ICYMI: New & Notable Articles (19 Feb 2024)

Six Poems — Kind of Blue: Variation Two; Definition of Blue; Heartache Ghazal; How to Cry without Tears; Root of My Blues; Emancipation Blues

Lolita Stewart-White

African American Review
Volume 56, Numbers 1-2, Spring/Summer 2023

Free on Project MUSE through 29 Feb 
 

Emotional Resistance to Decolonial Efforts

Katrin Pahl

MLN
Volume 138, Number 3, April 2023

In MLN, Katrin Pahl asks, “What does it take for beneficiaries of racism to move away from emotional resistance to decolonial efforts?”

Free on Project MUSE through 29 Feb 
 

When the Shoe Doesn't Fit: Reading Cinderella as Colonial Children's Literature in the Philippines

Gabriela Lee

Children's Literature Association Quarterly
Volume 48, Number 2, Summer 2023

Explore how the “Cinderella” fairy tale was used as a colonial expansion tool, while simultaneously being adapted to suit a Philippine national identity

New from Gabriela Lee in Children's Literature Association Quarterly

Free on Project MUSE through 29 Feb 
 

Three Poems — Historiography of Injustice; Negotiating Oppression; Manifest Destiny

Deidra Suwanee Dees

African American Review
Volume 56, Numbers 1-2, Spring/Summer 2023

Free on Project MUSE through 29 Feb 
 

Two Poems — Alternate Universe in Which I Am Unfazed by My White High School Classmates; Lazarus

Marcel Ray

African American Review
Volume 56, Numbers 1-2, Spring/Summer 2023

Free on Project MUSE through 29 Feb 
 

Social Robots to Fend Off Loneliness?

Zohar Lederman, Md, Phd and Nancy S. Jecker, Ph.D.

Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal
Volume 33, Number 3, September 2023

As social robots are increasingly deployed to address loneliness, some are pleased with results while others are left disturbed

A new Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal study looks at the implications for public health and the aims of the companies creating these bots 

Free on Project MUSE through 29 Feb 
 

Two Poems — Do We Ever Know (When) We Are Dead?: Prison Diary

Mildred Kiconco Barya

African American Review
Volume 56, Numbers 1-2, Spring/Summer 2023

Free on Project MUSE through 29 Feb 
 

Four Poems — Homage to Alejo Carpentier: Skin; Cuban Triolet; Parable of the Seeds

Orlando Ricardo Menes

African American Review
Volume 56, Numbers 1-2, Spring/Summer 2023

Free on Project MUSE through 29 Feb 
 

The Power of the Dog: Whose Gaze? Reading Savage's Novel, Watching Campion's Film

David Willbern

American Imago
Volume 80, Number 4, Winter 2023

In American Imago, David Willbern compares and critiques The Power of the Dog in its novel form, and its cinematic treatment over 50 years later. Read free on Project MUSE thru Feb 29.