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This book features theorized narratives from academics who inhabit
marginalized identity positions, including, among others, academics
with non-normative genders, sexualities, and relationships;
nontenured faculty; racial and ethnic minorities; scholars with
HIV, depression and anxiety, and other disabilities; immigrants and
international students; and poor and working-class faculty and
students. The chapters in this volume explore the ways in which
marginalized identities fundamentally shape and impact the academic
experience; thus, the contributors in this collection demonstrate
how academic outsiderism works both within the confines of their
college or university systems, and a broader matrix of community,
state, and international relations. With an emphasis on the
inherent intersectionality of identity positions, this book
addresses the broad matrix of ways academics navigate their
particular locations as marginalized subjects.
This book features theorized narratives from academics who inhabit
marginalized identity positions, including, among others, academics
with non-normative genders, sexualities, and relationships;
nontenured faculty; racial and ethnic minorities; scholars with
HIV, depression and anxiety, and other disabilities; immigrants and
international students; and poor and working-class faculty and
students. The chapters in this volume explore the ways in which
marginalized identities fundamentally shape and impact the academic
experience; thus, the contributors in this collection demonstrate
how academic outsiderism works both within the confines of their
college or university systems, and a broader matrix of community,
state, and international relations. With an emphasis on the
inherent intersectionality of identity positions, this book
addresses the broad matrix of ways academics navigate their
particular locations as marginalized subjects.
Contributions by Cecile Accilien, Maria Rice Bellamy, Gwen Bergner,
Olga Blomgren, Maia L. Butler, Isabel Caldeira, Nadege T.
Clitandre, Thadious Davis, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Laura Dawkins,
Megan Feifer, Delphine Gras, Akia Jackson, Tammie Jenkins, Shewonda
Leger, Jennifer Lozano, Marion Rohrleitner, Thomas Rothe, Erika
Serrato, Lucia Stecher, and Joyce White Narrating History, Home,
and Dyaspora: Critical Essays on Edwidge Danticat contains fifteen
essays addressing how Edwidge Danticat's writing, anthologizing,
and storytelling trace, (re)construct, and develop alternate
histories, narratives of nation building, and conceptions of home
and belonging. The prolific Danticat is renowned for novels,
collections of short fiction, nonfiction, and editorial writing. As
her experimentation in form expands, so does her force as a public
intellectual. Danticat's literary representations, political
commentary, and personal activism have proven vital to classroom
and community work imagining radical futures. Among increasing
anti-immigrant sentiment and containment and rampant ecological
volatility, Danticat's contributions to public discourse, art, and
culture deserve sustained critical attention. These essays offer
essential perspectives to scholars, public intellectuals, and
students interested in African diasporic, Haitian, Caribbean, and
transnational American literary studies. This collection frames
Danticat's work as an indictment of statelessness, racialized and
gendered state violence, the persistence of political and economic
margins, and the essential vitality of life in and as dyaspora. The
first section of this volume, "The Other Side of the Water,"
engages with Danticat's construction and negotiation of nation,
both in Haiti and the United States; the broader dyaspora; and her
own, her family's, and her fictional characters' places within
them. The second section, "Welcoming Ghosts," delves into the
ever-present specter of history and memory, prominent themes found
throughout Danticat's work. From origin stories to broader Haitian
histories, this section addresses the underlying traumas involved
when remembering the past and its relationship to the present. The
third section, "I Speak Out," explores the imperative to speak,
paying particular attention to the narrative form with which such
telling occurs. The fourth and final section, "Create Dangerously,"
contends with Haitians' activism, community building, and the
political and ecological climate of Haiti and its dyaspora.
Contributions by Danielle Christmas, Joanna Davis-McElligatt,
Garrett Bridger Gilmore, Spencer R. Herrera, Cassandra Jackson,
Stacie McCormick, Maria Seger, Randi Lynn Tanglen, Brook Thomas,
Michael C. Weisenburg, and Lisa Woolfork Reading Confederate
Monuments addresses the urgent and vital need for scholars,
educators, and the general public to be able to read and interpret
the literal and cultural Confederate monuments pervading life in
the contemporary United States. The literary and cultural studies
scholars featured in this collection engage many different archives
and methods, demonstrating how to read literal Confederate
monuments as texts and in the context of the assortment of
literatures that produced and celebrated them. They further explore
how to read the literary texts advancing and contesting Confederate
ideology in the US cultural imaginary-then and now-as monuments in
and of themselves. On top of that, the essays published here lay
bare the cultural and pedagogical work of Confederate monuments and
counter-monuments-divulging how and what they teach their readers
as communal and yet contested narratives-thereby showing why the
persistence of Confederate monuments matters greatly to local and
national notions of racial justice and belonging. In doing so, this
collection illustrates what critics of US literature and culture
can offer to ongoing scholarly and public discussions about
Confederate monuments and memory. Even as we remove, relocate, and
recontextualize the physical symbols of the Confederacy dotting the
US landscape, the complicated histories, cultural products, and
pedagogies of Confederate ideology remain embedded in the national
consciousness. To disrupt and potentially dismantle these enduring
narratives alongside the statues themselves, we must be able to
recognize, analyze, and resist them in US life. The pieces in this
collection position us to think deeply about how and why we should
continue that work.
Contributions by Cecile Accilien, Maria Rice Bellamy, Gwen Bergner,
Olga Blomgren, Maia L. Butler, Isabel Caldeira, Nadege T.
Clitandre, Thadious Davis, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Laura Dawkins,
Megan Feifer, Delphine Gras, Akia Jackson, Tammie Jenkins, Shewonda
Leger, Jennifer Lozano, Marion Rohrleitner, Thomas Rothe, Erika
Serrato, Lucia Stecher, and Joyce White Narrating History, Home,
and Dyaspora: Critical Essays on Edwidge Danticat contains fifteen
essays addressing how Edwidge Danticat's writing, anthologizing,
and storytelling trace, (re)construct, and develop alternate
histories, narratives of nation building, and conceptions of home
and belonging. The prolific Danticat is renowned for novels,
collections of short fiction, nonfiction, and editorial writing. As
her experimentation in form expands, so does her force as a public
intellectual. Danticat's literary representations, political
commentary, and personal activism have proven vital to classroom
and community work imagining radical futures. Among increasing
anti-immigrant sentiment and containment and rampant ecological
volatility, Danticat's contributions to public discourse, art, and
culture deserve sustained critical attention. These essays offer
essential perspectives to scholars, public intellectuals, and
students interested in African diasporic, Haitian, Caribbean, and
transnational American literary studies. This collection frames
Danticat's work as an indictment of statelessness, racialized and
gendered state violence, the persistence of political and economic
margins, and the essential vitality of life in and as dyaspora. The
first section of this volume, "The Other Side of the Water,"
engages with Danticat's construction and negotiation of nation,
both in Haiti and the United States; the broader dyaspora; and her
own, her family's, and her fictional characters' places within
them. The second section, "Welcoming Ghosts," delves into the
ever-present specter of history and memory, prominent themes found
throughout Danticat's work. From origin stories to broader Haitian
histories, this section addresses the underlying traumas involved
when remembering the past and its relationship to the present. The
third section, "I Speak Out," explores the imperative to speak,
paying particular attention to the narrative form with which such
telling occurs. The fourth and final section, "Create Dangerously,"
contends with Haitians' activism, community building, and the
political and ecological climate of Haiti and its dyaspora.
Contributions by Danielle Christmas, Joanna Davis-McElligatt,
Garrett Bridger Gilmore, Spencer R. Herrera, Cassandra Jackson,
Stacie McCormick, Maria Seger, Randi Lynn Tanglen, Brook Thomas,
Michael C. Weisenburg, and Lisa Woolfork Reading Confederate
Monuments addresses the urgent and vital need for scholars,
educators, and the general public to be able to read and interpret
the literal and cultural Confederate monuments pervading life in
the contemporary United States. The literary and cultural studies
scholars featured in this collection engage many different archives
and methods, demonstrating how to read literal Confederate
monuments as texts and in the context of the assortment of
literatures that produced and celebrated them. They further explore
how to read the literary texts advancing and contesting Confederate
ideology in the US cultural imaginary-then and now-as monuments in
and of themselves. On top of that, the essays published here lay
bare the cultural and pedagogical work of Confederate monuments and
counter-monuments-divulging how and what they teach their readers
as communal and yet contested narratives-thereby showing why the
persistence of Confederate monuments matters greatly to local and
national notions of racial justice and belonging. In doing so, this
collection illustrates what critics of US literature and culture
can offer to ongoing scholarly and public discussions about
Confederate monuments and memory. Even as we remove, relocate, and
recontextualize the physical symbols of the Confederacy dotting the
US landscape, the complicated histories, cultural products, and
pedagogies of Confederate ideology remain embedded in the national
consciousness. To disrupt and potentially dismantle these enduring
narratives alongside the statues themselves, we must be able to
recognize, analyze, and resist them in US life. The pieces in this
collection position us to think deeply about how and why we should
continue that work.
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