Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/afa.2023.a903603
Adam Day
{"title":"At the Edges, and: Sky Closing","authors":"Adam Day","doi":"10.1353/afa.2023.a903603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2023.a903603","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44779,"journal":{"name":"AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47780905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/afa.2023.a903621
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/afa.2023.a903602
M. K. Barya
{"title":"Do We Ever Know (When) We Are Dead?, and: Prison Diary","authors":"M. K. Barya","doi":"10.1353/afa.2023.a903602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2023.a903602","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44779,"journal":{"name":"AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44554222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/afa.2023.a903607
Lolita Stewart-White
{"title":"Kind of Blue: Variation Two, and: Definition of Blue, and: Heartache Ghazal, and: How to Cry without Tears, and: Root of My Blues, and: Emancipation Blues","authors":"Lolita Stewart-White","doi":"10.1353/afa.2023.a903607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2023.a903607","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44779,"journal":{"name":"AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45455805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/afa.2023.a903616
C. Henderson
themselves, as opposed to the latent possibilities found within Puritanism? Second, to what extent could this latter-day Puritan self-description compete with and perhaps displace contemporaneous formations of whiteness? This is an undertaking that could reveal affinities or antagonisms between religious and racial taxonomies. Differentiating the abolitionists’ Puritan genealogy from the whiteness of American nationalism may also require further reframing of and distance from the familiar Americanist narratives of American literary nationalism on which the book relies, its nod to Nietzsche’s concept of critical historiography notwithstanding. Perhaps the greater ongoing challenge and opportunity for abolitionist scholarship in this period of abolitionist incandescence is to recognize the constructs through which we reconstruct the antebellum abolition movement—in this case, print-mediated public culture—as “color-blind” liberal frames for inclusion, despite their value to our recovery of African American literary and political life. Indeed, the interest that drives students and scholars to modern abolition in its contemporary context may well call us to demystify the role of print and to ask not just what people were reading or even who was reading but also what people were doing with what they were reading. No doubt students interested and engaged in abolitionist social movements are asking the same questions of readers of today’s abolitionist scholarship. The dynamic, socially productive function of an abolitionist literature within African American and white reform cultures—paired with a scholarship that tracks and projects its reorganization of gendered and racialized social relations into our own time—remains the legacy of a movement that continues to unsettle us.
{"title":"Emancipation’s Daughters: Reimagining Black Femininity and the National Body by Riché Richardson (review)","authors":"C. Henderson","doi":"10.1353/afa.2023.a903616","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2023.a903616","url":null,"abstract":"themselves, as opposed to the latent possibilities found within Puritanism? Second, to what extent could this latter-day Puritan self-description compete with and perhaps displace contemporaneous formations of whiteness? This is an undertaking that could reveal affinities or antagonisms between religious and racial taxonomies. Differentiating the abolitionists’ Puritan genealogy from the whiteness of American nationalism may also require further reframing of and distance from the familiar Americanist narratives of American literary nationalism on which the book relies, its nod to Nietzsche’s concept of critical historiography notwithstanding. Perhaps the greater ongoing challenge and opportunity for abolitionist scholarship in this period of abolitionist incandescence is to recognize the constructs through which we reconstruct the antebellum abolition movement—in this case, print-mediated public culture—as “color-blind” liberal frames for inclusion, despite their value to our recovery of African American literary and political life. Indeed, the interest that drives students and scholars to modern abolition in its contemporary context may well call us to demystify the role of print and to ask not just what people were reading or even who was reading but also what people were doing with what they were reading. No doubt students interested and engaged in abolitionist social movements are asking the same questions of readers of today’s abolitionist scholarship. The dynamic, socially productive function of an abolitionist literature within African American and white reform cultures—paired with a scholarship that tracks and projects its reorganization of gendered and racialized social relations into our own time—remains the legacy of a movement that continues to unsettle us.","PeriodicalId":44779,"journal":{"name":"AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41691548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/afa.2023.a903620
T. R. Johnson
{"title":"Sun Ra’s Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City by William Sites (review)","authors":"T. R. Johnson","doi":"10.1353/afa.2023.a903620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2023.a903620","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44779,"journal":{"name":"AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48114007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/afa.2023.a903608
C. Eils
{"title":"Call My Name, Clemson: Documenting the Black Experience in an American University Community by Rhondda Robinson Thomas (review)","authors":"C. Eils","doi":"10.1353/afa.2023.a903608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2023.a903608","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44779,"journal":{"name":"AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43531050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
During the late 1920s and early 1930s, a period characterized by loosening sexual mores, one could find images of markedly attractive Black women in bathing suits (“bathing beauties,” as they were called) throughout the pages of Black American newspapers—the Chicago Defender, Pittsburgh Courier, and New York Amsterdam News, among others. These images were part of the Black press’s coverage of beauty pageants and were representative of what the press imagined readers wanted to see. In Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press, Kim Gallon draws on an archive of Black newspaper content published between the World Wars to situate the Black press as a public sphere of sexuality that fostered transformative discourses on sexual agency, pleasure, and respectability. The mass migration of Southern Blacks to Northern metropolitan areas diversified the Black press’s readership, encouraging a level of ambivalence toward issues of sexuality and racial uplift. With the ultimate goal of selling newspapers, the Black press featured sensationalist content that appealed to (and fed on) the conflicting values of newly arrived working-class migrants, middle-class African Americans, and the locally established urban elite. Such content brought into question fundamental issues around the nature of sexual agency and its relationship to racial progress. For example, its coverage of high-profile divorce and sex scandals created an opportunity for the masses to pass moral judgment on the more “respectable” classes. As Gallon writes, Black newspapers and their readers “upset elite black and middle-class morality and respectability by exposing and consuming news about their private sexual lives” (73). In addition, readers achieved a level of sexual agency by voicing their opinions in letters to editors as well as a more fundamental “sensual pleasure that is imbricated in the act of reading and viewing” (7). Not only did migration bring a diverse new readership to Northern cities, but it also facilitated the movement of newspapers throughout the country, thus expanding the parameters of this Black public sexual sphere. Cities like Pittsburgh were temporary stopping-points for young migrants moving between the South and the larger cities of the North. Migrants moving through Pittsburgh purchased copies of the Courier and after reading, shared them with others along their journey, extending the Courier’s reach. “I read it with care and then send it between 200 and 300 miles for others to read,” said one reader in a letter to the editor (22). The Courier also sent columnists on tours of the South so that it could learn to speak adequately to the cultures and concerns of its expanding readership. The circulation of Black newspapers throughout the country also exposed Southern readers to the North’s changing attitude toward sexuality. Coverage of homosexuality and female impersonation in Northeastern newspapers like the New York Amsterdam
在20世纪20年代末和30年代初，这是一个以性观念放松为特征的时期，人们可以在美国黑人报纸——《芝加哥后卫》、《匹兹堡信使》和《纽约阿姆斯特丹新闻》等报纸上找到穿着泳衣的迷人黑人女性(她们被称为“泳装美人”)的照片。这些图片是黑人媒体对选美比赛报道的一部分，代表了媒体想象中的读者想看到的东西。在《新闻中的快乐:黑人媒体中的非裔美国读者和性》一书中，金·加伦借鉴了二战期间出版的黑人报纸内容档案，将黑人媒体定位为性的公共领域，促进了关于性代理、快乐和体面的变革话语。南方黑人向北方大都市地区的大规模迁移使黑人报纸的读者群多样化，促使人们对性和种族提升问题产生了一定程度的矛盾心理。以卖报纸为最终目标，黑人报纸刊登耸人听闻的内容，吸引(并以此为生)新来的工人阶级移民、中产阶级非洲裔美国人和当地建立的城市精英之间相互冲突的价值观。这些内容使人们对性行为的本质及其与种族进步的关系产生了质疑。例如，它对高调离婚和性丑闻的报道为大众提供了一个对更“受人尊敬”的阶层进行道德评判的机会。正如加仑所写，黑人报纸及其读者“通过揭露和消费有关黑人精英和中产阶级私生活的新闻，扰乱了他们的道德和体面”(73)。此外，读者通过在给编辑的信中表达自己的意见，以及更基本的“在阅读和观看的行为中形成的感官快感”，达到了一定程度的性代理。移民不仅给北方城市带来了多样化的新读者，而且还促进了全国各地报纸的流动，从而扩大了黑人公共性领域的参数。匹兹堡等城市是年轻移民在南方和北方大城市之间流动的临时中转站。经过匹兹堡的移民购买了《信使》的副本，并在阅读后与旅途中的其他人分享，扩大了《信使》的影响范围。一位读者在给编辑的信中说:“我仔细阅读了它，然后把它送到200到300英里以外的地方让其他人阅读。”《信使报》还派遣专栏作家到南方旅行，以便学会充分地表达其不断扩大的读者群的文化和关切。黑人报纸在全国的发行量也让南方读者看到了北方对性态度的变化。《纽约阿姆斯特丹新闻》(New York Amsterdam News)和巴尔的摩的《非裔美国人》(african - american)等东北报纸对同性恋和女性模仿的报道，向南方有同性欲望的男性揭示了在纽约等城市寻求性庇护的可能性。
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{"title":"Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840–1865 by William L. Andrews (review)","authors":"E. Gardner","doi":"10.1353/afa.2022.0048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0048","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44779,"journal":{"name":"AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42745550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Utilizing the concept of the Plantationocene, which articulates how racial capitalism created and continues to shape the climate crisis, this essay connects the slave narrative to the contemporary neo-slave narrative to show how the plantation serves as the “ugly blueprint” (McKittrick) of the climate crisis. It also traces the alternative ecologies of resistance and repair that this literature encodes. By reading African American literature as climate literature, I seek to expand climate fiction’s canon, thus transforming how the genre is most often configured around white writers and recentering it on race. White supremacy, African American literature argues, has long fueled and continues to drive the climate crisis.
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