Category: Literary/Artistic Criticism

  • Two Takes on ‘Imitation of Life’: Exploitation in Eastmancolor The New York Times 2015-05-14 J. Hoberman “I would have made the picture just for the title,” Douglas Sirk said of his last Hollywood production, “Imitation of Life” (1959). But, newly released on Blu-ray by Universal, along with its original version, directed in 1934 by John…

  • Transatlantic Spectacles of Race: The Tragic Mulatta and the Tragic Muse by Kimberly Snyder Manganelli (review) Callaloo Volume 38, Number 2, Spring 2015 pages 405-408 Justin Rogers-Cooper, Associate Professor of English LaGuardia Community College/City University of New York, Long Island City, New York Manganellia, Kimberly S., Transatlantic Spectacles of Race: The Tragic Mulatta and the…

  • Dragons in the Land of the Condor: Writing Tusán in Peru University of Arizona Press 2014 264 pages 6.00 x 9.00 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8165-3111-0 Ignacio López-Calvo, Professor of Latin American Literature University of California, Merced Foreword by Eugenio Chang-Rodríguez, Professor Emeritus Building on his 2013 study on Nikkei cultural production in Peru, in Dragons in…

  • Visualizing Racial Mixture and Movement: Music, Notation, Illustration J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2015 pages 146-155 DOI: 10.1353/jnc.2015.0009 Brigitte Fielder, Assistant Professor of English University of Wisconsin, Madison The archive of nineteenth-century visual culture abounds with illustrations of racial difference reflect anxieties about racial mixture and movement. Race extends beyond…

  • “Almost Eliza”: Genre, Racialization, and Reading Mary King as the Mixed-Race Heroine of William G. Allen’s The American Prejudice Against Color Studies in American Fiction Volume 40, Issue 1, Spring 2013 pages 1-25 Brigitte Nicole Fielder, Assistant Professor of English University of Wisconsin, Madison In 1853, Mary King, the white daughter of abolitionists, was engaged…

  • Reading Racist Literature New Yorker 2015-04-13 Elif Batuman, Staff Writer Of the many passages that gave me pause when I first read “Lady Chatterley’s Lover,” in high school, the one I remember the most clearly is this conversation between Connie, Clifford, and the Irish writer Michaelis: “I find I can’t marry an Englishwoman, not even…

  • Jennifer Lisa Vest to explore ‘post-racial present’ at Women’s and Gender Studies Symposium Report: Faculty/Staff Newsletter Illinois State University 2015-04-02 Rachel Hatch, Editor Performing artist and scholar Jennifer Lisa Vest will be the keynote speaker for the 20th annual Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS) Symposium. Vest will present Black Lives Matter: [Trans]Gender Violence, Disability, and…

  • “In Lines of Descent,” Kwame Anthony Appiah traces the twin lineages of Du Bois’ American experience and German apprenticeship, showing how they shaped the great African-American scholar’s ideas of race and social identity.

  • Harlem and After: African American Literature 1925-present (EAS3241) University of Exeter Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom 2015-02-08 Taking as its point of departure the landmark special issue of Survey Graphic that announced the arrival on the artistic scene of the “New Negro” (1925), this module provides a historical survey of African American writing, 1925 to present.…

  • Natasha Trethewey Reactions The Arc of the Universe Bends Towards Justice The College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio 2015-04-02 Caitlin Ziegert Mccombs Natasha Trethewey, a Pulitzer prize winner and past Poet Laureate of the United States, came to visit and read some of her poetry for an audience much too large for Severance 09. After listening…