| Author | : Franklin Sirmans |
| Publisher | : Menil Foundation |
| Total Pages | : 152 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : African American art |
| ISBN | : |
This title examines the work of 35 artists, including Jimmie Durham, David Hammons, José Bedia, Rebecca Belmore and James Lee Byars, who began using ritualistic practices during the 1970s and 1980s as a way of reinterpreting aspects of their cultural heritage.
| Author | : Ashraf H. A. Rushdy |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 302 |
| Release | : 1999-11-04 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0198029004 |
NeoSlave Narratives is a study in the political, social, and cultural content of a given literary form--the novel of slavery cast as a first-person slave narrative. After discerning the social and historical factors surrounding the first appearance of that literary form in the 1960s, NeoSlave Narratives explores the complex relationship between nostalgia and critique, while asking how African American intellectuals at different points between 1976 and 1990 remember and use the site of slavery to represent the crucial cultural debates that arose during the sixties.
| Author | : Dana Mihăilescu |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 410 |
| Release | : 2014-06-12 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1443861626 |
This volume collects work by several European, North American, and Australian academics who are interested in examining the performance and transmission of post-traumatic memory in the contemporary United States. The contributors depart from the interpretation of trauma as a unique exceptional event that shatters all systems of representation, as seen in the writing of early trauma theorists like Cathy Caruth, Shoshana Felman, and Dominick LaCapra. Rather, the chapters in this collection are in conversation with more recent readings of trauma such as Michael Rothberg’s “multidirectional memory” (2009), the role of mediation and remediation in the dynamics of cultural memory (Astrid Erll, 2012; Aleida Assman, 2011), and Stef Craps’ focus on “postcolonial witnessing” and its cross-cultural dimension (2013). The corpus of post-traumatic narratives under discussion includes fiction, diaries, memoirs, films, visual narratives, and oral testimonies. A complicated dialogue between various and sometimes conflicting narratives is thus generated and examined along four main lines in this volume: trauma in the context of “multidirectional memory”; the representation of trauma in autobiographical texts; the dynamic of public forms of national commemoration; and the problematic instantiation of 9/11 as a traumatic landmark.
| Author | : Alfred Bendixen |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 1442 |
| Release | : 2014-10-27 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1316123308 |
The Cambridge History of American Poetry offers a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their beginnings until the end of the twentieth century. Bringing together the insights of fifty distinguished scholars, this literary history emphasizes the complex roles that poetry has played in American cultural and intellectual life, detailing the variety of ways in which both public and private forms of poetry have met the needs of different communities at different times. The Cambridge History of American Poetry recognizes the existence of multiple traditions and a dramatically fluid canon, providing current perspectives on both major authors and a number of representative figures whose work embodies the diversity of America's democratic traditions.
| Author | : Darius James |
| Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
| Total Pages | : 209 |
| Release | : 2019-02-19 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1681373483 |
A provocative, raucous dark comedy about race and racism in America, now back in print after twenty-five years and with a new preface by the author. Darius James’s scabrous, unapologetically raunchy, truly hilarious, and deeply scary Negrophobia is a wild-eyed reckoning with the mutating insanity of American racism. A screenplay for the mind, a performance on the page, a work of poetry, a mad mix of genres and styles, a novel in the tradition of William S. Burroughs and Ishmael Reed that is like no other novel, Negrophobia begins with the blonde bombshell Bubbles Brazil succumbing to a voodoo spell and entering the inner darkness of her own shiny being. Here crackheads parade in the guise of Muppets, Muslims beat conga drums, Negroes have numbers for names, and H. Rap Remus demands the total and instantaneous extermination of the white race through spontaneous combustion. By the end of it all, after going on a weird trip for the ages, Bubbles herself is strangely transformed.
| Author | : Jerome Rothenberg |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 522 |
| Release | : 2016-04-19 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0520293118 |
EDWARD L. SCHIEFFELIN: From The Sorrow of the Lonely and the Burning of the Dancers
| Author | : Vincent L. Wimbush |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 912 |
| Release | : 2012-09-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1725230895 |
Perhaps no other group of people has been as much formed by biblical texts and tropes as African Americans. From literature and the arts to popular culture and everyday life, the Bible courses through black society and culture like blood through veins. Despite the enormous recent interest in African American religion, relatively little attention has been paid to the diversity of ways in which African Americans have utilized the Bible. African Americans and the Bible is the fruit of a four-year collaborative research project directed by Vincent L. Wimbush and funded by the Lilly Endowment. It brings together scholars and experts (sixty-eight in all) from a wide range of academic and artistic fields and disciplines--including ethnography, cultural history, and biblical studies as well as art, music, film, dance, drama, and literature. The focus is on the interaction between the people known as African Americans and that complex of visions, rhetorics, and ideologies known as the Bible. As such, the book is less about the meaning(s) of the Bible than about the Bible and meaning(s), less about the world(s) of the Bible than about how worlds and the Bible interact--in short, about how a text constructs a people and a people constructs a text. It is about a particular sociocultural formation but also about the dynamics that obtain in the interrelation between any group of people and sacred texts in general. Thus African Americans and the Bible provides an exemplum of sociocultural formation and a critical lens through which the process of sociocultural formation can be viewed.
| Author | : Isidore Okpewho |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 598 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780253214942 |
"This book examines the character of New World black cultures and their relationships with the plural societies within which they function. This volume seeks a balanced look at the fate of the African presence in Western society as well as insights into the sources of periodic conflict between blacks and others."--Résumé de l'éditeur.
| Author | : Paul Buhle |
| Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 1987 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0816614091 |
Essays discuss television criticism, science fiction, horror, women's humor, sports novels, country music, comic strips, and television programs
