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Publications of Susan Willis     :chronological  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

  1.  Inside the Mouse: Work and Play at Disney World.  Durham, Duke UP, 1995. (Co-authored with Karen Klugman, Jane Kuenz, and Shelton Waldrep)
  2.  A Primer for Daily Life.  London, Routledge. Chapter reprinted in Das Argument, 189 and Ways of Reading (St. Martins Press), 1991.
  3.  Specifying: Black Women Writing the American Experience.  Madison, U of Wisconsin P. Chapter reprinted in Feminisms, Robyn R. Warhol and Diane Price Herndl (Rutgers, 1991), 1986.

Articles in a Journal

  1. S. Willis. ""Playing the Penny Slots"." Situations 2.2 (Winter, 2008).
  2. S. Willis. ""Foresnics of Spinach"." South Atlantic Quarterly 107.2 (Fall, 2007).
  3. S. Willis. "What Goes Around Comes Around." Social Text 77 (Winter, 2003). The Washington D.C. Snipers
  4. S. Willis. "Bunker Society." New Left Review 22 (July/August 2003). The shadow government in post 9/11 America
  5. S. Willis. "Anthrax R Us." Social Text 73 (Winter, 2002). anthrax hoaxes as social metaphor
  6. S. Willis. ""Old Glory" flag waving in post 9/11 America"." South Atlantic Quarterly  (Spring, 2002).
  7. S. Willis. "Anansi History: George Elliott Clarke's Whylah Falls." Journal of Commonwealth and Post-Colonial Studies 9.1 (2002).
  8. S. Willis. "Looking at the Zoo." South Atlantic Quarterly  (Winter, 2000). Landscape Design and the status of animals
  9. S. Willis. "Deportacion: el Jucio Contra Margaret Randall." Casa de las Americas 212 (Julio-Septembre 1998).
  10. "Hardcore: Subculture American Style." Critical Inquiry  (Winter 1993). A political analysis of conflicting style meanings in contemporary Punk and Skinhead subcultures
  11. "Disney World: Public Use/Private Space." South Atlantic Quarterly  (Winter 1993). An examination of cultural practices at Disney World with an eye to engaging the distinction between public and private sectors
  12. "Earthquake Kits: The Politics of the Trivial." South Atlantic Quarterly  (Fall 1990).
  13. "Work(ing) Out." Cultural Studies  (Fall 1989). Aerobics as a commodified form of labor
  14. "Learning from the Banana." American Quarterly 39.4 (Winter 1987). An examination of the logo as a sign of consumer society
  15. "Fantasia: Walt Disney's Los Angeles Suite." Diacritics  (Fall 1987). Towards a theory of American popular culture
  16. "Gender As Commodity." South Atlantic Quarterly  (Fall 1987). The influence of the commodity form on gender in children's toys
  17. "Alice Walker's Women." New Orleans Review  (Fall 1984). History and community in Walker's novels
  18. "Nobody's Mulata." Ideologies and Literature IV.17 (1984). Transcoding metaphors of sex and race into history
  19. "Caliban as Poet: Reversing the Maps of Dependency." Massachusetts Review  (Winter 1982). The de-abstracting nature of Caribbean poetry [Aime Cesaire and Nicolas Guillen]
  20. "A Literary Lesson in Historical Thinking." Social Text 3 (Fall 1980). An analysis of Harriette Arnow's The Dollmaker

Articles in a Collection

  1. S. Willis. "Photos: shadowing an enigma." Jean Baudrillard Ed. Francois L'Yvonnet. Paris, Cahier de l'Herne, 2005.
  2. S. Willis. "Disney's Besitary." Rethinking Disney: Private Control, Public Dimensions Ed. Mike Budd. Middletown, Wesleyan University Press, 2005.
  3. S. Willis. "Imagining Dinosaurs." Girls, Boys, Toys, Gender: An Anthology of Children's Culture Ed. Beverly Clark and Margaret Higonnet. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
  4. S. Willis. "Teens at Work: Negotiating the Jobless Future." Generations of Youth Ed. Joe Austin and Mike Willard. New York, NYU Press, 1998.
  5. S. Willis. "Play for Profit." Feminisms and Pedagogies of Everyday Life Ed. Carmen Luke. New York, SUNY Press, 1995.
  6.  "Memory in Mass Culture." History and Memory in African American Culture Ed. Genevieve Fabre and Robert O'Meally. New York, Oxford, 1994.
  7.  "I Shop Therefore I Am." Changing Our Own Words Ed. Cheryl A. Wall. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1988. (The influence of commodity culture on Afro- American cultural integrity)
  8.  "Black Women Writers: Taking a Critical Perspective." Feminist Theory and Criticism Ed. Gayle Green and Coppelia Kahn. London and New York, Metheun), 1985.
  9.  "Crushed Geraniums: Juan Francisco Manzano and the Language of Slavery." The Slave's Narrative: Texts and Contexts Ed. eds. Charles T. Davis and H.L. Gates. New York: Oxford UP, 1984.
  10.  "Eruptions of Funk: Historicizing Toni Morrison." . Spring 1982. (The historical content of Morrison's metaphors. Reprinted in Black Literature and Literary Theory, ed. Henry Gates [London and New York, Methuen, 1984])
  11.  "The Aesthetics of the Rural Slum: Contradictions and Dependency in 'The Bear'." . Spring 1979. (Reprinted in Faulkner, New Perspectives, ed. Richard H. Brodhead [Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1983])