Truth of Buffy

Emily Dial-Driver is a professor of English at Rogers State University in Claremore, Oklahoma, and fiction editor of RSU’s Cooweescoowee: A Journal of Arts and Letters. Sally Emmons-Featherston is an associate professor of English at Rogers State University and the managing editor of Cooweescoowee. Jim Ford teaches humanities, philosophy, and religion at Rogers State University and is director of the honors program. His articles have been published in the Journal of Religion, the Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, and Honors in Practice. Carolyn Anne Taylor is an associate professor of political science at Rogers State University and previously served in the Oklahoma House of Representatives. She lives in Claremore, Oklahoma.

• Table of ContentsPrefaceEmily Dial-Driver      IntroductionJim Ford      What’s It All About, Buffy? Victor Frank and BuffyEmily Dial-Driver      Got Myself a Soul? The Puzzling Treatment of the Soul in BuffyJ. Renée Cox      Not Just Another Love Song: Buffy’s Music as Representation of Emerging AdulthoodJacqueline Bach      Is That Stereotype Dead? Working with and Against “Western” Stereotypes in BuffySally Emmons-Featherston      Lord Acton Is Alive and Well in Sunnydale: Politics and Power in BuffyKenneth S. Hicks      Willow’s Electric Arcs: Moral Choices Sparked by ConnectionsFrances E. Morris      Is It Art? The Artful “Hush” of St. Francis and the Gentlemen Blue MeaniesGary Moeller      Signs, Signs, Everywhere Signs: Brechtian Techniques in BuffyDavid Blakely      “The Ants Go Marching”: Effective Lyrics in Buffy EpisodesLori M. Butler      “Love the One You’re With”: Developing XanderJ. Michael McKeon      Texting Buffy: Allusions of Many KindsEmily Dial-Driver and Jesse Stallings      “What Shall Cordelia Say?” Buffy as Morality Play for the Twenty-First Century’s Therapeutic EthosGregory J. Thompson and Sally Emmons-Featherston      Witchy Women: Witchcraft in Buffy and in Contemporary African CultureJuliet Evusa      “I’m Cookie Dough”: Exploring Buffy IconographyKenneth S. Hicks and Carolyn Anne Taylor      A Life Well-Lived: Buffy and the Pursuit of HappinessJim Ford      Appendix: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Episodes      Works Cited      About the Contributors      Index