Browsing by Author "Carpio, Glenda"
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Black Humor: Reflections on an American Tradition
Early, Gerald; Carpio, Glenda Rossanna; Sollors, Werner (American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2010) -
Circus Aesthetics, Travel, History, and Mourning in the Poetry of Robert Hayden
Micconi, Giovanna (2016-02-16)Circus Aesthetics examines the work of the African American poet Robert Hayden and engages with the problem of identifying different frameworks with which to think about Hayden’s poetry and African American literature more ... -
Colony Writing: Creative Community in the Age of Revolt
Roberts, Kathryn Susan (2016-05-18)This dissertation studies the impact of a form of literary patronage, domestic writers’ colonies, on U.S. literary production in first half of the twentieth century. I discuss Provincetown, Massachusetts; Taos and Santa ... -
Conjuring the Mysteries of Slavery: Voodoo, Fetishism, and Stereotype in Ishmael Reed’s Flight to Canada
Carpio, Glenda (Duke University Press, 2005) -
Five Harlem Short Stories by Zora Neale Hurston
Carpio, Glenda Rossanna; Sollors, Werner (Universitätsverlag WINTER Gmbh, 2010) -
Forms of Affiliation: Nationalism, Pan-Africanism, and Globalism in Southern African Literary Media
Bosch, Stephanie (2015-05-20)Forms of Affiliation maps new literary geographies that cut across national, postcolonial, local, and global frameworks. Focusing on fiction from the 1950s to the present-day from South Africa, Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, ... -
Performing Passage: Contemporary Artists Stage the Slave Trade
Knight, Christina Anne (2013-10-18)My dissertation examines the work of George C. Wolfe, August Wilson, Lorna Simpson and Glenn Ligon, theater and visual artists working in the 1980s and 1990s who feature representations of the Middle Passage in their work. ... -
State-Funded Fictions: The NEA and the Making of American Literature After 1965
Doherty, Margaret (2015-05-18)This dissertation studies the effects of a patronage institution, the National Endowment for the Arts Literature Program, on American literary production in the postwar era. Though American writers had long cultivated ...