Major archives of Minnie Bruce Pratt's work
The Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture in the Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library at Duke University has acquired the following:
Minnie Bruce Papers, 1951-2005
Noted writer, poet, and activist. Collection includes manuscript material, as well as correspondence, files relating to speaking engagements, and photographic, audio, and visual material documenting Pratt's life and work. 120,000 items.
"Inventory of the Minnie Bruce Pratt Papers. 1970s-2005. Bulk 1975-2005"
Minnie Bruce Pratt: Interview at the 20th Anniversary of Bingham Center at Duke
"Minnie Bruce Pratt: "the life s/he wrote"
Critical studies of Minnie Bruce Pratt's work: Biographies
GLBTQ: An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer
Culture. www.glbtq.com 2007.
Contemporary Authors. Gale Reference, 2007.
Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary. Eds. Joseph M. Flora and
Amber Vogel. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006.
Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry, ed. Jeffrey Grady. Greenwood,
The Dictionary of North Carolina Writers, compiled by Lorraine Hale Robinson.
North Carolina Literary Review, 2003.
Contemporary Women Poets. Detroit: St. James Press, 1997.
Gay and Lesbian Literature. Detroit: St. James Press, 1994.
Contemporary Lesbian Writers of the United States. Eds. Sandra Pollack and
Denise Knight. Greenwood, 1994.
Critical studies of Minnie Bruce Pratt's work: Articles and Books
Katherine Adams. "At the Table with Arendt: Toward a Self-Interested Practice of Coalition
Discourse.” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. 17.1 (2002 Winter). 1-33. (Pratt, Ardent)
E. Caraway. “The Challenge and Theory of Feminist Identity Politics—
Working on Racism.” Frontiers12. 2 (1991). 109-29. (Pratt, Sandra Harding, Toni Morrison,
Bernice Johnson Reagon)
Cherry. “Hearing Me into Speech: Lesbian Feminist Publishing in North Carolina.”
North Carolina Literary Review 9 (2000). 82-102.
Driver. “I had to make a future, willful, voluble, lascivious”: Minnie
Lesbian Maternal Narratives.” Textual Mothers / Maternal Texts: Motherhood
in Contemporary Women's Literatures. Eds. Elizabeth Podnieks and Andrea Dr. O'Reilly.
Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010.
Eagleton. “Working Across Difference: Examples from Minnie Bruce Pratt
and June Jordan.” Caught
Between Cultures: Women, Writing & Subjectivities. Ed. Elizabeth
Russell. Rodofi: Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2002.
Fay. “'Between a Rock and a Hard Place'—On the Ontology of 'Home'
and 'Belonging'” CorpoRealities:
In(ter)ventions in an Omnipresent Subject. Eds. Body Project. Königstein: Ulrike Helmer Verlag, 2004. 171-90. (Pratt,
Fox. “The Race to Truth: Disarticulating Critical Thinking from Whiteliness.”
Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition,
and Culture 2.2 (2002 Spring). 197-212. (Pratt, Marilyn Frye)
Gilmore and Marcia Aldrich. “Writing Home: 'Home' and Lesbian
Representation in Minnie Bruce Pratt.” Genre
25:1 (1992). 25-46.
Holman Jones. “Crimes Against Experience.” Cultural Studies <=>
Jane Kaplan. “Deterritorializations: the Rewriting of Home and Exile in Western
Defining Travel. Oxford: University Press of Mississippi, 2002. 190-99.
Levitt. “Becoming an American Jewish Feminist.” Horizons
in Feminist Theology.
Eds. Rebecca S. Chopp and Sheila Greeve Davaney. Minneapolis:
Fortress Press, 1997. 154-164.
Martin and Chandra Talpade Mohanty. “Feminist Politics: What’s Home Got to Do With It?”
Feminist Studies, Critical Studies.
Ed. Teresa de Lauretis. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986. 191-212.
Biddy Martin. “Lesbian Identity and Autobiographical
Autobiography, Theory: A Reader. Eds. Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson. Madison: University of Wisconsin
McPherson. Reconstructing Dixie:
Race, Place and Gender in the South.
Autobiography, Theory: A Reader. Eds. Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson. Madison: University of Wisconsin
Pernal. Explorations in Contemporary Feminist Literature: The Battle Against
Oppression for Writers
of Color, Lesbian, and Transgender Communities. Peter Lang: Washington, DC/Baltimore,
Perry. “The Homecoming Queen: The Reconstruction of Home in Queer Life-Narratives.”
Auto/Biography Studies 15. 2 (2000 Winter).
193-222. (Pratt, Mark Doty, Gloria Anzaldúa)
M. Powell, “Look What Happened Here: North Carolina’s Feminary Collective.”
North Carolina Literary Review 9 (2000).
Rich. "Sliding Stone from the Cave's Mouth." The
American Poetry Review
19.5 (Sept-Oct 1990).
__________. “The Transgressor
Mother.” What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics. New
York: W. W. Norton, 1993. 145-163.
Taylor. "Women and Dixie: The Feminization of Southern Women’s History and
American Literary History 18 (2006): 847-860.
Janette Y. Taylor, PhD, RN;
Mackin, Melissa A. Lehan BSN, RN; Oldenburg, Angela BSN, BA. “Engaging Racial
Autoethnography as a Teaching Tool for Womanist Inquiry.”Advances in Nursing Science 31: 4 (Oct/Dec 2008).
Walsh. “Where Metaphor Meets Materiality: The Spatialized Subject
and the Limits of
Locational Feminism.” Exclusions in Feminist Thought: Challenging the
Boundaries of Womanhood. Ed. Mary Brewer. Brighton, England: Sussex
Academic Press, 2002. 182-202.
Weir. “Home and Identity: In Memory of Iris Marion Young.” Hypatia, 23:
(July/September 2008). 4-21.
Marie Whitehead. The
Feminist Poetry Movement. Jackson: University
Press of Mississippi, 1996.
“Minnie Bruce Pratt,” A Biographical Guide to Alabama
Literature. Eds. Bert Hitchcock and Elaine Hughes.
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1996.
___________. “Walking from the Tombigbee: An Introduction to
the Poetry of Minnie Bruce Pratt.” Southern Changes, Autumn
Reta Ugena. “Season of Lilacs: Nostalgia of Place and Homeplace(s)
of Difference.” Taboo 9: 2 (Fall/Winter 2005). 7-26.
N. Zita. “Lesbian Body Journeys: Desire Making Difference.” Lesbian
Cultures. Ed. Jeffner Allen.
Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990. 327-345. (Pratt, Audre Lorde,
Critical studies of Minnie Bruce Pratt's work: Unpublished Dissertations and Theses
Tonita Susan Branan. “Issues of Where: The Activity of Place in Contemporary
Southern Writing by Women.” Michigan State
University: 2000. (Pratt, Elizabeth Spencer, Gloria Naylor)
Gamber. “The Translator and the Translated: Bakhtin's Intra-linguistic
Dialogue and Minnie Bruce Pratt's ‘Crime Against
Nature.’” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Conference on College
Composition and Communication (Cincinnati, OH, March 19-21, 1992).
Cherry. “’Outlaws with Charm’: the Evolution of the Southern Lesbian Voice.”
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1999.
Grant. “Authenticity, Creativity and Activism in the Work and Lives of
Contemporary Lesbian Writer/Activists.” The
Union Institute, 1999.
D. Griffin. “Ex-Centricities: a Geo/Graphics of Self-Re/Presentation in the
Autobiographics of Dorothy Allison, Minnie Bruce
Pratt and Kim Chernin.” University of Massachusetts, 1998.
Kaloski-Naylor. "Elements of a Bisexual Reading." University
of York (United Kingdom),
Jane Kaplan. “The Poetics of Displacement: Exile, Immigration, and Travel
in Contemporary Autobiographical Writing.”
University of California at Santa Cruz, 1987.
L. McCormick. “Practicing Poetry, Producing Theory: Op/positional
Poetics in Contemporary Multi-ethnic American
Poetries.” University of Maryland at College Park, 1998.
Marinos. "The Dialogical Autobiography." McGill University (Canada),
Michele Powell. “Killing Scarlett O'Hara.” Bowling Green State
Parks. “Coming Out: The Emergence of Lesbian Identity in the Poetics
of Pratt, Lorde and Rich.” University of
Mississippi, 2001. B.A. thesis.
Carlos Daniel Schroder. “The Garden of Forking Tongues: The
Politics of (Sexual
Orientation in the) Translation of Poetry by
Minnie Bruce Pratt and Maria Elena Walsh.” University of
Maryland at College Park, 1999.
Michelle Thomas. “Queering Scarlett: Complicating the White Southern
University of Kentucky, 2001. M.A. thesis,
Marie Whitehead. “Voicing Difference: Self-Representation and
Conversation in the Women’s Poetry Movement,
1970-1999.” (June Jordan, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Joy Harjo, Gloria Anzaldúa, Irena
Klepfisz.) Emory University, 1994.
A direct product of the 1970s women's liberation movement, Feminary was
published by a women's collective in Durham and Chapel Hill. Started as a local
newsletter (Female Liberation Newsletter) in 1969, by the late 1970s the
publication had evolved into a quarterly "feminist journal for the
South emphasizing lesbian visions." Its content was largely literary
and the journal enjoyed regional and national readership. Members of the
editorial collective included Eleanor Holland, Helen Langa, Raymina Y.
Mays, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Mab Segrest, Cris South, and Aida Wakil. In 1985
the journal was passed on to a feminist collective on the West Coast.
Wynn Cherry. “Hearing Me
into Speech: Lesbian Feminist Publishing in North Carolina,” and
Powell, “Look What Happened Here: North Carolina’s Feminary
Collective,” both in North Carolina Literary Review, Number 9
What Does It Mean to be Queer in
(from "Queering The South," June 1997 Gathering in Atlanta, Georgia)
Queers and the civil rights movement * Is the south queer? * queer
rednecks, trailer trash, queer debutantes, queer mall rats * WHAT DOES IT
MEAN TO BE QUEER IN THE SOUTH? * carson mccullers * donald wyndam *
Flannery o'conner * tennessee williams * lillian smith * WHAT DOES IT MEAN
TO BE QUEER IN THE SOUTH? * blanche mccrary boyd * joey manley * jim
grimsley * shay youngblood * dorothy allison * minnie bruce pratt * mab
segrest * james baldwin * bayard rustin * WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE QUEER IN
THE SOUTH? * rita mae brown * bertha harris * june arnold * becky bertha *
luisah teish * bessie smith * ma rainey * michael stipe * anita bryant *
newt gingrich * bowers vs. hardwick * jethro * miss jane * elvis * jim
nabors * suzanne pharr * mandy carter * (in)visibility * alternative
spiritualities * radical fairies * southern drag * the military and
southern queers * institutional heterosexism * idgie and ruth * gospel
girls * lady chablee * ru paul * queer journalism * fighting the right *
religious right / religious wrongs * christian queers * queers and the
neo-confederacy * rural organizing * WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE QUEER IN THE
SOUTH? * outness / closets * butch / femme * southern style * s&m * the
south and AIDS
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