Nellie Y Mckay
Biographic Data
| ID | 952054 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nellie Y Mckay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nellie Y |
| FAMILY NAME | Mckay |
| SIGNATURE | MCKAY N Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
What moral weight should patient‐led demand have in clinical decisions about assisted reproductive technologies
Evidence suggests that one reason doctors provide certain interventions in assisted reproductive technologies (ART) is because of patient demand. This is particularly the case when it comes to unproven interventions such as ‘add‐ons’ to in vitro fertilisation (IVF) cycles, or providing IVF cycles that are highly unlikely to succeed. Doctors tend to accede to demands for such interventions because patients are willing to do and pay ‘whatever it ta…
Toni Morrison's Beloved
Introduction The Slave Mother: The Tale of the Ohio Margaret Garner and seven others Daughters Signifyin(g) History: The Example of Toni Morrison's Beloved Toni Morrison's Beloved: Re-Membering the Body as Historical Text The Ghosts of Slavery: Historical Recovery in Toni Morrison's Beloved Beloved: Woman, Thy Name is Demon Remodeling the Model Home in Uncle Tom's Cabin and Beloved Between Presence and Absence: Beloved, Postmodernism, and Blackne…
Toni Morrison's Beloved
With the continued expansion of the literary canon, multicultural works of modern literary fiction and autobiography have assumed an increasing importance for students and scholars of American literature. This exciting new series assembles key documents and criticism concerning these works that have so recently become central components of the American literature curriculum. Each casebook will reprint documents relating to the work’s historical c…
Guest Column
We whose names are underwritten, do assure the World, that the poems in the following Page, were (as we verily believe,) written by phillis, a young Negro Girl, who was but a few Years since, brought an uncultivated Barbarian from Africa. [...] She has been examined by some of the best Judges, and is thought qualified to write them. Attestation in Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral The poems written by this young ne…
The Third Door
Ellen Tarry was born in 1906 in Birmingham, Alabama. While attending a Catholic school in Virginia during her teens, she joined the Church. She returned to Alabama to attend college at Alabama State Normal School for Colored in Montgomery and then taught in the Birmingham Public Schools from 1924 to 1926.In pursuit of her dream of becoming a writer, Tarry moved to New York, where she worked for black newspapers and became acquainted with some of …
Inspiriting Influences
Critical Essays on Toni Morrison
Journal Article Critical Essays on Toni Morrison. Ed. Nellie Y. McKay. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1988. viii + 219 pages. $37.50. Get access Critical Essays on Toni Morrison. Ed. Nellie Y. McKay. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1988. viii + 219 pages. $37.50. Gay Wilentz Gay Wilentz East Carolina University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 15, Issue 3, September 1988, Pages 131–133, https://doi.org/10.2307/467508 …
Black Women in the Fiction of James Baldwin . Trudier Harris Black and White Women of the Old South
Claude McKay
Black feminist criticism
Claude McKay
"Response to "The Philosophical Bases of Feminist Literary Criticisms
T IS HARD to be sympathetic with Ellen Messer-Davidow's arguments for a more contextual and theoretically self-reflective kind of literary and cultural studies. The academic study of the humanities that is frequently invoked by current educational conservatives has never really worked effectively, even in the eyes of most earlier traditionalists. The current notion that in the 1960s the academic humanities underwent an abrupt falling away from a …
Portrait of an Expatriate
LeRoy S. Hodges, Jr., has written a lively and informative biography of a Black writer of merit whose works have not enjoyed the wide readership they deserve. Interweaving discussion and criticism of William Gardner Smith's literary work with an account of his life, Hodges provides summaries and critical evaluations of Smith's novels and his nonfiction. He gives us insight into the experience of Black writers who chose to live abroad and looks se…
Jean Toomer, Artist
A Painful Growth Into Selfhood
Black woman professor—White university
Black woman professor—White university
Jean Toomer, Artist
A Painful Growth Into Selfhood
Portrait of an Expatriate
LeRoy S. Hodges, Jr., has written a lively and informative biography of a Black writer of merit whose works have not enjoyed the wide readership they deserve. Interweaving discussion and criticism of William Gardner Smith's literary work with an account of his life, Hodges provides summaries and critical evaluations of Smith's novels and his nonfiction. He gives us insight into the experience of Black writers who chose to live abroad and looks se…
Black feminist criticism
Claude McKay
"Response to "The Philosophical Bases of Feminist Literary Criticisms
T IS HARD to be sympathetic with Ellen Messer-Davidow's arguments for a more contextual and theoretically self-reflective kind of literary and cultural studies. The academic study of the humanities that is frequently invoked by current educational conservatives has never really worked effectively, even in the eyes of most earlier traditionalists. The current notion that in the 1960s the academic humanities underwent an abrupt falling away from a …
Critical Essays on Toni Morrison
Journal Article Critical Essays on Toni Morrison. Ed. Nellie Y. McKay. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1988. viii + 219 pages. $37.50. Get access Critical Essays on Toni Morrison. Ed. Nellie Y. McKay. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1988. viii + 219 pages. $37.50. Gay Wilentz Gay Wilentz East Carolina University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 15, Issue 3, September 1988, Pages 131–133, https://doi.org/10.2307/467508 …
Black Women in the Fiction of James Baldwin . Trudier Harris Black and White Women of the Old South
Claude McKay
Inspiriting Influences
The Third Door
Ellen Tarry was born in 1906 in Birmingham, Alabama. While attending a Catholic school in Virginia during her teens, she joined the Church. She returned to Alabama to attend college at Alabama State Normal School for Colored in Montgomery and then taught in the Birmingham Public Schools from 1924 to 1926.In pursuit of her dream of becoming a writer, Tarry moved to New York, where she worked for black newspapers and became acquainted with some of …
Guest Column
We whose names are underwritten, do assure the World, that the poems in the following Page, were (as we verily believe,) written by phillis, a young Negro Girl, who was but a few Years since, brought an uncultivated Barbarian from Africa. [...] She has been examined by some of the best Judges, and is thought qualified to write them. Attestation in Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral The poems written by this young ne…
Toni Morrison's Beloved
With the continued expansion of the literary canon, multicultural works of modern literary fiction and autobiography have assumed an increasing importance for students and scholars of American literature. This exciting new series assembles key documents and criticism concerning these works that have so recently become central components of the American literature curriculum. Each casebook will reprint documents relating to the work’s historical c…
Toni Morrison's Beloved
Introduction The Slave Mother: The Tale of the Ohio Margaret Garner and seven others Daughters Signifyin(g) History: The Example of Toni Morrison's Beloved Toni Morrison's Beloved: Re-Membering the Body as Historical Text The Ghosts of Slavery: Historical Recovery in Toni Morrison's Beloved Beloved: Woman, Thy Name is Demon Remodeling the Model Home in Uncle Tom's Cabin and Beloved Between Presence and Absence: Beloved, Postmodernism, and Blackne…
What moral weight should patient‐led demand have in clinical decisions about assisted reproductive technologies
Evidence suggests that one reason doctors provide certain interventions in assisted reproductive technologies (ART) is because of patient demand. This is particularly the case when it comes to unproven interventions such as ‘add‐ons’ to in vitro fertilisation (IVF) cycles, or providing IVF cycles that are highly unlikely to succeed. Doctors tend to accede to demands for such interventions because patients are willing to do and pay ‘whatever it ta…
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