... movement. By reading these films as one ritualistic endeavor, this article looks at the uses of mirrors, naming, and summoning as sacred rites that implicate those within and outside the film to say the name of Candyman and revive not only the fictional dead but also the real memory of Black victims...

... tim e that it is possible to have one's own arm, even one's own body, stolen. Walter Benjamin1 A ny motion picture or television program produced under the jurisdiction of the W riters Guild o f America (WGA or G uild) the union that represents film andTV w rite rs is governed by the term s...

... therapist, Peter Levine; the idea that a crossing between different parts of a narrative is useful. I wrote Schizophrene, for example, before I w rote this. (Ban.) Ban en Banlieues. Questions for BAN, a novel of the race riot set in 1979: How do you w rite a narrative o f selfhood that is less about...

..., in a society, to [arrive] “appear”? Copyright © 2012 Regents of the University of Colorado 2012 Ruth E llen Kocher 47 F/fabula /anima: Reading Bhanu Kapil's "W riting/not-writing: th[a][e] Diasporic Seif: Notes Towards a Race Riot" Ruth E llen Kocher 1. W h a t Bhanu sh o u ld te ll a reader and n o t...

... of post-war Pop art and culture; what I have term ed the new accelerated m odernity2 of the tw enty-first century.The essay critically assesses Hanif Kureishi's thirty-year career in theatre, film , and popular m odernist w riting in the context o f accelerated popular culture. It is published at a tim e...

..., the scars of the damage done by the controversy over D. W. Robertson's 1962 Preface to Chaucer still (amazingly) unhealed three decades later. The "religious tu rn " was hardly on the horizon. It is true that three discrete bodies o f w ork on M iddle English religious w riting were already preparing...

... and for resurfacing pow erfully in a variety of disparate future contexts.4 The "sequel" to "Bartleby" speaks to a nineteenth-century fascination with dead letters, those postal exceptions that owing to either the indecipherable w riting on the envelope, the unknown whereabouts of the addressee, or the addressee's...

... of history, memory, and identity. The M aking o f Am ericans dominated Stein's early career. It is the book she refers to most frequently in her exegeses on w riting, com position, and literature; the achievement of com ­ position marked the com pletion o f Stein's literary apprenticeship.The earliest notes...

...Gerald Bruns Abstract Croup explores bodies, borders, binds, bonds. Copyright © 2012 Regents of the University of Colorado 2012 G erald B runs 1 13 Caroline BergvalhThe Cat & the Ampersand G erald B runs On bios w ritten fo r events such as this one and others, I always w rite "poet & w rite r...

..., but I had never experienced the full brunt of its force until one day, while searching fo r something interesting to read from among the vast shelves of my fam ily's library, I happened upon a volum e of stories by the Russian Jewish writer, Isaac Babel, titled R ed C a v a lry S tories. W hile w riting...

... a lity o f its subject. It is part a n th ro p o lo g y o f an idea and part cele­ b ra tio n o f it; it is part reverie and part revision. Rastalogy, Douglas contends, de m a n d s that w e reconceptualize the " I" beyond the lim its of the first-person singular. "T his I is infinite," she w rite s , "o...

... "the r are bokes ynowe / To telle men w hat Dowel is, Dobet and Dobest bothe."1 This statement can be read not only as an insight into Langland's w riting, his ow n anxieties about whether he should be meddling with "makynges," but also as a more general observation about the sheer number of books o f...

...Jan Baetens Copyright © 2013 Regents of the University of Colorado 2013 O f Ha n d w r it in g , Typew riters, a n d a W r it e r s B l o c k , or H ow the P l a y w r ig h t L earnt to D rive a C ar an d Stopped W o r r yin g about W riting A nother W ord Jan Baetens Look back (to medium...

... of Colorado 2012 Harrison C andelaria Fletcher 177 From Where You Dream H a r r is o n C a n d e l a r ia F l e t c h e r A s w rite rs, as people, w e all have m ultiple selves, m u ltiple "I's." We are not the same people w e are w ith our children as we are w ith our bosses, our drinking buddies, our...

... the testament of the victim -w itness,1American legal theory rarely acknowl­ edges the singular authority of the prison w rite r on law's prim ary scene of violence.2 By looking at Robert Cover's attempts to recuperate the victim of law's violence, I want to sug­ gest that a particular legal poetics bars...

... Tillich, Theology o f Cultureß Poetic discourse takes root in a wound. Jacques Derrida, W riting and Difference^ T he traditional relationship between theology and literature is asymmetrically arranged, w ith the latter always at least one elevation below the form er and struggling, unsuccessfully...

...Dong Isbister; Xiumei Pu; Stephen Rachman Copyright © 2017 Regents of the University of Colorado 2017 (RE)CONNECTING PEOPLE AND the La n d : Eco m em o r yin E n v ir o n m e n t a l W ritings by Eth nic M in o r it y W o m e n W r it e r s in C h in a D o n g Is b i s t e r , X i u m e i P u...

...Brian Teare Copyright © 2011 Regents of the University of Colorado 2011 W riting : E m b o d im e n t : C o n t i NGENCY B r ia n T e a r e But it Is our discord, the gift o f the word which is precarious, Maurice Blanchot, W riting the Disaster I. April 14, 2011 Once a week Marintha slides...

... psest over w hich it w rites a singular and supposedly 62 E ng lish Lan g u ag e N otes 5 2 2 Fa ll / Winter 2 0 1 4 coherent geo," then the Jeffersonian land-grid is w hat I w ill call an a p rio ri geography, one that precedes the body's encounter w ith physical geography, sm othering com plex terrain...

... into English in 1994) and Archive Fever.3 In fact, as a result o f Derrida's w riting, the specter of the archive has begun to haunt the field of literary studies, its appearance in a li senses an apparition, a sign of something both pres­ ent and absent. This is because the "archive" has been appropriated...