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Item type: Item , The Resistance of Redbird (Zitkala Sa)(Rumpus Inc., 2020) Parker Ervick, KelceyA comic strip about Zitkala-S̈a,Item type: Item , Item type: Item , Yeats’s Dreaming Back, Purgatory, and Trauma(Firenze University Press, 2021-11) He, ChuAs few plays can compare with Yeats’s late play Purgatory with its probe into the tormented human psyche, this play can be viewed as a precursor to trauma plays we see later in modern Irish theatre. Yeats’s Purgatory not only deals with a subject of generational trauma accompanied by grinding guilt, shame, anger, and despair but also establishes many of the defining features of later trauma plays through its hybrid form of realism, symbolism, Japanese Noh, mini- malist setting, linear-cyclical structure, etc. Yeats’s interest in spiritualism and occultism also allows him a few profound glimpses into psychological studies: Yeats’s A Vision, though viewed by many as his philosophical writings on mystic spirituality, contains some pioneering insights into trauma. By placing Purgatory in dialogue with A Vison, I want to acknowledge A Vision as the theoretical framework for the play, which, however, does not reduce the play to a mere illustration of the theory Yeats outlines in his A Vision, but rather, enables us to understand the complicated process of working through trauma. Keywords: A Vision, Dreaming Back, Purgatory, Trauma, YeatsItem type: Item , Great Expectations(University of Cincinnati, 2018) Parker Ervick, KelceyA review of Michael Chabon's novel, Yiddish policemen's unionItem type: Item , Epicenter(Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library, 2020) Chaney, Joseph R. (Joseph Raymond)Item type: Item , Forgoing the Fictional Dream(The Cincinati Review, 2019) Parker Ervick, KelceyA book review of Lauren Binet's HHhHItem type: Item , “And can this be my own world?”: A Contact Dream with Kathryn Davis’s Duplex(The Cincinati Review, 2019) Parker Ervick, KelceyA book review of Kathryn Davis' novel, DuplexItem type: Item , Item type: Item , Item type: Item , Item type: Item , Item type: Item , Item type: Item , Review of Everywhere and Nowhere: Anonymity and Mediation in Eighteenth- Century Britain by Mark Vareschi(University of Toronto Press, 2020) Kahan, LeeA review of Mark Vareschi's Everywhere and nowhere : anonymity and mediation in eighteenth-century BritainItem type: Item , The South Bend Fugitive Slave Case(Rumpus Inc., 2020) Parker Ervick, KelceyA comic strip about the affect of a fugitive slave case in South BendItem type: Item , Women's Rights Men (Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. DuBois)(Rumpus Inc., 2020) Parker Ervick, KelceyA comic strip about Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. DuBois' support for women's suffrage.Item type: Item , The Substance and the Shadow (Sojourner Truth)(Rumpus Inc., 2020) Parker Ervick, KelceyA comic strip about the life of Sojourner TruthItem type: Item , On the Delicacy and Charm of Women (Rose Schneiderman)(Rumpus Inc., 2020) Parker Ervick, KelceyA comic strip about Rose Schneiderman's advocacy for women's suffrage.Item type: Item , Item type: Item , Item type: Item , Rewriting Trauma: The Legacy of W.B. Yeats in Marina Carr’s by the Bog of Cats(De Gruyter, 2020-11) He, ChuWhile a most original and creative playwright in contemporary Ireland, Marina Carr is still unmistakably influenced by her male predecessors. This article will argue that her most renowned work By the Bog of Cats ... (1998) is a bold rewriting of W.B. Yeats's Purgatory (1938). Like Yeats's play, By the Bog of Cats ... focuses on abandonment, betrayal, and murder as its main sources of trauma. While Carr's play is a direct descendant from Purgatory in terms of its theme, plot, and symbolism, Carr rewrites Yeats's pathetic, shiftless Old Man into a daring, strong, and responsible woman who may be embittered by her domestic trauma, but instead of escaping, she eventually faces up to her own guilt and crime. Hester is not a flat, helpless victim but a complex, well-rounded woman full of agency, passion, and honesty as well as vices. This way, Carr rewrites both the stereotypical stage image of Irish women and the unredeemable Old Man. Keywords: Marina Carr, By the Bog of Cats , W.B. Yeats, Purgatory, trauma, infanticide