In Print

Nicole Sidhu's essay "Go-Betweens: the Old Woman and the Function of Obscenity in the Fabliaux" appears in Comic Provocations: Exposing the Corpus of Old French Fabliaux edited by Holly A. Crocker for Palgrave Macmillan (2006) as part of their Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures Series.  According to Palgrave: "This interdisciplinary collection explores the ability of Old French fabliaux to disrupt the literal and figurative bodies with which they come into contact. Essays in this volume address theoretical issues including fragmentation and multiplication, social anxiety and excessive circulation, performative productions, and creative formations, to trace the competing consequences that result from this literary body's unsettling capacity."  The fabliaux is a collection of anonymous comic tales written in Northeast France during the 12th and 13th centuries.  They are bawdy stories in nature, concerning cuckolded husbands, libertine clergy, and foolish peasants.  According to Sidhu, "The article argues that the scheming old women in several fabliaux replicate the position of the fabliaux authors, who similarly trade sexual knowledge in an information economy."

Seodial Deena's abstracts "The Pain and Beauty of Assembling the Multicultural and Multiethnic Vase in Guyana and Belize" and "Reflection of Caribbean Food in World Literature" appear in the Association of Caribbean Studies 2005 Abstracts edited by O. R. Dathorne.  Deena's essay "Color Complication and Confrontation in Caribbean Culture as Depicted in Trevor Rhone's 'Old Story Time'" was published in the Journal of Caribbean Studies 20.3 (Spring 2006).  Jamaican playwright Trevor Rhone has received the Ward Theatre Season of Excellence Award for significant contribution to Jamaica in theatre for over twenty-five years, the Musgrave Gold Medal Award, and in 1996 the Living Legend Award awarded by the National Black Theater.  Also, as a screenwriter, Rhone's The Harder They Come (1972) is a landmark in Caribbean film, starring reggae star Jimmy Cliff, and his film Milk and Honey was awarded the Genie Award by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television for the Best original screenplay in 1989.  His play "Old Story Time" was first produced in Nassau in 1979.

Pat Bizzaro reviewed two books by poet James Applewhite for the 2006 issue of NCLR.  His "Reckon[ing] up losses" discusses Applewhite's Selected Poems (2005) issued by Duke University Press, and A Diary of Altered Light (2006) published by LSU Press.  Bizzaro observes, "Applewhite is a poet whose own understandings have deepened with age.  In a way, Applewhite has received what William Wordsworth in 'Tintern Abbey' calls '[a]bundant recompense' for his watchful life, regaining the memory that invites imagination in his verse and trusts that imagination to sustain and stir his spirit and verse."  Bizzaro also published an essay with Paul Gainey in The Journal of the Virginia Writing Project 27.2 (2006) titled "Integrating Writing, K-5: A Case for Professional Development."

Brent Henze's essay "The Research-Experiential Internship in Professional Communication" was published in Technical Communication 53.3 (2006). Henze also authored "Chapter 6: Visual Rhetoric and Document Design" for the 2006 edition of The Writer's Harbrace Handbook.

Ron Hoag published two essays in the 2006 issue of the North Carolina Literary Review.  His critical essay "Hatteras Blues: Greatness and Grace on the Edge" revisits Tom Carlson's book Hatteras Blues: A Story from the Edge of America (2005) published by the University of North Carolina Press. Hoag writes, "Hatteras Blues is about the risks and rewards of the fishing life on the Outer Banks and, by extension, of human life everywhere and always.  We've all got at least one big storm to prepare for and probabaly a lot of lesser blows that will feel big in their time."  His review "In Place and Out" takes a look at Thomas Rain Crowe's Zoro's Field: My Life in the Appalachian Woods (2005) published by the University of Georgia Press.  From the publisher: "After a long absence from his native southern Appalachians, Thomas Rain Crowe returned to live alone deep in the North Carolina woods. This is Crowe's chronicle of that time when, for four years, he survived by his own hand without electricity, plumbing, modern-day transportation, or regular income.  It is a Walden for today, paced to nature's rhythms and cycles and filled with a wisdom one gains only through the pursuit of a consciously simple, spiritual, environmentally responsible life."  Thomas Rain Crowe will be at the Willis Building at 7:30 pm on Wednesday, October 4, to read from his new work.

Michael Aceto's "Wrestling With Dichotomies in Creole Studies: Towards a More Complete View of Language Emergence" appears in Studies in Contact Linguistics: Essays in Honor of Glenn G. Gilbert (2006) edited by Linda L. Thornburg and Janet M. Fuller and published by Peter Lang.  According to Adrienne Bruyn, past president of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics: "This volume is as much a tribute to language contact studies as to Glenn G. Gilbert and his valuable contributions to the field.  As it ranges from, among other things, the voyages of the term 'criollo' to processes of transfer in second language acquisition and creole formation, from the roots of African American Vernacular English to the resilience of Low German networks on the Great Plains, and from possessive constructions in Afrikaans to a sociolinguistic typology of language shift in Australia, everybody concerned with multilingualism and language contact is bound to find something of interest.  Accessibly written by experts and reflecting current views and debates, this collection will appeal to both specialists and novices in the field."

Laureen Tedesco's essay "Sarah Dessen's Cautiously Optimistic Realism: Decades Beyond the Teen Problem Novel" appears in the 2006 issue of the North Carolina Literary Review.  Chapel Hill writer Sarah Dessen is the author of many books for the Penguin Young Readers Group including That Summer, Someone Like You, The Truth About Forever, Dreamland, and Keeping the Moon.  The film How To Deal (2003) is based on two of her novels and stars Mandy Moore.  Tedesco's essay "The Pedagogy and Problems of Jane Andrews's Seven Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball that Floats in the Air" appears in Children's Literature in Education 37.2 (2006).  About her sister Jane Andrews (1833-1887), Margaret Andrews Allen wrote: "Through all her life, my sister had a great fondness for children, and a power of winning their confidence and love. But she had never thought of putting into writing the stories with which she often fascinated them, till in 1860, after intimate association with the children in her little school (in our old home at Newburyport, Mass.), 'the stories grew of themselves' as she said. These stories appeared in 1862, under the title of 'The Seven Little Sisters who Live on a Round Ball that Floats in the Air.'"

Ken Parille's "'The Medicine of Sympathy': Mothers, Sons, and Affective Pedagogy in Antebellum America appears in the current issue of Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature.  Editor Laura Stevens comments: "Parille's [essay] presents a discussion of emotion that is similarly instrumental and cautious.  Surveying advice writings for mothers along with novelistic portraits of sentimental mothers and their morally problematic sons, he discovers surprisingly ambivalent attitudes to maternal sympathy for boys in the antebellum period. Although these writers 'endorsed sympathy as a child management tool,' they expressed worries that overly sympathetic mothers would fail to discipline their sons.  Such boys would develop into self-indulgent, callous men lacking appropriate moral sentiments or a sense of responsibility toward others.  Mothers in these advice writings were called upon to temper their sympathy with what modern writers might call tough love, restraining their emotions for the sake of the public good.  Besides compelling a reconsideration of the status of sentimental views of motherhood in antebellum America, Parille's essay ... calls into question the degree to which writers in this period viewed emotion as a natural effusion of feeling or as a device that could and should be deployed for social, moralistic ends."  The founding editor of TSWL Germaine Greer began the journal in 1981-82, which "seeks path-breaking literary, historicist, and theoretical work by both established and emerging scholars."

C.W. Sullivan's "Robert A. Heinlein: Reinventing Series SF in the 1950s" was published in Extrapolation 47.1 (Spring 2006).  According to Sullivan, "[This is] an expanded version of a paper presented at the 2005 International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, and ... argues that Heinlein did not follow the Tom Swift model that had been popular for 40 years but reinvented juvenile series science fiction by creating new main characters in each book, by plotting the exploration of outer space to echo America's westward movement, by creating female and alien characters that were unusual for science fiction at that time, and by including cultural referents and challenging concepts in each book."  Sullivan maintains, "Heinlein's juveniles are still the best science fiction books for young adult readers."

Ylce Irizarry's "Doubly troubling narratives: Writing 'the oppression of possibility in Puerto Rico and Cuba" appears in Comparative American Studies 4  (2006). The abstract reads: "Since the 'boom' of US ethnic writing, a number of writers have published novels dealing with the colonial-era Hispanic Caribbean.  US-authored novels such as The Aguero Sisters (Cristina Garcia, 1998) have received little critical attention in the USA.  Similarly, English language novels written by Hispanic Caribbean authors such as The House on the Lagoon (Rosario Ferre, 1996) have received even less, if not hostile, critical attention from Caribbean scholars.  Both novels locate the origins of Caribbean modernity in the violent movement from Iberian colonialism to US neo-colonialism.  By comparing these novels' narrative concerns about writing, history and race, the complex relationship between 'possibility' and 'violence' they depict is delineated.  Such texts reflect a growing corpus of historical fiction about the Hispanic Caribbean and complicate the flawed and persistent schism between US Latina and Latin American literary traditions."  For a full text of the article, please see: http://cas.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/4/2/197.