Outward Evil Inward Battle: Human Memory in Literature

The Editors

The Editors: Dr. Benjamin Hart Fishkin in his research has emphasized Nineteenth Century British Literature through each phase of his education. Prior to earning his Doctorate from the University of Alabama in May of 2009, he obtained a BA in English and Film from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and an MA from Miami University, Oxford, OH where he examined the interest of Charles Dickens in the theatre and how the stage influenced his novel writing. He has published The Undependable Bonds of Blood: The Unanticipated Problems of Parenthood in The Novels of Henry James. His recent research interest now include amongst other things the problems of marriage and the American family, and the relationship between the Blues and the single parent home in the works of William Faulkner, August Wilson, and F. Scot Fitzgerald. Professor Fishkin joined Tuskegee University in the Fall of 2009. Before taking up his position at Tuskegee University, Professor Fishkin was a Junior Fellow in The Blount Undergraduate Initiative at the University of Alabama. He has won several distinguished awards, amongst which, the Buford Boone Memorial Fellowship, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Scholarship Award and the George Mills Harper Graduate Student Travel Award. Dr. Adaku T. Ankumah received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. With a minor in drama, her dissertation and initial research interests focused on revolutionary playwrights from the African Diaspora, writers like Kenyan Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Martiniquais writer Aimé Césaire, and African American Amiri Baraka, who use their creative efforts to work for the destruction of what they consider to be the colonial/capitalist foundation of post-colonial Africa. Ngugi’s play The Trial of Dedan Kimathi, a play that examines the arrest and trial of one of the famous leaders of the Mau Mau revolt against the British in Kenya in the 1950’s, has been the subject of her published research. She has also done research on the role of women in revolutionary theatre, voicelessness of African women, and gender and politics in the works of African women authors like Mariama Bâ, Ama Ata Aidoo and Tsitsi Dangarembga. Dr. Ankumah’s recent research interest includes the writings of women in the African Diaspora. This includes the present research on memory in literature and its role in helping those dealing with painful, fragmented pasts forge a wholesome future in Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker. She is also looking at memory and resistance in the poetry of South African performer and writer Gcina Mhlophe. Dr. Festus Fru Ndeh is an Associate Professor of Theoretical and Multicultural literature at Troy University, Troy, AL. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany. His research interest is in linguistic and Cultural theories, postcolonial literature, and transatlantic discourse and globalization studies. Dr. Bill F. Ndi earned his Doctorate from the University of CergyPontoise in 2001. He joined Tuskegee University in the fall of 2011. His areas of teaching and Research comprise among others English Languages and literatures, French, Professional, Technical and Creative Writing, World Literatures, Applied/Historical Linguistics, Literary History, Media and Communication Studies, Peace/Quaker Studies and Conflict Resolution, History of Internationalism, History of Ideas and Mentalities, Translation & Translatology, 17th Century and Contemporary Cultural Studies. He has published numerous articles and book chapters in these areas. Professor Bill F. Ndi has also published 9 volumes of poetry in English, 3 in French, a play and 3 works in translation. Amongst Professor Ndi’s peer reviewed publications could be mentioned the following: Edward Coxere’s Adventures by Sea, (2012), Letters of Elizabeth Hooton, The First Woman Preacher, (2011), Thomas Lurting’s The Fighting Sailor Turn’d Peaceable Christian, (2009) (Annotated French Translations); “Names, an Envelope of Destiny in the Grassfields of Cameron” and “Extending educational boundaries” in Kumar, Pattanayak, Johnson – Framing My Name, (2010); Venuti, L. (ed.), The Translation Studies Reader (New York: Routledge, 2004. pp. vii, 541) in Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, April 2008, Vol. 31, No. 1: Pages 11.1-11.4, « Discours de la vengeance dans les journaux confessionnels Quakers » in Marillaud, P & Gauthier R. La Vengeance et ses discours, «La première contestation de l’esclavage», (A Translation) Paris, Présence Africaine,« Quakerisme Originel et Milieu Maritime », in Augeron & Tranchant La Violence et la Mer dans l’Espace Atlantique (XIIe - XIXe ), « Littérature des Quakers et Clinique de l'Âme » in Arts Littéraires, Arts Cliniques...