236 research outputs found
Ellen T. McWilliams, Toledo, Ohio [approximately 1945]
No full textPhotograph of Ellen T. McWilliams, first administrator of the Lucas County Metropolitan Housing Authority and member of Third Baptist Church. The photo dates around 1945. Terms associated with the photograph are: McWilliams, Ellen T. | Third Baptist Church (Toledo, Ohio) | reproduction | housing | Lucas County Metropolitan Housing Authority | Administrators | African Americans | African Americans--1940-1960. | hats | hats--1940-1950. | eyeglasses | eyeglasses--1940-1950
Portrait of Ellen T. McWilliams
No full textA copy of a black and white portrait taken around 1955 of Ellen T. McWilliams. Mrs. Williams was the first woman manager at Brand Whitlock Homes, a Lucas County Metropolitan Housing Authority property. Married to Reverend Benjamin Franklin McWilliams, she was involved with many civic associations including the Colored Working Girls Home, the Toledo Interracial Council of Women's Missionary Society, the Frederick Douglass Community Center, and the YMCA. She died August 7, 1960
Adaptations of Joyce in the Fiction of Patrick McCabe
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Palgrave Macmillan via the DOI in this record
A Political Companion to James Baldwin
No full textIn seminal works such as Go Tell It on the Mountain, Notes of a Native Son, and The Fire Next Time, acclaimed author and social critic James Baldwin (1924–1987) expresses his profound belief that writers have the power to transform society, to engage the public, and to inspire and channel conversation to achieve lasting change. While Baldwin is best known for his writings on racial consciousness and injustice, he is also one of the country\u27s most eloquent theorists of democratic life and the national psyche. In A Political Companion to James Baldwin, a group of prominent scholars assess the prolific author\u27s relevance to present-day political challenges. Together, they address Baldwin as a democratic theorist, activist, and citizen, examining his writings on the civil rights movement, religion, homosexuality, and women\u27s rights. They investigate the ways in which his work speaks to and galvanizes a collective American polity, and explore his views on the political implications of individual experience in relation to race and gender. This volume not only considers Baldwin\u27s works within their own historical context, but also applies the author\u27s insights to recent events such as the Obama presidency and the Black Lives Matter movement, emphasizing his faith in the connections between the past and present. These incisive essays will encourage a new reading of Baldwin that celebrates his significant contributions to political and democratic theory.
Susan J. McWilliams is associate professor of politics at Pomona College. She is the author of Traveling Back: Toward a Global Political Theory and coeditor of several books, including The Democratic Soul: A Wilson Carey McWilliams Reader.https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_cr/1001/thumbnail.jp
Authorship and Strategies of Representation in the Fiction of A. S. Byatt
No full textThis thesis examines the portrayal of authorship in Byatt’s novels with a particular focus on her use of character-authors as a site for the destabilisation of dominant literary and cultural paradigms. Byatt has been perceived as a liberal-humanist author, ambivalent to postmodern, post-structuralist and feminist literary theory. Whilst Byatt’s frame narratives are realist and align with liberal-humanist values, she employs many different genres in the embedded texts written by her character-authors, including fairy-tale, life-writing and historical drama. The diverse representational practices in the novels construct a metafictional commentary on realism, undermining its conventions and conservative politics. My analysis focuses on the relationship between the embedded texts and the frame narrative to demonstrate that Byatt’s strategies of representation enact a postmodern complicitous critique of literary conventions and grand narratives.
Many of the female protagonists and minor characters are authors, in the broad sense of cultural production, and Byatt uses their engagement with representation of women in literature to pose questions about how cultural narratives naturalise patriarchal definitions of femininity. That Byatt’s female characters resist patriarchal power relations by undermining the cultural script of conventional femininity has been under-explored and consequently critics have overlooked significant instances of female agency.
Whilst some branches of postmodern and feminism literary theory have conceptualised agency differently, this thesis emphasises their shared analysis of the discursive construction of subjectivity, as it illuminates Byatt’s disruption of literary conventions. My focus on the embedded texts and the discursive construction of authorship in Byatt’s fiction enables me to address the numerous paradoxes and inconsistencies in the novels as fertile sites that undermine Byatt’s presumed politics
[Photograph 2012.201.B0393.0035]
No full textPhotograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "One of the interest of Mrs. Ellen McWilliams, president of Northwest Newcomers Club, is raising plants.
American-Irish Literary Relations
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Cambridge University Press via the DOI in this record.This chapter examines some key developments in Irish-American literary relations from the middle of the century to the 1980s. It begins by arguing that this was a period when Irish-American literary relations acquired a new complexity – in both the reception of the work of Irish writers in the United States and the emergence of a distinctive and authoritative Irish-American voice. It then goes on to examine the distinctive contribution of Irish and Irish-American writers to the development of the short story as a form in the United States, which was a process mediated and galvanised by the literary magazine The New Yorker, the natural habitat of writers such as John O’Hara and Maeve Brennan and, later, Elizabeth Cullinan. The chapter then discusses the expansion of the Irish-American literary canon from mid-century onwards and explores how key figures such as Edward McSorley, James T. Farrell, Mary McCarthy and Mary Gordon sought to engage with or contest influential Irish and Irish-American literary inheritances. These writers’ commitment to social realism invented a new version of Irish-America during these decades of cultural transition, one that often deliberately set itself apart from previous received scripts and mythmaking
Maeve Brennan and James Joyce
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record.As a New York writer, Maeve Brennan forges a relationship with Ireland as home that speaks to the separation and imaginative return so strongly associated with James Joyce while at the same time putting a careful distance between her work and Joyce’s formidable influence. Drawing on archival material at the University of Delaware and the New York Public Library, which amplifies our understanding of some of the intentions and motivations in Brennan’s work, this essay examines how Brennan transforms Joycean modes and motifs in her careful mapping and writing of New York in her essays for The New Yorker. Written under the pseudonym ‘The Long-Winded Lady’, Brennan’s essays for the magazine break imaginative ground in the city that she lived in for most of her life and expand outwards from the self-contained domestic world of Cherryfield Avenue so central to her Dublin stories. In taking her place in the Joycean tradition of writing the city and writing home, Brennan re-invents the image of the Irish writer bound to Ireland in spite of separation in time and distance; she achieves this by positioning herself in one significant chapter of her writing very emphatically as a New York writer. The main concern here is with Brennan’s adaptation of Joycean motifs and the different ways in which she positions herself in a direct line of inheritance to Joyce as she negotiates her position as a transatlantic writer in the middle of the twentieth century
Irishness and the culture of the Irish abroad
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record
A new paradigm for social work with offenders?
No full textIn an influential article published in 1979, Bottoms and McWilliams proposed the adoption of a 'non-treatment paradigm' for social work practice with offenders. Their argument rested on a careful analysis not only of empirical evidence about the ineffectiveness of rehabilitative treatment but also of theoretical, moral and philosophical questions about such interventions. By 1994, emerging evidence about the potential effectiveness of some intervention programmes was sufficient to lead Raynor and Vanstone to suggest significant revisions to the 'non treatment paradigm'. In this article, it is argued that a different but equally relevant form of empirical evidence - that derived from desistance studies - suggests a need to reevaluate these earlier paradigms for criminal justice social work practice
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