Joni Mitchell

Ruth Charnock is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Lincoln, UK. She is the author of Anaïs Nin: Bad Sex, Shame and Contemporary Culture (forthcoming, 2019) and various articles and essays on Joni Mitchell, Marvin Gaye, Anaïs Nin, contemporary American literature, and popular culture.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction
Ruth Charnock, University of Lincoln, UK

Section I. “The breadth of extremities”: Voice, Instrument, Feeling
Chapter 1. “The Hexagram of the Heavens, The Strings of My Guitar”: Joni Mitchell’s Crip Virtuosity
Matthew L. Jones, University of Georgia, USA
Chapter 2. “Oh Borderline”: Joni Mitchell’s Aging Voice As a Site of Queer Resistance
Emily Baker, University of Liverpool, UK
Chapter 3. Both Sides, Now: Voice, Affect, and Thirdness
Joanne Winning, Birkbeck College, UK
Chapter 4. “Dreams and False Alarms”: Melancholy in the Work of Joni Mitchell
Anne Hilker, Bard Graduate Center, USA

Section II. "The only [black] man in the room"?: Mitchell’s Milieu
Chapter 5. In Search of Lost Chords: Joni Mitchell, The Last Waltz, and the Refuge of the Road
Gustavus Stadler, Haverford College, USA
Chapter 6. Tar Baby and the Great White Wonder: Joni Mitchell’s Pimp Game
Eric Lott, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA
Chapter 7. Tangled Up in Blue: The Shadow of Dylan and Stylistic Swerves in Early Seventies Joni Mitchell
Howard Wilde, University of Hull, UK

Section III. “Busy being free”: Love, Time, Feminism
Chapter 8. “Here’s a man and a woman sitting on a rock”: Joni Mitchell, Margaret Atwood, and Irritable Feminism
Pamela Thurschwell, Sussex University, UK
Chapter 9. Hollow: “Cactus Tree” and the Signs of Freedom
Peter Coviello, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Chapter 10. “The only thing that’s never going away”: Still Listening to Blue
Ruth Charnock, University of Lincoln, UK

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Index