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Public Culture (2017) 29 (1 (81)): 17–26.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Josef Sorett This essay tracks the evolving tensions between culture and politics in African American life to offer an account of how an idea of “church” shapes contemporary black literature and social activism. Although generally understood as a dramatic reimagining of the black past...
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Public Culture (1993) 6 (1): 97–131.
Published: 01 January 1993
... , Terry . 1981 . Walter Benjamin; or, Towards a Revolutionary Criticism . London: Verso/NLB. Eagleton , Terry . 1984 . Review of. Black Literature and Literary Theory , by Henry Louis Gates. New York Times Book Review. December 9. Eagleton , Terry . 1990 . The Ideology ofthe Aesthetic...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (2 (91)): 255–285.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., a dozen offers from universities who wanted him to direct black studies departments or programs. He was very amused by that, as well. In Berlin he never taught a separate course on black literature, but he did put the black experience into everything he taught. When teaching Faulkner, he would...
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Public Culture (2005) 17 (2): 203–216.
Published: 01 May 2005
... attention: the book’s literary and political grip extends well beyond its origins, so much so that its compelling ideas and memo- rable themes continue to shape valuable discussions of black literature and racial politics in postsegregation America.5 Let me clarify the issues at stake here...
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Public Culture (2005) 17 (2): 299–318.
Published: 01 May 2005
... scholarship on black politics, literature, and culture. Such rhetorical overdetermination and conceptual excess implicitly demand that we grasp, or forge, connections between seemingly sepa- rate discourses, ideas, even zones and times...
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Public Culture (1990) 3 (1): 33–48.
Published: 01 January 1990
... of the Center for the Study of Black Literature and Culture, University of Pennsylvania. This essay is part of a forthcoming book on the films of Sankofa, Black Audio and Ceddo Film Collectives. He has published on black film in Screen, Framework and Film Quarterly. l8 For a discussion of the use...
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Public Culture (1994) 7 (1): 3–33.
Published: 01 January 1994
..., an arena that requires perhaps more urgently than ever before, the good offices of critical memory. Houston A. Baker, Jr. is Professor of English and the Director of the Center for the Study of Black Literature and Culture at the University...
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Public Culture (2004) 16 (2): 239–264.
Published: 01 May 2004
... refers simply to Wright’s sustained deployment of the term masochistic in his discussions of subjects that are as difficult as they are diverse—the blues, religion, sexuality, black literature, and colonialism. The second refers...
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Public Culture (2005) 17 (2): 217–234.
Published: 01 May 2005
...Cheryl A. Wall © 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Cheryl A. Wall teaches African American literature in the English department at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Her latest book is Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition (2005...
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Public Culture (2001) 13 (1): 89–96.
Published: 01 January 2001
..., black witch of Salem] (Paris: Mercure de France, 1986); Condé, Ségou [Segu] (Paris: R. Laffont, 1984); Condé, Vie scélérate [Tree of life] (Paris: Seghers, 1987). 6. Fredric Jameson, “Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capital,” Social Text 15...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (1 (99)): 21–41.
Published: 01 January 2023
... . Washington, DC : Howard University Press . Rai Lala Lajpat . 1928 . Unhappy India . Calcutta : Banna . Rajashekhar V. T. 1987 . Dalit: The Black Untouchables of India . Atlanta, GA : Clarity . Rampersad Arnold . 1979 . “ W. E. B. Du Bois as a Man of Literature...
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Public Culture (2005) 17 (2): 255–276.
Published: 01 May 2005
.... Somerville, Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2000), 2, 3. 6. Houston A. Baker Jr., Long Black Song: Essays in Black American Literature and Culture...
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Public Culture (1994) 6 (2): 365–381.
Published: 01 May 1994
...David Palumbo-Liu Copyright © 1994 by The University of Chicago 1994 Literature Cited Barthes , Roland . 1977. “The Photographic Message.” In Image, Music, Text. Trans. Stephen Heath. New York: Hill and Wang. Barthes , Roland . 1972. Mythologies. Trans. Annette Laver...
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Public Culture (2005) 17 (2): 235–254.
Published: 01 May 2005
.... 56. Houston A. Baker Jr., Long Black Song: Essays in Black American Literature and Culture (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1972), 5; for Baker’s comments on Du Bois’s revision of the Arnoldian defi nition of culture, see 106...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (2 (91)): 431–439.
Published: 01 May 2020
... black writing” ( Mullen 1996 : 671). The nexus between orality and literacy, orature and literature, orality and textuality has long lay at the core of the critical debate in African American literary studies. It would seem, then, that Ong’s book should have had a major impact on the emergence...
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Public Culture (1996) 8 (3): 441–466.
Published: 01 September 1996
... were organized around five conjunctive themes, concerning the relation of Black Civilization to Arts and Pedagogy; African Languages and Literature; Philosophy and Religion; Historical Awareness and African Systems of Government; and Science, Technology, and Mass Media (Mveng 1977:1 17...
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Public Culture (1994) 6 (3): 465–478.
Published: 01 September 1994
...Karen Kelsky Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Literature Cited Alloula , Malek . 1986 . The Colonial Harem . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota press. Appadurai , Arjun . 1990 . “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy.” Public Culture 2...
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Public Culture (2004) 16 (2): 339–346.
Published: 01 May 2004
.... The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Eng, David L., and David Kazanjian, eds. 2003. Loss: The Politics of Mourning. Berkeley: University of California Press. Espiritu, Yen Le. 2003. Home Bound: Filipino American...
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Public Culture (2005) 17 (3): 517–519.
Published: 01 September 2005
... for Black Power. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Alter, Joseph S. 2004. Yoga in Modern India: The Body between Science and Philosophy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. Augé, Marc. 2004. Oblivion, translated by Marjolijn de Jager. Minneapolis: Uni- versity of Minnesota Press...
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Public Culture (2005) 17 (2): 319–338.
Published: 01 May 2005
... simple fashion, Symons’s poem. By meshing its beat with the syncopated styl- ings of “Nobody Knows” and his own words in “Of Our Spiritual Strivings,” he gives it a new signifi cation that is legible and audible exclusively in Souls. This splintered synthesis of Western canonical literature and black...