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Jacobs, Elizabeth (Intellect, 1999)[more][less]
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=138/view,page=4/
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2160/6149 Files in this item: 0
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Jacobs, Elizabeth (MELUS, 2002)[more][less]
Abstract: In U.S. Latino Literatures and Cultures: Transnational Perspectives, writers from a diverse range of countries contribute a collection of critical articles, status reports, and original works in order to "foster and expand cross-cultural and interdisciplinary exchanges among scholars." Multiple perspectives aside, arguably one of the most significant features of the book as a whole is its distinctly dialogical character. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2160/6141 Files in this item: 1
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Jacobs, Elizabeth (Cambridge University Press, 2000)[more][less]
Abstract: The Chicano critic Genaro Padilla states that within the tradition of writing from New Mexico the experiential and discursive network of the Spanish colonial imaginary continues to effect the orientation of conceptions of self and home towards time past (Padilla 31-32). Certainly New Mexico was one of the primary arenas in which the Hispanos first achieved an authoritative sense of self and home in America. Yet the argument that texts dating from Spanish colonisation function as genealogically re-empowering narrative[s] is problematic in the light of recent trends within New Mexico's literary practice (29). Rather than seeking to recover a legitimating relation between themselves and a discourse of possession and domination from the past, it is my contention that contemporary Chicana writing in fact runs counter to this tradition. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2160/6136 Files in this item: 1
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Jacobs, Elizabeth (Oxford University Press, 2005)[more][less]
Abstract: A landmark scholarly work, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States offers comprehensive, reliable, and accessible information about the fastest growing minority population in the nation. With an unprecedented scope and cutting-edge scholarship, the Encyclopedia draws together the diverse historical and contemporary experiences in the United States of Latinos and Latinas from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Central America, South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Over 900 A to Z articles ranging in length from 500 words to 7,500 words written by academics, scholars, writers, artists, and journalists, address such broad topics as identity, art, politics, religion, education, health, and history. Each entry has its own bibliography and cross-references and is signed by its author. Essential for scholarly and professional researchers as well as the classroom and library, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States will fill a void in the historical scholarship of an under-served population. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2160/6134 Files in this item: 1
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Jacobs, Elizabeth (Indiana University Press, 2007)[more][less]
Abstract: This interview between Professor Mary King and Elizabeth Jacobs took place at the Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University, during the course of 2004 and 2005. Mary King’s work as Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies for the United Nations takes her to all corners of the globe. On this occasion she had returned to the United Kingdom to present a research paper at the international conference “The United States and Global Human Rights” held at Oxford University. The timing of the interview was made pertinent by this context and by the fact that it was almost forty years to the day after the main subject of the interview—the position paper by Mary King and Casey Hayden titled “Sex and Caste: A Kind of Memo”—first appeared at the SNCC retreat in Waveland, Mississippi in the fall of 1964. The paper was later published in the April 1966 issue of the pacifist and transatlantic War Resisters League Liberation magazine, and became a key text of second-wave feminism. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2160/6133 Files in this item: 1
Elizabeth Jacobs. final draft.doc (94.72Kb)