Journal Articles by Leah Milne
African American Review, 2019
MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 2018
South Atlantic Review, 2016
College Literature, Jul 2015
While critics have explored Ozeki’s novel, My Year of Meats, in light of ethnicity, gender, envir... more While critics have explored Ozeki’s novel, My Year of Meats, in light of ethnicity, gender, environmental issues, and the politics of the food industry, this article focuses on an aspect that connects all of these elements—namely, the authorial collaborations at the center of the text. The two author-protagonists, the narrator, Jane Takagi-Little, and her Japanese counterpart, Akiko Ueno, define themselves in relation to a third author, Sei Shōnagon, and her tenth-century miscellany text known as The Pillow Book. In response to Roland Barthes’s arguments about the “modern scriptor,” I argue that Jane’s understanding of authorship shifts in relation to her increasingly intricate interactions with Ueno and Shōnagon, eventually leading to the realization that authorial power can manifest itself in positive and productive ways. Through these collaborations, Jane begins to comprehend her own hybridity and difference, her role as editor, and a new way to view creative and artistic freedom.
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Online articles by Leah Milne
In the pages of John Lewis's graphic novel, March: Book Three, Civil Rights leader C.T. Vivian fa... more In the pages of John Lewis's graphic novel, March: Book Three, Civil Rights leader C.T. Vivian faces down the sheriff and other authority figures at the Dallas County Courthouse in 1965. As a backdrop to this confrontation, reporters' flash bulbs burst as policemen attempt to corral the crowd away from the building. The rain slashes violent vertical lines across asymmetrical panels as Vivian struggles to complete his rebellious act: registering to vote.
Book Chapters by Leah Milne
Growing up Asian American in Children’s Literature, University Press of Mississippi, May 2016
Multicultural America: A Multimedia Encyclopedia, 2013
El Escribano: The St. Augustine Journal of History, vol. 37, 2000
Reviews by Leah Milne
American Book Review, 2015
Papers by Leah Milne
Humanities
This article examines Percival Everett’s 2005 novel Wounded through three applications of the wor... more This article examines Percival Everett’s 2005 novel Wounded through three applications of the word “naturalistic” in order to show how the work complicates divisions between nature and man and man and animal. First, the article shows how its protagonist, John Hunt, contends with his relationship to nature as both a source of respite and as part of his livelihood as a horse trainer. Next, “naturalistic” elements of Wounded reveal how the mythic West of classic Westerns has influenced perspectives on the “real” West. Finally, the article assesses Wounded as a work of American literary naturalism, particularly in terms of the questions it inspires about free will and determinism. Together, these applications of the word “naturalistic” expose how nature acts as John’s barometer for human morality and individualism, forcing us to question whether man is truly superior over nature.
MFS Modern Fiction Studies
MELUS/Melus, May 18, 2024
The Journal of American Culture
The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction 1980–2020, 2022
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Book Chapters by Leah Milne
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