Browsing by Author "Schultz, Jane"

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    Assessing Frederick Douglass’s 1853 Novella The Heroic Slave
    (Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2015-04-17) Kaufman-McKivigan, John R.; House-Soremekun, Bessie; Schultz, Jane
    In summer 2014 the Frederick Douglass Papers, a unit of the Indiana University School of Liberal Arts at Indianapolis’s Institute of American Thought published the first-ever scholarly edition of Douglass’s sole work of fiction, his 1853 novella, The Heroic Slave. With the support of the IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute, the Indiana University New Currents Program, a number of campus units, and Indiana Humanities, a scholarly symposium, "Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave and the American Revolutionary Tradition," was held on the IUPUI campus on October 9 and 10, 2014 to observe this event and to reassess the historical and literary significance of The Heroic Slave. The two-day symposium was organized by John R. Kaufman-McKivigan, Editor of the Douglass Papers, and Bessie House-Soremekun, Chair of the IUPUI Africana Studies Program. Nine internationally recognized scholars in the disciplines of history, literature, and Africana Studies attended this two-day event and presented original research on Douglass, utilizing the new Yale University Press edition of The Heroic Slave. Kaufman- McKivigan of the Douglass Papers and symposium participant Professor Jane Schultz of the IUPUI English Department will edit these papers and provide appropriate accompanying apparatus for a special issue of the Journal of African American History to be published sometime in late 2016. The symposium and the journal issue will become a valuable new addition to the expanding scholarship on Frederick Douglass’s central role in the nineteenth-century African American experience.
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    Memory and connection in maternal grief: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, and the bereaved mother
    (2017-12) Provenzano, Retawnya M.; Schultz, Jane
    This essay explores a broad range of literary works that treat long-term grief as a natural response to the death of a child. Literary examples show gaps in the medical and social sciences’ considerations of grief, since these disciplines judge bereaved mothers’ grief as excessive or label it bereavement disorder. By contrast, authors who employ the ancient storyline of child death illuminate maternal grieving practices, which are commonly marked with a vigilance that expresses itself in wildness. Many of these authors treat grief as a forced pilgrimage, but question the possibility of returning to a previous state of psychological balance. Instead, the mothers in their stories and poems resist external pressure for closure and silence and favor lasting memory. Harriet Beecher Stowe, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and Emily Dickinson, in letters to bereaved mother Susan Gilbert Dickinson and in the poetry included in these letters, represent maternal child loss as compelling a movement into a new state and emphasize the lasting pain and disruption of this loss.
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    The Mountain Maternal Health League and the changing politics of birth control in Kentucky, 1936-1949
    (2017-04) Holly, Jenny M.; Robertson, Nancy; Schneider, William; Schultz, Jane
    In 1936, Clarence J. Gamble, heir to the Proctor & Gamble fortune, established the Mountain Maternal Health League (MMHL) in Berea, Kentucky. Gamble had a strong interest in testing the effectiveness of simple birth control methods as a means to reduce the birth rate of impoverished and rural people and he would fund the organization for nearly six years as an experiment to test a jelly-and-syringe method of birth control in rural Kentucky. After his financial support ended, however, the organization continued. The women activists who worked with Gamble shifted the organizational focus, models of operation, and available methods to accommodate changing perspectives and expanding communities.