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English Language Notes (2024) 62 (1): 120–135.
Published: 01 April 2024
... of Guåhan. In this photographic article, I chronicle a memoir and choreographic practice inspired by tracing my Black Pacific heritage. Oral histories shared with me by my Chamoru aunt Rosa 1 and my late Black/African American grandfather Albert are juxtaposed to descriptions of sensuous engagements...
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View articletitled, A Black Pacific <span class="search-highlight">Memoir</span>: Dancing the Interwoven Indigenous and Diaspora on the Island of Guåhan
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English Language Notes (2011) 49 (2): 119–124.
Published: 01 September 2011
... lied about many of the events in his memoir. His problem, I thought, was his earnest ness.The difference between him and Babel was enormous, and not because Babel's prose was labeled as fiction and Frey's wasn't. In my Fake M em oir class, I spared the students nothing fake. We read Frey and we read...
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English Language Notes (2015) 53 (2): 61–74.
Published: 01 September 2015
..., httpnyti.m s/ Y9H18W. 3Jean de Joinville, Vie de Saint Louis, ed. J. Monfrin (Paris: Librairie Générale Française, 2002). Important discussions of Joinville's memoir in tension with this generic label can be found in Daisy Delogu, Theorizing the Ideal Sovereign: The Rise o f the French Vernacular Royal...
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 173–176.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Kerry Reilly Abstract In Praise of the Fake Memoir: Delusion and deception are not generally considered admirable qualities for memoirists, but should a memoir be considered without literary value simply because the author is delusional or a fraud? Can we separate moral assessments of an author...
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 177–180.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Harrison Candelaria Fletcher Abstract In Praise of the Fake Memoir: Delusion and deception are not generally considered admirable qualities for memoirists, but should a memoir be considered without literary value simply because the author is delusional or a fraud? Can we separate moral assessments...
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 167–171.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Noah Eli Gordon Abstract In Praise of the Fake Memoir: Delusion and deception are not generally considered admirable qualities for memoirists, but should a memoir be considered without literary value simply because the author is delusional or a fraud? Can we separate moral assessments of an author...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 99–113.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Nicole Stamant Abstract Performing what Michele Elam calls “a refusal of historical amnesia,” Danzy Senna and Emily Raboteau expose how social justice and hospitality are constructed in and around what Pierre Nora calls lieux de mémoire . Engaging particular sites of memory in the American South...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 82–100.
Published: 01 April 2022
.... With their blend of introspection and self-deception, Psalmanazar’s Memoirs (1764) index the changing social and cultural roles of opiates and the concept of addiction in eighteenth-century Europe and beyond. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Regents of the University of Colorado 2022 Formosa...
View articletitled, “That Vast Quantity of Laudanum I Have Been Known to Take”: Globalization, Empire, and the Performance of Addiction in the Eighteenth Century
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 43–57.
Published: 01 October 2019
... of reforming the social structures that discredit women’s reason. Copyright © 2019 Regents of the University of Colorado 2019 natural education memoir Jean-Jacques Rousseau Mary Wollstonecraft marriage In his famous portrayal of Mary Wollstonecraft as a “female Werter,” William Godwin...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (2): 107–120.
Published: 01 October 2018
... elucidating their place at the center of issues encompassing ethnic, national, and transnational concerns. Copyright © 2018 Regents of the University of Colorado 2018 Mexican Revolution letrado La crónica US-Mexico border In her memoir of the Mexican Revolution (1910–20), written during...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 1–6.
Published: 01 October 2019
...” shares Alvin Henry’s geographic focus on the American South, in its attention to two memoirs—Danzy Senna’s Where Did You Sleep Last Night? (2009) and Emily Raboteau’s Searching for Zion (2013)—that chronicle the travels of two biracial daughters of exiled southerners to their ancestral homes...
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English Language Notes (2024) 62 (1): 81–96.
Published: 01 April 2024
... of the Sarawak insurgency is an ongoing task, owing to an archival lack, as well as a dearth of translation from Chinese sources. In recent years, leftist memoirs have emerged as counternarratives to the state archives, written and published by ex-insurgents who left their underground struggle and subsequently...
View articletitled, Sinophone Geopolitics and Postcolonial Materiality in Cold War Borneo: An Ecological Reading of Chang Kuei-hsing’s Elephant Herd
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English Language Notes (2004) 42 (2): 79–82.
Published: 01 December 2004
... some exceptions that prove the rule. Chapter 3 looks at autobiographies a genre that I would suggest is not necessarily heroic and thus is the most problematic but perhaps also the most provocative of this book. In it Rose reads the memoirs of four women M argaret Cavendish, Anne Fanshaw, Alice...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 69–91.
Published: 01 October 2022
... to war that Forster tried to articulate in his writings about India. 14 Drawing on Forster’s memoir of El-Adl, Baucom argues that in the postwar era Forsterian friendship between colonizer and colonized “exists in, or derives from, an act of remembrance,” but ultimately friendship, like human memory...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (1): 19–27.
Published: 01 March 2006
... memoir, The W inged Seed. "Remembrance, was his sole answer when I asked him why."3 Li-Young Lee's entire body of w ork stands as a testament to the importance o f his father's directive. Lee's acute fascination w ith remembrance therefore positions his w ork fo r analysis through theoretical...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (1): 175.
Published: 01 March 2006
... of mestizaje and muiatez, and fem inist theologies. Because officially sanctioned religious speech has been so tightly controlled by the Catholic church, these alternative theologies have often emerged in fic tion, poetry, memoir, and other creative form s as a collaboration between theologians and Latino...
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English Language Notes (2016) 54 (1): 93–112.
Published: 01 March 2016
... since "if she afforded an asylum and counsel to his enemies, the tra n q u ility of Syria could not be secured."39 Each party w ants to "secure" their interests against the other. Charles Meryon, Stanhope's doctor (he lived near her for alm ost 20 years and w rote a series of memoirs of her) explains th...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 109–132.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., The Passion , 148 . 27 McKay wrote several poems named for Moroccan cities, among them “Fez.” His memoir also includes a poem published as “A Farewell to Morocco,” with the lines: “How strangely I was brought beneath your spell! / But willingly / A captive I / Remained to be.” Maxwell observes...
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English Language Notes (2002) 40 (2): 23–28.
Published: 01 December 2002
...; a revised edition ap p eared in A m sterdam (P. B runei) in 1720 and 1732. T he sets include h e r h u sb a n d s Mémoires, h e r Suite des Lettres nouvelles, galantes, historiques, an d som etim es h er own Mémoires. T h ere was also a 1761 edition in T he H ague (P. H usson, 8 vols (From Dictionnaire des...
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English Language Notes (2003) 41 (1): 44–53.
Published: 01 September 2003
... Southerne, 2: 102. "'Observator, 3: 179, 1 (Wed. June 2, 1686). See also Harold Love, Roger L Estrange s criticism of Dryden s elocution, N&Q 246 (December 2001) 398-400. 6 An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber, ed. B. R. S. Fone (Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1968), 67. 7 M. Misson s Memoirs...
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