The Deer Hunter
By Dave MacDowell, pilfered from who killed bambi? Maybe you have to have read H. Bruce Franklin’s Vietnam and Other American Fantasies to think it’s as funny as I do.
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John Smith, Pocahontas, and Cormac McCarthy
(The beginning of some notes on Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian as promised here. ) This one takes a little patience, but one of the most fruitful ways to track the judge’s representation of Indians is tease out the historical representations of Indians … Continue reading
Psychopathology
From H. Bruce Franklin’s Prison Literature in America: The Victim as Criminal and Artist. The sexual problems characteristic of each stage of our history have been analyzed most keenly in literature by Afro-American “criminals.” There is an unbroken line of development … Continue reading
