In Print

Mikko Tuhkanen's "'Out of Joint': Passing, Haunting, and the Time of Slavery in Hagar's Daughter," American Literature 79:2 June (2007).  According to Tuhkanen, "This essay traces Pauline Hopkins's argument, primarily in her novel Hagar's Daughter, that time in postbellum United States is 'out of joint' and that the nation's life is characterized by tragic repetitions of the past because the nation's disavowal of the fact of racial hybridity."  Also, Tuhkanen's essay "Ontology and Involution" appeared in Diacritics: A Review of Contemporary Criticism 35:3 Fall (2005) published in 2007.  According to the publisher: "Taking its cue from Elizabeth Grosz's recent work in Architecture from the Outside, The Nick of Time, and Time Travels, 'Ontology and Involution' argues for a clearer acknowledgment of the philosophical histories and paradigms that have guided the articulation of queer theories, at least their most institutionally recognizable forms.  It suggests that the paradigms most influential for queer thinking have entailed the kind of deconstructive rejection of ontology that, as Grosz argues, has characterized contemporary critical approaches in social sciences and the humanities.  Such paradigmatic commitments, acknowledged or not, have inevitably restricted queer theory's engagement with some of its most frequently cited theorists. Consequently, the essay suggests an 'ontological turn' in queer-theoretical readings of Michel Foucault's work, especially his later ethics texts.  Foucault's unexpected leap into the archive of ancient texts should here be seen as an intuitive turn to, and an involutive activation of, what Gilles Deleuze, following Henri Bergson, calls the ontological past.  As Grosz notes, 'this past is for Deleuze the realm of the virtual, the resource for radical change and becoming.'  Ultimately, Grosz's work clears the ground for a queer rethinking of the question of becoming, whose importance Foucault recurrently evokes in his 1980s interviews."

Julie Fay's terzenelle "Priming Tobacco/Picking Grapes" and her sestina "Provencal Laundry" are included in the recently published An Introduction to Poetry in English published by Presses Universitaires du Mirail (2007), a poetry textbook for non-native speakers of English published in France.

Laureen Tedesco's "Models of Girlhood"  review essay was published in Nineteenth Century Studies 20 (2006).  Also, Tedesco's "Progressive Era Girl Scouts and the Immigrant: Scouting for Girls (1920) as a Handbook for American Girlhood" appears in Children's Literature Association Quarterly 31 (2006).  According to the essay abstract: "The publications and activities of the Girl Scouts offer a fruitful site for examining shifting notions of female citizenship and American identity.  This essay considers the home-making and physical fitness passages of Scouting for Girls (1920) in the context of early twentieth-century maternalist activism and women's efforts to Americanize immigrants.  Linking concerns about immigrants' health and cleanliness to a brief interval of Girl Scout Americanization efforts, the essay finds that Girl Scouting empowered middle-class girls to impart the doctrines of municipal housekeeping, scientific mothering, and vigorous good health that middle-class women promoted among in their clubs, colleges, and settlement work."  For the full-text article, see:  http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/childrens_literature_association_quarterly/v031/31.4tedesco.html

Pat Bizzaro's poem "Saying Goodbye" was published in the 35th anniversay issue of Cold Mountain Review.

Ken Parille's "'Sometimes We're Lovable in Our Error': The Career of Abner Dean" appears in the ninth volume of the annual Comic Art.  According to Parille: "The essay is a visual and analytical study of Dean, a cartoonist who was popular in the decades before and after the Second World War.  It charts Dean's career as an illustrator, designer, public figure, and cartoonist, and it features over 40 color images, from drawings published in college and covers of national magazines, to sketches done for a ballet and the cartoons in his book collections.  It includes the first publication of excerpts from Dean's letters and notebooks, which feature extensive analysis of his own enigmatic and philosophical gag cartoons."

Joyce Irene Middleton's book review of DoVeanna S. Fulton's Speaking Power: Black Feminist Orality in Women's Narratives of Slavery SUNY P (2005), a book that examines written and oral traditions in African American women's writing, appeared in the recent issue of the Journal of Advanced Composition (27.1-2).

CW Sullivan's article "Fantasy," which appeared originally in Stories and Society: Children’s Literature in Its Social Context edited by Dennis Butts for Macmillan in 1992 was recently reprinted in Crosscurrents of Children's Literature: An Anthology of Texts and Criticism and edited by J.D. Stahl, et al. for Oxford UP, 2007.  According to International Review of Children’s Literature and Librarianship, "[Sullivan] is able to advance a convincing thesis of [the] development [of fantasy literature].  Define his terms, suggest examples, and still leave himself room for a personal paen of praise to Tolkien.  It is probably the most successful single essay in the book."

Randall Martoccia's short story "How I Got my Soul Back from Hubert, the Big Faker" was accepted by the online journal 10X10X10.  Please see: http://www.kcoldiron.com/10x10x10/

Ireland in the Renaissance, c.1540-1660 edited by Thomas Herron and Michael Potterton has been published by Four Courts P (2007).  According to the publisher: "This book brings to life the cross-currents of European 'Renaissance' culture in Ireland, primarily outside the Pale. Essays focus on institutions such as Peter White's grammar school in Kilkenny; monuments, including the funeral art of Kilkenny and Lord Deputy Sir Henry Sidney's decorated stone bridge at Athlone; buildings such as the fortified houses of Laois-Offaly, the decorated Butler mansion at Carrick-on-Suir and Sir Walter Raleigh's house in Youghal; maps, including the sinister colonial cartography of Richard Bartlett; texts such as Counter Reformation polemic and nationalist historiography, women's writing from the 1641 rebellion, and the published Dublin celebrations of King Charles II's Restoration."  Included within the book: Herron's "Introduction:  A Fragmented Renaissance" which asks why the term renaissance (as opposed to early modern) is so rarely used in conjunction with Ireland, and Herron's essay "Orpheus in Ulster: Richard Bartlett's colonial art" which traces the hidden figures in the military-colonial maps (c. 1600) of Richard Bartlett.

Erica Plouffe Lazure's "Gestate: A short story" was published in the October 28 Sunday Raleigh News & Observer.  Lazure is completing her MFA at Bennington.  Please see: http://www.newsobserver.com/lifestyles/books/story/752035.html