Detroit in Literature.” Teaching Space, Place, and Literature

Detroit Literature, Language, and Culture Bibliography of Scholarship, Criticism, and Commentary Updated May 2019

Compiled by Frank D. Rashid and Felicia M. Davis

Abel, Richard. “House Organs and the Detroit Weekly Film News in the 1910s.” Film History: An International Journal 27, no. 3 (2015): 137-59. doi:10.2979/filmhistory.27.3.137.

Abraham, Nabeel and Andrew Shryock, eds. Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2000.

———, Sally Howell, and Andrew Shryock, eds. Arab Detroit 9/11: Life in the Terror Decade. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2011.

Albiez, Sean. “Post-Soul Futurama: African American Cultural Politics and Early Detroit Techno.” European Journal of American Culture 24, no. 2 (2005): 131-52. doi:10.1386/ejac.24.2.131/1.

Ampadu, Lena. “The Message Is in the Melody: An Interview with Dudley Randall.” Callaloo 2, no. 2 (1999): 438-445. doi:10.1353/cal.1999.0063. Also appears in Poetry Criticism. Vol. 86. Detroit: Gale, 2008. Available through the Literature Resource Center.

Anderson, Bridget L. “Dialect Leveling and /ai: Monophthongization among African American Detroiters.” Journal of Sociolinguistics 6, no. 1 (2002): 86-98. doi: 10.1111/1467- 9481.00178.

———. An Acoustic Study of Southeastern Michigan Appalachian and African-American Southern Migrant Vowel Systems, PhD diss., University of Michigan, 2004. ProQuest (DA3106006).

———. “A Quantitative Acoustic Approach to /ai/ Glide-Weakening among Detroit African American and Appalachian White Southern Migrants.” New Perspectives on Language Variety in the South: Historical and Contemporary Approaches. Edited by Michael D. Picone and Catherine Evans Davies. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2015. 536-550.

Anderson, David D. “Michigan Proletarian Writers and the Great Depression.” Midamerica: The Yearbook of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature 9 (1982): 76-97.

Anderson, Mary Elizabeth. “Moving, Writing, Failing: Spatialities of Ambivalence in Detroit's Ruinscapes.” Research in Drama Education 17, no. 2 (2012): 193,208, 309-310. doi: 10.1080/13569783.2012.670422.

———. “Planned Obsolescence? Technologies of Performance Training in Detroit, Michigan.” Australasian Drama Studies 57 (2010): 200-13.

Bibliography of Scholarship, Criticism, and Commentary: Detroit Literature, Language, and Culture Updated May 2019.

Andrews, Clarence A. Michigan in Literature. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1992.

Araújo, Susana. “Joyce Carol Oates Reread: Overview and Interview with the Author.” Critical Survey 18 (2006): 92-105. doi: 10.3167/001115706780586294.

———. “Space, Property and the Psyche: Violent Topographies in Early Oates Novels.” Studies in the Novel 38, no. 4 (2006): 397-413.

Arnow, Harriette S. “Detroit During World War II.” Michigan Quarterly Review 25, no. 2 (1986): 292-295. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.act2080.0025.002:35.

Asna, Robitotul. “Trapped in the In-Betweenness: The Narration Of Gender, Sex, And Sexuality In Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex.” EUFONI 1, no, 2 (1917): 54-67. http://openjournal.unpam.ac.id/index.php/EFN/article/view/1567/1273.

Baldellou Marta, Miquel. “Inheriting Traditional Roles of American Female Growth: From Louisa May Alcott's Little Women to Jeffrey Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides.” New Literatures of Old: Dialogues of Tradition and Innovation in Anglophone Literature. Edited by José Ramón Prado-Pérez and Dídac Llorens Cubedo. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars (2008): 127-35.

Balio, Tino. “Sam Hume at the Detroit Arts and Crafts Theatre.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 53, no. 2 (1967): 135-42. doi: 10.1080/00335636709382825.

Bartha, Csilla. “Social and Linguistic Characteristics of Immigrant Language Shift: The Case of Hungarian in Detroit.” Acta Linguistica Hungarica: An International Journal of Linguistics 4, nos. 3-4 (1995): 405-31.

Bender, Eileen Teper. Joyce Carol Oates: Artist in Residence. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.

Bevilacqua, Winifred Farrant. “‘All of Detroit is Melodrama:’ Joyce Carol Oates's them.” La Città Delle Donne: Immaginario urbano e letteratura del Novecento. Edited by O. Palusci, Turin: Editrice Tirrenia Stampatori, 1992: 123-139.

Blackhawk, Terry and Peter Markus, eds. To Light a Fire: 20 Years with the InsideOut Literary Arts Project. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2015.

Bloom, Harold, Edited by Modern Critical Views: Joyce Carol Oates. New York: Chelsea House, 1987.

———, Edited by Modern Critical Views: Robert Hayden. New York: Chelsea House, 2005.

Detroit Literature, Language, and Culture: Bibliography of Scholarship, Criticism, and Commentary Updated May 2019

Boggs, Diane Patricia. “The History of the Attic Theatre in Detroit, Michigan, 1975-1990.” PhD diss., Wayne State University, 1994 (DA9423691).

Bonaffini, Luigi. “Dialect, Jazz, Polyphony, and the Loom of Language in Giose Rimanelli's Detroit Blues.” Rivista di Studi Italiani 19, no. 1 (2001): 83-98.

Borshuk, Michael. “True Tales and 8 Mile Memoirs: Exploring the Imaginary City of Detroit.” Studies in the Literary Imagination 41, no. 1 (2008): 107-34.

Boyd, Herb. “Black Arts in the Gilded Age.” Chap. 6 in Black Detroit: A People’s History of Self-Determination. New York: Amistad, 2017.

———. “Muses and Music.” Chap. 21 in Black Detroit: A People’s History of Self- Determination. New York: Amistad, 2017.

Boyd, Melba Joyce, director and producer. Black Unicorn: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press. Detroit: 1995. Video documentary, 54 min.

———. “In Memoriam: Ronald Milner,” The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research 34, no. 4 (2004): 35.

———. “Poetry from Detroit’s Black Bottom: The Tension between Belief and Ideology in the Words of Robert Hayden.” Robert Hayden: Essays on the Poetry. Edited by Robert Chrisman and Laurence Goldstein. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001.

———, director. Reading Robert Hayden: Darwin T. Turner Discusses the Poetry of Robert Hayden. Video interview produced by the University of Michigan, Center for African American Studies and Wayne State University, Department of Africana Studies, 2014.

———. “Remembering Dudley Randall.” Against the Current 15, no. 6 (2001). http://www.solidarity-us.org/site18/node/1527.

———. “‘Roses and Revolutions,’ Dudley Randall: Poet, Publisher, Critic and Champion of African American Literature Leaves a Legacy of Immeasurable Value.” The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research 31, no. 1 (2001): 55-57.

———. Roses and Revolutions: The Selected Writings of Dudley Randall. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2009.

———. “The Starlit Poetry of Naomi Long Madgett.” Naomi Long Madgett: 2012 Kresge Eminent Artist. Detroit: The Kresge Foundation, 2012. https://kresge.org/sites/default/files/Naomi_Long_Madgett_Monograph.pdf

Detroit Literature, Language, and Culture: Bibliography of Scholarship, Criticism, and Commentary Updated May 2019

———. “‘The Time of the Whirlwind and the Fire’: Dudley Randall, the Heritage Series and the Broadside Press Connection.” The Heritage Series of Black Poetry, 1962-1975: A Research Compendium. Edited by Lauri Ramey. New York: Routledge, 2016.

———. Wrestling with the Muse: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.

Buckley, Christopher, ed. On the Poetry of Philip Levine: Stranger to Nothing. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991.

Brickey, Russell. “Philip Levine Is an Extreme Visionary: Fist,’ ‘Coming Home, Detroit, 1968,’ and ‘Ask for Nothing.’” Midamerica: The Yearbook of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature 41 (2014): 62-71.

Bruch, Pat, and Richard Marback. “From Athens to Detroit: Civic Space and Learning Writing.” Rhetoric Review 15, no. 1 (1996): 156-73. doi: 10.1080/07350199609359212.

Capec-Habekovik, Romana. Romana Capek-Habekovic (1999) “Autobiography as Pictorial Time / Space in Giose Rimanelli's Novel Detroit Blues.” Italian Culture, 17, no. 2 (1999): 105-120. doi: 10.1179/itc.1999.17.2.105.

Carroll, Rachel. “Retrospective Sex: Rewriting Intersexuality in Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex.” Journal of American Studies 44, no. 1 (2010): 187-201. doi.org/10.1017/S0021875809990831.

Cashman, Holly Rae. “Doing Being Bilingual: Language Maintenance, Language Shift, and Conversational Codeswitching in Southwest Detroit.” PhD diss., University of Michigan, 2001.

———. “Red Social y Bilingüismo (inglés/español) En Detroit, Michigan.” Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana: RILI 1, no. 2 (2003): 59-78.

Chanan, Michael. “Detroit: Ruin of a City, A Reception Diary.” Journal of Media Practice 6, no. 3 (2005): 135-44. doi:10.1386/JMPR.6.3.135/1.

Che, Deborah. “Connecting the Dots to Urban Revitalization with the Heidelberg Project.” Material Culture: Journal of the Pioneer American Society 39, no. 1 (2007): 33-49. http://www.jstor.org/stable/29764376.

Chu, Patricia E. "D(NA) Coding the Ethnic: Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex." Novel: A Forum on Fiction 42, no. 2 (2009): 278-83. doi.org/10.1215/00295132-2009-015.

Detroit Literature, Language, and Culture: Bibliography of Scholarship, Criticism, and Commentary Updated May 2019

Chung, Haeja K., ed. Harriette Simpson Arnow: Critical Essays on Her Work. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1995.

Cicala, John Allen. “Cuscuszu in Detroit, July 18, 1993: Memory, Conflict, and Bella Figura during a Sicilian-American Meal.” Italian Folk: Vernacular Culture in Italian-American Lives. Edited by Joseph Sciorra. Fordham University Press, 2011. 31-48.

Ciocoi-Pop, Ana-Blanca. “Suicide as Affirmation and Gender as a Conscious Choice: The Deconstruction of Identity in Jeffrey Eugenides’ Major Novels.” American, British, and Canadian Studies 10 (2008): 80-90.

Cohen, Samuel. “The Novel in a Time of Terror: Middlesex, History, and Contemporary American Fiction.” Twentieth Century Literature 53, no. 3 (2007): 371-93. doi.org/10.1215/0041462X-2007-4010.

Collado-Rodríguez, Francisco. “Of Self and Country: U.S. Politics, Cultural Hybridity, and Ambivalent Identity in Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex.” International Fiction Review 33, nos. 1-2 (2006): 71-83.

Cologne-Brooks, Gavin. Dark Eyes on America: The Novels of Joyce Carol Oates. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005.

———. “Written Interviews and a Conversation with Joyce Carol Oates.” Studies in the Novel. 38 (2006): 547-65.

Conniff, Brian. “Answering ‘The Waste Land’: Robert Hayden and the Rise of the African American Poetic Sequence.” African American Review 33 (1999): 487-506. Rpt. in Bloom’s Modern Critical Views: Robert Hayden. Edited by Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 2005. 155-180.

Consonni, Stefania. “ʻStuck in the Middle with Eu’: Genetica e Letteratura in Middlesex.” Nuova Corrente: Rivista di Letteratura 54, no. 139 (2007): 145-71.

Costello, Jack, Bob Rashid, Ron Scott, writers and producers. Detroit’s Hayden: America’s Poet Laureate. Detroit: WTVS-TV, 1978. Video documentary.

Counts, Meredith. “In Detroit’s Cass Corridor, Even the Counterculture Loved the Tigers.” Detroit Metro Times, April 5, 2017. https://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/in-detroits-cass-corridor-even-the- counterculture-loved-the-tigers/Content?oid=3220009.

Creighton, Joanne V. Joyce Carol Oates. Boston: Twayne, 1979.

Detroit Literature, Language, and Culture: Bibliography of Scholarship, Criticism, and Commentary Updated May 2019

Cunningham, Beunyce Rayford. “Ron(ald) Milner.” Afro-American Writers After 1955: Dramatists and Prose Writers. Edited by Thadious M. Davis and Trudier Harris-Lopez. Detroit: Gale, 1985.

Dalphond, Denise M. M. "Detroit Players: Wax, Tracks, and Soul in Detroit Electronic Music." PhD diss., Indiana University, 2014. DA3632871.

Daly, Brenda. “Sexual Politics in Two Collections of Joyce Carol Oates's Short Fiction.” Studies in Short Fiction 32, no. 1 (1995): 83-93. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Edited by Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 70. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Available through the Literature Resource Center.

Daniels, Jim. “Work Poetry and Working-Class Poetry: The Zip Code of the Heart.” New Working-Class Studies. Edited by John Russo and Sherry Lee Linkton. Ithaca: ILR of Cornell University Press, 2005. 113-136.

Daniels, Kate. “About Philip Levine: A Profile.” Ploughshares 33, no. 4 (2007): 191-7.

Davis, Ella Jean. “African-American Women Writers of Detroit.” PhD diss., University of Michigan, 1991. DA9034359.

Davis, Todd F. “Kicking the Muse's Ass: An Interview with Jim Daniels.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 14, No. 2 (2012): 241-256. doi: 10.5325/intelitestud.14.2.0241.

Davros Michael, G. “Loss and Transformation on the Road in Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex and Don DeLillo's Underworld.” The Image of the Road in Literature, Media, and Society. Edited by Will Wright and Steven Kaplan. Pueblo, CO: Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, Colorado State University-Pueblo, 2005. 148-53.

Dawkins, Nicole. “Do-it-Yourself: The Precarious Work and Postfeminist Politics of Handmaking (in) Detroit.” Utopian Studies: Journal of the Society for Utopian Studies 22, no. 2 (2011): 261-284.

Dawson, Lawrence R. “Harps in the Wilds of Freedom: Territorial Verse from the Detroit Gazette, 1817-1830.” The Old Northwest: A Journal of Regional Life and Letters 9.2 (1983): 175-85.

DeCurtis, Anthony. “The Process of Fictionalization in Joyce Carol Oates’s them.” International Fiction Review. 6 (1979): 121-28.

Detroit Literature, Language, and Culture: Bibliography of Scholarship, Criticism, and Commentary Updated May 2019

Defining Detroit: Readings by Jim Daniels, Toi Derricotte, Lolita Hernandez, Lawrence Joseph, Philip Levine, Naomi Long Madgett. Videocassettes. Prod. Katherine Blanchard, IHM. Detroit: Marygrove College, 2000-2005.

DeGenaro, William. “Eight-Mile and Woodward: Intersections of Difference and Rhetoric of Detroit.” JAC 27 (2007): 135-61.

DePietro, Thomas. “I to Eye: Self and Society in the Poetry of Lawrence Joseph.” University of Cincinnati Law Review 77, no. 3 (2009): 905-920. Republished in Poet with a Steady Job: An Introduction to Lawrence Joseph. Edited by Eric Selinger. Jacket 2 (9 Feb. 2012). https://jacket2.org/article/i-eye

Deser, Toni. “Dialect Transmission and Variation: An Acoustic Analysis of Vowels in Six Urban Detroit Families.” Indiana University Linguistics Club, 1991.

Devlin, James E., and Frank Day. Elmore Leonard. New York: Twayne, 1999.

Drennig, Georg. “Eminem Rejects Ruin Porn: Imported from Detroit as a Construction of Motor City ‘Cool’.’ Is it ‘Cause it's Cool? Affective Encounters with American Culture.” Edited by Astrid M. Fellner, Klaus Heissenberger, Susanne Hamscha and Jennifer Moos. Wien: American Studies in Austria, LIT VERLAGGmbH (2014): 161-179.

Eckley, Wilton. Harriet Arnow. Boston: Twayne, 1974.

Edwards, Walter F. “Aspectual Dən in African American Vernacular English in Detroit.” Journal of Sociolinguistics 5, no. 3 (2001): 413-27.

———. “Phonetic Differentiation between Black and White Speech in East-Side Detroit.” WORD: Journal of the International Linguistic Association 41, no. 2 (1990): 203-18.

———. “Sex-Based Differences in Language Choice in an African-American Neighborhood in Detroit.” Focus on the USA. Edited by Edgar W. Schneider. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1996. 183-194.

———. “Sociolinguistic Behavior in a Detroit Inner-City Black Neighborhood.” Language in Society 21, no. 1 (1992): 93-115.

———. “Two Varieties of English in Detroit.” Black English and the Education of Black Children and Youth: Proceedings of the National Invitational Symposium on the King Decision. Edited by Geneva Smitherman. Detroit: Harlo, 1981. 393-408.

Detroit Literature, Language, and Culture: Bibliography of Scholarship, Criticism, and Commentary Updated May 2019

———. “Vernacular Language Use and Social Networking in Eastside Detroit.” Proceedings of the Third Eastern States Conference on Linguistics. Edited by Fred Marshall, Ann Miller, Zheng-sheng Zhang. Columbus: The Ohio State University, 1987. 117-128.

Fetrow, Fred M. “The Comic Vision of Robert Hayden: A Brief Remembrance.” The Heritage Series of Black Poetry, 1962-1975: A Research Compendium. Edited by Lauri Ramey and Paul Breman. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, xiv, 2007. 185-190.

———. “Minority Reporting and Psychic Distancing in the Poetry of Robert Hayden.” CLA Journal 33, no. 2 (Dec. 1989): 117-129. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism Select. Detroit: Gale, 2008. Literature Resource Center.

———. “Portraits and Personae: Characterization in the Poetry of Robert Hayden.” Black American Poets between Worlds, 1940-1960. Edited by R. Baxter Miller. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986.

———. Robert Hayden. Boston: Twayne, 1984.

Finkelstein, Norman. “Ground Zero, Baudelaire: Into It and the Poetics of Shock.” Poet with a Steady Job: An Introduction to Lawrence Joseph. Edited by Eric Selinger. Jacket 2 (9 Feb. 2012). https://jacket2.org/article/ground-zero-baudelaire.

Fishman, Robert. "Half the Story: Paul Clemens, Made in Detroit: A South of 8 Mile Memoir." Technology and Culture: The International Quarterly of the Society for the History of Technology 48, no. 2 (2007): 404-6.

Flibbert, Joseph. “How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again.” Overview. Reference Guide to Short Fiction. Edited by Noelle Watson. Detroit: St. James, 1994.

Foer, Jonathan Safran. "Jeffrey Eugenides." Bomb 81 (2002): 74-89. 15 August 2011.

Fontanella, Luigi. "Detroit Blues: Ricostruzione (Parziale) e Lettura." Rimanelliana: Studi Su Giose Rimanelli/Studies on Giose Rimanelli. Edited by Sebastiano Martelli. Stony Brook, NY: Forum Italicum, 2000. 181-191.

Gaskin, Bob. “James R(aymond) Daniels.” American Poets Since World War II: Third Series. Edited by R. S. Gwynn. Detroit: Gale, 1992.

Geherin, David. Elmore Leonard. New York: Continuum, 1989.

Detroit Literature, Language, and Culture: Bibliography of Scholarship, Criticism, and Commentary Updated May 2019

Georgakas, Dan. "Detroit: An Urban Zombie. Motown Images in Three New Documentaries." Cineaste: America's Leading Magazine on the Art and Politics of the Cinema 37, no. 4 (2012): 16-21.

Gikandi, Simon. “Race and the Idea of the Aesthetic” [Analysis of Robert Hayden poems]. Michigan Quarterly Review 40 (2001): 318-50.

Gholz, Carleton S. “The Scream and Other Tales: Listening for Detroit Radio History with the Vertical File.” 21st Century Perspectives on Music, Technology, and Culture. Edited by Richard Purcell and Richard Randall. London: Palgrave, 2016. 12-32.

———. “Welcome to Tha D: Making and Remaking Hip Hop Culture in Post-Motown Detroit.” Hip Hop in America: A Regional Guide, I: East Coast and West Coast, II: Midwest, the South, and Beyond. Edited by Mickey Hess. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2010. 393-428.

Giles, James R. “Suffering, Transcendence, and Artistic Form: Joyce Carol Oates’s them.” Arizona Quarterly. 32 (1976): 213-26.

Gildon, Sonja Stokes. "A Critical Analysis of the Rhetorical Strategies used by The Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press in their Coverage of the 1993 Detroit Mayoral Campaign." PhD diss., Wayne State U, 1999. DA9954198.

Goetsch, Paul. “Joyce Carol Oates: ‘How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over again’ (1969).” Die Amerikanische Short Story der Gegenwart: Interpretationen. Edited by Peter Freese. Berlin: Schmidt, 1976.

Goldstein, Laurence. “The Image of Detroit in Twentieth Century Literature.” Michigan Quarterly Review 25, no. 2 (1986): 269-291.

———. “Life of Robert Hayden.” C-Span 2 TV, Local Content Videos, 2013. https://www.c- span.org/video/?315905-1/life-robert-hayden

———. “Philip Levine and MQR: A Brief History.” Michigan Quarterly Review 50, no. 4 (2011): 471-476.

———. “Poets at the University of Michigan: 1925 to1980.” Michigan Quarterly Review 57, no. 1 (2018): 52-68.

——— and Robert Chrisman, eds. Robert Hayden: Essays on the Poetry. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001.

Detroit Literature, Language, and Culture: Bibliography of Scholarship, Criticism, and Commentary Updated May 2019

Goode, Greg. “Donald Goines.” Afro-American Fiction Writers After 1955. Edited by Thadious M. Davis and Trudier Harris-Lopez. Detroit: Gale, 1984. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 33. Literature Resource Center.

———. “Donald Goines: Overview.” St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers. Edited by Jay P. Pederson. 4th Edited by Detroit: St. James, 1996. St. James Guide to Writers Series.

———. “Excerpt of ‘From ‘Dopefiend’ to ‘Kenyatta's Last Hit’: The Angry Black Crime Novels of Donald Goines.’” MELUS 11.3 (1984): 41-48. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Edited by James P. Draper and Jennifer Allison Brostrom. Vol. 80. Detroit: Gale, 1994.

Goodman, Charlotte. “Women and Madness in the Fiction of Joyce Carol Oates.” Women and Literature. 5 (1977): 17-28.

Gook, Ben. "Berlin and Detroit: An Alien Techno Alliance. Cultural Politics and Social Transformation After the Fall of the Wall." Limbus: Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies, 2016: 171-201. doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.29359.38566.

Gourlie, John M., and Leonard Engel. "Gran Torino: Showdown in Detroit, Shrimp Cowboys, and a New Mythology." New Essays on Clint Eastwood. Edited by Leonard Engel, John M. Gourlie, and Drucilla Cornell. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2012. 266- 276.

Graeber, Charles. “Pulling the Words from the Ruins” [Interview with Lawrence Joseph]. Downtown Express 4 Nov. 2005.

Graham, Sarah. "'See Synonyms at MONSTER': En-Freaking Transgender in Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex." ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 40, no. 4 (2009): 1-18.

Granese, Alberto. “Tra i Manoscritti Di Rimanelli: Nella Macchina Paranoica l'Origine Di Detroit Blues.” Rimanelliana: Studi Su Giose Rimanelli/Studies on Giose Rimanelli. Edited by Sebastiano Martelli. Stony Brook, NY: Forum Italicum, 2000. 165-180.

Green, Eugene. “Yiddish and English in Detroit: A Survey and Analysis of Reciprocal Influences in Bilinguals' Pronunciation, Grammar, and Vocabulary.” PhD diss., University of Michigan, 1962.

Grella, George. "Elmore Leonard: Overview." St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers. Edited by Jay P. Pederson. 4th Edited by Detroit: St. James, 1996. St. James Guide to Writers Series.

Detroit Literature, Language, and Culture: Bibliography of Scholarship, Criticism, and Commentary Updated May 2019

Gruber, Michael P. “Tiger Stadium in Literature.” Tiger Stadium: Essays and Memories of Detroit’s Historic Ballpark, 1912-2009. Edited by Michael Betzold, John Davids, Bill Dow, John Pastier, and Frank Rashid. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2018.

Harner, Devin Grant. Landscape and Memory in the Poetry of Philip Levine and Gary Snyder. PhD diss., University of Delaware, 2007.

Hatcher, John. From the Auroral Darkness: The Life and Poetry of Robert Hayden. Oxford: George Ronald, 1984.

Hayden, Robert. Collected Prose. Edited by Frederick Glaysher. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1984.

Heller, Janet Ruth. "Growing Up in Detroit: Jim Daniels's M-80." Midamerica: The Yearbook of

the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature 24 (1997): 122-32.

Herman, Max Arthur. Summer of Rage: An Oral History of the 1967 Newark and Detroit Riots. Peter Lang, 2013.

Herron, Jerry. AfterCulture: Detroit and the Humiliation of History. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1993.

———. “Postmodernism Ground Zero or Going to the Movies at the Grand Circus Park.” Social Text. 18 (1987): 61-77.

Hirsch, Edward. “Mean to Be Free.” The Nation 21 Dec. 1985: 685-686. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Edited by Daniel G. Marowski and Roger Matuz. Vol. 37. Detroit: Gale, 1986. Literature Resource Center.

———. “Naming the Lost: The Poetry of Philip Levine.” Michigan Quarterly Review 28.2 (1989): 258-266. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Edited by Jeffrey W. Hunter and Timothy J. White. Vol. 118. Detroit: Gale, 1999. Literature Resource Center.

Hishmeh Richard, E. “Strategic Genius, Disidentification, and the Burden of the Prophet in Arab- American Poetry.” Arab Voices in Diaspora: Critical Perspectives on Anglophone Arab Literature. Edited by Layla Al Maleh. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi, 2009. 93-119.

Hoodasian, Susie, and Emelyn E. Gardner. "Armenian Folktales from Detroit." Journal of American Folklore 57 (1944): 161-80.

Hoskin, Bree. "Playground Love: Landscape and Longing in Sofia Coppola's the Virgin Suicides." Literature/Film Quarterly 35, no. 3 (2007): 214-21.

Detroit Literature, Language, and Culture: Bibliography of Scholarship, Criticism, and Commentary Updated May 2019

Houser, Tai Lynden. Mind the Gap: Overcoming Dualities in Motor City, USA. PhD. diss., Florida Atlantic University, 2008.

Howard W., Scott. “Resistance, Sacrifice, and Historicity in the Elegies of Robert Hayden.” Reading the Middle Generation Anew: Culture, Community, and Form in Twentieth Century American Poetry. Edited by Eric Haralson. Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2006. 133-152.

Hughes, Anne E. “An Investigation of Certain Socio-Linguistic Phenomena in the Vocabulary, Pronunciation and Grammar of Disadvantaged Pre-School Children, Their Parents and Their Teachers in the Detroit Public Schools.” PhD diss., Michigan State University, 1967.

Hunter, Kim D. “In Memoriam: D. Blair, Detroit Poet, 1967-2011.” Against the Current 246, No 4 (2011): 44.

Hynes, Joseph. “High Noon in Detroit: Elmore Leonard’s Career.” Journal of Popular Culture 25, no. 3 (1991): 181-87.

Irr, Caren. "Media and Migration: Danticat, Díaz, Eugenides, and Scibona." Wretched Refuge: Immigrants and Itinerants in the Postmodern. Edited by Jessica Datema and Diane Krumrey. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars, 2010. 9-26.

Jabara, Abdeen. “Tales from Arab Detroit.” Cineaste: America’s Leading Magazine on the Art and Politics of the Cinema 22 (1996): 38-9.

Jenkins, Mercilee M. "Artist's Statement: The Politics of Performing Place in Spirit of Detroit." Text and Performance Quarterly 35, no.1 (2015): 62-75.

Johnson, Greg. “A Barbarous Eden: Joyce Carol Oates's First Collection.” Studies in Short Fiction 30, no.1 (1993): 1-14.

———. “Fictions of the New Millennium: An Interview with Joyce Carol Oates.” Michigan Quarterly Review 45, no. 2 (2006): 387-400. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.act2080.0045.221

———. Invisible Writer: A Biography of Joyce Carol Oates. New York: Dutton, 1999.

———. Joyce Carol Oates: A Study of the Short Fiction. New York: Twayne, 1994.

———. Understanding Joyce Carol Oates. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1987.

Detroit Literature, Language, and Culture: Bibliography of Scholarship, Criticism, and Commentary Updated May 2019

Joseph, Lawrence. “Can’t Forget the Motor City.” Rev. of Devil's Night: And Other True Tales of Detroit. The Nation 17 Dec. 1990: 774-777.

———. “Notions of Poetry and Narration.” University of Cincinnati Law Review 77.3 (2009): 941- 968. Republished in Poet with a Steady Job: An Introduction to Lawrence Joseph. Edited by Eric Selinger. Jacket 2 (9 Feb. 2012). https://jacket2.org/article/notions-poetry- and-narration

———. “‘Our Lives Are Here’: Notes from a Journal, Detroit, 1975.” Michigan Quarterly Review 25, no. 2 (1986): 296-302.

Kelly, Adam. "Moments of Decision in Contemporary American Fiction: Roth, Auster, Eugenides." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 51.4 (2010): 313-32.

Kenny, Keith Dallas. "Language Loss and Hesitation Frequency: The Case of Ramallāwi Arabic in Detroit." PhD diss., University of Michigan, 1993. DA9319560.

Keyes, Cheryl L. “Rap Music: Its Roots and Traditions in Detroit, Michigan.” Festival of Michigan Folklife. East Lansing: Michigan State University, 1992: 36-8.

Kilgard, Amy K. "(Four)Casting Detroit." Text and Performance Quarterly 35, no.1 (2015): 76-9. doi: 10.1080/10462937.2014.975273.

Kilgore-Caradec, Jennifer. “Out of the Acids of Rage: Philip Levine’s Poems about Detroit.” Belgrade English Language & Literature Studies 2 (2010): 167-186.

Kinloch, Valerie. “The Heidelberg Art Project as a Site of Literacy Activities and Urban Renewal Efforts: Implications for Composition Studies.” JAC 25 (2005): 101-29.

Kinney, Rebecca J. Beautiful Wasteland: The Rise of Detroit as America's Postindustrial Frontier. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.

Kitchens, Marshall William. "Literacy, Technology, and Justice in Postindustrial Detroit: Rhetorical Education for the 21st Century." PhD diss., Wayne State University, 2001. DA3010100.

Klautsch, Richard Joseph. "An Historical Analysis of the Clarence B. Hilberry Repertory Theatre, Detroit, Michigan, 1963-1973." Detroit: Wayne State University, 1989.

Koch-Rein, Anne. “Intersexuality-in the 'I' of the Norm? Queer Field Notes from Eugenides' Middlesex.” Quer durch die Geisteswissenschaften: Perspektiven der QueerTheory Edited by Elahe Haschemi Yekani and Beatrice Michaelis. Berlin, 2005. Rpt.

Detroit Literature, Language, and Culture: Bibliography of Scholarship, Criticism, and Commentary Updated May 2019

Transgressing Gender: Two Is Not Enough for Gender Equality. Edited by Amir Hodzik and Jelena Postic. Zagreb: CECI, 2006. 251-61.

Köhler, Susann. “Growing Food and Justice in Detroit: Urban Gardens, Social Activism, and the Use of New Media.” America: Justice, Conflict, War. Edited by Amanda Gilroy, Marietta Messmer, and Philip John Davies. Heidelberg: Winter, 2016. 231-246.

Krivak, Andrew. “The Language of Redemption: The Catholic Poets Adam Zagajewski, Marie Ponsot, and Lawrence Joseph.” Commonweal 130, no.9 (2003): 12-6.

Langlois, Janet. “Smuggling Across the Windsor-Detroit Border: Folk Art, Sexual Difference, and Cultural Identity.” Canadian Folklore Canadien 13, no.1 (1991): 23-33.

———. “The Belle Isle Bridge Incident: Legend Dialectic and Semiotic System in the 1943 Detroit Race Riots.” Journal of American Folklore 96, no. 380 (1983): 183-99.

———. “ʻCelebrating Arabs’: Tracing Legend and Rumor Labyrinths in Post-9/11 Detroit.” Journal of American Folklore 118, no. 468 (2005): 219-36.

Lanpher-Willson, Juliann. “Daniels's ‘Digger Laps at the Bowl.’” Explicator 63, no. 4 (2005): 248-52.

Latiri, Inès. “ʻI don’t know about you, but it all goes through my skin’: War Trauma Writing by Lawrence Joseph.” American Studies Journal 64 (2018). doi: 10.18422/64-03. http://www.asjournal.org/64-2018/i-dont-know-about-you-but-it-all-goes-through-my- skin-war-trauma-writing-by-lawrence-joseph/

Law and Literature Symposium: “‘Some Sort of Chronicler I Am’: Narration and the Poetry of Lawrence Joseph.” University of Cincinnati Law Review. 77.3 (2009): 783-968.

Lawrence, Novotny. “A White Film for a Blaxploitation Audience? the Making and Marketing of Detroit 9000.” Beyond Blaxploitation. Edited by Novotny Lawrence and Gerald R. Butters Jr. Wayne State University Press, 2016. 114-136.

Leasher, Evelyn. “Broadside Press of Detroit.” Michigan Historical Review 26, no. 1 (2000): 106- 123. doi: 10.2307/20164900.

Lee, Dorothy H. “Black Voices in Detroit.” Michigan Quarterly Review 25, no. 2 (1986): 313- 328.

Lee, Merton. "Why Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex Is So Inoffensive." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 51, no. 1 (2010): 32-46.

Detroit Literature, Language, and Culture: Bibliography of Scholarship, Criticism, and Commentary Updated May 2019

Levering, Marijean. Detroit on Stage: The Players Club, 1910-2005. Wayne State University Press, 2007.

———. “None Shall Refuse: The History of the Players in Detroit, 1910 to the Present.” PhD diss., Wayne State U, 2000. DA9992231.

Levin, Donald E. “Belle Isle: Cultural Representations.” Politics and Culture 2 (2003). https://politicsandculture.org/2010/08/10/donald-levin-belle-isle-cultural-representations- 2/.

Levine, Philip. The Bread of Time: Toward an Autobiography. New York: Knopf, 1994.

———. Don’t Ask. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1981.

———. “Nobody’s Detroit.” Harper’s March 2010: 13-16. Rpt. of Introduction. Detroit Disassembled: Photographs by Andrew Moore. Akron: Damiani, 2010.

———. So Ask: Essays, Conversations, and Interviews. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002.

Levytsky, Sue. “Naomi Long Madgett: The Heart of African American Poetry.” Naomi Long Madgett: 2012 Kresge Eminent Artist. Detroit: The Kresge Foundation, 2012. https://kresge.org/sites/default/files/Naomi_Long_Madgett_Monograph.pdf

Lewis, Charles Alonzo. "Communication Patterns of Recent Immigrants: A Study of Three Nationality Groups in Metropolitan Detroit." PhD. diss., University of Illinois, 1955.

Lewis, David L. and Laurence Goldstein, eds. The Automobile and American Culture. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.

Liebler, M.L., ed. Memories and Interpretations of Detroit Music, from Jazz to Hip Hop and Beyond. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2017

Lindberg, Kathryne. "Citing and Situating America's Democratic Jargon: China Passes through Detroit in 1942." Critical Zone 2: A Forum of Chinese and Western Knowledge. Edited by Q. S. Tong, Shouren Wang, and Douglas Kerr. Hong Kong University Press, 2006. 47-82.

“Literature [of Michigan].” Michigan: A Guide to the Wolverine State. Compiled by Workers of the Writers’ Program of the Works Projects Administration in the State of Michigan. New York: Oxford University Press, 1941.

Detroit Literature, Language, and Culture: Bibliography of Scholarship, Criticism, and Commentary Updated May 2019

Lowney, John. “‘Why Not Say What Happens’: Modernism, Traumatic Memory, and Lawrence Joseph’s Into It.” University of Cincinnati Law Review 77.3 (2009): 843-861. Republished in Poet with a Steady Job: An Introduction to Lawrence Joseph. Edited by Eric Selinger. Jacket 2 (9 Feb. 2012). https://jacket2.org/article/why-not-say-what- happens.

Lowry, Glen. “On Location, Or Notes Toward Remapping North American Studies: Stan Douglas's Potsdam, Detroit, Vancouver.” Virtually American? Denationalizing North American Studies. Edited by Mita Banerjee. Heidelberg, Germany: Winter, 2009. 37-53.

Lyons, Mickey. “Literary Detroit: A Marriage of Poetry and Pragmatism.” World Literature Today 90, no. 5 (2016): 5. doi: 10.7588/worllitetoda.90.5.0005.

Mallory-Kani, Amy, and Kenneth Womack. “ʻWhy Don't You Just Leave It up to Nature?’ An Adaptationist Reading of the Novels of Jeffrey Eugenides.” Mosaic [Winnipeg] 40.3 (2007): 157+.

Mandell, Joan. “Cultural Resilience through Change: Finding the Theme for Tales from Arab Detroit.” Visual Anthropology 10, nos. 2-4 (1998): 189-208. DOI: 10.1080/08949468.1998.9966730

Manske, Eva. “The Nightmare of Reality: Gothic Fantasies and Psychological Realism in the Fiction of Joyce Carol Oates.” Neo-Realism in Contemporary American Fiction (1992): 131-43.

Marback, Richard. “Detroit and the Closed Fist: Toward a Theory of Material Rhetoric.” Rhetoric Review 17 (1998): 74-92.

Matsumoto, Diane. “Zombie Apocalypse? Blame it on Detroit.” Electric Sheep Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Speculative Fiction in a Post-Modern World. Edited by Harry Edwin Eiss. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2014. 49-71.

McLennan, Rachael. "Chasing After the Wind: The Adolescent Aporias of Jeffrey Eugenides." Writing America into the Twenty-First Century: Essays on the American Novel. Edited by Elizabeth Boyle and Anne-Marie Evans. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars, 2010. 22-38.

Melhem, D.H. "Dudley Randall: A Humanist View." Black American Literature Forum 17.4 (1983): 157-167.

Mendeloff, Kate. "Staging Racism: A Director's View of Spirit of Detroit." Text and Performance Quarterly 35.1 (2015): 80-2. doi: 10.1080/10462937.2014.975274.

Detroit Literature, Language, and Culture: Bibliography of Scholarship, Criticism, and Commentary Updated May 2019

Metres, Philip. “ʻThe Way I Feel the World’: An Interview with Lawrence Joseph.” Michigan Quarterly Review 57, no. 1 (2018).

Mieczkowski, Tom. “Crack Lingo in Detroit.” American Speech: A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage 65 (1990): 284-88.

Miller, Danny, L., Sharon Hatfield and Gurney Norman, eds. Critical Readings in Appalachian Literature Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005.

Miller, James. The Detroit Yiddish Theater: 1920-1937. Detroit: Wayne State UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1967.

Miller, R. Baxter. "Dudley (Felker) Randall." Afro-American Poets Since 1955. Edited by Trudier Harris-Lopez and Thadious M. Davis. Detroit: Gale, 1985. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 41.

Modern American Poetry. An Online Journal and Multimedia Companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry (Sites on Robert Hayden, Philip Levine, and Dudley Randall). Edited by Cary Nelson and Bartholomew Brinkman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000). https://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/.

Moghaghab, Emma and Sirene Harb. “Lawrence Joseph’s Into It: A Political Study of Power and Community.” Studies In the Humanities 37: 1-2 (2010): 3-21.

Morgan, Stacey I. “Migration, Material Culture, and Identity in William Attaway’s Blood on the Forge and Harriette Arnow’s The Dollmaker.” College English 63.6 (2001): 712-40.

Nettl, Bruno. "Preliminary Remarks on Urban Folk Music in Detroit." Western Folklore 16, no.1 (1957): 37-42.

--- and Ivo Moravcik. "Czech and Slovak Songs Collected in Detroit." Midwest Folklore 5, no. 1 (1955): 37-49.

Nicholas, Xavier, ed. “Robert Hayden and Michael S. Harper: A Literary Friendship.” Callaloo 17, no.4 (1994): 975-1016.

Niedzielski, Nancy. "Attitudes Toward Midwestern American English." Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology, Vol. 2. Edited by Daniel Long, Dennis R. Preston, and Ronald R. Butters. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2002. 321-327.

Ntiri, Daphne. Consonance and Continuity in Poetry: Detroit Black Writers. Detroit: Bedford, 1988.

Detroit Literature, Language, and Culture: Bibliography of Scholarship, Criticism, and Commentary Updated May 2019

Nye, David E. "Narrating the Contested Space of Detroit's River Rouge, 1600–2015." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik: A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture 64, no.1 (2016): 27-41.

Oates, Joyce Carol. “On Harriette Arnow’s The Dollmaker.” An American Vein: Critical Readings in Appalachian Literature. Edited by Danny L. Miller, Sharon Hatfield, and Gurney Norman. Athens, OH: University of Ohio Press, 2005. 59-65.

———. “Visions of Detroit.” Michigan Quarterly Review 25, no. 2 (1986): 308-311.

Park, Sue Simpson. “A Study in Counterpoint: Joyce Carol Oates’s ‘How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again.’” Modern Fiction Studies 22, no. 2 (1976): 213-24.

Pavlić, Edward M. “Something patterned, wild, and free”: Robert Hayden’s An gles of Descent and the Democratic Unconscious.” African American Review 36, no 4 (2002): 533-555. Rpt. in Bloom’s Modern Critical Views: Robert Hayden. Edited by Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea, 2005. 217-254.

Petersen, Jerry. “Epideictic and Public Memory: Race Narratives in the Political Economy of ‘Imported from Detroit.’” American Communication Journal 18, no. 2 (2016): 18-26.

Peterson, William A. "A History of the Professional Theatre of Detroit, Michigan, September 13, 1875 to July 3, 1886." PhD, diss., Florida State University, 1959.

Philip Levine. Prod. Lewis MacAdams and John Dorr. Santa Fe: Lannan Literary Series, 1988.

Phillips, Rowan Ricardo. "When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness: On Bard and Balladry in Robert Hayden. An Essay in Verse." Kenyon Review 26, no. 1 (2004): 150-6.

Pifer, Matthew T. "Dissent: Detroit and the Underground Press, 1965-1969." PhD diss., University of Oklahoma, 2001. DA3025986.

Pinsker, Sanford. “The Blue Collar Apocalypse or Detroit Bridge’s Falling Down: Joyce Carol Oates’ them.” Descant: The Texas Christian University Literary Journal 23 (1979): 35- 47.

Post, Constance J. "Image and Idea in the Poetry of Robert Hayden." CLA Journal 20, no. 2 (1976): 164-175. Rpt. in Bloom’s Modern Critical Views: Robert Hayden. Edited by Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea, 2005. 5-14 and in Poetry Criticism. Edited by Drew Kalasky. Vol. 6. Detroit: Gale, 1993.

Randall, Dudley. Broadside Memories: Poets I Have Known. Detroit: Broadside, 1975.

Detroit Literature, Language, and Culture: Bibliography of Scholarship, Criticism, and Commentary Updated May 2019

Rashid, Frank D. “Interrogating the Urban Crisis: Teaching Detroit in Literature.” Teaching Space, Place, and Literature. Edited by Robert T. Tally, Jr. New York: Routledge, 2018.

———. “Lawrence Joseph’s Detroit: ‘The Shifting Story.’” University of Cincinnati Law Review 77.3 (2009): 885-903.

———. “Robert Hayden’s Detroit Blues Elegies.” Callaloo 24 (2001): 200-226. Rpt. in Bloom’s Modern Critical Views: Robert Hayden. Edited by Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea, 2005. 181-216.

———. “Shifting Stories, Codes of Violence: Two Perspectives on Lawrence Joseph.” [Republication of two earlier essays on Joseph] Poet with a Steady Job: An Introduction to Lawrence Joseph. Edited by Eric Selinger. Jacket 2 (9 Feb. 2012). https://jacket2.org/article/shifting-stories-codes-violence

———. “Transparent Eye, Voice Howling Within: Codes of Violence in Lawrence Joseph’s Poetry.” PMLA 123 (2008): 1611-1620. doi:10.1632/pmla.2008.123.5.1611.

Rasmussen, Anne K. “The Music of Arab Detroit: A Musical Mecca in the Midwest.” The Music of Multicultural America: Performance, Identity, and Community in the United States. Edited by Kip Lornell and Anne K. Rasmussen. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2016. 109-136.

Raspa, Richard. “Folklore Expression in the Automobile Industry.” Southern Folklore 46 (1989): 71-78.

Reynolds, Dwight. “From the Delta to Detroit: Packaging a Folk Epic for a New Folk.” Visual Anthropology 10, nos. 2-4 (1998): 145-164. doi: 10.1080/08949468.1998.9966728.

Rice, Albert M. II and Phillip Rice. “Two Brothers Reflect on Spirit of Detroit.” Text and Performance Quarterly 35, no. 1 (2015): 83-6. doi: 10.1080/10462937.2014.975275.

Rice, Jeff. Digital Detroit: Rhetoric and Space in the Age of the Network. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2012.

———. "Folksonomic Narratives: Writing Detroit." Beyond Postprocess. Edited by Sidney I. Dobrin, J. A. Rice, and Michael Vastola. Salt Lake City: Utah State University Press, 2011. 117-131.

Richards, Phillip M. “Robert Hayden (1913-1980): An Appreciation.” Massachusetts Review: A Quarterly of Literature, the Arts and Public Affairs 40, no. 4 (1999): 599-613.

Detroit Literature, Language, and Culture: Bibliography of Scholarship, Criticism, and Commentary Updated May 2019

Rigney, Barbara Hill. “The Christian and the Classic in The Dollmaker. An American Vein: Critical Readings in Appalachian Literature. Edited by Danny L. Miller, Sharon Hatfield, and Gurney Norman. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005. 66-72.

Robé, Chris. "Detroit Rising: The League of Revolutionary Black Workers, Newsreel, and the Making of Finally Got the News." Film History: An International Journal 28, no. 4 (2016): 125-58.

Rowell, Charles H. "In Conversation with Dudley Randall." Obsidian, 2, no.1 (1976): 32-44.

Rozga, Margaret. “Threatening Places, Hiding Places: The Midwest in Selected Stories by Joyce Carol Oates.” Midwestern Miscellany 28 (1990): 34-44. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Edited by Deborah A. Schmitt. Vol. 108. Detroit: Gale, 1998.

Ruiz, Reynaldo. “The Detroit Poets: Cultural Pride and Social Condition.” JSRI Working Paper #4, The Julian Samora Research Institute. East Lansing: Michigan State University, 1999.

Rumiano, Jeffrey Edmond. They Know “What Work is”: Working Class Individuals in the Poetry of Philip Levine. PhD. diss., Georgia State University, 2007.

Schaub, Christoph. "Beyond the Hood? Detroit Techno, Underground Resistance, and African American Metropolitan Identity Politics." Cornbread and Cuchifritos: Ethnic Identity Politics, Transnationalization, and Transculturation in American Urban Popular Music. Edited by Wilfried Raussert and Michelle Habell-Pallán.Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier (WVT), 2011. 185-202. Rpt. Forum for Inter-American Research (FIAR) 2, no, 2. http://interamerica.de/volume-2-2/schaub/.

Schilling, Timothy P. “The Shape of Our Despair: The Fiction of Joyce Carol Oates.” Commonweal. July 15, 2005: 21-23.

Scott, Howard W. “Resistance, Sacrifice, and Historicity in the Elegies of Robert Hayden.” Reading the Middle Generation Anew: Culture, Community, and Form in Twentieth Century American Poetry. Edited by Eric Haralson. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2006. 133-52.

Seale, Lisa. "Robert Frost at the University of Detroit, 1962." Robert Frost Review 15 (2005): 9-34.

Seaton, James. “The Image of Detroit in The Dollmaker.” Midamerica: The Yearbook of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature 14 (1987): 137-145.

Sedlack, Robert P. “Naomi Long Madgett.” Afro-American Writers, 1940-1955. Edited by Trudier Harris-Lopez. Detroit: Gale, 1988. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 76.

Detroit Literature, Language, and Culture: Bibliography of Scholarship, Criticism, and Commentary Updated May 2019

Selinger, Eric Murphy. “Several Kinds of Chronicler He’s Been: The Books and Selves of Lawrence Joseph.” University of Cincinnati Law Review 77, no. 3 (2009): 813-842. Republished in Poet with a Steady Job: An Introduction to Lawrence Joseph. Edited by Eric Selinger. Jacket 2 (9 Feb. 2012). https://jacket2.org/article/several-kinds-chronicler- hes-been.

Sheridan, David. “Making Sense of Detroit.” Michigan Quarterly Review 38, no. 3 (1999): 321- 353.

———. “Narrative and Counter-Narrative in Detroit.” PhD diss., Michigan State University, 2001.

Shostak, Debra. "'A Story We Could Live with': Narrative Voice, the Reader, and Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides." MFS: Modern Fiction Studies 55, no. 4 (2009): 808- 32. doi:10.1353/mfs.0.1642

———. “‘Theory Uncompromised by Practicality’: Hybridity in Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex.” Contemporary Literature 49, no. 3 (2008): 383-412.

Shyrock, Andrew. “Mainstreaming Arabs: Filmmaking as Image Making in Tales from Arab Detroit.” Visual Anthropology 10, nos. 2-4 (1998): 165-188, doi: 10.1080/08949468.1998.9966729.

Shuy, Roger W. “Detroit Speech: Careless, Awkward, and Inconsistent, or Systematic, Graceful, and Regular?” Elementary English. 45, no.5 (1968): 565-69.

Sielke, Sabine. “Translation and Transdisciplinarity: Mapping Contact Zones between Literary and Scientific Practice” [analysis of Eugenides’s Middlesex]. Cultures of Translation. Edited by Klaus Stierstorfer and Monika Gomille. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars, 2008. 149-173.

Sifuentes, Zachary. “Strange Anatomy, Strange Sexuality: The Queer Body in Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex.” Straight Writ Queer: Non-Normative Expressions of Heterosexuality in Literature. Edited by Richard Fantina and Calvin Thomas. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006. 145-57.

Skeel, David A., Jr. “Lawrence Joseph and Law and Literature.” University of Cincinnati Law Review 77, no. 3 (2009): 921-939.

Smith, Derik Jalal. “Emerging from Heart-Shape in the Dust: Maturation in the Poetics of Robert Hayden,” World Order 37, no.2 (2006): 9-26.

Detroit Literature, Language, and Culture: Bibliography of Scholarship, Criticism, and Commentary Updated May 2019

———. Love's Lonely Offices: Robert Hayden and the African American Literary Tradition. PhD. diss., Northwestern University, 2004.

———. “Quarreling in the Movement: Robert Hayden's Black Arts Era.” Callaloo 33, no.2 (2010): 449-466. doi: 10.1353/cal.0.0646.

———. Robert Hayden in Verse: New Histories of African American Poetry and the Black Arts Era. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018.

Smith, Hal H. A Detroit Literature. Detroit: Friends of the Detroit Public Library, 1953.

Smith, Robert L. "Reflections on Spirit of Detroit." Text and Performance Quarterly 35, no.1 (2015): 87-90. doi: 10.1080/10462937.2014.975276.

Smitherman, Geneva. "Ron Milner, People's Playwright." Black World, 25 (1976): 4-19.

Savaglio, Paula. "Polka Bands and Choral Groups: The Musical Self-Representation of Polish- Americans in Detroit." Ethnomusicology: Journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology 40, no.1 (1996): 35-47. doi: 10.2307/852435.

Sperb, Jason. "The End of Detropia: Fordist Nostalgia and the Ambivalence of Poetic Ruins in Visions of Detroit." Journal of American Culture 39, no .2 (2016): 212-27. doi: 10.1111/jacc.12532.

———. "Islands of Detroit: Affect, Nostalgia and Whiteness." Culture, Theory, and Critique 49, no .2 (2008): 183-201. doi: 10.1080/14735780802426692.

Steinman, Lisa M. “So What Is Poetry Good For?” [Review of Lawrence Joseph among others] Michigan Quarterly Review 45, no. 3 (2006): 544-59.

———. “‘Telling the Time’: Narrative and Lyric in the Poetry of Lawrence Joseph.” University of Cincinnati Law Review 77.3 (2009): 863-884. Republished in Poet with a Steady Job: An Introduction to Lawrence Joseph. Edited by Eric Selinger. Jacket 2 (9 Feb. 2012). https://jacket2.org/article/telling-time.

Steinmetz, George. "Colonial Melancholy and Fordist Nostalgia: The Ruinscapes of Namibia and Detroit." Ruins of Modernity. Edited by Julia Hell and Andreas Schönle. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. 294-320.

———. “Drive-by Shooting: Making a Documentary about Detroit.” Michigan Quarterly Review 45, no. 3 (2006): 491-513.

Detroit Literature, Language, and Culture: Bibliography of Scholarship, Criticism, and Commentary Updated May 2019

Steven, Mark. “The Ragged Claws of Crisis: Reading ‘Prufrock’ in Detroit.” Textual Practice (2017). doi: 10.1080/0950236X.2017.1371219.

Stinton, Colin. “A Tick Bird is Dying: The Detroit Repertory Theatre.” Players: Magazine of American Theatre 47 (1972): 242-47.

Stocking, William. “Detroit in Literature and Art.” The City of Detroit, Michigan: 1701-1922. II. Edited by Clarence M. Burton, William Stocking, and Gordon K. Miller. Detroit: S.J. Clarke, 1922. 1187-1196.

Thandra, Shashi. “3-1-3: Race, Authenticity, and the Detroit Self.” Xchanges 3, no. 1 (2003).

Thompson, Julius Eric. Dudley Randall and the Black Arts Movement in Detroit: 1960- 1995.Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1999.

Todd, David, comp. “Joyce Carol Oates with Students at Bellarmine: An Interview with Joyce Carol Oates.” Gettysburg Review 6 (1993): 291-99.

Tomain, Joseph P. “Narrating Justice.” University of Cincinnati Law Review 77, no. 3 (2009): 783-798.

Tsuzaki, Stanley Mamoru. "English Influences in the Phonology and Morphology of the Spanish Spoken in the Mexican Colony in Detroit, Michigan." PhD. diss., University of Michigan, 1963.

———. Influences on Mexican Spanish in Detroit. The Hague: Mouton, 1970.

Turco, Lewis. “Angle of Ascent: The Poetry of Robert Hayden.” The Michigan Quarterly Review 16.2 (1977): 199-219. Rpt. in Bloom’s Modern Critical Views: Robert Hayden. Edited by Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea, 2005. 15-34 and in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Edited by Dedria Bryfonski. Vol. 9. Detroit: Gale Research, 1978.

Upton, Lee. “Embedded Chronicles: Lawrence Joseph’s Poetry of Urgency.” University of Cincinnati Law Review 77, no. 3 (2009): 799-812. Republished in Poet with a Steady Job: An Introduction to Lawrence Joseph. Edited by Eric Selinger. Jacket 2 (9 Feb. 2012). https://jacket2.org/article/embedded-chronicles.

Vecchiola, Carla. “Detroit's Rhythmic Resistance: Electronic Music and Community Pride.” PhD. diss., University of Michigan, 2006. DA3224776.

———. “Submerge in Detroit: Techno's Creative Response to Urban Crisis.” Journal of American Studies 45, no. 1 (2011): 95-111. doi: 10.1017/S0021875810001167.

Detroit Literature, Language, and Culture: Bibliography of Scholarship, Criticism, and Commentary Updated May 2019

Wadkins, Katherine E. “ʻFreakin' Out': Remaking Masculinity through Punk Rock in Detroit.” Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 22, nos. 2-3 (2012): 239-60. doi: 10.1080/0740770X.2012.721083.

Wagner, Linda M., ed. Critical Essays on Joyce Carol Oates. Boston: Hall, 1979.

———. “Oates: The Changing Shapes of Her Realities.” Great Lakes Review 5 (1979).

Waller, G.F. Dreaming America: Obsession and Transcendence in the Fiction of Joyce Carol Oates. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979.

Walters, Wendy S. “Blackness in Present Future Tense: Broadside Press, Motown Records, and Detroit Techno.” New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement. Edited by Lisa Gail Collins and Margo Natalie Crawford. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006. 117- 133.

———. “Turning the Neighborhood Inside Out: Imagining a New Detroit in Tyree Guyton's Heidelberg Project.” TDR: The Drama Review: A Journal of Performance Studies 45, no. 4 (2001): 64-93.

Wasung, C. J. "Emerson Comes to Detroit." Michigan History Magazine 29, no.1 (1945): 59-72.

Watten, Barrett. "The Constructivist Moment: From El Lissitzky to Detroit Techno." Qui Parle: Literature, Philosophy, Visual Arts, History 11, no. 1 (1997): 57-100.

———. The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural Poetics. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003.

Waters, Mark V. "Dudley Randall and the Liberation Aesthetic: Confronting the Politics of 'Blackness.'." CLA Journal 44, no. 1 (2000): 111-132. Rpt. in Poetry Criticism. Vol. 86. Detroit: Gale, 2008.

Whalan, Mark. “The Literary Detective in Postmodernity.” [Analysis of Elmore Leonard’s Freaky Deaky] Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 4, no. 9 (1998): 119-33.

Williams, Pontheolla T. Robert Hayden: A Critical Analysis of His Poetry. Urbana: Illinois University Press, 1987.

Williams, Tyrone. “Before the Laws: The Secular, Sacred, and Aesthetic Cases of Lawrence Joseph.” Poet with a Steady Job: An Introduction to Lawrence Joseph. Edited by Eric Selinger. Jacket 2 (2012). https://jacket2.org/article/laws.

Detroit Literature, Language, and Culture: Bibliography of Scholarship, Criticism, and Commentary Updated May 2019

Wojahn, David. “Maggie’s Farm No More: The Fate of Political Poetry.” [Includes commentary on Lawrence Joseph’s work] Writer’s Chronicle May 2001: 21-31.

Wolcott, Victoria W. “Mediums, Messages, and Lucky Numbers: African-American Female Spiritualists and Numbers Runners in Interwar Detroit.” The Geography of Identity. Edited by Patricia Yaeger. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996, 273-306.

Wolfram, Walter A. A Sociolinguistic Description of Detroit Negro Speech. Washington, DC: Center for Applied Linguistics, 1969.

———. Review of “Tsuzaki, Stanley M.: Influences on Mexican Spanish in Detroit. (The Hague: Mouton, 1970).” General Linguistics 13 (1973): 71-5.

Womack, Kenneth, and Amy Mallory-Kani. “‘Why Don't You Just Leave It up to Nature?’: An Adaptionist Reading of the Novels of Jeffrey Eugenides.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 40, no. 3 (2007): 157-73.

Wood, James. "Unions" [Review Essay on Eugenides’s Middlesex]. New Republic 227. Oct. 7, 2002): 31-34. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Edited by Jeffrey W. Hunter. Vol. 212. Detroit: Gale, 2006.

Yezzi, David. “A Morality of Seeing” [on Lawrence Joseph]. Parnassus: Poetry in Review. 19, no. 2 (1994): 83-90.

Zackel, Frederick William. “Elmore Leonard.” American Hard-Boiled Detective Writers. Edited by George Parker Anderson and Julie B. Anderson. Detroit: Gale, 2000. 233-246.

Updated April 2019

Please send comments and suggestions to: Frank D. Rashid Professor Emeritus of English Marygrove College 8425 West McNichols Road Detroit, MI 48221 [email protected]

Detroit Literature, Language, and Culture: Bibliography of Scholarship, Criticism, and Commentary Updated May 2019