February 2008 Archives
Broken into eight journal, or "compass," disciplines - History, Literature, Sociology, Linguistics, Philosophy, Religion, Geography, and Psychology - Blackwell Compass publishes peer-reviewed survey articles that are broad in scope and meant for a wide readership.
Renowned novelist, journalist, and short story writer, Jennifer Egan, will visit Temple as part of the Poets & Writers Series.Egan's most recent novel, The Keep, was a national bestseller and a New York Times Notable Book for 2006. Other works include Look at Me, which was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2001, The Invisible Circus, which became a movie starring Cameron Diaz, and Emerald City and Other Stories. She has published short fiction in The New Yorker, Harper's, Zoetrope and Ploughshares, among others, and her journalism appears frequently in The New York Times Magazine.
The event is free, open to the public, and will take place on Thursday, March 6th, 8:00pm, Temple University Center City Campus (TUCC), 1515 Market Street, room 222.
As part of the English Department's Spring Lecture Series, Edlie Wong will be presenting "Freedom with a Vengeance: Slavery, Kinship, and the Legal Culture of
Travel" this Wednesday, February 27th at 4:00 pm in 1123 Anderson Hall.
Wong's talk charts the legal controversies over slaves brought to the states north of Mason Dixon after Massachusetts Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw's landmark ruling in the case of the slave girl Med in 1836. Drawing upon a largely unexplored archive of freedom suits and reading them against the literature of abolitionism, this talk offers a more critically and historically embedded understanding of the freedom celebrated in the fugitive slave narrative. It explores material that had been largely left out of the anti-slavery story: the cases brought by abolitionists to free slaves who had traveled with their masters into free jurisdictions. Freedom suits reveal the contradictory logic by which abolitionists disregarded the slaves' express desires to remain with their masters, and in many cases argued for the very sorts of separations from kin that usually figured so large on abolitionist attacks on slavery. These readings in law and literature thus present a critical alternative to the abolitionist plotting of freedom and the criminal agency of fugitive flight as they give expression to a politics and poetics of theft.
Edlie Wong is Assistant Professor of English at Rutgers University and recent Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Penn Humanities Forum. This talk is drawn from her current book project, Fugitive and Foreigner: Cultures of Travel in the Black Atlantic, 1820-1861.
SAMUEL R. DELANY is a critic and novelist, with essays and interviews collected in seven volumes, the most recent three of which are "Silent Interviews" (1994), "Longer Views" (1996) and "Shorter Views" (1999).
His award winning autobiography "The Motion of Light
in Water" (1988) and his novel "Hogg" (1995) were returned to
print in 2004. His novel "Phallos" was reviewed in the Village Voice
as "a lapidary, digital-age Pale Fire, tonally redolent of Valery's
Epilinos." His other fictions include "The Mad Man" (1995), and
"Atlantis: Three Tales" (1993). A multiple winner of both Hugo and
Nebula Awards, Mr. Delany is also a recipient of the Pilgrim Award for
outstanding scholarship in science fiction studies, and a winner of the William
Whitehead Memorial Award for a lifetime's contribution to Lesbian and Gay
Literature. His scholarly interests include Walter Pater and the Oxford
aesthetic movement and its influence on high modernism, as well as questions of
race, gender, queer studies, and literary theory. After eleven years as a
comparative literature professor at the University of Massachusetts at
ADRIAN KHACTU's work has been published or is forthcoming
in the Atlantic Monthly, Carve, Heritage, and In/Vision (or HOOT! as those in
the know pronounce it). He has won the Richard Moyer Prize in Fiction and the
Ezra Pound Prize in Literary Translation, as well as fellowships
TU Libraries has recently added Black Studies Center to its suite of eResources!Black Studies Center brings together essential historical and current material for researching the past, present and future of African-Americans, the wider African Diaspora, and Africa itself. Included in the collection are essays and articles, archived newspapers, images, film clips and more.
Select film clips include:
- Black athlete Jesse Owens returns from the Olympic Games to New York City in 1936.
- Blackface routine, 1930s.
- Civil rights march, Birmingham, Alabama, 1963.
- Newark race riots in New Jersey in July 1967.
- Men interviewed in a soup kitchen, 1983.
Slate Magazine has created the Encyclopedia Baracktannica, a list of words that have been "Obamafied" by Slate. Included in the entries is "'Obamazon': a passionate female Obama supporter."The encyclopedia is a widget that can be added to your computer; it's also a Facebook application that can be added to your profile.
TU Libraries is currently trialing Perdita Manuscripts: Women Writers, 1500-1700.Perdita Manuscripts contains digital facsimiles of manuscripts written or compiled by women in the British Isles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The manuscripts are varied in their content including works of poetry, religious writing, autobiographical materials, cookery and medical recipes, and accounts.
The trial lasts until March 6th.
Be sure to check it out, and let me know if the Libraries should add it to its collection of eResources!
TU Libraries has recently added Black Historical Newspapers to its suite of eResources!Black Historical Newspapers offers digitally-scanned primary source material on African-American culture, history, politics, and the arts as found in the following five historical newspapers:
- Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003) The Atlanta Daily World had the first black White House correspondent and was the first black daily in the nation in the 20th century.
- The Chicago Defender (1909-1975) A leading African-American newspaper, with more than two-thirds of its readership outside Chicago.
- Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005) The oldest and largest black newspaper in the western United States and the largest African-American owned newspaper in the U.S.
- New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993) This leading Black newspaper of the 20th century reached its peak in the 1940s. The Amsterdam News was a strong advocate for the desegregation of the U.S. military during World War II, and also covered the historically important Harlem Renaissance.
- Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002) One of the most nationally circulated Black newspapers, the Courier reached its peak in the 1930s. A conservative voice in the African-American community, the Courier
challenged the misrepresentation of African-Americans in the national
media and advocated social reforms to advance the cause of civil rights.
Be sure to check them out!
The Encyclopedia of Political Communication is now available online via Sage eReference.The encyclopedia contains discussion of the major theoretical approaches to the field, including direct and limited effects theories, agenda-setting theories, sociological theories, framing and priming theories, and other past and present conceptualizations.
Considerable attention is devoted to major sources of political communication and to important political messages such as presidential speeches, televised political advertising, political posters and print advertising, televised political debates, and Internet sites.
TU Libraries now has a quick and easy way to search numerous databases at a single time: MultiSearch!MultiSearch allows you to search across multiple databases using one simple interface. It provides citations and abstracts as well as linking opportunities to full-text articles, e-books and other resources.
Check it out!
Among the winners of the 2008 Stonewall Book Awards and currently nominated for a 2008 Lambda Literary Award, Dark Reflections follows the troubled career of Arnold Hawley, a gay, African American poet wrestling with obscurity while eking out a meager living in New York's East Village.
Delany, writer of epic science fiction and postmodern theory to autobiography, is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Temple University.
The program is open to the community and will take place on Tuesday, February 12th at 2:00pm in the Paley Library Lecture Hall. Refreshments will be provided.
We hope to see you there!
Three new literary titles have been added to the Cambridge Companions series via Cambridge Collections Online as part of the January 2008 update:
Check out the new literary-related resources added to the library collection in the past month!
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