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Publications of Susan Willis    :chronological  alphabetical  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

  1. Willis, S; Jameson, S; Klugman, K; Kuenz, J. Strip Cultures: Finding America in Las Vegas. Duke University Press, 2015.
  2. Willis, S. Cartas a Legba: Um Texto Encontrado. Boitempo, 2008.  [abs]
  3. Willis, S. Portents of the Real: A Primer for Post-9/11 America. Verso, 2005.
  4. Willis, S; Klugman, K; Kuenz, J; Waldrep, S. Inside the Mouse: Work and Play at Disney World. Duke University Press, 1995. (Co-authored with Karen Klugman, Jane Kuenz, and Shelton Waldrep)
  5. Willis, S. A Primer for Daily Life. Routledge, 1991.  [abs]
  6. Willis, S. Specifying: Black Women Writing the American Experience. University of Wisconsin Press, 1986.  [abs]

Essays/Articles/Chapters in Books

  1. Willis, S. "John Muir's Sojourn in Bonaventure Cemetery." The Good Gardener? Nature, Human, and the Garden. Ed. Giesecke, A; Jacobs, N. Artifice, 2014. 
  2. Willis, S. "Bitta-Blue Farm and the Summer of BP." Earth Perfect? Nature, Utopia and the Garden. Ed. Giesecke, A; Jacobs, N. Black Dog, 2012. 
  3. Willis, S. "The Whole World on a Plate." Situations Ed. Stanley Aronowitz. 111.1Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work, (January, 2009): 151-164.  [abs]
  4. Willis, S. "Playing the Penny Slots." Situations 2.2 (Winter, 2008)
  5. Willis, S. "Forensics of Spinach." South Atlantic Quarterly 107.2 (Fall, 2007)
  6. Willis, S. "Work(ing) out." Cultural Studies: Volume 4, Issue 1.  2005. 3-20. [doi]  [abs]
  7. Willis, S. "Disney’s Besitary." Rethinking Disney: Private Control, Public Dimensions. Ed. Budd, M. Wesleyan University Press, 2005. 
  8. Willis, S. "Photos: Shadowing an Enigma." Jean Baudrillard. Ed. L'Yvonnet, F. Cahier de l’Herne, 2005. 
  9. Willis, S. "Bunker Society." New Left Review 22 (2003)  The shadow government in post 9/11 America
  10. Willis, S. "What Goes Around Comes Around." Social Text 77 (Winter, 2003)  The Washington D.C. Snipers
  11. Willis, S. "Old Glory." South Atlantic Quarterly 101.2 (Spring, 2002): 375-383.
  12. Willis, S. "Anansi History: George Elliott Clarke's "Whylah Falls"." Journal of Commonwealth and Post-Colonial Studies 9.1 (2002)
  13. Willis, S. "Anthrax R Us." Social Text 73 (Winter, 2002)  anthrax hoaxes as social metaphor
  14. Willis, S. "Looking at the Zoo." South Atlantic Quarterly  (Winter, 2000)  Landscape Design and the status of animals
  15. Willis, S. "Imagining Dinosaurs." Girls, Boys, Toys, Gender: An Anthology of Children’s Culture. Ed. Clark, B; Higonnet, M. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. 
  16. Willis, S. "Deportacion: el Jucio Contra Margaret Randall." Casa de las Americas 212 (1998)
  17. Willis, S. "Teens at Work: Negotiating the Jobless Future." Generations of Youth. Ed. Austin, J; Willard, M. NYU Press, 1998. 
  18. Willis, S. "Play for Profit." Feminisms and Pedagogies of Everyday Life. Ed. Luke, C. SUNY Press, 1995. 
  19. Willis, S. "Memory in Mass Culture." History and Memory in African American Culture. Ed. Fabre, G; O'Meally, R. Oxford, 1994. 
  20. Willis, S. "Hardcore: Subculture American Style." Critical Inquiry 19.2 (January, 1993): 365-365. [doi]
  21. Willis, S. "Disney World: Public Use/Private Space." South Atlantic Quarterly 92.1Duke University Press, (Winter, 1993): 119-137.  An examination of cultural practices at Disney World with an eye to engaging the distinction between public and private sectors [Gateway.cgi]
  22. Willis, S. "Specifying: Black Women Writing the American Experience." Feminisms. Ed. Warhol, RR; Herndl, DP. Rutgers, 1991. 
  23. Willis, S. "A Primer for Daily Life." Das Argument, 189 and Ways of Reading. St. Martins Press, 1991. 
  24. Willis, S. "Earthquake Kits: The Politics of the Trivial." South Atlantic Quarterly 89.4Duke University Press, (Fall, 1990): 761-785. [Gateway.cgi]
  25. Willis, S. "Work(ing) Out." Cultural Studies  (Fall, 1989)  Aerobics as a commodified form of labor [Gateway.cgi]
  26. Willis, S. "I Shop Therefore I Am." Changing Our Own Words. Ed. Wall, CA. Rutgers University Press, 1988.  The influence of commodity culture on Afro- American cultural integrity
  27. Willis, S. "Fantasia: Walt Disney’s Los Angeles Suite." Diacritics  (Fall, 1987)  Towards a theory of American popular culture
  28. Willis, S. "Learning from the Banana." American Quarterly 39.4 (Winter, 1987)  An examination of the logo as a sign of consumer society
  29. Willis, S. "Gender as Commodity." South Atlantic Quarterly 86.4Duke University Press, (Fall, 1987): 403-421.  The influence of the commodity form on gender in children's toys [Gateway.cgi]
  30. Willis, S. "Black Women Writers: Taking a Critical Perspective." Feminist Theory and Criticism. Ed. Greene, G; Kahn, C. Metheun, 1985. 
  31. Willis, S. "Nobody’s Mulata." Ideologies and Literature 4.17 (1984)  Transcoding metaphors of sex and race into history
  32. Willis, S. "Alice Walker’s Women." New Orleans Review  (Fall, 1984)  History and community in Walker's novels
  33. Willis, S. "Crushed Geraniums: Juan Francisco Manzano and the Language of Slavery." The Slave’s Narrative: Texts and Contexts. Ed. Davis, CT; Gates, HL. Oxford University Press, 1984. 
  34. Willis, S. "Eruptions of Funk: Historicizing Toni Morrison." Black Literature and Literary Theory. Ed. Gates, H. Methuen, 1984. 
  35. Willis, S. "The Aesthetics of the Rural Slum: Contradictions and Dependency in ‘The Bear'." Faulkner: New Perspectives. Ed. Brodhead, RH. Prentice-Hall, 1983. 
  36. Willis, S. "Eruptions of Funk: Historicizing Toni Morrison." Black American Literature Forum 16.1 (Spring, 1982): 34-42.  The historical content of Morrison's metaphors. Reprinted in Black Literature and Literary Theory, ed. Henry Gates [London and New York, Methuen, 1984]
  37. Willis, S. "Caliban as Poet: Reversing the Maps of Dependency." Massachusetts Review 23.4 (Winter, 1982)  The de-abstracting nature of Caribbean poetry [Aime Cesaire and Nicolas Guillen]
  38. Willis, S. "A Literary Lesson in Historical Thinking." Social Text 3 (Fall, 1980)  An analysis of Harriette Arnow's The Dollmaker
  39. Willis, S. "The Aesthetics of the Rural Slum: Contradictions and Dependency in "The Bear"." Social Text 2 (Spring, 1979): 82-103.  Reprinted in Faulkner, New Perspectives, ed. Richard H. Brodhead [Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1983]

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