Cheryl A Wall
Biographic Data
| ID | 136171 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cheryl A Wall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cheryl A |
| FAMILY NAME | Wall |
| SIGNATURE | WALL C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Black Women and the Pleasures of Intellectual Work
What does it mean for a Black woman to choose to do intellectual work? In the twenty‐first century, Black women, either by virtue of their academic careers or their vocations outside of institutional settings, pursue intellectual work for its own sake as well as in pursuit of collective goals. That is to say, they can acknowledge intellectual work as a source of personal fulfillment, indeed a source of joy in ways that earlier generations of Blac…
Alain Locke and the Project of Black Studies
Jeffrey C. Stewart’s definitive biography, The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, is an extraordinary achievement, deserving of the many accolades, including the National Book Award for Nonfiction
On Freedom and the Will to Adorn
The Harlem Renaissance
Images of Black Modernism
Raccoon Coats,” an often-reproduced photograph by James Van Der Zee, adorns the cover of Images of Black Modernism. A black man and woman, wearing matching fur coats, are posed against a shiny convertible; they seem to emblematize the glamor and optimism of the Harlem Renaissance. But the photograph is dated 1932, after the depression decimated the “Mecca of the New Negro.” Images of Black Modernism argues that our desire to romanticize the Harle…
On Dolls, Presidents, and Little Black Girls
The essay is a reflection on the inauguration of Barack Obama and on teaching Toni Morrison’s novel The Bluest Eye the next day. Reading the story of Pecola Breedlove put in sharp relief the fact that on January 20, 2009, the Obama daughters were the most adored children in the world. The juxtaposition occasioned thoughts on historical change and on the role of feminist critique in analyzing and producing it. Pecola is despised and defeated; she …
Women of the Harlem Renaissance
Joanna Marshall, the protagonist of Jessie Fauset's There Is Confusion (1924), one of the first novels of the Harlem Renaissance, insists “that if there's anything that will break down prejudice it will be equality or perhaps even superiority on the part of colored people in the arts.” Fauset shared this belief with other leaders of the New Negro movement, Alain Locke, Charles Johnson, and James Weldon Johnson. The time seemed ripe. During the 19…
The Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison
Nobel laureate Toni Morrison is one of the most widely studied of contemporary American authors. Her novels, particularly Beloved, have had a dramatic impact on the American canon and attracted considerable critical commentary. This 2007 Companion introduces and examines her oeuvre as a whole, the first evaluation to include not only her famous novels, but also her other literary works (short story, drama, musical, and opera), her social and lite…
Resounding Souls
Research Article| May 01 2005 Resounding Souls: Du Bois and the African American Literary Tradition Cheryl A. Wall Cheryl A. Wall Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2005) 17 (2): 217–234. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-17-2-217 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Cheryl A. Wall; Resounding Souls: Du Bois and the African American Literary Tradit…
Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
The rediscovery of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, first published in 1937 but subsequently out of print for decades, marks one of the most dramatic chapters in African-American literature and Women's Studies. Its popularity owes much to the lyricism of the prose, the pitch-perfect rendition of black vernacular English, and the memorable characters - most notably, Janie Crawford. Collecting the most widely cited and influential…
Histories and Heresies
On Waiting to Exhale
Extending the Line
Lyrical, seductive, and justly celebrated, the prologue of Gloria Naylor's 1988 novel, Mama Day invites the reader into a fictive world that in its location, history, customs, and beliefs is a world elsewhere. Belonging to the United States, but part of no state, Willow Springs can be located only on the map that the front matter of the book helpfully provides. A place that has been black owned and self sufficient since 1823 when an enslaved conj…
Codes of Conduct
The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White
Journal Article The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White. By George Hutchinson Cambridge and Women of the Harlem Renaissance. By Cheryl A. Wall Bloomington Get access Keith E. Byerman Keith E. Byerman Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, March 1997, Pages 1449–1450, https://doi.org/10.2307/2953006 Published: 01 Marc…
Women of the Harlem Renaissance
Borders, Boundaries, and Frames
Whose Sweet Angel Child? Blues Women, Langston Hughes, and Writing during the Harlem Renaissance
Reckless Blues When I was young, nothing but a child,When I was young, nothing but a child,All you men tried to drive me wild. Now I'm growing old,Now I'm growing old,And I got what it takes to get all you men's soul. My mama says I'm reckless, my daddy says I'm wild,My mama says I'm reckless, my daddy says I'm wild,I ain't good lookin', but I'm somebody's angel child. Daddy, Mama wants some loving; Daddy, mama wants some huggingHoney, Pretty Pop…
Women of the Harlem Renaissance
Women of the Harlem Renaissance
The lives and work of women in the Harlem Renaissance-Jessie Redmon Fauset, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, and others-situated in the traditions of African-American and American writing
Vicious Modernism
Journal Article Vicious Modernism: Black Harlem and the Literary Imagination. By James de Jongh. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. viii + 280 pp. $25.95, ISBN 0-521-32620-6.) Get access Vicious Modernism: Black Harlem and the Literary Imagination. By Jongh James de. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. viii + 280 pp. $25.95, ISBN 0-521-32620-6.) Cheryl A. Wall Cheryl A. Wall Rutgers University, New Brunswick Search for other wo…
Changing our Own Words
Black Women Writers
Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance
Paris and Harlem
Resounding Souls
Research Article| May 01 2005 Resounding Souls: Du Bois and the African American Literary Tradition Cheryl A. Wall Cheryl A. Wall Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2005) 17 (2): 217–234. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-17-2-217 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Cheryl A. Wall; Resounding Souls: Du Bois and the African American Literary Tradit…
Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
The rediscovery of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, first published in 1937 but subsequently out of print for decades, marks one of the most dramatic chapters in African-American literature and Women's Studies. Its popularity owes much to the lyricism of the prose, the pitch-perfect rendition of black vernacular English, and the memorable characters - most notably, Janie Crawford. Collecting the most widely cited and influential…
Paris and Harlem
Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance
Black Women Writers
Vicious Modernism
Journal Article Vicious Modernism: Black Harlem and the Literary Imagination. By James de Jongh. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. viii + 280 pp. $25.95, ISBN 0-521-32620-6.) Get access Vicious Modernism: Black Harlem and the Literary Imagination. By Jongh James de. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. viii + 280 pp. $25.95, ISBN 0-521-32620-6.) Cheryl A. Wall Cheryl A. Wall Rutgers University, New Brunswick Search for other wo…
Changing our Own Words
Women of the Harlem Renaissance
The lives and work of women in the Harlem Renaissance-Jessie Redmon Fauset, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, and others-situated in the traditions of African-American and American writing
Whose Sweet Angel Child? Blues Women, Langston Hughes, and Writing during the Harlem Renaissance
Reckless Blues When I was young, nothing but a child,When I was young, nothing but a child,All you men tried to drive me wild. Now I'm growing old,Now I'm growing old,And I got what it takes to get all you men's soul. My mama says I'm reckless, my daddy says I'm wild,My mama says I'm reckless, my daddy says I'm wild,I ain't good lookin', but I'm somebody's angel child. Daddy, Mama wants some loving; Daddy, mama wants some huggingHoney, Pretty Pop…
Women of the Harlem Renaissance
Codes of Conduct
The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White
Journal Article The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White. By George Hutchinson Cambridge and Women of the Harlem Renaissance. By Cheryl A. Wall Bloomington Get access Keith E. Byerman Keith E. Byerman Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, March 1997, Pages 1449–1450, https://doi.org/10.2307/2953006 Published: 01 Marc…
Women of the Harlem Renaissance
Borders, Boundaries, and Frames
On Waiting to Exhale
Extending the Line
Lyrical, seductive, and justly celebrated, the prologue of Gloria Naylor's 1988 novel, Mama Day invites the reader into a fictive world that in its location, history, customs, and beliefs is a world elsewhere. Belonging to the United States, but part of no state, Willow Springs can be located only on the map that the front matter of the book helpfully provides. A place that has been black owned and self sufficient since 1823 when an enslaved conj…
Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
The rediscovery of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, first published in 1937 but subsequently out of print for decades, marks one of the most dramatic chapters in African-American literature and Women's Studies. Its popularity owes much to the lyricism of the prose, the pitch-perfect rendition of black vernacular English, and the memorable characters - most notably, Janie Crawford. Collecting the most widely cited and influential…
Histories and Heresies
Resounding Souls
Research Article| May 01 2005 Resounding Souls: Du Bois and the African American Literary Tradition Cheryl A. Wall Cheryl A. Wall Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2005) 17 (2): 217–234. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-17-2-217 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Cheryl A. Wall; Resounding Souls: Du Bois and the African American Literary Tradit…
The Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison
Nobel laureate Toni Morrison is one of the most widely studied of contemporary American authors. Her novels, particularly Beloved, have had a dramatic impact on the American canon and attracted considerable critical commentary. This 2007 Companion introduces and examines her oeuvre as a whole, the first evaluation to include not only her famous novels, but also her other literary works (short story, drama, musical, and opera), her social and lite…
Women of the Harlem Renaissance
Joanna Marshall, the protagonist of Jessie Fauset's There Is Confusion (1924), one of the first novels of the Harlem Renaissance, insists “that if there's anything that will break down prejudice it will be equality or perhaps even superiority on the part of colored people in the arts.” Fauset shared this belief with other leaders of the New Negro movement, Alain Locke, Charles Johnson, and James Weldon Johnson. The time seemed ripe. During the 19…
On Dolls, Presidents, and Little Black Girls
The essay is a reflection on the inauguration of Barack Obama and on teaching Toni Morrison’s novel The Bluest Eye the next day. Reading the story of Pecola Breedlove put in sharp relief the fact that on January 20, 2009, the Obama daughters were the most adored children in the world. The juxtaposition occasioned thoughts on historical change and on the role of feminist critique in analyzing and producing it. Pecola is despised and defeated; she …
Images of Black Modernism
Raccoon Coats,” an often-reproduced photograph by James Van Der Zee, adorns the cover of Images of Black Modernism. A black man and woman, wearing matching fur coats, are posed against a shiny convertible; they seem to emblematize the glamor and optimism of the Harlem Renaissance. But the photograph is dated 1932, after the depression decimated the “Mecca of the New Negro.” Images of Black Modernism argues that our desire to romanticize the Harle…
The Harlem Renaissance
On Freedom and the Will to Adorn
Alain Locke and the Project of Black Studies
Jeffrey C. Stewart’s definitive biography, The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, is an extraordinary achievement, deserving of the many accolades, including the National Book Award for Nonfiction
Black Women and the Pleasures of Intellectual Work
What does it mean for a Black woman to choose to do intellectual work? In the twenty‐first century, Black women, either by virtue of their academic careers or their vocations outside of institutional settings, pursue intellectual work for its own sake as well as in pursuit of collective goals. That is to say, they can acknowledge intellectual work as a source of personal fulfillment, indeed a source of joy in ways that earlier generations of Blac…
Art (22 works) · Race, History, and American Society (17 works) · Art history (14 works) · Performance art (12 works) · Harlem Renaissance (11 works) · History (11 works) · Literature (10 works) · The Renaissance (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Sociology (6 works)