Dear fellow Rara-Avians:
I apologize for the long post that follows, but thought it
might be of interest to some on this list. I can't,
personally, do anything with it, as I am already swamped with
work. But perhaps someone here can.
Also, when I wrote about Gatsby a few minutes ago, I meant to
mention that the Dictionary of Literary Biography includes a
volume devoted solely to Gatsby and covers Fitzgerald's
sources pretty thoroughly. If anyone is actually interested
in the name of the gambler / mastermind figure I mentioned (I
want to say it was Rosenstein or something like that, but
heaven knows how close a guess that might or might not be),
that information would almost certainly be in that
volume.
G.
> Tough Women in Contemporary Popular Culture:
Call
> for Contributors to
> a New Anthology on Depictions of Tough Women
in
> Popular Culture
>
> For a new anthology on the depiction of tough
women
> in contemporary
> popular culture (1985-present), I am seeking
essays
> that explore the
> complex depictions of tough women in
popular
> culture. How are
> women's roles influenced and shaped by depictions
of
> tough women?
> How do different popular genres depict tough
women?
> Are these new
> depictions progressive? How does popular
culture
> depict tough women
> from different races, classes, and ethnic
> backgrounds? How is
> toughness in women constituted differently than
in
> men? The range of
> materials that could be addressed is vast:
toys,
> television shows,
> films, video games, comic books, to name just a
few.
> Essays that
> adopt an interdisciplinary approach to
their
> material are welcome, as
> are ones that discuss race, ethnicity,
and
> socioeconomic class.
> Essays should be lively, vibrant, and engaging;
they
> should be of
> broad interest to scholars in many
academic
> disciplines from the
> humanities, including history, women's
studies,
> English, American
> studies, Chicana Studies, Asian-American
studies,
> and
> African-American studies. Articles should be
8,000
> to 10,000 words
> (including notes and references);
accompanying
> photographs are
> welcome. Please send completed article
and
> curriculum vita by
> October 1, 2002, to Dr. Sherrie A.
Inness,
> Department of English,
> 1601 Peck Boulevard, Miami University,
Hamilton,
> Ohio 45011
> (
inness@muohio.edu). Early submissions are
> encouraged.
>
> This anthology will be edited by Sherrie A.
Inness,
> Associate
> Professor of English at Miami University. Inness
is
> the author or
> editor of thirteen books, including The
Lesbian
> Menace: Ideology,
> Identity, and the Representation of Lesbian
Life
> (University of
> Massachusetts Press, 1997); Delinquents
and
> Debutantes:
> Twentieth-Century American Girls' Cultures
(editor,
> New York
> University Press, 1998); Tough Girls: Women
Warriors
> and Wonder Women
> in Popular Culture (University of
Pennsylvania
> Press, 1999); Kitchen
> Culture in America: Popular Representations of
Food,
> Gender, and Race
> (editor, University of Pennsylvania Press,
2001);
> Pilaf, Pozole, and
> Pad Thai: American Women and Ethnic Food
(editor,
> University of
> Massachusetts Press, 2001); Dinner Roles:
American
> Women and Culinary
> Culture (University of Iowa Press, 2001); and
Disco
> Divas: Women and
> Popular Culture in the 1970s (University
of
> Pennsylvania Press,
> forthcoming, 2003).
===== George C. Upper III, Editor The Lightning Bell Poetry
Journal http://www.lightningbell.org/
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