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Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era / Edition 1
- ISBN-10:
- 0367276380
- ISBN-13:
- 9780367276386
- Pub. Date:
- 12/11/2019
- Publisher:
- Taylor & Francis
- ISBN-10:
- 0367276380
- ISBN-13:
- 9780367276386
- Pub. Date:
- 12/11/2019
- Publisher:
- Taylor & Francis
Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era / Edition 1
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ISBN-13: | 9780367276386 |
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Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Publication date: | 12/11/2019 |
Series: | Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture |
Pages: | 298 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) |
About the Author
Sequoia Maner is a poet-scholar and Mellon Teaching Fellow of Feminist Studies at Southwestern University. She earned her B.A. in English from Duke University and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in English from the University of Texas at Austin. She is co-editor of Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era. Her dissertation and book project, Liberation Aesthetics in the #BlackLivesMatter Era, examines how experimental poetics and performance bolster black social movements. Her essay on the performance of "quiet interiority" as collective praxis in Beyoncé’s Lemonade is published in the journal Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism and her poem "upon reading the autopsy of Sandra Bland," finalist for the 2017 Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, is published in Obsidian: Literature & Arts of the African Diaspora.
Emily Ruth Rutter is Assistant Professor of English at Ball State University, where she teaches courses in Multi-Ethnic American and African American Literature. She is the author of two monographs: Invisible Ball of Dreams: Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line (University Press of Mississippi, 2018) and The Blues Muse: Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry (University of Alabama Press, 2018). Her research has been published in the journals African American Review, South Atlantic Review, Studies in American Culture, Aethlon, and MELUS. Her book chapter on African American women poets appears in A Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century American Women’s Poetry, and a book chapter on Amiri Baraka and sports is forthcoming in Some Other Blues: New Perspectives on Amiri Baraka (Ohio State UP, 2021).
darlene anita scott is Associate Professor of English at Virginia Union University. She is a poet and visual artist whose research explores corporeal performances of trauma and the violence of silence. Her poetry has appeared in journals including J Journal, Quiddity, and The Baltimore Review, among others. Her art has been featured in The Journal, an arts and literature magazine of Ohio State University, and at The Girl Museum, a virtual museum celebrating girls and girlhood. Recipient of support from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, Delaware Division of the Arts, Tennessee Commission for the Arts, and College English Association, Scott’s most recent project is a multi-media exploration, Breathing Lessons, which explores the role of the good girl as it is applied to girls of color.
Table of Contents
Preface: Emily Ruth Rutter, "‘Where Will All that Beauty Go?’: A Tribute to Poet-Scholar Tiffany Austin"Emily Ruth Rutter, Sequoia Maner, Tiffany Austin, and darlene anita scott, "Introduction to Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era"
I. Elegiac Reconfigurations
Tony Medina, "Senryu for Trayvon Martin" and "From the Crushed Voice Box of Freddie Gray"
Angela Jackson-Brown, "I Must Not Breathe"
Anne Lovering Rounds, "American Diptych"
Jerry Wemple, "Nickel Rides: For Freddie Gray"
Chapter 1: Laura Vrana, "Denormativizing Elegy: Historical and Transnational Journeying in the Black Lives Matter Poetics of Patricia Smith, Aja Monet, and Shane McCrae"
Chapter 2: Maureen Gallagher, "The Didactic and Elegiac Modes of Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric"
Chapter 3: Anne Rashid, "Lucille Clifton’s and Claudia Rankine’s Elegiac Poetics of Nature"
Chapter 4: J. Peter Moore, "In Terrible Fruitfulness: Arthur Jafa’s Love Is the Message, The Message Is Death and the Not-Lost Southern Accent"
Emily Jo Scalzo, "After Charleston"
Paula Bohince, "The Flint River"
Lisa Norris, "Big-Beaked White Birds"
Steffan Triplett, "Slumber Party"
Sequoia Maner, "upon reading the autopsy of Sandra Bland" and "Black Boy Contrapuntal: For Trayvon Martin"
II. Hauntings and Reckonings
Danielle Legros Georges, "As Falling Star" and "Poem of History"
darlene anita scott, "A Series of Survivals"
Sean Murphy, "Bud Powell’s Brain"
Sarah Giragosian, "Nina"
Chapter 5: Almas Khan, "Black Lives Matter and Legal Reconstructions of Elegiac Forms"
Chapter 6: Sequoia Maner, "Anatomizing the Body, Diagnosing the Country: Reading the Elegies of Patricia Smith"
Chapter 7: Deborah M. Mix, "‘A Diagnosis Is an Ending’: Spectacle and Vision in Bettina Judd’s Patient."
Tiffany Austin, "Peaches"
Charlie Braxton, "Strays in the Hood"
Lauren K. Alleyne, "Poetry Workshop after the Verdict: For Trayvon" and "Elegy: For Tamir"
III. Elegists as Activists
Jacqueline Johnson, "Soul Memory (for Renisha McBride)"
Chris Campanioni, "#IWokeUpLikeThis or: The Latest in Space-Age #PostInternet Pajamas" and "rendition"
Cameron Barnett, "Uniform; or things I would paint if I were a painter"
Chapter 8: Licia Morrow Hendriks, "‘A Cause Divinely Spun’: The Poet in an Age of Social Unrest"
Chapter 9: Maia L. Butler and Megan Feifer, "Edwidge Danticat’s Elegiac Project: A Transnational Historiography of U.S. Imperialist State Violence"
Chapter 10: Hoke S. Glover III (Brother Yao), "Loving You Is Complicated: Empire of Language #4"
Chapter 11: Sequoia Maner, "An Interview with Amanda Johnston, Co-Founder of Black Poets Speak Out"
Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon, "No Indictment (On the Death of Sandra Bland)"
Nicholas Rianard Goodly, "Skin Tones"
Jason Harris, "Appraisal (Elegy for As of a Now)"
Tiffany Austin, "Dark Milk: After Basquiat"
Prompts for Further Discussion
Appendix for Further Reading
Contributors
Index