Gates is the producer and host of "African American Lives" and "African American Lives 2," two PBS documentaries that explore African American history through tracing the genealogies of famous black actors, writers and other entertainers.
Proposal for a New Journal on Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers (Rationale) - To provide a forum for the scholarship on nineteenth-century American women writers from 1820-1880, including literary criticism and biography of individual authors and literary history of the period. - To promote and assist in restoring the works of these authors to their place in the American literary canon, and to encourage their republication and study. - [...] one is in the thick of the process, it is difficult to get a sense of how much unseen work goes into the production of the journal. [...] thanks to the many graduate and undergraduate interns and editorial assistants who have checked facts, taken care of correspondence, and done the important maintenance work for the journal.
Continuing a back-and-forth series of actions between the U.S. and leftist Latin American regimes, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sought out President Obama at a joint meeting Saturday morning to give him a book attacking capitalism and American intervention in the Western Hemisphere. He later took a more conciliatory posture, announcing he is restoring Venezuela's ambassador in Washington and hoping for a "new era" in relations.
Between Culbertson's preface and afterword, this anthology is organized into five sections. Every section contains essays that share a common topic: "Spirituality," "Mental Health," "Relationships," "The Physical Body," and "Community." The essays, as a whole, posit that we must speak of masculinities because of the many ways of being a man. The essays point to the racial, class, and sexual diversity of men and the significance of the male body in a myriad of theoretical and "textual texts." Taken together, these topics tie all of the essays together. [Philip L. Culberston] argues in the preface that "Being a man in the church these days can be unsettling, if not downright scary.... For many men in the church today, no place seems predictably safe. Sometimes it feels like the only place...
..." and "body politics." Relying upon both literary criticism and reader-response theory, Culbertson i...
Monday, 8 p.m.: Canisius College Contemporary Writers Series presents National Book Award-winning novelist Joyce Carol Oates. A native of Lockport, she is the author of more than 70 books of fiction, nonfiction, literary criticism, poetry and memoir, and was awarded the National Humanities Medal for lifetime achievement in American literature in March 2010 by President Obama. Oates' best known novels include "Them" (1969), "Black Water" (1992), "We Were The Mulvaneys" (1996) and "Blond" (2000). Her most recent book is "A Widow's Story: A Memoir" published in February by Ecco Books. Montante Cultural Center, Canisius College, 2001 Main St. ***
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