Laurie F Leach
Biographic Data
| ID | 1356463 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laurie F Leach |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laurie F |
| FAMILY NAME | Leach |
| SIGNATURE | LEACH L F |
| AFFILIATIONS | North-West State Technical University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2924-567X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Roots and the trope of the good slaveholder
Despite objections that the Roots miniseries painted all the blacks as good and the whites as bad, or conversely that the addition of sympathetic white characters undermined its critique of slavery and racism, the series frequently employs the trope of the ‘good slave holder.’ This was a feature of abolitionist literature that served to give sympathetic white readers someone to identify with initially while driving home the message that slavery c…
"Explorations of a "Sorry Genre
Andrew Field once called biography a "sorry genre," yet he later praised its "unexplored potential." Field's exploration of the genre includes three books on Vladimir Nabokov, each of which implies a different perspective on the nature, use, and worth of literary biography and dramatizes Field's shifting relationship to his biographical subject
"The Difficult Business of Intimacy"
Public speakers often strive to overcome the barrier erected by the stage or lectern, to gain the acceptance of the audience by making friends with them, to have a conversation with their listeners rather than talking at them. The opening sentence of Virginia Woolf's lecture on modern fiction, Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown, seems to flout that convention by setting her apart from her audience: It seems to me possible, perhaps desirable, that I may b…
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"The Difficult Business of Intimacy"
Public speakers often strive to overcome the barrier erected by the stage or lectern, to gain the acceptance of the audience by making friends with them, to have a conversation with their listeners rather than talking at them. The opening sentence of Virginia Woolf's lecture on modern fiction, Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown, seems to flout that convention by setting her apart from her audience: It seems to me possible, perhaps desirable, that I may b…
"Explorations of a "Sorry Genre
Andrew Field once called biography a "sorry genre," yet he later praised its "unexplored potential." Field's exploration of the genre includes three books on Vladimir Nabokov, each of which implies a different perspective on the nature, use, and worth of literary biography and dramatizes Field's shifting relationship to his biographical subject
Roots and the trope of the good slaveholder
Despite objections that the Roots miniseries painted all the blacks as good and the whites as bad, or conversely that the addition of sympathetic white characters undermined its critique of slavery and racism, the series frequently employs the trope of the ‘good slave holder.’ This was a feature of abolitionist literature that served to give sympathetic white readers someone to identify with initially while driving home the message that slavery c…
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