Focus: Women of Color Publishing — May / June 2008

Women of Color Publishing

Volume 29, Number 4
May-June 2008

Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers.

Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s “Introduction to the Focus: ‘This Instant and This Triumph’”

Alisha Gaines reviews Ernest Hardy’s Blood Beats: Vol. 2 / The Bootleg Joints

Ebony Noelle Golden reviews asha bandele’s The Subtle Art of Breathing: New Poems: 1997–2005

Paulina Hernández reviews INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence’s The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Danielle Evans reviews ed. Michelle Sewell’s Just Like a Girl: A Manifesta!

BrownFemiPower reviews ed. Noemi Martinez’s The MAIZ Chronicles

Kinohi Nishikawa reviews ed. UBUNTU’s Wrong is Not My Name: A Tribute to Survival via June Jordan

Feature: Journeys in Theory

Yevgeniya Traps reviews Geoffrey Hartman’s A Scholar’s Tale: Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe

Robin Truth Goodman reviews Henry A. Giroux’s The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex

Dinda L. Gorlée reviews Marcel Danesi’s The Quest for Meaning: A Guide to Semiotic Theory and Practice

Book Reviews

Daniel Garrett reviews Percival Everett’s The Water Cure

Thomas S. Williams reviews Richard Lange’s Dead Boys

Karín Lesnik-Oberstein reviews Joseph T. Thomas, Jr.’s Poetry’s Playground: The Culture of Contemporary Children’s Poetry

Keya Mitra reviews Haruki Murakami’s After Dark

Angela Ball reviews Cole Swensen’s The Glass Age

Tom Nolan reviews Philip Lambert’s Inside the Music of Brian Wilson: The Songs, Sounds, and Influences of the Beach Boys’ Founding Genius

Jeffrey Allen Tucker reviews Samuel R. Delany’s Dark Reflections

Davis Schneiderman reviews William S. Burroughs’s Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs

Eric Miles Williamson reviews Adria Bernardi’s Openwork

Todd Starkweather reviews ed.Philip F. Deaver’s Scoring from Second: Writers on Baseball

Christian Moraru reviews Paul Maltby’s An Exalted House

Laura Grace Godwin reviews N. Scott Momaday’s Three Plays: The Indolent Boys, Children of the Sun, and The Moon in Two Windows

Leora Lev reviews D. Harlan Wilson’s Dr. Identity, or, Farewell to Plaquedemia

John Ferguson reviews Alain Arias-Misson’s Theatre of Incest

Gary Lain reviews Steve Erickson’s Zeroville

Departments

Page 2—Jeffrey R. Di Leo’s “A Good Reviewer is Hard to Find”

Picketing the Zeitgeist—Jonah Raskin’s “Calls of the Wild: On the Page and on the Screen”

From Our Own—Rob Stephenson reviews Lance Olsen’s Anxious Pleasures: A Novel after Kafka

LineOnLine—Bucolics, Short Trip to the Edge: Where Earth Meets Heaven—A Pilgrimage, After Eden, Oceans Beyond Monotonous Space: Selected Poems of Kitasono Katue, Sheer Fiction, Volumes I-IV, Dark Music, The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish, and A Brahms Card Ballad: Poems Selected for Hungarians