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Obama the Ellisonian: Another Reading of the President’s Worldview
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Obama the Ellisonian: Another Reading of the President’s Worldview

ByFrank Strong

Early in the speech that Barack Obama gave last year to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” standing in front of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama, the president asked, “What can be more American than what happened in this place?” That line deserved more attention than it got. To recap what happened there:…

The Millennial-Gen X Rift Part II: the MFA System And A Digital Latina/o Literary Renaissance

The Millennial-Gen X Rift Part II: the MFA System And A Digital Latina/o Literary Renaissance

ByDaniel Peña

Hector Tobar wouldn’t be the first to speculate about a contemporary Latina/o literary renaissance. That hype has been around for a long, long while. It surrounded the work of Gen X Latina/o writers beginning to publish in the mid to late 90’s and early 2000’s of which Junot Diaz is the most notable. The same…