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Marisa Parham deposited Saying “Yes”: Textual Traumas in Octavia Butler’s Kindred on Humanities Commons 6 years, 8 months ago
The problem of the “yes,” of affirming an historical identity that is potentially harmful to oneself, troubles some of the imaginative leaps necessary to how readers desire to identify with texts. With that in mind, this article reads Octavia Butler’s 1979 novel Kindred as a story about memory, history, and embodiment as written both on and thr…[Read more]
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Marisa Parham's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 8 months ago
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Marisa Parham's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 8 months ago
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Marisa Parham deposited Hughes, Cullen, and the In-sites of Loss on Humanities Commons 6 years, 8 months ago
This essay explores how Pierre Nora’s sites of memory work a specific cultural function through what Melvin Dixon refers to as “a memory that ultimately rewrites history.” I look at two of the most well-known poems of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes’s “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” and Countee Cullen’s “Heritage,” one of which reveals a…[Read more]
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Marisa Parham deposited 17, or, Tough, Dark, Vulnerable, Moody: James Baldwin on Humanities Commons 6 years, 8 months ago
In its encounter with James Baldwin across form— “Letter to my nephew,” “Sonny’s Blues,” and archival footage of Baldwin being interviewed by the psychologist Kenneth Clark— this article offers an exploration of how Baldwin’s figuration of children and his own acts of care illuminate the political possibilities of both filiation and aff…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 8 months ago
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Charlie Gleek's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months ago
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Charlie Gleek's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months ago
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Richard Wright’s Globalism in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoThis essay takes a long view of Wright’s work, arguing that his racial consciousness always extended beyond national boundaries and was forged from a globalist perspective. This outlook is not, as some critics have maintained, a late-stage development in Wright’s career, but rather the predominant theme that unites his oeuvre with a single con…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Richard Wright’s Globalism in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoThis essay takes a long view of Wright’s work, arguing that his racial consciousness always extended beyond national boundaries and was forged from a globalist perspective. This outlook is not, as some critics have maintained, a late-stage development in Wright’s career, but rather the predominant theme that unites his oeuvre with a single con…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Richard Wright’s Globalism in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoThis essay takes a long view of Wright’s work, arguing that his racial consciousness always extended beyond national boundaries and was forged from a globalist perspective. This outlook is not, as some critics have maintained, a late-stage development in Wright’s career, but rather the predominant theme that unites his oeuvre with a single con…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Richard Wright’s Globalism in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoThis essay takes a long view of Wright’s work, arguing that his racial consciousness always extended beyond national boundaries and was forged from a globalist perspective. This outlook is not, as some critics have maintained, a late-stage development in Wright’s career, but rather the predominant theme that unites his oeuvre with a single con…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Richard Wright’s Globalism in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoThis essay takes a long view of Wright’s work, arguing that his racial consciousness always extended beyond national boundaries and was forged from a globalist perspective. This outlook is not, as some critics have maintained, a late-stage development in Wright’s career, but rather the predominant theme that unites his oeuvre with a single con…[Read more]
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This essay takes a long view of Wright’s work, arguing that his racial consciousness always extended beyond national boundaries and was forged from a globalist perspective. This outlook is not, as some critics have maintained, a late-stage development in Wright’s career, but rather the predominant theme that unites his oeuvre with a single con…[Read more]
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Charlie Gleek deposited Ph.D. Examination List in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoMy Ph.D. examination bibliography in the fields of Contemporary Southern Literature and Contemporary Book History and Print Culture
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Charlie Gleek deposited Centuries of Black Artists’ Books in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoBlack artists have created, modified, or otherwise treated the book as an object of aesthetic expression since at least the nineteenth century. African American artists’ production and circulation of friendship albums and scrapbooks, democratic multiples and artist publishing, accordion folds, enclosures, and fine printing editions, all work to…[Read more]
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Charlie Gleek deposited Centuries of Black Artists’ Books in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoBlack artists have created, modified, or otherwise treated the book as an object of aesthetic expression since at least the nineteenth century. African American artists’ production and circulation of friendship albums and scrapbooks, democratic multiples and artist publishing, accordion folds, enclosures, and fine printing editions, all work to…[Read more]
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My Ph.D. examination bibliography in the fields of Contemporary Southern Literature and Contemporary Book History and Print Culture
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Charlie Gleek's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months ago
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Charlie Gleek deposited Centuries of Black Artists’ Books on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months ago
Black artists have created, modified, or otherwise treated the book as an object of aesthetic expression since at least the nineteenth century. African American artists’ production and circulation of friendship albums and scrapbooks, democratic multiples and artist publishing, accordion folds, enclosures, and fine printing editions, all work to…[Read more]
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