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EDITORS' NOTE
While it can be tempting to speculate on what sort of fiction Roth would be producing now-we think a sequel to Our Gang (1971) might sell a few copies-we still have his thirty-two books to keep us busy as readers and critics, as demonstrated by the essays in this issue. James Duban's essay \"Sartre's What is Writing? and Nathan Zuckerman's Existential 'Situations' in I Married a Communist\" presents a thoughtful study of Roth's engagement with Sartre's work, and in making the case for Roth's implicit critique of Sartre's shifting views after World War Two, also offers a new way of thinking about the intersection of politics and literature in Roth's fiction. Rounding out the issue are two book reviews by Brett Ashley Kaplan and Mark Krasovic as well as the annual bibliography of Roth studies compiled by Joseph Ozias, all of which demonstrate how Roth continues to generate robust and thoughtful scholarship.
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The fantastic and terrible fame of Classroom 13
Ms. Linda's cousin, the Hollywood agent Lucy LaRoux, gives each student in Classroom 13 the opportunity to become famous, but the students learn that with great celebrity comes stage fright, injury, bad press, and giving up video games.
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“Strange and Unusual Things”: Teaching the Speculative Fiction of Margaret Cavendish
Margaret Cavendish, a prolific author and natural philosopher, defies categorization with her multifaceted contributions to literature and philosophy. While she is recognized for her groundbreaking work in various academic fields, her literature also resonates within the realms of science fiction, weird fiction, and speculative genres. This essay explores innovative approaches to teaching Cavendish's work, particularly within the realm of speculative literature, using an interdisciplinary lens. Drawing on perspectives including monster theory and the concept of the abject, students are prompted to critically engage with Cavendish's texts. By examining themes such as the monstrous, the supernatural, and the occult, students uncover the complexities of Cavendish's philosophy and its cultural resonances. Gender played a significant role in the reception of Cavendish's work, often overshadowing her contributions due to the biases of her time. However, contemporary analysis and pedagogical strategies aim to reframe her legacy, emphasizing her impact on science fiction, weird fiction, and her visionary ideas. By contextualizing her work within contemporary frameworks, students gain a deeper understanding of Cavendish's contributions to literature and philosophy. Embracing the \"strange and unusual\" aspects of Cavendish's literary universe honors her unique contributions and invites students on a transformative journey of exploration and discovery. Ultimately, teaching Cavendish through the lens of speculative fiction not only deepens students' understanding of her work but also fosters a greater appreciation for literature, creativity, and human imagination.
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Authoring the Nation: Madame de Staël and the Literary Origins of the State
For a reflection on the role of literature in the construction of constitutionalism within the Anglosphere, the writings of a French salon-hostess in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries might not seem the obvious choice. And yet, to exclude Germaine de Staël from the constitutional dialogue taking place in the Anglosphere at this time is to erase a crucial site of inter-pollination between the Franco and Anglo worlds that, so often, defined themselves in opposition to one another. In re-establishing these ties and cross-border conversations, we can see that de Staël, a prolific writer of both constitutional theory and fiction, makes an excellent candidate for an investigation into the role of literature in constitutionalism. To explore the interrelationship between literature and constitutional theory in de Staël’s thinking, this article reads across her literary texts and political treatises. Firstly, the article situates de Staël within the Anglosphere as a unique commentator on English constitutionalism. It then explores in more detail the co-constitutive role of literature and politics in de Staël’s theories of constitutionalism, and the central role she stakes out for literature in the construction of “the nation.”
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Emma : lights! camera! cupcakes!
\"Hollywood star Romaine Ford is back in town, and she needs cupcakes for her movie premiere ... and her wedding! But everything is top-secret. Emma is asked to make the cupcakes, but she can't tell the rest of the club who they are for! Romaine doesn't want any paparazzi to ruin her wedding, and she feels the less people who know, the better. Can Emma fulfill this order without spilling the secret to her best friends?\"--Publisher's website.
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Black Resonance
Ever since Bessie Smith's powerful voice conspired with the \"race records\" industry to make her a star in the 1920s, African American writers have memorialized the sounds and theorized the politics of black women's singing. InBlack Resonance, Emily J. Lordi analyzes writings by Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Gayl Jones, and Nikki Giovanni that engage such iconic singers as Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Mahalia Jackson, and Aretha Franklin.
Focusing on two generations of artists from the 1920s to the 1970s,Black Resonancereveals a musical-literary tradition in which singers and writers, faced with similar challenges and harboring similar aims, developed comparable expressive techniques. Drawing together such seemingly disparate works as Bessie Smith's blues and Richard Wright's neglected film ofNative Son, Mahalia Jackson's gospel music and Ralph Ellison'sInvisible Man, each chapter pairs one writer with one singer to crystallize the artistic practice they share: lyricism, sincerity, understatement, haunting, and the creation of a signature voice. In the process, Lordi demonstrates that popular female singers are not passive muses with raw, natural, or ineffable talent. Rather, they are experimental artists who innovate black expressive possibilities right alongside their literary peers.
The first study of black music and literature to centralize the music of black women,Black Resonanceoffers new ways of reading and hearing some of the twentieth century's most beloved and challenging voices.
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