... Daughter Rite Linda Williams, coauthor The vast majority of literary and visual images of motherhood comes to us filtered through a collective or individual male consciousness We need to know what, out of that welter of image-making and...

...- ther, Bone, the eponymous ‘‘bastard has no memories of her father. She does not know where he lives or even his name because ‘‘Granny refused to speak it after she had run him out of town for messing with her daughter Thus, Bone—Ruth Anne Boatwright—bears the last name of her mother’s family (3...

... six Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter / Joni Mitchell I’m not a jazz musician but I need that creative freedom. That’s why now I’m being sucked into jazz projects and working more and more with jazz musicians. I find I’m more understood there, and the heavier the player...

... S erica carter T Marlene Dietrich The Prodigal Daughter on 28 march 1933, Joseph Goebbels gave his first speech as Reich pro- paganda minister to film industry representatives. Addressing what he dubbed the artistic...

... Interstate Highway for our daughter, Lisa As on a crowded Interstate the drivers in boredom or irritation speed ahead or lag (taken with sudden enthusiasms for seventy-five) surging ahead a little by weaving...

...A Father’s Letter to His Daughter Ataur Rahman Khan Kaysar In this letter to his very young daughter in Chittagong, a father tries to explain why he is missing her birthday and why there is a war going on in the country. The father, a politician from Chittagong, was on the run in the...

... Daughter of Bootstrap Luz del Alba Acevedo I was born in the era of Operation Bootstrap, some years after its o≈cial beginning according to historians. I witnessed the rapid and dramatic trans- formation of Puerto Rico into an industrial and...

... CARLA L. PETERSON Notes of a Native Daughter: Reflections on Identity and Writing STRANGER IN MY HOME It was a warm sunny day in early fall 1953, a...

...ii. an unnatural daughter* The brooding bird fulfills her task, Or she-bear lean and brown; All parent beasts see duty true, All parent beasts their duty do, We are the only kind that asks For duty upside down. he stiff-rayed...

... 5 etHnograpHIc refractIon Exoticism and Diasporic Sisterhood in The Devil’s Daughter Produced for black audiences, the film The Devil’s Daughter (1939) fea- tures techniques of ethnographic anthropology in its visual and narra- tive making of...

... III Inscribing the Daughter in the Paternal Narrative But I did not want to speak like my father (or my grandfather, for in• stance). This must have been an early feeling, which may have arisen just in time. It was the feeling of a borrowed and worthless...

... Daughters of India 6 “No one can give up his life for a map! When I see you before me, then only do I realize how lovely my country is.” So declared Sandip to his muse in Rabindranath Tagore’s The Home and the World. On hearing these words...

...ming-cheng m. lo The Professions: Prodigal Daughters of Modernity The history of the sociology of professions can be told as a tale about the contestation of modernity. Many scholars have long regarded professions as a form of institutionalized rationality and thus one of the designated...

... INTRODUCTION The Daughters of La Malinche: Gender and Revolutionary Citizenship B Woman is a living symbol of...