studies, women's studies
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Awards season continues with one of our already-lauded books receiving another prize. L. H. Stallings‘s Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures has won the Alan Bray Memorial Book Award, awarded by the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association … Continue reading
Alfred Bester’s writing process
in literary studies, science fiction
Tagged Alfred Bester, Jad Smith, writing
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Excerpted from Jad Smith‘s book Alfred Bester, the latest volume in the Modern Masters of Science Fiction series. After Boucher accepted “Fondly Fahrenheit,” Bester revealed his particular investment in the story, saying: “My heart really was in that experiment”; and later … Continue reading