Examines the ways that British filmmaker and installation artist Isaac Julien addresses and refas... more Examines the ways that British filmmaker and installation artist Isaac Julien addresses and refashions African-American culture.
Catalog of an exhibition of contemporary British self-portraits at the Neuberger Museum of Art, P... more Catalog of an exhibition of contemporary British self-portraits at the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York. September - December 2009. Originally published online.
Interrogates key terms British, identity, self-fashioning through an examination of self-portraits (painting, photography, sculpture, film, installation, prints) made between 1967 and 2009.
The Work of Self-Fashioning in the Age of the Selfie.
Catalog essay: Chantal Joffe, Night Self-Po... more The Work of Self-Fashioning in the Age of the Selfie. Catalog essay: Chantal Joffe, Night Self-Portraits.
Examines a group of written and visual texts -- autogenealogies-- whereby the writer Caryl Philli... more Examines a group of written and visual texts -- autogenealogies-- whereby the writer Caryl Phillips and the filmmaker and installation artist Isaac Julien perform acts of self-fashioning by inserting themselves in lineages that extend beyond national boundaries. Criss-crossing Britain and the rest of the world, Phillips and Julien elaborate diasporic perspectives that prompt us to think beyond race, class, nationality, sexuality, and other straitjackets of identity.
ariel: A Review of International English Literature, 2017
In 1979, I started to write because I had something to say. I had no desire to be either famous o... more In 1979, I started to write because I had something to say. I had no desire to be either famous or to become a celebrity. I still have no desire to embrace either fame or celebrity. These are terrible accidents that can destroy the privacy of a writer's life and impair his ability to see clearly. Caryl Phillips, "Preamble" 7-8 This extract from Caryl Phillips' notebooks, which he read at a conference held in his honour in 2006, summarizes some of the major ideas contained in his contribution to this special issue of ARIEL devoted to his wide-ranging body of writing, which includes ten novels, five non-fiction books, and several plays and scripts. Although Phillips' essay in this issue is entitled "Nothing Personal"-a reference to a collaborative book published in the 1960s by writer James Baldwin and his photographer friend Richard Avedon-his piece is eminently personal. It provides indirect yet intimate insight into his status as a writer who seems, in this essay, to be more preoccupied by his artistic integrity than the complex background that has long been his hallmark in the field of postcolonial studies and which comprises his birth in Saint Kitts in the Eastern Caribbean, his early years in the north of England, his residence in the United States, and his interest in his African roots. Phillips' reflections on Baldwin's failure to manage his own celebrity in America following the civil rights movement give us access to the former's questions about the changes that have recently marked the publishing world, in which literary fiction is taken less seriously than it was when his first novel, The Final Passage, came out in 1985. Phillips analyses Baldwin's professional choices while never relinquishing respect for the writer who was also a literary father figure to him, and he concludes with a refusal to take part in the "circus" (15) that the literary world has become, join the "self-promoting lap dance" that it entails (15), or, to borrow Baldwin's words, play the "dancing dog" (25). Although some readers might wonder about the relevance of this piece to ARIEL's postcolonial agenda, one should insist that it is written by an author who, by virtue of his origins, experiences, and work, definitely has his place in the postcolonial domain and has most often been read as "diasporic" or "migrant." It is also important to keep in mind that, in
Vitamin D plays a central role in calcium homeostasis; however, its relationship with bone turnov... more Vitamin D plays a central role in calcium homeostasis; however, its relationship with bone turnover during pregnancy remains unclear due to a lack of studies that have rigorously controlled for other nutrients known to influence bone metabolism. Similarly, prior investigations of the effect of pregnancy on bone turnover relative to the nonpregnant state may have been confounded by varying intakes of these nutrients. Nested within a controlled intake study, the present investigation sought to quantify associations between maternal vitamin D biomarkers and biochemical markers of bone turnover among pregnant (versus nonpregnant) women and their fetuses under conditions of equivalent and adequate intakes of vitamin D and related nutrients. Changes in markers of bone turnover across the third trimester were also examined. Healthy pregnant (26-29 wk gestation; n=26) and nonpregnant (n=21) women consumed 511IU vitamin D/d, 1.6g calcium/d, and 1.9g phosphorus/d for 10 weeks while participating in a controlled feeding study featuring two choline doses. Based on linear mixed models adjusted for influential covariates (e.g., BMI, ethnicity, and season), pregnant women had 50-150% higher (P<0.001) concentrations of bone resorption markers than nonpregnant women. Among pregnant women, increases in maternal 25(OH)D across the study period were associated (P<0.
Are postcolonial studies obsolete? Is the "postcolonial," legacy of decolonization and ... more Are postcolonial studies obsolete? Is the "postcolonial," legacy of decolonization and of the anti-war and anti-imperialist movements of the midand late-twentieth century, a dead letter in the current climate? It might appear that the "postcolonial," residue of an earlier moment, has been left behind in a critical turn toward notions of globalization that follow, them? selves, in the wake of the political and cultural globalization with which the twenty-first century is preoccupied.l Yet, as the books reviewed in this essay demonstrate, terms such as "postcolonial" or "postcoloniality" are still generative, capable of provoking us to think in fruitful ways about literature and culture and, for that matter, about politics and economics as well. David
... This comparative narrative mode im-plies an audience unfamiliar with Australia and, therefore... more ... This comparative narrative mode im-plies an audience unfamiliar with Australia and, therefore, ... In the earlier novel, Harpers Ferry represents both a lost or prehistoric maternal realm ... it as a &quot;lonely, dark, dread, endlessly solitary, inhuman place,&quot; a Gothic topos populated by ...
A man, unhappy with his gender, decided to have a sex change operation. After the operation, his ... more A man, unhappy with his gender, decided to have a sex change operation. After the operation, his friends asked him, "When they implanted breasts, did it hurt?" "No," he replied. "How about when they cut off your balls and your penis?" "No, that didn't hurt either." "Well, was any part of the operation painful?" "The only thing that hurt was when they cut my pay in half." Secretaries' Day joke, told by two female secretaries in an academic department to a female associate professor.'
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 2004
... “Nationalisms and National Identities,” special issue of Feminist Review, no. 44. First citat... more ... “Nationalisms and National Identities,” special issue of Feminist Review, no. 44. First citation in article. Yelin, Louise. 1998. From the Margins of Empire: Christina Stead, Doris Lessing, Nadine Gordimer. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. First citation in article. ———. In press. ...
... In 1940, The Man Who Loved Children is reviewed, for the most part favorably, in both the gen... more ... In 1940, The Man Who Loved Children is reviewed, for the most part favorably, in both the general and left-wing press.&amp;#x27; The reviewers, unable to assimilate the novel to the standards of the literary culture they inhabit, treat it as a grand anomaly, a literary lusus naturae or work of ...
... film Ten Minutes to Live (1932), the poetry of Bruce Nugent, a page from the short-lived arts... more ... film Ten Minutes to Live (1932), the poetry of Bruce Nugent, a page from the short-lived arts magazine Fire, archival ... He thereby realizes his lifelong desire to make a work [ ] about the oscillation effect of people who move from one space ... View all references; In Two Worlds25 ...
I appreciate your questions, and the criticism they carry. It must be rare for someone who writes... more I appreciate your questions, and the criticism they carry. It must be rare for someone who writes a political book (English in America: A Radical View of the Profession) to have a chance to discuss its argument and reception with those who share its aims, and whose criticism comes out of comradeship and struggle rather than the wish to score debating points or advance a career or defend a position. I'll try to reply in the same spirit.
ariel: A Review of International English Literature
This essay considers Phillips' biographical writingsessays, novels, and hybrid texts. Setting the... more This essay considers Phillips' biographical writingsessays, novels, and hybrid texts. Setting these works in the context of Phillips' lifelong conversation with modernism, the essay argues that Phillips adapts and extends Virginia Woolf 's modernist notion of "new biography" by writing about migrant subjects, exemplars of the African diaspora, whose lives and life stories are haunted by the legacies of slavery, colonialism, and their aftermaths.
Examines the ways that British filmmaker and installation artist Isaac Julien addresses and refas... more Examines the ways that British filmmaker and installation artist Isaac Julien addresses and refashions African-American culture.
Catalog of an exhibition of contemporary British self-portraits at the Neuberger Museum of Art, P... more Catalog of an exhibition of contemporary British self-portraits at the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York. September - December 2009. Originally published online.
Interrogates key terms British, identity, self-fashioning through an examination of self-portraits (painting, photography, sculpture, film, installation, prints) made between 1967 and 2009.
The Work of Self-Fashioning in the Age of the Selfie.
Catalog essay: Chantal Joffe, Night Self-Po... more The Work of Self-Fashioning in the Age of the Selfie. Catalog essay: Chantal Joffe, Night Self-Portraits.
Examines a group of written and visual texts -- autogenealogies-- whereby the writer Caryl Philli... more Examines a group of written and visual texts -- autogenealogies-- whereby the writer Caryl Phillips and the filmmaker and installation artist Isaac Julien perform acts of self-fashioning by inserting themselves in lineages that extend beyond national boundaries. Criss-crossing Britain and the rest of the world, Phillips and Julien elaborate diasporic perspectives that prompt us to think beyond race, class, nationality, sexuality, and other straitjackets of identity.
ariel: A Review of International English Literature, 2017
In 1979, I started to write because I had something to say. I had no desire to be either famous o... more In 1979, I started to write because I had something to say. I had no desire to be either famous or to become a celebrity. I still have no desire to embrace either fame or celebrity. These are terrible accidents that can destroy the privacy of a writer's life and impair his ability to see clearly. Caryl Phillips, "Preamble" 7-8 This extract from Caryl Phillips' notebooks, which he read at a conference held in his honour in 2006, summarizes some of the major ideas contained in his contribution to this special issue of ARIEL devoted to his wide-ranging body of writing, which includes ten novels, five non-fiction books, and several plays and scripts. Although Phillips' essay in this issue is entitled "Nothing Personal"-a reference to a collaborative book published in the 1960s by writer James Baldwin and his photographer friend Richard Avedon-his piece is eminently personal. It provides indirect yet intimate insight into his status as a writer who seems, in this essay, to be more preoccupied by his artistic integrity than the complex background that has long been his hallmark in the field of postcolonial studies and which comprises his birth in Saint Kitts in the Eastern Caribbean, his early years in the north of England, his residence in the United States, and his interest in his African roots. Phillips' reflections on Baldwin's failure to manage his own celebrity in America following the civil rights movement give us access to the former's questions about the changes that have recently marked the publishing world, in which literary fiction is taken less seriously than it was when his first novel, The Final Passage, came out in 1985. Phillips analyses Baldwin's professional choices while never relinquishing respect for the writer who was also a literary father figure to him, and he concludes with a refusal to take part in the "circus" (15) that the literary world has become, join the "self-promoting lap dance" that it entails (15), or, to borrow Baldwin's words, play the "dancing dog" (25). Although some readers might wonder about the relevance of this piece to ARIEL's postcolonial agenda, one should insist that it is written by an author who, by virtue of his origins, experiences, and work, definitely has his place in the postcolonial domain and has most often been read as "diasporic" or "migrant." It is also important to keep in mind that, in
Vitamin D plays a central role in calcium homeostasis; however, its relationship with bone turnov... more Vitamin D plays a central role in calcium homeostasis; however, its relationship with bone turnover during pregnancy remains unclear due to a lack of studies that have rigorously controlled for other nutrients known to influence bone metabolism. Similarly, prior investigations of the effect of pregnancy on bone turnover relative to the nonpregnant state may have been confounded by varying intakes of these nutrients. Nested within a controlled intake study, the present investigation sought to quantify associations between maternal vitamin D biomarkers and biochemical markers of bone turnover among pregnant (versus nonpregnant) women and their fetuses under conditions of equivalent and adequate intakes of vitamin D and related nutrients. Changes in markers of bone turnover across the third trimester were also examined. Healthy pregnant (26-29 wk gestation; n=26) and nonpregnant (n=21) women consumed 511IU vitamin D/d, 1.6g calcium/d, and 1.9g phosphorus/d for 10 weeks while participating in a controlled feeding study featuring two choline doses. Based on linear mixed models adjusted for influential covariates (e.g., BMI, ethnicity, and season), pregnant women had 50-150% higher (P<0.001) concentrations of bone resorption markers than nonpregnant women. Among pregnant women, increases in maternal 25(OH)D across the study period were associated (P<0.
Are postcolonial studies obsolete? Is the "postcolonial," legacy of decolonization and ... more Are postcolonial studies obsolete? Is the "postcolonial," legacy of decolonization and of the anti-war and anti-imperialist movements of the midand late-twentieth century, a dead letter in the current climate? It might appear that the "postcolonial," residue of an earlier moment, has been left behind in a critical turn toward notions of globalization that follow, them? selves, in the wake of the political and cultural globalization with which the twenty-first century is preoccupied.l Yet, as the books reviewed in this essay demonstrate, terms such as "postcolonial" or "postcoloniality" are still generative, capable of provoking us to think in fruitful ways about literature and culture and, for that matter, about politics and economics as well. David
... This comparative narrative mode im-plies an audience unfamiliar with Australia and, therefore... more ... This comparative narrative mode im-plies an audience unfamiliar with Australia and, therefore, ... In the earlier novel, Harpers Ferry represents both a lost or prehistoric maternal realm ... it as a &quot;lonely, dark, dread, endlessly solitary, inhuman place,&quot; a Gothic topos populated by ...
A man, unhappy with his gender, decided to have a sex change operation. After the operation, his ... more A man, unhappy with his gender, decided to have a sex change operation. After the operation, his friends asked him, "When they implanted breasts, did it hurt?" "No," he replied. "How about when they cut off your balls and your penis?" "No, that didn't hurt either." "Well, was any part of the operation painful?" "The only thing that hurt was when they cut my pay in half." Secretaries' Day joke, told by two female secretaries in an academic department to a female associate professor.'
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 2004
... “Nationalisms and National Identities,” special issue of Feminist Review, no. 44. First citat... more ... “Nationalisms and National Identities,” special issue of Feminist Review, no. 44. First citation in article. Yelin, Louise. 1998. From the Margins of Empire: Christina Stead, Doris Lessing, Nadine Gordimer. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. First citation in article. ———. In press. ...
... In 1940, The Man Who Loved Children is reviewed, for the most part favorably, in both the gen... more ... In 1940, The Man Who Loved Children is reviewed, for the most part favorably, in both the general and left-wing press.&amp;#x27; The reviewers, unable to assimilate the novel to the standards of the literary culture they inhabit, treat it as a grand anomaly, a literary lusus naturae or work of ...
... film Ten Minutes to Live (1932), the poetry of Bruce Nugent, a page from the short-lived arts... more ... film Ten Minutes to Live (1932), the poetry of Bruce Nugent, a page from the short-lived arts magazine Fire, archival ... He thereby realizes his lifelong desire to make a work [ ] about the oscillation effect of people who move from one space ... View all references; In Two Worlds25 ...
I appreciate your questions, and the criticism they carry. It must be rare for someone who writes... more I appreciate your questions, and the criticism they carry. It must be rare for someone who writes a political book (English in America: A Radical View of the Profession) to have a chance to discuss its argument and reception with those who share its aims, and whose criticism comes out of comradeship and struggle rather than the wish to score debating points or advance a career or defend a position. I'll try to reply in the same spirit.
ariel: A Review of International English Literature
This essay considers Phillips' biographical writingsessays, novels, and hybrid texts. Setting the... more This essay considers Phillips' biographical writingsessays, novels, and hybrid texts. Setting these works in the context of Phillips' lifelong conversation with modernism, the essay argues that Phillips adapts and extends Virginia Woolf 's modernist notion of "new biography" by writing about migrant subjects, exemplars of the African diaspora, whose lives and life stories are haunted by the legacies of slavery, colonialism, and their aftermaths.
This article was conceived as an elaboration of a question I have asked myself repeatedly during ... more This article was conceived as an elaboration of a question I have asked myself repeatedly during the past academic year: What does a Marxist theory of literature and culture have to offer the teacher of Basic Writing? I have realized that this question could not have been asked in the same way ten years ago. It is, in fact, a question with a very recent history, and to pose it as I have done assumes something that needs to be stated: its relationship with the historical period in which it arises. The question encompasses and links two of the many responses of academe and academics to the political and social movements of the 1960s and 1970s: Basic Writing, which entered the university curriculum as a result of open admissions, and the renewal both of Marxist scholarship and of interest in Marxist theory in the humanities and social sciences. Marxism will have little to offer us teachers of Basic Writing if it is treated merely as another academic subject, or as a separable division ...
... Communities of women: An idea in fiction. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: ... VOLUME/EDITION: P... more ... Communities of women: An idea in fiction. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: ... VOLUME/EDITION: PAGES (INTRO/BODY): 222 p. SUBJECT(S): English fiction; Women in literature; American fiction; History and criticism; 19th century. DISCIPLINE: No discipline assigned. ...
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Interrogates key terms British, identity, self-fashioning through an examination of self-portraits (painting, photography, sculpture, film, installation, prints) made between 1967 and 2009.
papers by Louise Yelin
Catalog essay: Chantal Joffe, Night Self-Portraits.
Interrogates key terms British, identity, self-fashioning through an examination of self-portraits (painting, photography, sculpture, film, installation, prints) made between 1967 and 2009.
Catalog essay: Chantal Joffe, Night Self-Portraits.