... . Microfinance Lit: Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Sexy,” the Grameen Bank, and Kiva dan sinykin This essay develops a poetics of microfinance through an attempt to account for a strange detail in Jhumpa Lahiri’s short story “Sexy” from her collection Inter- preter of Maladies. Early in the story, Dev...

...Cecily Devereux This article considers Helen Fielding's two Bridget Jones novels as foundational texts in the genre of chick lit as it “produces, disseminates, and proliferates certain feminist and liberal subjectivities” (Butler and Desai 2008, 5). The focus is on tracing in these two novels...

... and the Sociology of Gender . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1978 . Clark Beverly Lyon . Kiddie Lit: The Cultural Construction of Children’s Literature in America . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins UP , 2003 . Clark Larra . “‘ The Chocolate War’ Tops 2004 Most Challenged Book List...

.... It is evident that this book has, indeed, by widening its scope to include cultural, historical and lit- erary aspects, helped to make the specialized field of music studies accessible to scholars of diverse academic areas. R. Michelle Lee...

.... It is evident that this book has, indeed, by widening its scope to include cultural, historical and lit- erary aspects, helped to make the specialized field of music studies accessible to scholars of diverse academic areas. R. Michelle Lee...

..., both in terms of Native- centred literary nationalisms and, in the long history of the form in American lit- erature, as a striking example of the short story cycle—a version, in other words, of what many commentators see as an exemplary American written form.3 The book is constructed...

... to those whose aspirations require self-conscious blindness to the complexities and hurdles to effortless movement across borders in the globalized economy. James Arnett is assistant professor of English at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. His work has appeared in Ariel, LIT: Literature...

... douce lumiere blanche la grand'mere Yvonne, qui travaillait a coudre, assis sur sa porte" 'keeping higher up in a bluish sky lit his grand- mother, Yvonne, who was working on her sewing, sitting at her front door, with a soft white light' (111:2); etc. Yves Le Hir, quoting this last example...

... with the experience of lit- erary celebrity" (10) and whose "work provides them with a unique opportunity to interrogate their feeling of unease about the machinery of celebrity" (10). And to Moran's list, we could easily add other names, such as Paul Auster and Michael Chabon, each of whom produces novels...

... material. 5 Alter, 102 6 See Alan Dundes, Holy Writ as Oral Lit, p.22 148 GENRE tine king of Gath. Apparently he thinks the Philistines won't recognize him, but when they do, he changed his behavior before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands...

... of knowing (5). With much success and while leaving open a provocative ques- tion I ll address at the end of this review Chico argues that seventeenth- and eighteenth- century British natural philosophers relied on figuration and other lit- erary practices not just to persuade others of empirical...

... of the same point, about the ungrounded- ness (without origins or finality) and necessary abstraction of social forms. Most fascinating and surprising is the case made for returning to Marx, as a pioneering theorist of form, alongside nineteenth- century innovations in mathematics, lit- erary realism...

..., as we may see if we are willing to look closely enough, production around or about questions of gender. Picasso could not have produced the forms that launched his career without the prolonged meditation upon the forms of Gertrude Stein that Gertrude Stein required. Lit- eral...

... Patricia P. Assimilating Asians: Gendered Strategies of Authorship in Asian America . Durham : Duke UP , 2000 . Davis Rocío Ludwig Sämi , ed. Asian American Literature in the International Context: Readings on Fiction, Poetry and Performance . Münster : Lit Verlag , 2002...

... with the Fuse Lit: William S. Burroughs and Retroactive Utopias in Cities of the Red Night.” Utopian Studies 21 . 1 : 118 – 38 . Griggs Sutton E. 2002 . Imperium and Imperio . New York : Modern Library Classics . Haraway Donna J. 1991 . Simians, Cyborgs, Women: The Reinvention...

... interpretations and counter-interpretations—that exist. This situation leaves real-life professors of English or cultural studies in a bit of a bind because much of the lit crit work has already been done for us. Fans of poststructuralism, for example, might conceive of the house as having a center...

... was saying, is the fact that words can be understood - in a radical literality - simply as noise, stertorous breathing. It is such radical literality that the historical lit- eral of social/ideological frameworks presupposes. The radical literality of deconstruction, certainly, is the contrary...

... such questions in order to further itself. The rise of new media instigates a re-appraisal of how lit- erary genres—and the cultures that emerge from them—work within technologi- cal parameters, but it can equally occlude the fact that such re-appraisals (and re-positionings) have always been part...

... of Ameri- can literary form and Chinese material? What literary and political ideologies underlie this cognitive binary and apparent anxiety over a Chinese/American cultural hybrid? Dreiser's hard-line position on a possible Chinese/American lit- erary form possesses a specific personal and literary...

..." ("Private Hells Although Karen Joy Fowler's mainstream crossover in some respects anticipated Lethem's, her love of comedic structures frequently puts her at risk of being reclassified as chick-lit or YA. And the most referential of storytellers - Howard Waldrop, Guy Davenport - unable to sacri- fice...