Project MUSE®: Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature.daily12026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 26 (2007) through current issueLatest Articles: Tulsa Studies in Women's LiteratureTWOProject MUSE®Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature1936-16450732-7730Latest articles in Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Embodied Relationality and Healing in Women’s Life Writing: Amy Liptrot’s The Outrun and Tamsin Calidas’s I Am an Island
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989124
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Amy Liptrot’s The Outrun and Tamsin Calidas’s I Am an Island are two instances of life writing that represent the authors’ attempts to heal from psychic wounds, and both accomplish their healing process through an embodied relationship with self and nature.1 As the feminist critic Rosi Braidotti argues, “a new [literary] trend seems to be emerging that emphasizes the situated, specific, embodied nature of the feminist subject, while rejecting biological or psychic essentialism. This is a new kind of female embodied materialism.”2 This trend challenges the idea of the individual as a separate, self-contained entity, emphasizing that our existence is inherently embodied and therefore always already interconnected
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/373/image/coversmallEmbodied Relationality and Healing in Women’s Life Writing: Amy Liptrot’s The Outrun and Tamsin Calidas’s I Am an Island2026-05-06text/htmlen-USEmbodied Relationality and Healing in Women’s Life Writing: Amy Liptrot’s The Outrun and Tamsin Calidas’s I Am an Island2026-05-062026TWOProject MUSE®952322026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-05-06Feminist Scholarly Editing: A Provocation
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989125
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Textual criticism is currently enjoying an unexpected renaissance. Perhaps because of the book-history turn in literary studies, the field of bibliography has recently been rejuvenated with the development of new feminist and queer bibliographical methods and the emergence of such major initiatives as the Black Bibliography Project. Under the emerging umbrella of “critical bibliography,” a new generation of scholars in literary studies is acquiring training and investment in a field that had been moribund.1The field of scholarly editing, bibliography’s counterpart in textual criticism, however, has been slower to advance. Changes in technology necessitate that we update the standard practices of scholarly editing
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/373/image/coversmallFeminist Scholarly Editing: A Provocation2026-05-06text/htmlen-USFeminist Scholarly Editing: A Provocation2026-05-062026TWOProject MUSE®1067082026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-05-06Epistemic Encroachment as a Form of Resistance in Life Writing: Exploring Iranian Women’s Travel Journals from the Qajar Era (1789–1925)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989126
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Among the various insights that can be gained through the study of life writing by marginalized and oppressed groups, a focus on resistance has particular benefits. When marginalized groups, for instance, women, engage in the practice of life writing, then it becomes an epistemic form of resistance that allows the author to participate in collective knowledge production and cultural memory. Various scholars have written on the function of life writing as a form of resistance for the oppressed and the marginalized, particularly for women of color and those under repressive regimes.1 Most prominently, the autobiographical writings of Black women and formerly enslaved people have been studied by a number of scholars
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/373/image/coversmallEpistemic Encroachment as a Form of Resistance in Life Writing: Exploring Iranian Women’s Travel Journals from the Qajar Era (1789–1925)2026-05-06text/htmlen-USEpistemic Encroachment as a Form of Resistance in Life Writing: Exploring Iranian Women’s Travel Journals from the Qajar Era (1789–1925)2026-05-062026TWOProject MUSE®831072026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-05-06Bordering on Development: Redefining the Bildungsroman in Late-Twentieth-Century Women’s Transnational American Literature
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989127
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Revisiting canonical ethnic American women’s bildungsromans of the late twentieth century surfaces the cultural labor this literature performed in charting a space for diverse women’s coming-of-age in the “American” imagination and offers a lens into potential effects of the transnational turn on genre studies. Unlike the androcentric European bildungsroman, Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy,1 Esmeralda Santiago’s When I Was Puerto Rican,2 and Julia Alvarez’s How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents3 are not anchored in the forward movement from childhood to the accession of young adulthood within a social context that “assumes the possibility of individual achievement and social integration,” and in contrast to foundational
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/373/image/coversmallBordering on Development: Redefining the Bildungsroman in Late-Twentieth-Century Women’s Transnational American Literature2026-05-06text/htmlen-USBordering on Development: Redefining the Bildungsroman in Late-Twentieth-Century Women’s Transnational American Literature2026-05-062026TWOProject MUSE®931372026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-05-06Houseplants, Roots, and Air: Surviving an Environment of Rascism and Cultivating Joy in Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989128
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Gwendolyn Brooks opens her 1953 novella Maud Martha with an enthusiastic description of nature; Maud Martha admires “the west sky, so altering, viewed from the steps of the back porch; and dandelions,” and she adores “China asters or the Japanese Iris, or meadow lilies . . . because the very word meadow made her breathe more deeply, and . . . fling her arms . . . rapturously up to whatever was watching in the sky.”1 This introductory scene immediately immerses Brooks’s protagonist in nature. The open sky is a relief from the confines of the city, and merely imagining a meadow brings Maud joy and fills her lungs with refreshing breath. Nature and floral imagery also appear in Brooks’s collections of poetry
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/373/image/coversmallHouseplants, Roots, and Air: Surviving an Environment of Rascism and Cultivating Joy in Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha2026-05-06text/htmlen-USHouseplants, Roots, and Air: Surviving an Environment of Rascism and Cultivating Joy in Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha2026-05-062026TWOProject MUSE®725272026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-05-06Beyond Binary Boundaries: The Relocation of Home and Community in Stella Benson’s Travel Writing and Diaries in China
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989129
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Stella Benson (1892–1933), a British novelist, suffragist, and travel writer, expresses her ideas concerning imperial occupation and cultural affinity in a transnational context: “There are three ways of occupying an alien place— first, to absorb, second, to be absorbed, third, neither to absorb nor to be absorbed.”1 Benson’s thought transcends a binary approach to the political, economic, and cultural relations between the “occupier” and the “occupied.”2 She also points to the spatial practices of occupation of or involvement in an “alien place” and the different contemporary aesthetic choices for representing that land. For British female expatriates in particular, she considers how gender impacts the experience
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/373/image/coversmallBeyond Binary Boundaries: The Relocation of Home and Community in Stella Benson’s Travel Writing and Diaries in China2026-05-06text/htmlen-USBeyond Binary Boundaries: The Relocation of Home and Community in Stella Benson’s Travel Writing and Diaries in China2026-05-062026TWOProject MUSE®1107472026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-05-06From the Editor
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989131
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It’s been a very busy fall semester in the offices of Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, and I want to begin this preface by expressing my gratitude to my staff, who keep us running in times of institutional and national turmoil: Book Review Editor Abby Rush, Publicity Manager Oliver Dong, Subscriptions Manager Yuhyeoi Kim, and Editorial Intern Elham Alizadeh Ilkhanladar. My heartfelt thanks also to Carol Kealiher, our Managing Editor, without whom nothing would be possible. I’m so grateful to my team for their hard work and dedication to the journal’s mission and goals.With this issue, we bid farewell to board members Robin Hackett, Cynthia Richards, and Mary Youssef. I am deeply thankful for their service to
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/373/image/coversmallFrom the Editor2026-05-06text/htmlen-USFrom the Editor2026-05-062026TWOProject MUSE®54612026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-05-06The Motherhood Aesthetic in Contemporary Black American Plays ed. by La Tanya L. Reese Rogers and Tanya E. Walker (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989132
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Like literary critics as early as Aristotle and Sir Philip Sidney, the editors of this book, La Tanya L. Reese Rogers and Tanya E. Walker, examine plays that are admired and praised with notably esteemed awards and prizes.1 Then, like other literary critics before them, they distinguish the “organizing principle”—“the theoretical principle”—shared by all the plays. In their digital publication, The Motherhood Aesthetic in Contemporary Black American Plays, Rogers and Walker strive to deduce a theoretical principle, based solely on literature already created. Their finding is “a motherhood aesthetic” that frames understanding, appreciation, and evaluation of five contemporary plays by black women writers: The Mojo
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/373/image/coversmallThe Motherhood Aesthetic in Contemporary Black American Plays ed. by La Tanya L. Reese Rogers and Tanya E. Walker (review)2026-05-06text/htmlen-USThe Motherhood Aesthetic in Contemporary Black American Plays ed. by La Tanya L. Reese Rogers and Tanya E. Walker (review)2026-05-062026TWOProject MUSE®174012026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-05-06How the Earth Feels: Geological Fantasy in the Nineteenth-Century United States by Dana Luciano (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989133
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In the nineteenth-century, expanded notions of time and evolutionary theory raised many questions across the United States. People became more invested in how the earth affects humans; how do we interact with and perceive our planetary home? Dana Luciano attempts to historicize this query in How the Earth Feels: Geological Fantasy in the Nineteenth-Century United States. She introduces a brief history of geology, named the “fashionable science of the day” in 1834 by “Knickerbocker,” an “influential New York based literary magazine” (2).1 That science includes stratigraphy, the study of the layers of the earth as they reveal temporal stories and create a fossil record that depicts a more expanded notion of history.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/373/image/coversmallHow the Earth Feels: Geological Fantasy in the Nineteenth-Century United States by Dana Luciano (review)2026-05-06text/htmlen-USHow the Earth Feels: Geological Fantasy in the Nineteenth-Century United States by Dana Luciano (review)2026-05-062026TWOProject MUSE®120702026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-05-06Novels, Needleworks, and Empire: Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World by Chloe Wigston Smith (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989134
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A hand at work. . . .A hand at work is the implicit image, metaphor, and physicality that shapes Chloe Wigston Smith’s remarkable and innovative study, Novels, Needleworks, and Empire: Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. Wigston Smith draws our attention to needles and to pens, to needleworks and texts, as they are produced in and circulate throughout the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. A hand at work fashions material and textual objects, but such objects are never merely domestic arts. They are instead objects that reflect and refract the exigencies, complexities, and contradictions of domesticity and empire in Britain and early America.Novels, Needleworks, and Empire is a book
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/373/image/coversmallNovels, Needleworks, and Empire: Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World by Chloe Wigston Smith (review)2026-05-06text/htmlen-USNovels, Needleworks, and Empire: Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World by Chloe Wigston Smith (review)2026-05-062026TWOProject MUSE®160082026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-05-06Season to Taste: Rewriting Kitchen Space in Contemporary Women’s Food Memoirs by Caroline J. Smith (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989135
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Season to Taste: Rewriting Kitchen Space in Contemporary Women’s Food Memoirs, written by Caroline J. Smith, is a culinary journey that goes beyond the kitchen, offering a rich and thought-provoking examination of the role of food in the lives of American women across different eras. From the outset, it is clear that Season to Taste is not a superficial exploration of food writing; it offers a deep dive into the intersections of gender, race, and societal norms within the context of the American kitchen. This book explores the intersection of private/home/feminine and public/work/masculine through the lens of food memoirs, accompanied by recipes from early-twenty-first century women (4). By offering a detailed
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/373/image/coversmallSeason to Taste: Rewriting Kitchen Space in Contemporary Women’s Food Memoirs by Caroline J. Smith (review)2026-05-06text/htmlen-USSeason to Taste: Rewriting Kitchen Space in Contemporary Women’s Food Memoirs by Caroline J. Smith (review)2026-05-062026TWOProject MUSE®144212026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-05-06