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EAPSU Online: a Journal of Critical and Creative Work EAPSU Online: A Journal of Critical and Creative Work Published by the English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities Volume 1, Fall 2004 1 EDITOR Kim Martin Long Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania PRODUCTION EDITOR Carla T. Kungl Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania EDITORIAL BOARD William Boggs Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania Ken Gilliam Southern Indiana University Michael Mejia Berry College, Georgia Dawn Vernooy-Epp Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania Shannon K. Wooden Southern Indiana University OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION Kim Martin Long, President Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania Darlyn Fink, Vice-President Clarion University of Pennsylvania William C. Harris, Secretary Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania Carl Seiple, Treasurer Kutztown University of Pennsylvania Kevin Stemmler, Past-President Clarion University of Pennsylvania William Yahner, Conference California University of Pennsylvania Chair, 2004 © Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, 2004 2 EAPSU Online: A Journal of Critical and Creative Work Table of Contents Volume 1 Introduction 1 Kim Martin Long, Editor Notes on Contributors 4 Essays, Stories, and Poems Rehistoricizing the Past Through Film: Considering the Possibilities of Haile Gerima’s Sankofa (theory and pedagogy) 7 Danette DiMarco Dr. Molly Feelgood; or, How I Can’t Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Rubyfruit Jungle W. C. Harris 19 We Don’t Shake the Angel (Fiction) Amy Promodrou 38 From Reviews to Ethnographies of Restaurants: The Culture of Food in the Writing and Literature Class (Pedagogy) Rita Colanzi 47 Shopping at K and Vincent’s Crows (Poems) Martha Wickelhaus 86 Critiquing the Bourgeois Family: Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies Cami Nelson Hewett 89 3 On Becoming a Renaissance Geek: Designing a Senior Seminar in Travel and Exploration Writing as an Arts and Sciences Sendoff for English Majors (Pedagogy) S. Dev Hathaway 114 A Message in a Bottle (Fiction) Christopher Kelen 123 The Poet Disarming Himself: Chaucer’s “Tale of Sir Thopas” and the Death of the Author Elyssa Warkentin 135 Reading Mandelstam’s “In St. Petersburg We’ll Meet Again” and Last Will (Poems) Danielle Jones 153 Contemporary Epic Novels: Walcott, Merwin, Carson and the Birth of a “New” Genre Antony Adolf 155 A Tangle of Snakes: Confronting White Racism in Douglasʹs Canʹt Quit You, Baby Lynn Pifer 172 EAPSU ONLINE publication and subscription information 181 4 EAPSU Online: A Journal of Critical and Creative Work The English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities was established in 1980 when a group of English faculty from several of the state universities in Pennsylvania met at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (then Indiana College), desiring to create some kind of network of like-minded individuals. Their goals were many, including political, artistic, and social affiliations. Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education is a loose organization of 14 universities in the state, who share a common Chancellor and Board of Governors but not much else. These organizers of EAPSU (then called EAPSCU, since not all of the colleges in the System were yet universities) sought to forge an alliance, a professional association devoted to both faculty and students. In fact, membership in the association is automatic for all PASSHE faculty and English majors, annual dues being paid by the English departments. EAPSU began holding its annual conference the next year, 1981, at Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania. The archives show that nearly 100 faculty and students attended, paying the $5.00 conference registration fee. Since 1981 EAPSU has held an annual conference each year, growing steadily in numbers and attracting presenters and participants from an increasingly larger region. Attendance and participation is not limited to Pennsylvania state faculty; we have had presenters from as far away as the west coast. Students also present their work at the fall conference, and this has been both a strength and a weakness of the organization. In 1997, Michael Bibby at Shippensburg University, organized the first undergraduate student conference, recognizing the need and desire of undergraduate English majors to become more acquainted with the professional responsibilities of the field. With poet Li Young Li as the guest speaker, the conference was a great success, and now EAPSU co-sponsors an annual spring conference for English majors. Part of EAPSU’s tradition has been to publish the annual Proceedings of the conference, and for many years this was done in hard copy (to the great expense of the hosting institutions). Although we moved to electronic/digital media a few years ago, members of EAPSU repeatedly brought up the issue of publishing some kind of peer-reviewed journal. Since EAPSU operates on a shoestring 5 (annual dues bring in only $1400), this endeavor has only been a dream until now. 2004 marks the first year that EAPSU will publish an online peer-reviewed journal. Committing to making this work, the association has put together its first issue, which is a collection of critical essays (both on literature and pedagogy) and some creative work (short stories and poems). We send the “call” to the organization but also to the CFP at University of Pennsylvania. We, therefore, received a fairly large number of submissions from as far away as California. Each essay, story, or poem appearing in this first issue underwent a blind review process of at least two readers (many, three). As the editor, I sent the essays out to faculty across the System as well as contacts at other institutions outside of Pennsylvania. In some cases, if I could not find a scholar in a certain area with the system, I sought authors of similar articles (content specialists) whom I did not know, and asked them to serve as reviewers. I personally thank the many individuals who helped us to get this first issue off the ground by reviewing essays for us. A special thanks to my many helpful colleagues in the English department here at Shippensburg, who served as third readers in a few cases on very short notice. Our acceptance rate has come out to approximately 1 in 4 (25%) acceptance rate. We trust that as the journal grows, we will have more submissions and that the quality of our work will continue to increase. I trust, however, that you will enjoy the work presented here, which covers a variety of subjects. You will find essays of literary theory, criticism, and pedagogy, as well as essays that suggest new approaches for the writing classroom, and a sprinkling of creative writing keeps things interesting. In short, this issue represents EAPSU well: we are creative teacher/scholars. Although the journal is not limited to the work by members of the English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities, this issue does contain the same variety and quality that characterizes our English departments across Pennsylvania. What will you find here in EAPSU ONLINE? We lead off the issue with an excellent essay by Danette diMarco on using the film Sankofa to explore postcolonialt theories of submission and subversion. W. C. Harris’s important essay on Rita Mae Brown’s novel Rubyfruit Jungle questions its place in the gay and lesbian literary canon. Cyprus writer Amy Promodrou’s story “We Don’t Shake the Angel” will ____, and then Rita Colanzi’s essay on using restaurant 6 reviews in the writing class should inspire some delicious creativity in the classroom. Two haunting poems by Martha Wickelhaus preceed Cami Nelson Hewett’s essay on Julia Alverez’s The Time of Butterflies. Lynn Pifer’s essay on Ellen Douglas’s Cant’ Quit you, Baby and racism is followed by Christopher (Kit) Kelen’s story, “A Message in a Bottle.” Elyssa Warkentin’s essay on Chaucer takes a 21st century look at a Middle English tale, and two poems by Danielle Jones will encourage repeat reading. This first issue ends with a teacher-to- teacher account of a senior seminar experience with travel writing by Dev Hathaway and a packed theoretical discussion of the “new” genre of the epic contemporary novel by Antony Adolph. ** Thank you to all of you who submitted your work for this issue, and thank you to all of you who reviewed it. It has been my pleasure to put this together. Kim Martin Long, Editor and EAPSU President Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania 7 Contributors Antony Adolf has held numerous positions at scholarly and creative journals, including Safundi, Event and Mindfire Renewed since receiving his B.A. in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago and his M.A., also in English, from the University of British Columbia. His work has appeared in journals and books throughout North America and Europe, and he has lectured widely on literary, philosophic and linguistic topics on both continents. His current research interests include literary multilingualisms and the politics of language as well as gnostic approaches to cognition. Rita M. Colanzi teaches in the English department of West Chester University and is currently editing an interdisciplinary reader and rhetoric on food and culture. Included among her conference presentations are a study of the rhetoric of food in Augustine’s Confessions and, for the upcoming 2004 MLA Convention, an analysis of how the language of food in Langston Hughes’s poetry serves as a medium for interrogating and reimaging the American Dream. Also at the 2004 MLA Convention, she will deliver a paper in which she examines both apprentice plays and master works by Tennessee Williams in light of John-Paul Sartre’s and Simone de Beauvoirʹs conflicting views on freedom. She has published on Williams’s drama in the Journal of Modern Literature and in Modern Drama and is working on a book manuscript in which she reads Williams’s plays within the context of Sartre’s and de Beauvoir’s philosophies. Danette DiMarco is an Associate Professor of English at Slippery Rock University.
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