Following the Voice of the Draft

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Foreword xiii
5. Self/Discipline: An Introduction 1
6. Language and Literature
7. Finding the Right Word: Self-Inclusion and Self-Inscription 41
8. Gender Tragedies: East Texas Cockfighting and Hamlet 68
9. Three Readings of the Wife of Bath 85
10. Listening to the Images: My Sightless Insights into Yeats’s Plays 96
11. Activist Academic: Memoir of an Ethnic Lit Professor 114
12. Following the Voice of the Draft 129
13. Notes of a Native Daughter: Reflections on Identity and Writing 138
14. History
15. Tribute to Robert D. Marcus 159
16. Journey/man: Hi/s/tory 161
17. Religion
18. From God of the Oppresse 189
19. Philosophy
20. Beyond Holocaust Theology: Extending a Hand across the Abyss 205
21. Maternal Thinking 216
22. Africana Studies
23. Altered States 233
24. Art History
25. History of an Encounter 257
26. Music
27. Devouring Music: Ruminations of a ComposerWho Cooks 265
28. Film
29. When the Body Is Your Own: Feminist Film Criticism and the Horror Genre 281
30. Filming Point of View 292
31. Anthropology
32. From The Broken Cord 311
33. Juban Ameríca 331
34. Close Encounters with a csa: The Reflections of a Bruised and Somewhat Wiser Anthropologist 349
35. Law
36. The Death of the Profane (a commentary on the genre of legal writing) 365
37. English Education
38. My Father/My Censor: English Education, Politics, and Status 375
39. Research Psychology
40. Adventures of aWoman in Science 397
41. Biology
42. Through the Looking Glass: A Feminist’s Life in Biology 417
43. Medicine
44. That Disorder: An Introduction 435
45. A Textbook Pregnancy 444
46. Math, Psychology, and Science Education
47. Personal Thinking 455
48. Selected Bibliography 467
49. Contributors 483