Essays by Amanda M Capelli
Cagibi: A Literary Space, 2023
Essay on death, the things we leave behind, and the people who have to take care of it all.
http... more Essay on death, the things we leave behind, and the people who have to take care of it all.
https://cagibilit.com/human-remains/
The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Newsletter No. 23, 2022
"It was impossible to cross paths with Stoneback and
not find your orbit pulled towards his. In m... more "It was impossible to cross paths with Stoneback and
not find your orbit pulled towards his. In my notes,
“TRUTH” is in all-caps. I was trying to understand
something then I’d never heard before, but I’ve
understood it for some time now. When we see things
again and again, those dominant image patterns in text
and experience, it tells us something about the values,
and, if we are good, and sometimes even if we are not,
we listen. "
pages 14-15
The Routledge Companion to Literature of the U.S. South, Jun 13, 2022
The Routledge Companion to Literature of the U.S. South provides a collection of vibrant and mult... more The Routledge Companion to Literature of the U.S. South provides a collection of vibrant and multidisciplinary essays by scholars from a wide range of backgrounds working in the field of U.S. southern literary studies. With topics ranging from American studies, African American studies, transatlantic or global studies, multiethnic studies, immigration studies, and gender studies, this volume presents a multi-faceted conversation around a wide variety of subjects in U.S. southern literary studies. The Companion will offer a comprehensive overview of the southern literary studies field, including a chronological history from the U.S. colonial era to the present day and theoretical touchstones, while also introducing new methods of reconceiving region and the U.S. South as inherently interdisciplinary and multi-dimensional. The volume will therefore be an invaluable tool for instructors, scholars, students, and members of the general public who are interested in exploring the field further but will also suggest new methods of engaging with regional studies, American studies, American literary studies, and cultural studies.
Talking Writing, 2022
"In this particular memory, Keegan recounted watching his father take Logan’s head and cup his ha... more "In this particular memory, Keegan recounted watching his father take Logan’s head and cup his hands around the horse’s nose. His father leaned in and breathed deep, in and out, sharing the horse’s breath with his own. Keegan told me these stories as they’d been told to him, as he’d heard them told before in a circle of plastic folding chairs and cigar smoke."
https://talkingwriting.com/shallow-earth
Book Reviews by Amanda M Capelli
The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Newsletter, 2018
The 6th volume of the Reading Roberts Series sources its title from the above lines, taken from t... more The 6th volume of the Reading Roberts Series sources its title from the above lines, taken from the second chapter of Roberts’ most widely-read novel, The Time of Man. Place, as the title suggests, permeates the collection. This collection is a valuable resource for those who would like to see Roberts scholarship take a more interdisciplinary
turn. With Keenly Aware the Roberts project sets itself firmly in place, with EMR Society members acting as architects and preservationists of the Robertsean magic that inspired us all to complicate our ideas about what place really is and the locations we call home.
The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Newsletter, 2017
Kentucky Writers: The Deus Loci and The Lyrical Landscape. Eds. Matthew Nickel and Daniel J. Piz... more Kentucky Writers: The Deus Loci and The Lyrical Landscape. Eds. Matthew Nickel and Daniel J. Pizappi. Reading Roberts Series. 2016.
Time works differently in poetry. It stretches to include wide swaths of history and contracts in an instant, collapsing the distinction between the past, present, and future. For Pound, a poem’s true worth was measured by its ability to compress time, to make the emotional breadth of an entire lifetime palpable instantaneously through the use of a single image. The poems collected in Kentucky Writers: The Deus Loci and The Lyrical Landscape, the second collection of poetry published by the Reading Roberts Book Series, though each very different in technique and tone, wrestle with this balance. The volume includes both re-prints and original poems, however, all of the work collected here present images that respond to, in one way or another, the ephemeral nature of memory, the temporality of place, and the contradictions of human existence.
North Carolina Literary Review, 2015
Chamberlain’s heavily-researched novel succeeds in bringing the real faces of the sterilization p... more Chamberlain’s heavily-researched novel succeeds in bringing the real faces of the sterilization program to life. Her characters represent the spectrum of people affected by the program: from the social workers making the decisions, to the young girls sterilized without their knowledge, to the women who chose sterilization as the only option for their family’s survival. The two narrators highlight the extreme disparities found within Southern society.
Dissertation by Amanda M Capelli
Dissertation, 2017
Through an intersectional analysis of narratives written by women of color, applying and re-visio... more Through an intersectional analysis of narratives written by women of color, applying and re-visioning theories of madness and transgression, this dissertation will present a counter-narrative to the "essential womanness" developed within and sustained by white feminist practices throughout the 1970s. Each chapter pairs white feminist theorists with an author whose work complicates notions of universal female experience: Dunbar-Nelson/ Showalter, Larsen/ Chesler, Hurston/Gilbert and Gubar. These pairings create tension between theories of universality and the realities of difference. The addition of three different narratives, each representing a broader range of intersectional female experience, enriches the heteroglossia surrounding feminist conceptions of mental illness. The result is a poly-vocal conversation that employs a scaffold of intersectional identity politics in order to (re)consider the relationship between the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness and the performativity of gender.
Websites by Amanda M Capelli
The Deep South in the Global South Conference is a three-day, interdisciplinary conference inviti... more The Deep South in the Global South Conference is a three-day, interdisciplinary conference inviting all scholars and graduate students in the arts, humanities, and social sciences to submit critical and creative proposals that explore humanity’s interactions with and responses to an increasingly globalized world.
Papers by Amanda M Capelli
Routledge eBooks, Jun 13, 2022
The Routledge Companion to Literature of the U.S. South provides a collection of vibrant and mult... more The Routledge Companion to Literature of the U.S. South provides a collection of vibrant and multidisciplinary essays by scholars from a wide range of backgrounds working in the field of U.S. southern literary studies. With topics ranging from American studies, African American studies, transatlantic or global studies, multiethnic studies, immigration studies, and gender studies, this volume presents a multi-faceted conversation around a wide variety of subjects in U.S. southern literary studies. The Companion will offer a comprehensive overview of the southern literary studies field, including a chronological history from the U.S. colonial era to the present day and theoretical touchstones, while also introducing new methods of reconceiving region and the U.S. South as inherently interdisciplinary and multi-dimensional. The volume will therefore be an invaluable tool for instructors, scholars, students, and members of the general public who are interested in exploring the field further but will also suggest new methods of engaging with regional studies, American studies, American literary studies, and cultural studies.
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Essays by Amanda M Capelli
https://cagibilit.com/human-remains/
not find your orbit pulled towards his. In my notes,
“TRUTH” is in all-caps. I was trying to understand
something then I’d never heard before, but I’ve
understood it for some time now. When we see things
again and again, those dominant image patterns in text
and experience, it tells us something about the values,
and, if we are good, and sometimes even if we are not,
we listen. "
pages 14-15
https://talkingwriting.com/shallow-earth
Book Reviews by Amanda M Capelli
turn. With Keenly Aware the Roberts project sets itself firmly in place, with EMR Society members acting as architects and preservationists of the Robertsean magic that inspired us all to complicate our ideas about what place really is and the locations we call home.
Time works differently in poetry. It stretches to include wide swaths of history and contracts in an instant, collapsing the distinction between the past, present, and future. For Pound, a poem’s true worth was measured by its ability to compress time, to make the emotional breadth of an entire lifetime palpable instantaneously through the use of a single image. The poems collected in Kentucky Writers: The Deus Loci and The Lyrical Landscape, the second collection of poetry published by the Reading Roberts Book Series, though each very different in technique and tone, wrestle with this balance. The volume includes both re-prints and original poems, however, all of the work collected here present images that respond to, in one way or another, the ephemeral nature of memory, the temporality of place, and the contradictions of human existence.
Dissertation by Amanda M Capelli
Websites by Amanda M Capelli
Papers by Amanda M Capelli
https://cagibilit.com/human-remains/
not find your orbit pulled towards his. In my notes,
“TRUTH” is in all-caps. I was trying to understand
something then I’d never heard before, but I’ve
understood it for some time now. When we see things
again and again, those dominant image patterns in text
and experience, it tells us something about the values,
and, if we are good, and sometimes even if we are not,
we listen. "
pages 14-15
https://talkingwriting.com/shallow-earth
turn. With Keenly Aware the Roberts project sets itself firmly in place, with EMR Society members acting as architects and preservationists of the Robertsean magic that inspired us all to complicate our ideas about what place really is and the locations we call home.
Time works differently in poetry. It stretches to include wide swaths of history and contracts in an instant, collapsing the distinction between the past, present, and future. For Pound, a poem’s true worth was measured by its ability to compress time, to make the emotional breadth of an entire lifetime palpable instantaneously through the use of a single image. The poems collected in Kentucky Writers: The Deus Loci and The Lyrical Landscape, the second collection of poetry published by the Reading Roberts Book Series, though each very different in technique and tone, wrestle with this balance. The volume includes both re-prints and original poems, however, all of the work collected here present images that respond to, in one way or another, the ephemeral nature of memory, the temporality of place, and the contradictions of human existence.