J Brooks Bouson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1053157 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Brooks Bouson |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Brooks |
| FAMILY NAME | Bouson |
| SIGNATURE | BOUSON J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Glimpses of a Failed Marriage: Autobiographical Scenes of Shame and Revenge in Jamaica Kincaid’s See Now Then
At a time when literary scholars have begun to investigate the connection between shame and the act of narration, Jamaica Kincaid’s 2013 novel See Now Then provides fascinating insights into the complex processes involved in writing about shameful matters. See Now Then offers an account of the rupture in Kincaid’s life caused by her divorce, and it describes her attempt as a memoirist and novelist to deal with her shame as she tells the story of …
In Search of Annie Drew: Jamaica Kincaid's Mother and Muse by Daryl Cumber Dance
Reviewed by: In Search of Annie Drew: Jamaica Kincaid’s Mother and Muse by Daryl Cumber Dance J. Brooks Bouson Daryl Cumber Dance. In Search of Annie Drew: Jamaica Kincaid’s Mother and Muse. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2016. 246 pp. $29.50. An author who has said that everything in her writing is autobiographical down to the punctuation but who also insists that what she writes is a combination of fact and fiction, Jamaica Kincaid is well k…
A “joke-filled romp” through end times: Radical environmentalism, deep ecology, and human extinction in Margaret Atwood’s eco-apocalyptic MaddAddam trilogy
Canadian writer Margaret Atwood has spent years thinking and writing about the existential threat humanity now confronts in an era of an exponential growth in the global human population, accelerating environmental and habitat destruction, mass extinctions of plant and animal species, and ever-worsening ecological degradation. Like her 2003 novel Oryx and Crake, which Atwood describes as a “joke-filled romp through the end of the human race”, her…
We’re Using Up the Earth. It’s Almost Gone”: A Return to the Post-Apocalyptic Future in Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood
Margaret Atwood reflects in her 2009 novel The Year of the Flood, as she does in her 2003 novel Oryx and Crake, not only on feminist but also on humanist and posthumanist concerns, as she questions the very survival of humankind in an era of environmental destruction, excessive consumption, unregulated biotechnological experiments and pandemic viruses. Offering a strident critique of the contemporary culture of unbridled consumption, Atwood, in Y…
Margaret Atwood: The Robber Bride, The Blind Assassin, Oryx and Crake
This is a collection of original essays by well-known Atwood scholars offering contemporary critical readings and assessments of three well known Atwood texts. In this critical collection, well-known Atwood scholars offer original readings and critical re-evaluations of three Atwood masterpieces - "The Robber Bride", "The Blind Assassin", and "Oryx and Crake". Providing new critical assessments of Atwood's novels in language that is both lively a…
Embodied Shame: Uncovering Female Shame in Contemporary Women's Writings
Embodied Shame: Uncovering Female Shame in Contemporary Women’s Writings
Jamaica Kincaid: Writing Memory, Writing Back to the Mother
It’s Game Over Forever”: Atwood’s Satiric Vision of a Bioengineered Posthuman Future in Oryx and Crake
Life Prints: A Memoir of Healing and Discovery (review)
Reviewed by: Life Prints: A Memoir of Healing and Discovery J. Brooks Bouson (bio) Mary Grimley Mason . Life Prints: A Memoir of Healing and Discovery. New York: Feminist Press at CUNY, 2000. 224 pp. ISBN 1-55861-237-8, $19.95. "I am a disabled person, but until I was a child of four when I contracted polio in 1932, I was not disabled. I think some part of my mind always remained able-bodied and functioned as an observer, creating a double consci…
Quiet as It's Kept: Shame, Trauma, and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison
The Empathic Reader: A Study of the Narcissistic Character and the Drama of the Self
A “joke-filled romp” through end times: Radical environmentalism, deep ecology, and human extinction in Margaret Atwood’s eco-apocalyptic MaddAddam trilogy
Canadian writer Margaret Atwood has spent years thinking and writing about the existential threat humanity now confronts in an era of an exponential growth in the global human population, accelerating environmental and habitat destruction, mass extinctions of plant and animal species, and ever-worsening ecological degradation. Like her 2003 novel Oryx and Crake, which Atwood describes as a “joke-filled romp through the end of the human race”, her…
We’re Using Up the Earth. It’s Almost Gone”: A Return to the Post-Apocalyptic Future in Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood
Margaret Atwood reflects in her 2009 novel The Year of the Flood, as she does in her 2003 novel Oryx and Crake, not only on feminist but also on humanist and posthumanist concerns, as she questions the very survival of humankind in an era of environmental destruction, excessive consumption, unregulated biotechnological experiments and pandemic viruses. Offering a strident critique of the contemporary culture of unbridled consumption, Atwood, in Y…
It’s Game Over Forever”: Atwood’s Satiric Vision of a Bioengineered Posthuman Future in Oryx and Crake
Embodied Shame: Uncovering Female Shame in Contemporary Women’s Writings
Glimpses of a Failed Marriage: Autobiographical Scenes of Shame and Revenge in Jamaica Kincaid’s See Now Then
At a time when literary scholars have begun to investigate the connection between shame and the act of narration, Jamaica Kincaid’s 2013 novel See Now Then provides fascinating insights into the complex processes involved in writing about shameful matters. See Now Then offers an account of the rupture in Kincaid’s life caused by her divorce, and it describes her attempt as a memoirist and novelist to deal with her shame as she tells the story of …
The Empathic Reader: A Study of the Narcissistic Character and the Drama of the Self
Life Prints: A Memoir of Healing and Discovery (review)
Reviewed by: Life Prints: A Memoir of Healing and Discovery J. Brooks Bouson (bio) Mary Grimley Mason . Life Prints: A Memoir of Healing and Discovery. New York: Feminist Press at CUNY, 2000. 224 pp. ISBN 1-55861-237-8, $19.95. "I am a disabled person, but until I was a child of four when I contracted polio in 1932, I was not disabled. I think some part of my mind always remained able-bodied and functioned as an observer, creating a double consci…
Quiet as It's Kept: Shame, Trauma, and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison
It’s Game Over Forever”: Atwood’s Satiric Vision of a Bioengineered Posthuman Future in Oryx and Crake
Jamaica Kincaid: Writing Memory, Writing Back to the Mother
Margaret Atwood: The Robber Bride, The Blind Assassin, Oryx and Crake
This is a collection of original essays by well-known Atwood scholars offering contemporary critical readings and assessments of three well known Atwood texts. In this critical collection, well-known Atwood scholars offer original readings and critical re-evaluations of three Atwood masterpieces - "The Robber Bride", "The Blind Assassin", and "Oryx and Crake". Providing new critical assessments of Atwood's novels in language that is both lively a…
Embodied Shame: Uncovering Female Shame in Contemporary Women's Writings
Embodied Shame: Uncovering Female Shame in Contemporary Women’s Writings
We’re Using Up the Earth. It’s Almost Gone”: A Return to the Post-Apocalyptic Future in Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood
Margaret Atwood reflects in her 2009 novel The Year of the Flood, as she does in her 2003 novel Oryx and Crake, not only on feminist but also on humanist and posthumanist concerns, as she questions the very survival of humankind in an era of environmental destruction, excessive consumption, unregulated biotechnological experiments and pandemic viruses. Offering a strident critique of the contemporary culture of unbridled consumption, Atwood, in Y…
A “joke-filled romp” through end times: Radical environmentalism, deep ecology, and human extinction in Margaret Atwood’s eco-apocalyptic MaddAddam trilogy
Canadian writer Margaret Atwood has spent years thinking and writing about the existential threat humanity now confronts in an era of an exponential growth in the global human population, accelerating environmental and habitat destruction, mass extinctions of plant and animal species, and ever-worsening ecological degradation. Like her 2003 novel Oryx and Crake, which Atwood describes as a “joke-filled romp through the end of the human race”, her…
Glimpses of a Failed Marriage: Autobiographical Scenes of Shame and Revenge in Jamaica Kincaid’s See Now Then
At a time when literary scholars have begun to investigate the connection between shame and the act of narration, Jamaica Kincaid’s 2013 novel See Now Then provides fascinating insights into the complex processes involved in writing about shameful matters. See Now Then offers an account of the rupture in Kincaid’s life caused by her divorce, and it describes her attempt as a memoirist and novelist to deal with her shame as she tells the story of …
In Search of Annie Drew: Jamaica Kincaid's Mother and Muse by Daryl Cumber Dance
Reviewed by: In Search of Annie Drew: Jamaica Kincaid’s Mother and Muse by Daryl Cumber Dance J. Brooks Bouson Daryl Cumber Dance. In Search of Annie Drew: Jamaica Kincaid’s Mother and Muse. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2016. 246 pp. $29.50. An author who has said that everything in her writing is autobiographical down to the punctuation but who also insists that what she writes is a combination of fact and fiction, Jamaica Kincaid is well k…
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