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Papers by Cheryl Lester
American Studies, Mar 1, 2006
Serving for the past five years on the MAASA Board has given me an opportunity to develop relatio... more Serving for the past five years on the MAASA Board has given me an opportunity to develop relationships with colleagues in American studies throughout the Midwest, learn more about the challenges and responsibilities of organizational life, and reflect on the relationship between our organizational practices and material conditions within our region. Like all organizations, MAASA is rooted in particular institutions, structures, and relationships, while its future demands ongoing commitment, revitalization, and revision. If we wish to contribute to the progress of American studies in our region, we must reflect on the same questions that confront the discipline nationally, namely, on the question of what constitutes our field, our goals, our perspectives, and our constituencies. As a field, we are challenging our colonial, nationalist, and imperialist origins by reaching assiduously toward critical, transnational, comparative approaches to American studies and American hegemony. 1 As public servants, we are working at a time when support for public institutions and the services they provide for ordinary people has been shamefully and systematically withdrawn in favor of increasing the profit margins of corporate interests operating on a global scale. In my remarks today, I want to propose a direction for the future of MAASA, so that we might become better informed about our region and better able to work collectively to formulate and respond to our problems and needs. At a
This is the published version
Modern Fiction Studies, 1994
the multiplicity of women's writings and women's ways of being, her categorizations of wr... more the multiplicity of women's writings and women's ways of being, her categorizations of writers from a multitude of countries seem somehow too easy, denying the very diversity she claims to explore. These two studies remind feminist critics of the need to articulate the complexities of socially specific positions other than gender. While much of Meaney's work is valuable, her reliance on the psychoanalytic mother/ daughter relationship to explain a feminine subjectivity seems to entrap all women in gender constructions predicated on timeless familial bonds. Sage so briefly engages with the social specificity of her authors that she traps them within the category "woman writer," ignoring all other social groups. Both volumes would have even greater impact if they more fully met their promises to address the intracacies of women's locations in culture.
The Faulkner journal, 2012
for research assistance. Finally, I wish to acknowledge the support of the American Studies and E... more for research assistance. Finally, I wish to acknowledge the support of the American Studies and English Departments and the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Kansas. 2For rigorous analyses of Faulkner's use of regional materials to project a textual domain, see Martin Kreiswirth and Thomas L. McHaney. 3By drawing on familiar urban tropes such as gangster, brothel, crime, and bootleggers, Faulkner ap pealed to the readership attracted to novels like Dreiser's An American Tragedy, Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and Dos Passos's Manhattan Transfer and the hard-boiled fiction of pulp magazines like Black Mask. Draw ing on increasingly familiar instances of retreat and alienation from the city and emotional and cultural impoverishment in the suburban home, Faulkner appealed to the readership attracted to novels like Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan of the Apes and Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt. 'An unpublished presentation by James B. Carothers, which he generously shared with me, catalogues and analyzes the presence of Memphis as a "secular quest" in Faulkner's fiction. See John T. Matthews for an early perception of Popeyes connection to "the underside of urbanization and modernism invading the South from Memphis, Chicago, and the North" (263). 5A note in Sanctuary on the placement of the fictional town of Kinston, "about twenty miles west of Water Valley," describes the Mississippi Delta as "that part of the river's flood plain extending roughly from Memphis, Tenn., to Vicksburg, Miss" (Blotner and Polk 1030). 6On the emergence of black commercial and cultural life in Memphis see, for example, Annette E. and Roberta Church, G. P. Hamilton, and David M. Tucker. On black migration to Memphis from the Civil War to the civil rights era and black self-assertion as a provocation to white-on-black violence, see Kenneth W. Goings and Gerald L. Smith and Laurie Beth Green.
The Faulkner journal, 2005
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jan 27, 1995
Poetics Today, 1988
THE LITERARY ABSOLUTE 'The 'Theory of Literature in Cjerman Romanticism 4- PHILIPPE LAC... more THE LITERARY ABSOLUTE 'The 'Theory of Literature in Cjerman Romanticism 4- PHILIPPE LACOUE-LABARTHE and JEAN-LUC NANCY > Translated with an Introduction and Additional 9{ptes By Tfiifip 'Barnard and Cheryl Lester State University of New York Press
Yale French Studies, 1988
... absence of "local surveillance" with moral failure. In Power and Place: Indian Educ... more ... absence of "local surveillance" with moral failure. In Power and Place: Indian Education in America, Vine Deloria, Jr. and Dan Wildcat suggest that the prob-lem of education for American Indians and indeed for Americans stems from Page 10. 142 Cheryl Lester ...
McGraw-Hill eBooks, 2004
Preface Social Identities and Power Unit 1: Building relationships across social class Editors... more Preface Social Identities and Power Unit 1: Building relationships across social class Editors' Introduction Unit Readings Mary Romero, "Intersection of Biography and History: My Intellectual Journey," from Maid in America. Jean-Robert Cadet, from Restavec: From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American. Joel Dreyfuss, "The Invisible Immigrants: Haitians in America Are Industrious, Upwardly Mobile and Vastly Misunderstood." Ben Hamper, from Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line. Case Study Nancy Boyd-Franklin, "Therapy with African American Inner-City Families" Questions for Further Study Invited Commentary Nocona Pewewardy Unit 2: Assessing clients with attention to race Editors' Introduction Unit Readings Maxine Clair, "The Creation," from Rattlebone. Patricia Williams, "The Death of the Profane (A commentary of the genre of legal writing)" from The Alchemy of Race and Rights. Esmeralda Santiago, "The American Invasion of Macun," from When I Was Puerto Rican. Wilma (Pearl) Mankiller, "Child of the Sixties," from Mankiller. Case Study James Wahlberg, "Personal Growth and Self-Esteem through Cultural Spiritualism: A Native American Experience" Questions for Further Study Invited Commentary Deb Ortega Unit 3: Reframing client issues in aging and ability Editors' Introduction Unit Readings Temple Grandin, "Learning Empathy: Emotion and Autism," from Thinking in Pictures and Other Reports from My Life with Autism. Nancy Mairs, "Freeing Choices" from Waist High in the World. Leonard Kriegel, "Falling into Life" in Falling into life: essays by Leonard Kriegel. Leslie Marmon Silko, "Lullaby" in Storyteller. Case Study Jeanne Matich-Maroney, "On Being Different: Sophie's Story" Questions for Further Study Invited Commentary Ona Bregman Unit 4: Building interventions in cases where gender or sexuality is at issue Editors' Introduction Unit Readings Gloria Anzaldua, "Movimientos de rebeldia y las culturas que traicionan," from Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. Shanlon Wu, "In Search of Bruce Lee's Grave" Shani Mootoo, "Out on Main Street" Karl Woelz, "Cartography" Case Study Ona Bregman, "Three Women" Questions for Further Study Invited Commentary Colleen Reed Unit 5: Accessing resources for persons affected by relocation and dislocation Editors' Introduction Unit Readings Carter Revard, "History, Myth, and Identity amoung Osages and other Peoples," from Family Matters, Tribal Affairs. Stevan M. Weine, "The Experience of the Bosnian Refugees," from When History is a Nightmare: Lives and Memories of Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Michael Yellow Bird, "The continuing effects of American colonialism upon First Nations Peoples." Sheida Bates, "The End of the Muddy Garden." Case Study Noreen Mokuau and Barbara Pua Iuli, "Nalani Ethel C.: Social Work with a Hawaiian Woman and Her Family." Questions for Further Study Invited Commentary Uma A. Segal Social Institutions and Diversity Unit 6: Negotiating multiple systems on behalf of children and families Editors' Introduction Unit Readings Bharati Mukherjee, "Fathering," from The Middleman and Other Stories. Louise Erdrich, "American Horse" Vicki Sears, "Grace," from Simple Songs: Stories Gloria Steinem, "Ruth's Song (because she could not sing it)" Case Study Elizabeth Kenny and Kathleen Belanger, "Tanya" Questions for Further Study Invited Commentary Vanessa Hodges Unit 7: Invoking our Code of Ethics for clients in the criminal justice system Editors' Introduction Unit Readings Ray Young Bear, "Black Eagle Child Quarterly," from Black Eagle Child: The Facepaint Narratives. Ellis Cose, "Introduction," from The Darden Dilemma: Twelve Black Writers on Justice, Race, and Conflicting Loyalties. Leon Pettiway, ed. "Margaret," from Workin' It: Women Living Through Drugs and Crime. Luis J. Rodriguez, from Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. Case Study Patricia O'Brien, "Shirley: Navigating the way home from prison" Questions for Further Study Invited Commentary Diane Young Unit 8: Using our social work knowledge base to help clients attain health Editors' Introduction Unit Readings Mary Crow Dog, with Richard Erdoes, "Sioux and Elephants Never Forget," from Lakota Woman. Frederick and Stephen Barthelme, "Thrall" from Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss. Ann Fadiman, from The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures. Carol Anne Douglas, "The Madwoman of 'Off Our Backs'" from Restricted Access: Lesbians on Disability. Case Study Lisa and Carolyn Banta, "Lupus: An Elusive Connective Tissue Disease" Questions for Further Study Invited Commentary Gwat Yong-Lie Unit 9: Advocating on behalf of clients in poverty Editors' Introduction Unit Readings Lars Eighner, "On Dumpster Diving," from Travels with Lizbeth. Gregory Howard Williams, "Learning How to be Niggers," from Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy who Discovered He Was Black. Eric Schlosser, "Behind the…
American Literature, 1997
American Studies, Mar 1, 2006
Serving for the past five years on the MAASA Board has given me an opportunity to develop relatio... more Serving for the past five years on the MAASA Board has given me an opportunity to develop relationships with colleagues in American studies throughout the Midwest, learn more about the challenges and responsibilities of organizational life, and reflect on the relationship between our organizational practices and material conditions within our region. Like all organizations, MAASA is rooted in particular institutions, structures, and relationships, while its future demands ongoing commitment, revitalization, and revision. If we wish to contribute to the progress of American studies in our region, we must reflect on the same questions that confront the discipline nationally, namely, on the question of what constitutes our field, our goals, our perspectives, and our constituencies. As a field, we are challenging our colonial, nationalist, and imperialist origins by reaching assiduously toward critical, transnational, comparative approaches to American studies and American hegemony. 1 As public servants, we are working at a time when support for public institutions and the services they provide for ordinary people has been shamefully and systematically withdrawn in favor of increasing the profit margins of corporate interests operating on a global scale. In my remarks today, I want to propose a direction for the future of MAASA, so that we might become better informed about our region and better able to work collectively to formulate and respond to our problems and needs. At a
This is the published version
Modern Fiction Studies, 1994
the multiplicity of women's writings and women's ways of being, her categorizations of wr... more the multiplicity of women's writings and women's ways of being, her categorizations of writers from a multitude of countries seem somehow too easy, denying the very diversity she claims to explore. These two studies remind feminist critics of the need to articulate the complexities of socially specific positions other than gender. While much of Meaney's work is valuable, her reliance on the psychoanalytic mother/ daughter relationship to explain a feminine subjectivity seems to entrap all women in gender constructions predicated on timeless familial bonds. Sage so briefly engages with the social specificity of her authors that she traps them within the category "woman writer," ignoring all other social groups. Both volumes would have even greater impact if they more fully met their promises to address the intracacies of women's locations in culture.
The Faulkner journal, 2012
for research assistance. Finally, I wish to acknowledge the support of the American Studies and E... more for research assistance. Finally, I wish to acknowledge the support of the American Studies and English Departments and the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Kansas. 2For rigorous analyses of Faulkner's use of regional materials to project a textual domain, see Martin Kreiswirth and Thomas L. McHaney. 3By drawing on familiar urban tropes such as gangster, brothel, crime, and bootleggers, Faulkner ap pealed to the readership attracted to novels like Dreiser's An American Tragedy, Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and Dos Passos's Manhattan Transfer and the hard-boiled fiction of pulp magazines like Black Mask. Draw ing on increasingly familiar instances of retreat and alienation from the city and emotional and cultural impoverishment in the suburban home, Faulkner appealed to the readership attracted to novels like Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan of the Apes and Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt. 'An unpublished presentation by James B. Carothers, which he generously shared with me, catalogues and analyzes the presence of Memphis as a "secular quest" in Faulkner's fiction. See John T. Matthews for an early perception of Popeyes connection to "the underside of urbanization and modernism invading the South from Memphis, Chicago, and the North" (263). 5A note in Sanctuary on the placement of the fictional town of Kinston, "about twenty miles west of Water Valley," describes the Mississippi Delta as "that part of the river's flood plain extending roughly from Memphis, Tenn., to Vicksburg, Miss" (Blotner and Polk 1030). 6On the emergence of black commercial and cultural life in Memphis see, for example, Annette E. and Roberta Church, G. P. Hamilton, and David M. Tucker. On black migration to Memphis from the Civil War to the civil rights era and black self-assertion as a provocation to white-on-black violence, see Kenneth W. Goings and Gerald L. Smith and Laurie Beth Green.
The Faulkner journal, 2005
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jan 27, 1995
Poetics Today, 1988
THE LITERARY ABSOLUTE 'The 'Theory of Literature in Cjerman Romanticism 4- PHILIPPE LAC... more THE LITERARY ABSOLUTE 'The 'Theory of Literature in Cjerman Romanticism 4- PHILIPPE LACOUE-LABARTHE and JEAN-LUC NANCY > Translated with an Introduction and Additional 9{ptes By Tfiifip 'Barnard and Cheryl Lester State University of New York Press
Yale French Studies, 1988
... absence of "local surveillance" with moral failure. In Power and Place: Indian Educ... more ... absence of "local surveillance" with moral failure. In Power and Place: Indian Education in America, Vine Deloria, Jr. and Dan Wildcat suggest that the prob-lem of education for American Indians and indeed for Americans stems from Page 10. 142 Cheryl Lester ...
McGraw-Hill eBooks, 2004
Preface Social Identities and Power Unit 1: Building relationships across social class Editors... more Preface Social Identities and Power Unit 1: Building relationships across social class Editors' Introduction Unit Readings Mary Romero, "Intersection of Biography and History: My Intellectual Journey," from Maid in America. Jean-Robert Cadet, from Restavec: From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American. Joel Dreyfuss, "The Invisible Immigrants: Haitians in America Are Industrious, Upwardly Mobile and Vastly Misunderstood." Ben Hamper, from Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line. Case Study Nancy Boyd-Franklin, "Therapy with African American Inner-City Families" Questions for Further Study Invited Commentary Nocona Pewewardy Unit 2: Assessing clients with attention to race Editors' Introduction Unit Readings Maxine Clair, "The Creation," from Rattlebone. Patricia Williams, "The Death of the Profane (A commentary of the genre of legal writing)" from The Alchemy of Race and Rights. Esmeralda Santiago, "The American Invasion of Macun," from When I Was Puerto Rican. Wilma (Pearl) Mankiller, "Child of the Sixties," from Mankiller. Case Study James Wahlberg, "Personal Growth and Self-Esteem through Cultural Spiritualism: A Native American Experience" Questions for Further Study Invited Commentary Deb Ortega Unit 3: Reframing client issues in aging and ability Editors' Introduction Unit Readings Temple Grandin, "Learning Empathy: Emotion and Autism," from Thinking in Pictures and Other Reports from My Life with Autism. Nancy Mairs, "Freeing Choices" from Waist High in the World. Leonard Kriegel, "Falling into Life" in Falling into life: essays by Leonard Kriegel. Leslie Marmon Silko, "Lullaby" in Storyteller. Case Study Jeanne Matich-Maroney, "On Being Different: Sophie's Story" Questions for Further Study Invited Commentary Ona Bregman Unit 4: Building interventions in cases where gender or sexuality is at issue Editors' Introduction Unit Readings Gloria Anzaldua, "Movimientos de rebeldia y las culturas que traicionan," from Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. Shanlon Wu, "In Search of Bruce Lee's Grave" Shani Mootoo, "Out on Main Street" Karl Woelz, "Cartography" Case Study Ona Bregman, "Three Women" Questions for Further Study Invited Commentary Colleen Reed Unit 5: Accessing resources for persons affected by relocation and dislocation Editors' Introduction Unit Readings Carter Revard, "History, Myth, and Identity amoung Osages and other Peoples," from Family Matters, Tribal Affairs. Stevan M. Weine, "The Experience of the Bosnian Refugees," from When History is a Nightmare: Lives and Memories of Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Michael Yellow Bird, "The continuing effects of American colonialism upon First Nations Peoples." Sheida Bates, "The End of the Muddy Garden." Case Study Noreen Mokuau and Barbara Pua Iuli, "Nalani Ethel C.: Social Work with a Hawaiian Woman and Her Family." Questions for Further Study Invited Commentary Uma A. Segal Social Institutions and Diversity Unit 6: Negotiating multiple systems on behalf of children and families Editors' Introduction Unit Readings Bharati Mukherjee, "Fathering," from The Middleman and Other Stories. Louise Erdrich, "American Horse" Vicki Sears, "Grace," from Simple Songs: Stories Gloria Steinem, "Ruth's Song (because she could not sing it)" Case Study Elizabeth Kenny and Kathleen Belanger, "Tanya" Questions for Further Study Invited Commentary Vanessa Hodges Unit 7: Invoking our Code of Ethics for clients in the criminal justice system Editors' Introduction Unit Readings Ray Young Bear, "Black Eagle Child Quarterly," from Black Eagle Child: The Facepaint Narratives. Ellis Cose, "Introduction," from The Darden Dilemma: Twelve Black Writers on Justice, Race, and Conflicting Loyalties. Leon Pettiway, ed. "Margaret," from Workin' It: Women Living Through Drugs and Crime. Luis J. Rodriguez, from Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. Case Study Patricia O'Brien, "Shirley: Navigating the way home from prison" Questions for Further Study Invited Commentary Diane Young Unit 8: Using our social work knowledge base to help clients attain health Editors' Introduction Unit Readings Mary Crow Dog, with Richard Erdoes, "Sioux and Elephants Never Forget," from Lakota Woman. Frederick and Stephen Barthelme, "Thrall" from Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss. Ann Fadiman, from The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures. Carol Anne Douglas, "The Madwoman of 'Off Our Backs'" from Restricted Access: Lesbians on Disability. Case Study Lisa and Carolyn Banta, "Lupus: An Elusive Connective Tissue Disease" Questions for Further Study Invited Commentary Gwat Yong-Lie Unit 9: Advocating on behalf of clients in poverty Editors' Introduction Unit Readings Lars Eighner, "On Dumpster Diving," from Travels with Lizbeth. Gregory Howard Williams, "Learning How to be Niggers," from Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy who Discovered He Was Black. Eric Schlosser, "Behind the…
American Literature, 1997