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Web Feminism, Theory and Practice: Negotiating the Academy with VG/Voices from the Gaps
» Posted on February 20, 2008 02:22 PM. Link
During the last two years, the four of us have been involved in the maintenance, redesign, update, and expansion of VG/Voices from the Gaps, a University of Minnesota website devoted to student writing on the lives and work of women writers and artists of color. This process has demanded that we theorize the website, as well, as we have come to realize that VG presents both potential and pitfalls to women, as artists and scholars, negotiating the academy...
Posted by LaurenCurtright
The Liminal Space of Desire in the Poetry of Alma Luz Villanueva Cesar A. González-T.
» Posted on February 14, 2008 06:00 PM. Link
Posted by LaurenCurtright
Deals With the Devil, and Other Reasons to Riot by Pearl Cleage
» Posted on February 14, 2008 05:55 PM. Link
Deals With the Devil, and Other Reasons to Riot is a collection of essays that attempts to educate, empower, and motivate the reader; at the same time, this collection appears to have been written as a sort of catharsis for author Pearl Cleage. Cleage’s writing is intimate, personal, and oftentimes justifiably angry.
Posted by LaurenCurtright
Coal to Diamonds from the Garden of Anne Spencer
» Posted on February 14, 2008 01:43 PM. Link
Posted by SaraCohen
Restless Wave by Ayako Ishigaki
» Posted on April 12, 2006 02:29 PM. Link
Ishigaki explores the multiple sets of worlds Haru simultaneously inhabits: Japan and the United States, tradition and modernity, men's and women's experiences, upper and working class and Japanese America and White America. As one of the very first English novels written by a Japanese woman, Restless Wave is a testament to the "restless metamorphosis of women" (RW afterword).
Posted by SaraCohen
New Updates in Bios
Morrison, Toni
» Posted on March 4, 2008 02:18 PM. Link
Posted by DieterBohn
Nafisi, Azar
» Posted on February 28, 2008 02:23 PM. Link
Posted by LaurenCurtright
Menchu Tum, Rigoberta
» Posted on February 27, 2008 01:48 PM. Link
Posted by DieterBohn
Markandaya, Kamala
» Posted on February 14, 2008 01:16 PM. Link
Posted by LaurenCurtright
Abu-Jaber, Diana
» Posted on July 6, 2007 02:47 PM. Link
The characters lives and experiences demonstrate their displacement, spiritual homelessness, and the hardships of adjustment to a new society.
Posted by DieterBohn
Behnke, Laura
» Posted on February 26, 2008 02:20 PM. Link
Laura Behnke is a 1998 graduate from Eagan High School. She contributed the page on Joy Kogawa in collaboration with Alicia Davis, Mandy Kuzma, and Mary Luebbers as an assignment for their University of Minnesota College in the Schools Course,...
Posted by qual0055
Pardo, Renata
» Posted on October 30, 2007 04:22 PM. Link
Renata Pardo is an English major at the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities. Upon graduation, she plans to join the Peace Corps and to work for social justice. She contributed to the Pearl Cleage page in 2006....
Posted by LaurenCurtright
Falor, Jenny
» Posted on October 30, 2007 04:17 PM. Link
Jenny Falor is a student at the University of Minnesota, with a double major in Psychology and Spanish. She is planning on graduating in Spring 2008. She worked with a group of fellow students on the Pearl Cleage page....
Posted by LaurenCurtright
Weber, Jenny
» Posted on July 26, 2007 09:49 AM. Link
Jenny Weber is a senior from Delafield, Wisconsin studying English at the University of Minnesota. Currently, she hosts the morning show on Radio K and interns with the music booking department at the Fine Line Music Café in downtown Minneapolis....
Posted by LaurenCurtright
Smith, Sammarie
» Posted on July 26, 2007 09:48 AM. Link
Sammarie Smith is a fourth year student from Robbinsdale, Minnesota studying English at the University of Minnesota. She writes poetry and hopes to work with a publishing company after graduating in spring 2008....
Posted by LaurenCurtright
Markandaya, Kamala
» Posted on February 14, 2008 01:09 PM. Link
Kamala Markandaya -- permission pending....
Posted by LaurenCurtright
Markandaya, Kamala
» Posted on February 14, 2008 01:09 PM. Link
Kamala Markandaya -- permission pending....
Posted by LaurenCurtright
Nafisi, Azar
» Posted on February 12, 2008 01:19 PM. Link
Photo of Azar Nafisi -- permission pending....
Posted by LaurenCurtright
Mordecai, Pamela
» Posted on July 10, 2007 01:53 PM. Link
Used by the kind permission of Pamela Mordecai....
Posted by DieterBohn
Menchu Tum, Rigoberta
» Posted on July 6, 2007 02:06 PM. Link
Menchu Tum, Rigoberta- permission pending...
Posted by DieterBohn
New Updates in Blog
What's so interesting about 'romance of color'?
» Posted on March 6, 2008 01:40 PM. Link
Romance novels—particularly those by women of color—are not just stereotyped tales about supermodel women and well-built men. At least, not always. According to Bowdoin English Professor Guy Mark Foster, these books can explore interesting issues of race, class, and ethnicity,...
Posted by qual0055
Educators and Parents: Find Children's Book Resources on VG
» Posted on February 29, 2008 01:57 PM. Link
Voices from the Gaps is not just about books for adults. We also have information for those who want to teach, or read, children’s literature written by women of color. Where to look? There are a number of children's-book reviews...
Posted by qual0055
Readers Can Vote for ‘Best of the Booker’
» Posted on February 21, 2008 02:31 PM. Link
To celebrate the Booker Prize’s 40th anniversary, you are invited to choose your favorite novel in a “Best of the Booker” competition. Nominees include all past Booker winners, including Indian novelist Arundahati Roy, who took the prize in 1997 for...
Posted by qual0055
Abu-Jaber at Spokane's 'Get Lit!'
» Posted on February 6, 2008 02:29 PM. Link
The Northwest's main festival for writers and readers is set for April 16-19 in Spokane, Wash. It promises to feature author presentations and readings, writing workshops and panels, author visits to schools throughout the region, youth poetry slams, and more....
Posted by MashaZavialova
Nominees for first-ever ‘Arabic Booker’ include Lebanon’s May Menassa
» Posted on February 6, 2008 01:45 PM. Link
Six authors from Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt are on the shortlist as finalists for the first-ever International Prize for Arabic Fiction. Each of the finalists receives $10,000; the winner gets an additional $50,000. The shortlisted books were chosen from...
Posted by MashaZavialova
ENGL 3350 Women Writers – Voices from the Gap
» Posted on March 24, 2006 11:45 AM. Link
ENGL 3350 Women Writers – Voices from the Gaps, Instructor: Rachel Mordecai
Posted by jacob
Final Projects
» Posted on March 24, 2006 11:45 AM. Link
Posted by DieterBohn
Some Ideas for Using VG in Literature and Composition Classrooms
» Posted on March 24, 2006 11:45 AM. Link
If you teach a course that is not solely devoted to women writers of color, or if you are a teaching assistant and have no say on the compiling of the syllabus and a reading list you can still use the Voices from the Gaps website and give your students assignments compatible with the VG project that will allow them to have their work published.
Posted by DieterBohn
Not Just Junk on the Web
» Posted on March 24, 2006 11:45 AM. Link
As our curriculum at all levels and in all its aspects becomes increasingly, and apparently inexorably, engaged with the internet, the need for study of the benefits and risks of those engagements to students becomes more pressing.
Posted by DieterBohn
Negotiating Boundaries in Research on Native American Authors
» Posted on March 24, 2006 11:45 AM. Link
In the spring of 2002, when I was a fourth year undergraduate at the University of Minnesota in Cultural Anthropology, I was asked by Professor Miller of American Indian Studies and American Studies to contribute to a growing online resource called Voices from the Gaps. This Web site about women writers of color in North America was originally designed to fill the gaps in contemporary literary discourse. It serves as a resource of biographical and bibliographical information and as a forum for critical thought on the works of women authors who fall into the category “minority” or “of color.”
Posted by DieterBohn
Reconstruction of voice: Hmong and Lao Writers
» Posted on March 24, 2006 11:45 AM. Link
SPEAKEASY recently had a chance to interview several young Hmong and Lao writers and artists recently to discuss their work and its relationship to their community as many Hmong and Lao rebuild their lives in the United States: Pacyinz Lyfoung is a Twin Cities community activist, Hmong poet and dancer. Kou Vang is a Milwaukee, WI-based Hmong visual artist. Soudary Kttivong Greenbaum is a Laotian community activist and writer in Illinois. May Lee is a Hmong spoken word artist and writer based in Saint Paul. A-Yia Thoj is a Hmong writer and actor living in the Twin Cities.
Posted by DieterBohn
Chang, Victoria
» Posted on March 24, 2006 11:45 AM. Link
Her first book of poetry, Circle, won the Crab Orchard Review Award Series in Poetry and will be published by Southern Illinois University Press in April 2005. Her poems have appeared in or are forthcoming in journals such as The Nation, Poetry, Threepenny Review, Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Slate, New England Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and North American Review.
Posted by DieterBohn
Pai, Shin Yu
» Posted on March 24, 2006 11:45 AM. Link
Shin Yu Pai was born in Decatur, Illinois and grew up in Riverside, California. The child of Taiwanese immigrants, language and story-telling have always been central to her experience.
Posted by DieterBohn
Lee, Sherry Quan
» Posted on March 24, 2006 11:45 AM. Link
Minnesota teacher and writer Sherry Quan Lee has been an eclectic and significant figure in the Asian American writers scene in the Midwest, and has worked with many of the writers here at different stages in their careers. She had volunteered her time with a number of Asian American writing groups and arts movements, including Asian American Renaissance, which printed her popular book, Chinese Blackbird. She is part of the distinctive Split Rock Arts Program at the College of Continuing Education at the University of Minnesota (www.cce.umn.edu/splitrockarts/) and continues to be active in the community. Asian American Press caught up with her recently to discuss her work.
Posted by DieterBohn
Lee, Karen An-hwei
» Posted on March 24, 2006 11:45 AM. Link
Karen An-hwei Lee lives and teaches on the West Coast. A regular contributor to literary journals, she has completed several novellas and poetry collections. Her work has won numerous university awards, fellowships, and residencies, including a fellowship from the Yoshiko Uchida Foundation. She holds an M.F.A. in creative writing and a Ph.D. in literature. Sarabande Books recently released her collection, In Media Res, "an investigation into how God hides in language," and an "etude on blindness and enlightenment." Asian American Press caught up with her recently to discuss her work.
Posted by DieterBohn
Ai Powerpoint Presentation
» Posted on March 24, 2006 11:45 AM. Link
Presented by Tara Smith on November 29, 2005. Features Ai's biography and criticism as well as discussion questions.
Posted by George
Coming Soon
» Posted on March 24, 2006 11:45 AM. Link
Coming soon: video interviews with Rita Dove and Jessica Hagedorn....
Posted by DieterBohn
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