What does citizenship mean? What is the process of "naturalization" one goes through in becoming a citizen, and what is its connection to assimilation? How do the issues of identity raised by this process manifest themselves in culture? These questions, and the way they arise in…
Although he is best known as a poet, Henry Taylor is also an astute critic, as the essays in this discerning collection demonstrate. In Compulsory Figures, Taylor writes about seventeen contemporary poets, much of whose work, he says, has been a part of his mental landscape sinc…
Laughing during troubled times: the art of screwball comedy -- Film comedy highlights the dark side of American life -- Film and television comedy takes a feminist perspective on American life -- The ultimate reality-based television -- Sitcom? The Dick Van Dyke Show revisited -…
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"It has been variously labelled 'Language Poetry', Language Writing', 'L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E writing' (after the magazine that ran from 1978 to 1981), and 'language-centred writing'. It has been variously defined as non-referential or of diminished reference, as textual poetry or a cr…
An examination of the changes and continuities among three generations of barrio gangs.
In this illuminating look at two Chicano gangs in East Los Angeles, Joan W. Moore examines the changes and continuities among three generations of barrio gangs. As a sequel to the author's award-winning study, Homeboys (Temple, 1979), this book returns to the same neighborhoods …
Affiliation, worldliness, and modernism in India -- An art of the soil : Amrita Sher-Gil (1913-1941) -- Man and Mahabharata : Maqbool Fida Husain (1915-2011) -- The new primitives : K. G. Subramanyan (1924-) -- Paan shop for people : Bhupen Khakhar (1934-2003) -- Globalization, …
