The Power of the Word ─ The Sacred and the Profane

Patsy J. Daniels is a Professor of English at Jackson State University. Her publications include articles in several scholarly journals, two books of critical theory, and one edited volume, Constructing the Literary Self: Race and Gender in Twentieth-Century Literature (Cambridge Scholars, 2013). The Voice of the Oppressed in the Language of the Oppressor (Routledge, 2001) discusses the postcolonial nature of twelve authors and their works, while Understanding American Fiction as Postcolonial Literature (Edwin Mellen, 2011) posits the postcolonial nature of American literature. She has been a peer reviewer for six different scholarly journals, and served as editor of a scholarly journal based at Jackson State University, The Researcher: An Interdisciplinary Journal, between 2008 and 2014.