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The Disenchanted Literature of Homeownership, 1922 to 1968 (Book Section)Title: The Disenchanted Literature of Homeownership, 1922 to 1968
Author: Adrienne Brown
Editor: Chris Hager
Editor: Cody Marrs
Abstract: It is all but inevitable for literary history to be divided into periods. "Early American," "antebellum," "modern," "post-1945"—such designations organize our knowledge of the past and shape the ways we discuss that past today. These periods tend to align with the watershed moments in American history, even as the field has shifted its perspective away from the nation-state. It is high time we rethink these defining periods of American literary history, as the drawing of literary timelines is a necessary—even illuminating—practice.
In these short, spirited, and imaginative essays, 23 leading Americanists gamely fashion new, unorthodox literary periods—from 600 B.C.E. to the present, from the Age of Van Buren to the Age of Microeconomics. They bring to light literary and cultural histories that have been obscured by traditional timelines and raise provocative questions. What is our definition of "modernism" if we imagine it stretching from 1865 to 1965 instead of 1890 to 1945? How does the captivity narrative change when we consider it as a contemporary, not just a "colonial," genre? What does the course of American literature look like set against the backdrop of federal denials of Native sovereignty or housing policies that exacerbated segregation?
Filled with challenges to scholars, inspirations for teachers (anchored by an appendix of syllabi), and entry points for students, Timelines of American Literature gathers some of the most exciting new work in the field to showcase the revelatory potential of fresh thinking about how we organize the literary past.
Year: 2019
Primary URL:
https://www.worldcat.org/title/timelines-of-american-literature/oclc/1032291743Primary URL Description: WorldCat
Publisher: JHU Press
Book Title: Timelines of American Literature
ISBN: 1421427133
Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1920-1970 (Book)Title: Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1920-1970
Editor: Raphael Dalleo
Editor: Curdella Forbes
Abstract: The years between the 1920s and 1970s are key for the development of Caribbean literature, producing the founding canonical literary texts of the Anglophone Caribbean. This volume features essays by major scholars as well as emerging voices revisiting important moments from that era to open up new perspectives. Caribbean contributions to the Harlem Renaissance, to the Windrush generation publishing in England after World War II, and to the regional reverberations of the Cuban Revolution all feature prominently in this story. At the same time, we uncover lesser known stories of writers publishing in regional newspapers and journals, of pioneering women writers, and of exchanges with Canada and the African continent. From major writers like Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul, George Lamming, and Jean Rhys to recently recuperated figures like Eric Walrond, Una Marson, Sylvia Wynter, and Ismith Khan, this volume sets a course for the future study of Caribbean literature.
Year: 2021
Primary URL:
https://www.worldcat.org/title/caribbean-literature-in-transition/oclc/1178868083Primary URL Description: WorldCat
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Type: Edited Volume
ISBN: 1108495524
Creole Noise: Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and Performance (Book)Title: Creole Noise: Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and Performance
Author: Belinda Edmondson
Abstract: Creole Noise is a history of Creole, or 'dialect', literature and performance in the English-speaking Caribbean, from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. By emphasizing multiracial origins, transnational influences, and musical performance alongside often violent historical events of the nineteenth century - slavery, Emancipation, the Morant Bay Rebellion, the era of blackface minstrelsy, indentureship and immigration - it revises the common view that literary dialect in the Caribbean was a relatively modern, twentieth-century phenomenon, associated with regional anti-colonial or black-affirming nationalist projects. It explores both the lives and the literary texts of a number of early progenitors, among these a number of pro-slavery white creoles as well as the first black author of literary dialect in the English-speaking Caribbean. Creole Noise features a number of fascinating historical characters, among these Henry Garland Murray, a black Jamaican journalist and lecturer; Michael McTurk, the white magistrate from British Guiana who, as 'Quow', authored one of the earliest books of dialect literature; as well as blackface comedian and calypsonian Sam Manning, who along with Marcus Garvey's ex-wife, Amy Ashwood Garvey, wrote a popular dialect play that traveled across the United States. In so doing it reconstructs an earlier period of dialect literature, usually isolated or dismissed from the cultural narrative as racist mimicry or merely political, not part of a continuum of artistic production in the Caribbean.
Year: 2021
Primary URL:
https://www.worldcat.org/title/creole-noise-early-caribbean-dialect-literature-and-performance/oclc/1291319106Primary URL Description: WorldCat
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 0192670824
Schomburg's Library and the Price of Black History (Article)Title: Schomburg's Library and the Price of Black History
Author: Laura E. Helton
Abstract: This article asks how Arturo Schomburg assembled a collection that would bear value, literally and figuratively, for the New Negro. It focuses on transactions—how Schomburg bought and then sold his library—and disavowals—what he refused to purchase. Those moments when either the financial or affective price of history was too high for Schomburg show that the project of Black archive-building turned on absence as well as acquisition. Schomburg simultaneously critiqued the market's devaluation of Black textuality, ambivalently depended on that devaluation to afford his collection, and embraced an economic understanding of Black history as a form of reparations.
Year: 2021
Primary URL:
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/792241/pdfPrimary URL Description: Project Muse Link
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: African American Review
Publisher: Published by Johns Hopkins University Press
Our Readers Write: Mediating Africa Poetry's Audiences (Article)Title: Our Readers Write: Mediating Africa Poetry's Audiences
Author: Tsitsi Jaji
Abstract: This paper discusses challenges of the relative neglect of African poetry in literary and popular culture studies by attending to not only the primary texts, but the reading cultures they foster. Taking a diachronic and comparative approach, three serial publication formats across the past seventy years are examined: the Francophone African magazine Bingo from the 1950s to the 70s, the multiple printings of Chinua Achebe’s poetry from the 1970s to the early 2000s, and emerging digital platforms in the 21st century. In each case, the rhetorical strategy of parataxis, or the juxtaposition of various forms and genres, contributes to the literary value placed on the poetry and its circulation among diverse audiences. The paper reconsiders the popular as a category of analysis that challenges a truism of African expressive culture—ascribing orality to tradition and written texts to elite structures—by attending to lay reading publics and their energetic engagement with the academy.
Year: 2020
Primary URL:
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/766111Primary URL Description: Project Muse
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Research in African Literatures
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Trade of Tears: Removal's Resonance in the Black Atlantic (Book Section)Title: Trade of Tears: Removal's Resonance in the Black Atlantic
Author: Tsitsi Jaji
Editor: Nathalie Aghoro
Abstract: Sound positions individuals as social subjects. The presence of human beings, animals, objects, or technologies reverberates into the spaces we inhabit and produces distinct soundscapes that render social practices, group associations, and socio-cultural tensions audible. The Acoustics of the Social on Page and Screen unites interdisciplinary perspectives on the social dimensions of sound in audiovisual and literary environments. The essays in the collection discuss soundtracks for shared values, group membership, and collective agency, and engage with the subversive functions of sound and sonic forms of resistance in American literature, film, and TV.
Year: 2020
Primary URL:
https://www.worldcat.org/title/acoustics-of-the-social-on-page-and-screen/oclc/1250434981Primary URL Description: WorldCat
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Book Title: The Acoustics of the Social on Page and Screen
ISBN: 9781501361418
Spitting Back at Law and Order: Donnetta Hill’s Rage in an Era of Vengeance (Article)Title: Spitting Back at Law and Order: Donnetta Hill’s Rage in an Era of Vengeance
Author: J. T. Roane
Abstract: In this essay, I analyze the rise of vengeful populism in relation to sex workers in late twentieth-century Philadelphia as part of the popular response to the transformation in the city’s political economy. I juxtapose vengeful populism with the rage of Donnetta Hill, a Black sex worker tried and convicted for the murder of two men the state alleged were her clients. In order to appreciate the contours of rage as a fiery cascade of affect, emotion, and action in the hands of a Black woman who faced violence, economic depravation, and social ostracization, I draw on Black feminist thought, especially as located in Audre Lorde’s writing, about the generative nature of Black women’s and Black feminist rage. Rage, in the context of Black feminist analysis and in Hill’s actions preceding and after her conviction—which I classify as a spitting rage—signifies a form of power connected to self-preservation and the fierce desire to maintain one’s chosen bonds of family, kin, and community. Rage is thereafter a positive program of self-definition, resistance, and world making. I highlight the contours of Hill’s rage as a generative, if confined and constrained, force over and against the novel enclosures related to the transformation in urban geography, political economy, and politics in the decade and a half between 1980 and 1995. Though Hill’s politics remain largely illegible because of the bloody and vocal expression of her disquiet, I want to appreciate these as abolitionist resources, however constrained and impinged on by the violent context in which Hill attempted to survive and live in the wake of social and economic abandonment.
Year: 2021
Primary URL:
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/713303Primary URL Description: University of Chicago Press Journals
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
Publisher: The University of Chicago
A Totally Different Form of Living: On the Legacies of Displacement and Marronage as Black Ecologies (Article)Title: A Totally Different Form of Living: On the Legacies of Displacement and Marronage as Black Ecologies
Author: J. T. Roane
Author: Justin Hosbey
Abstract: This article is a critical reflection that explores the histories of water, marronage, and Black placemaking in the southern United States. It uses insights from history, ethnography, and cultural geography to connect the dual histories of racial slavery and environmental degradation in the Tidewater region of Virginia and the Mississippi Delta. This essay argues that, during slavery, swamps, bayous, rivers, and wetlands were geographies in which a fleeting Black commons could be sustained hidden away from the violence of the plantation. These same ecologies are now under extreme duress from coastal subsidence, the petrochemical industry, and climate change. This reflection argues that by charting the meaningful cultural, spiritual, intellectual, and practical insights of Black southern communities, an alternative ecological practice born of maroon imaginaries might be developed that could resist the degradation of these vulnerable southern ecologies.
Year: 2021
Primary URL:
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/786957Primary URL Description: Project Muse
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Southern Cultures
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
“The seeds of a different world are already alive in the everyday practices of ordinary Black and Indigenous people”: An interview with J.T. Roane (Article)Title: “The seeds of a different world are already alive in the everyday practices of ordinary Black and Indigenous people”: An interview with J.T. Roane
Author: J. T. Roane
Author: Megan Femi-Cole
Author: Preeti Nayak
Author: Eve Tuck
Abstract: J.T. Roane is assistant professor of African and African American Studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. Beginning in Fall 2022, Roane will serve as Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor in Africana Studies, Geography, and Global Racial Justice at the Institue for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. He currently serves as the lead of the Black Ecologies Initiative at ASU’s Institute for Humanities Research. In this interview with Megan Femi Cole, Preeti Nayak, and Eve Tuck, J.T. Roane examines the ways that the quotidian practices of Black ecologies and the tradition of Black feminist ecological writing and praxis alongside the work of Indigenous sovereignties serve as the basis for an alternative future beyond ecological catastrophe in the context of Turtle Island and with implications beyond. In his responses to the important questions posed in this special issue, Roane centers the alternative worldmaking embedded in Black feminist praxis and related traditions, considering them as the seeds for a generative future beyond the current horizons of future extraction and disposability. Roane’s contributions to thinking about this in the context of pedagogy and curriculum emerges from his own struggles to transform discussions about the environment through the framework offered by Black ecologies as a mode of thinking together the reality that gendered racial capitalism sequesters Black communities to zones of expendability and also that these same communities possess the cultural resources and political insights to create meaningful alternatives (Hosbey & Roane, 2021; Roane & Hosbey, 2019).
Year: 2022
Primary URL:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03626784.2022.2052638Primary URL Description: Taylor & Francis Online
Periodical Title: Curriculum Inquiry
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Kreyol Intertextuality and Decolonizing Narrative in Veillées noires (Article)Title: Kreyol Intertextuality and Decolonizing Narrative in Veillées noires
Author: Kevin Meehan
Abstract: This essay identifies three levels of intertextuality in the short story, “Echec et mat” by Léon-Gontran Damas. Incorporating folkloric tales, lyrics from popular music, and 19th Century satiric writing in Kreyol, “Echec et mat” offers a microcosm of the intertextual techniques employed throughout the entire collection, Veillées noires. In particular, I analyze Damas’s embedding of a satire written and published in Kreyol by Guadeloupean author Paul Baudot.
While this Kreyol satire—written by a white béké author from the mid-19th Century—is ambiguous politically, and must be determined by musical and folkloric references, Damas nevertheless signals the importance of earlier Caribbean writing in Kreyol. Such writing co-exists with other forms of cultural
production and is part of the reservoir from which Damas draws to assemble his complex anti-colonial discourse. These intertextual traces reveal a cultural identity that is plural as well as anti-colonial.
Year: 2020
Primary URL:
https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/dfs/1900-v1-n1-dfs05454/1071041ar.pdfPrimary URL Description: Erudit.org
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Dalhousie French Studies Revue d'études littéraires du Canada atlantique
Publisher: Department of French, Dalhousie University
Floating in Time with John Edgar Wideman (Article)Title: Floating in Time with John Edgar Wideman
Author: Walton Muyumba
Abstract: In a new collection of stories, the author invites readers to sit alongside him, listening and reading in multiple directions simultaneously.
Year: 2021
Primary URL:
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2021/04/06/floating-in-time-with-john-edgar-wideman/Primary URL Description: New York Review of Books website
Format: Magazine
Periodical Title: The New York Review of Books
Publisher: The New York Review of Books
New Empires: The Caribbean and the United States (Book Section)Title: New Empires: The Caribbean and the United States
Author: Imani Owens
Editor: Curdella Forbes
Editor: Raphael Dalleo
Abstract: The years between the 1920s and 1970s are key for the development of Caribbean literature, producing the founding canonical literary texts of the Anglophone Caribbean. This volume features essays by major scholars as well as emerging voices revisiting important moments from that era to open up new perspectives. Caribbean contributions to the Harlem Renaissance, to the Windrush generation publishing in England after World War II, and to the regional reverberations of the Cuban Revolution all feature prominently in this story. At the same time, we uncover lesser known stories of writers publishing in regional newspapers and journals, of pioneering women writers, and of exchanges with Canada and the African continent. From major writers like Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul, George Lamming, and Jean Rhys to recently recuperated figures like Eric Walrond, Una Marson, Sylvia Wynter, and Ismith Khan, this volume sets a course for the future study of Caribbean literature.
Year: 2021
Primary URL:
https://www.worldcat.org/title/caribbean-literature-in-transition-2-1920-1970-edited-by-raphael-dalleo-curdella-forbes/oclc/1284879988&referer=brief_resultsPrimary URL Description: WorldCat
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Title: Caribbean Literature in Transition
ISBN: 9781108495523
Saturation Race, Art, and the Circulation of Value (Book)Title: Saturation Race, Art, and the Circulation of Value
Editor: C. Riley Snorton
Editor: Hentyle Yapp
Abstract: Essays, conversations, and artist portfolios confront questions at the intersection of race, institutional life, and representation.
Controversies involving race and the art world are often discussed in terms of diversity and representation—as if having the right representative from a group or a larger plurality of embodied difference would absolve art institutions from historic forms of exclusion. This book offers another approach, taking into account not only questions of racial representation but also issues of structural change and the redistribution of resources. In essays, conversations, discussions, and artist portfolios, contributors confront in new ways questions at the intersection of art, race, and representation.
The book uses saturation as an organizing concept, in part to suggest that current paradigms cannot encompass the complex realities of race. Saturation provides avenues to situate race as it relates to perception, science, aesthetics, the corporeal, and the sonic. In color theory, saturation is understood in terms of the degree to which a color differs from whiteness. In science, saturation points describe not only the moment in which race exceeds legibility, but also how diversity operates for institutions. Contributors consider how racialization, globalization, and the production and consumption of art converge in the art market, engaging such topics as racial capitalism, the aesthetics of colonialism, and disability cultures. They examine methods for theorizing race and representation, including “aboutness,” which interprets artworks by racialized subjects as being “about” race; modes of unruly, decolonized, and queer visual practices that resist disciplinary boundaries; and a model by which to think with and alongside blackness and indigeneity.
Year: 2020
Primary URL:
https://www.worldcat.org/title/saturation-race-art-and-the-circulation-of-value/oclc/1105735558qPrimary URL Description: WorldCat
Publisher: MIT Press
Type: Multi-author monograph
ISBN: 9780262043687
Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle (Book)Title: Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle
Author: Shannen Dee Williams
Abstract: In Subversive Habits, Shannen Dee Williams provides the first full history of Black Catholic nuns in the United States, hailing them as the forgotten prophets of Catholicism and democracy. Drawing on oral histories and previously sealed Church records, Williams demonstrates how master narratives of women’s religious life and Catholic commitments to racial and gender justice fundamentally change when the lives and experiences of African American nuns are taken seriously. For Black Catholic women and girls, embracing the celibate religious state constituted a radical act of resistance to white supremacy and the sexual terrorism built into chattel slavery and segregation. Williams shows how Black sisters—such as Sister Mary Antona Ebo, who was the only Black member of the inaugural delegation of Catholic sisters to travel to Selma, Alabama, and join the Black voting rights marches of 1965—were pioneering religious leaders, educators, healthcare professionals, desegregation foot soldiers, Black Power activists, and womanist theologians. In the process, Williams calls attention to Catholic women’s religious life as a stronghold of white supremacy and racial segregation—and thus an important battleground in the long African American freedom struggle.
Year: 2022
Primary URL:
https://www.worldcat.org/title/subversive-habits-black-catholic-nuns-in-the-long-african-american-freedom-struggle/oclc/1294510576Primary URL Description: WorldCat
Publisher: Duke University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781478022817
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg in the Twenty-first Century: An Introduction (Article)Title: Arturo Alfonso Schomburg in the Twenty-first Century: An Introduction
Author: Laura E. Helton
Author: Rafia Zafar
Abstract: Who was Arturo (Arthur) Alfonso Schomburg and why, as we approach the sesquicentennial of his birth, do his life and work still draw us in?1 In the 1980s, coeditor Rafia Zafar, then a graduate student, read for the first time Schomburg's canonical essay, "The Negro Digs Up His Past," a text that has long served as a touchstone statement for scholars in Black studies. His often quoted imperative from that essay, that "the American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future" (231), has rallied generations of subsequent researchers and creators. For Zafar, Schomburg was a theorist of the African diasporic archive, an intellectual whose vision made possible her own academic career. Coming to Schomburg in the early 2000s and in the wake of the archival turn, coeditor Laura E. Helton, herself an archivist, saw him as part of a cadre of bibliophiles and librarians who laid the groundwork in the early twentieth century for nearly every [End Page 1] major repository in the United States devoted to Black collections. Schomburg was not the only collector of his era, but through his famous manifesto and his namesake institution, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, his story has become synonymous with the project of Black historical recovery.
Year: 2021
Primary URL:
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/792235/summaryPrimary URL Description: Project Muse
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: African American Review
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
A Practice Round for the Inner City: Circum-Caribbean: Occupation, Crack Cocaine, and Religious Duty in Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam (Article)Title: A Practice Round for the Inner City: Circum-Caribbean: Occupation, Crack Cocaine, and Religious Duty in Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam
Author: Alaina Morgan
Abstract: n/a
Year: 2023
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: The Journal of African American History, volume 108, number 2 (spring 2023)