ABSTRACT:Stories of how American novelist Willa Cather recalled and burned her letters in order to preserve her privacy are cited widely in biography and criticism. This essay argues that these stories (and related stories about the destruction of letters by Cather's partner and literary executor, Edith Lewis) have been exaggerated well beyond the modest facts. While some letters were destroyed, neither Cather nor Lewis made a systematic practice of recalling and destroying letters, yet claims that they did have shaped the way scholars understand Cather's experience of her lesbian sexuality. Cather's extant epistolary archive has turned out to be far more substantial than such stories led scholars to believe. The example of Cather suggests that scholars need to recognize the dynamic nature of preservation and collecting and consider the specific forces and interested parties shaping access to the traces of particular women's legacies.
{"title":"Willa Cather's Letters in the Archive","authors":"Melissa J. Homestead","doi":"10.1353/TSW.2021.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/TSW.2021.0010","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Stories of how American novelist Willa Cather recalled and burned her letters in order to preserve her privacy are cited widely in biography and criticism. This essay argues that these stories (and related stories about the destruction of letters by Cather's partner and literary executor, Edith Lewis) have been exaggerated well beyond the modest facts. While some letters were destroyed, neither Cather nor Lewis made a systematic practice of recalling and destroying letters, yet claims that they did have shaped the way scholars understand Cather's experience of her lesbian sexuality. Cather's extant epistolary archive has turned out to be far more substantial than such stories led scholars to believe. The example of Cather suggests that scholars need to recognize the dynamic nature of preservation and collecting and consider the specific forces and interested parties shaping access to the traces of particular women's legacies.","PeriodicalId":43417,"journal":{"name":"TULSA STUDIES IN WOMENS LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/TSW.2021.0010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47394786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Women and Archives","authors":"L. Engel, E. Rutter","doi":"10.1353/TSW.2021.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/TSW.2021.0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43417,"journal":{"name":"TULSA STUDIES IN WOMENS LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/TSW.2021.0006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43955940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Becoming Willa Cather: Creation and Career by Daryl W. Palmer (review)","authors":"C. Kephart","doi":"10.1353/TSW.2021.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/TSW.2021.0018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43417,"journal":{"name":"TULSA STUDIES IN WOMENS LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/TSW.2021.0018","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48498505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ukrainian Women Writers and the National Imaginary: From the Collapse of the USSR to the Euromaidan by Oleksandra Wallo (review)","authors":"T. Dzyadevych","doi":"10.1353/TSW.2021.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/TSW.2021.0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43417,"journal":{"name":"TULSA STUDIES IN WOMENS LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/TSW.2021.0001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47189559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT:This essay interrogates and expands conventional views of the archive by considering how subjects who write themselves engage in processes of archival thinking and practices of curation in autobiographical discourse. It tracks features of alternative archives of the self in life writing through six microstudies that engage different concerns in autobiographical texts by women in recent centuries. The issues explored are affective archives of feelings and impressions; archives for rewriting the past; the imaginary archives of possible selves; digital archives of embodiment and desire; archives in global circulation; and archival remediation. The conclusion poses questions for those developing theoretical frameworks and methodologies to interpret the archival imaginary in the lives women inscribe and the afterlives they acquire. This article looks to expand methodologies in the field of archival studies that do not sufficiently attended to the status of the evidentiary in autobiographical materials and the archival imaginary mobilized in some autobiographical acts and practices and their afterlives.
{"title":"Alternative, Imaginary, and Affective Archives of the Self in Women's Life Writing","authors":"Sidonie Smith, J. Watson","doi":"10.1353/TSW.2021.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/TSW.2021.0007","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This essay interrogates and expands conventional views of the archive by considering how subjects who write themselves engage in processes of archival thinking and practices of curation in autobiographical discourse. It tracks features of alternative archives of the self in life writing through six microstudies that engage different concerns in autobiographical texts by women in recent centuries. The issues explored are affective archives of feelings and impressions; archives for rewriting the past; the imaginary archives of possible selves; digital archives of embodiment and desire; archives in global circulation; and archival remediation. The conclusion poses questions for those developing theoretical frameworks and methodologies to interpret the archival imaginary in the lives women inscribe and the afterlives they acquire. This article looks to expand methodologies in the field of archival studies that do not sufficiently attended to the status of the evidentiary in autobiographical materials and the archival imaginary mobilized in some autobiographical acts and practices and their afterlives.","PeriodicalId":43417,"journal":{"name":"TULSA STUDIES IN WOMENS LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/TSW.2021.0007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46064857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Women of Valor: Orthodox Jewish Troll Fighters, Crime Writers, and Rock Stars in Contemporary Literature and Culture by Karen E. H. Skinazi (review)","authors":"Susan K. Thomas","doi":"10.1353/TSW.2021.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/TSW.2021.0003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43417,"journal":{"name":"TULSA STUDIES IN WOMENS LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/TSW.2021.0003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44262167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"The rights and privileges all people should enjoy\": Reflections on Archival Collaboration and Black Women's Epistolary Resistance","authors":"E. Rutter, Derrick C. Jones","doi":"10.1353/TSW.2021.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/TSW.2021.0014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43417,"journal":{"name":"TULSA STUDIES IN WOMENS LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/TSW.2021.0014","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45362712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Archival Relations: Women and Regional Theater in the Kathleen Barker Archive","authors":"Fiona Ritchie","doi":"10.1353/TSW.2021.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/TSW.2021.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43417,"journal":{"name":"TULSA STUDIES IN WOMENS LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/TSW.2021.0012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48198271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT:This article reads the now-classic feminist anthology This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women of Color (1981) in the context of the archival materials surrounding its production, reception, and post-publication circulation. The archived papers of the anthology's editors and advisors, including Gloria Anzaldúa and Audre Lorde, as well as the files of its original publisher, Persephone Press, reveal dimensions of the anthology beyond the published book: from the affective labor involved in its development and editing to its re-organizations and re-embodiments in staged performances. The anthology's attempts to create freedom for movement and the ways in which an archival approach illuminates these attempts are epitomized by a script preserved both in the records of Persephone Press and in Anzaldúa's papers, which the essay considers in detail in its final section. Responding to calls for new narratives of feminist writing and history, this essay reads This Bridge Called My Back as a dynamic work, both the result of movement and an impetus to new forms of movement.
{"title":"\"An archive of accounts\": This Bridge Called My Back in Feminist Movement","authors":"Meredith Benjamin","doi":"10.1353/TSW.2021.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/TSW.2021.0008","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article reads the now-classic feminist anthology This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women of Color (1981) in the context of the archival materials surrounding its production, reception, and post-publication circulation. The archived papers of the anthology's editors and advisors, including Gloria Anzaldúa and Audre Lorde, as well as the files of its original publisher, Persephone Press, reveal dimensions of the anthology beyond the published book: from the affective labor involved in its development and editing to its re-organizations and re-embodiments in staged performances. The anthology's attempts to create freedom for movement and the ways in which an archival approach illuminates these attempts are epitomized by a script preserved both in the records of Persephone Press and in Anzaldúa's papers, which the essay considers in detail in its final section. Responding to calls for new narratives of feminist writing and history, this essay reads This Bridge Called My Back as a dynamic work, both the result of movement and an impetus to new forms of movement.","PeriodicalId":43417,"journal":{"name":"TULSA STUDIES IN WOMENS LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/TSW.2021.0008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47799209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Writing the Survivor: The Rape Novel in Late Twentieth-Century American Fiction by Robin E. Field (review)","authors":"Jerrica Jordan","doi":"10.1353/TSW.2021.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/TSW.2021.0002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43417,"journal":{"name":"TULSA STUDIES IN WOMENS LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/TSW.2021.0002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41497191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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