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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in College Literature.daily12026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 30, no. 1 (2003) through current issueLatest Articles: College LiteratureTWOProject MUSE®College Literature1542-42860093-3139Latest articles in College Literature. Feed provided by Project MUSE®“Anyone can Fly”: The Flying African Myth and the Afterlives of Slavery in Children’s Literature
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981250
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The motif of flight has occupied a central position in the Black American literary tradition since its inception. Consider, for example, Frederick Douglass’s apostrophe to the ships in the Chesapeake Bay as recorded in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass:You are loosed from your moorings, and are free; I am fast in my chains, and am a slave! You move merrily before the gentle gale, and I sadly before the bloody whip! You are freedom’s swift-winged angels, that fly round the world; I am confined in bands of iron! O that I were free! O, that I were on one of your gallant decks, and under your protecting wing! Alas! betwixt me and you, the turbid waters roll. Go on, go on. O that I could also go! Could I but
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/215/image/coversmall“Anyone can Fly”: The Flying African Myth and the Afterlives of Slavery in Children’s Literature2026-01-26text/htmlen-US“Anyone can Fly”: The Flying African Myth and the Afterlives of Slavery in Children’s Literature2026-01-262026TWOProject MUSE®1147062026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-01-26Formal Plasticity: Wholeness and Novel Form
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981248
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Panoramas, world exhibitions, grand tours, railways, telegrams, department stores, Greenwich mean time, surveys like Mayhew’s London Labour and the London Poor, and the crowd scenes of William Powell Frith—all pay tribute to the persistent challenge and temptation to place the part in relation to the whole over the course of the nineteenth century. We might well see the novels of Charles Dickens as exemplary of this impulse too. While the tiniest of corners and the poorest of chimney sweeps are gradually brought into connection with the most impressive of bosoms, patriarchs, or fortunes by means of an inevitable mutual friend, Dickens’s novels also point to forms greater, grander, and far more myriad in variety
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/215/image/coversmallFormal Plasticity: Wholeness and Novel Form2026-01-26text/htmlen-USFormal Plasticity: Wholeness and Novel Form2026-01-262026TWOProject MUSE®1284892026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-01-26“Colonial Voices in the Postcolonial Classroom: A Case for Teaching Isak Dinesen’s Out of Africa”
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981249
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. . . one of the most dangerous books ever written about Africa —In courses dedicated to postcolonial fiction, I have discovered that in order for the power of postcolonial texts to be fully understood by contemporary American students, colonial texts, including those written by the settler class, can play an important role in course design. A nonfiction text that teaches exceptionally well in my upper- level course on postcolonial literature, designed for English majors and first-year graduate students, is Isak Dinesen’s 1937 memoir, Out of Africa. Written in Denmark, Out of Africa reflects back on the seventeen years Karen Blixen lived in British Kenya, between 1914–1931, before embarking on a successful writing
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/215/image/coversmall“Colonial Voices in the Postcolonial Classroom: A Case for Teaching Isak Dinesen’s Out of Africa”2026-01-26text/htmlen-US“Colonial Voices in the Postcolonial Classroom: A Case for Teaching Isak Dinesen’s Out of Africa”2026-01-262026TWOProject MUSE®1034302026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-01-26Langston Hughes’s Old Ghost: Haunting Liberalism in The Chicago Defender
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981247
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How do you like my new character, Old Ghost, in The Chicago Defender? He can go anywhere and haunt anybody?For African American newspapers, the end of World War II was a partial victory wanting a final triumph over the homegrown fascism of Jim Crow. Spurred by James Thompson’s letter to the editor in The Pittsburgh Courier in 1942, the Black press had campaigned for a “Double Victory” (Thompson 1942). Countering reluctance to serve in a segregated military on behalf of a country still dominated by Jim Crow segregation, the Pittsburgh Courier, the Amsterdam News, The Chicago Defender, The Baltimore Afro American, and other Black newspapers published a steady beat of editorials and reporting that linked the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/215/image/coversmallLangston Hughes’s Old Ghost: Haunting Liberalism in The Chicago Defender2026-01-26text/htmlen-USLangston Hughes’s Old Ghost: Haunting Liberalism in The Chicago Defender2026-01-262026TWOProject MUSE®1195632026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-01-26