Author：Kathy Lou Schultz

Abstract: This essay analyzes Claudia Rankine’s first book, Nothing in Nature is Private, showing that although the book is formally dissimilar to her later work, it includes themes that continue to be foundational to her writing practice. From the title of the first poem, “American Light,” in this first book, to the subtitle of her two most recent books of poetry (“An American Lyric”) Rankine has d...

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Author：Laura Hinton

Abstract: Alice Notley’s Culture of One (2011) is a “poet’s novel” about a woman who lives in the dump of a U.S. Southwest desert town. The female character who “inhabits” the dump—and this poet’s novel—is both metonym for and guide into the lost representation of “the abject,” a concept developed by Julia Kristeva as a psychic state of horror and response to that which lies outside culturally...

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Author：Wenjun Wang

Abstract: Michael Bérubé (born 1961) is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature at the Pennsylvania State University, where he teaches American literature, disability studies, and cultural studies. He is the author of ten books on cultural studies, disability rights, liberal and conservative politics, and debates in higher education. The best known books are Life as Jamie Knows It: An Exceptional Child...

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Author：Hong Fang

Abstract: American writer Gish Jen is best known as the author of four critically acclaimed novels: Typical American (1991), Mona in the Promised Land (1996), The Love Wife (2004), and World and Town (2010). Although this interview focuses primarily on these novels, Jen is also the author of a work of nonfiction, Tigerwriting: Art, Culture and the Interdependent Self (2013), and the short story collectio...

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