Rachel Elizabeth Harding
Biographic Data
| ID | 3856470 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Elizabeth Harding |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Harding |
| SIGNATURE | HARDING R E |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hospitality, Haints, and Healing
Personagens E Personalidades Atlânticas
Rachel Harding narrates her academic trajectory and her research experiences in Brazil in the late 90s and early 20th century. It highlights his view on the experiences of the black religion during slavery and the possibilities of thinking diaspora. She analyzes the impressions of a new generation of black scholars in Brazil
Quantum Exchange
Daniel Minter is a painter, sculptor, printmaker, illustrator, and assemblage artist whose work explores common echoes in the visual languages of the Afro-Atlantic diaspora. Through his personal history and through his study of the cultural and religious creations of people of African descent, Minter has developed an iconography of Black futurity grounded in the narratives, traditions, and ethics of the US South but connected as well to Brazil, t…
The Lithic Imagination and the Tertia
Scholar Charles Long offers a paradigm for exploring the meaning of African American religion. This article explores the applicability of Long's methodology to other Afro-Atlantic religious traditions, such as Brazilian Candomblé and Haitian Vodou, by means of an examination of two artistic/interpretive concepts-the lithic imagination and the tertia. Succinctly, the lithic imagination is that aspect of human consciousness that bears similarities …
Authority, History, and Everyday Mysticism in the Poetry of Lucille Clifton
Lucille Clifton, a northern-born woman with Southern roots, was a writer of profound illumination and plain speaking. This combination in her work-spare elegance of tone and deep practical wisdom-is often remarked upon by literary critics and admirers. Those who know Clifton's work well also note key elements of her poetic voice in which she honors the everyday mysticism of African American experience, a firm claim to agency and creativity in the…
The Infelicitous Traffic
Callaloo - Volume 20, Number 1, Winter 1997
Nocturne
Callaloo - Volume 20, Number 1, Winter 1997
Directionology
Directionology Rachel E. Harding (bio) arms crossed. Papa Legba is between the rows of rice. off the coast at Daufuskie. twelfth hour in the road day or night is asking for trouble. all height of him leaned at the corner. straw hat put no shadow in the street. eye black. eye blue. ear cocked to the utterance of affliction; “tell Papa what the problem is tell me what’s wrong; i’ll fix it.” bony hands at the barn house shake the thresh basket shake…
Oxum of Chimayo
Oxum of Chimayo Rachel E. Harding (bio) Oxum of Chimayo is a poet. her sandy-mouth healing song a flight of birds over a chapel’s wooden cross. her bracelet-thin arroyos trace the penitents’ pilgrim steps. her yellow autumn. her winter’s dry chill. bright candlelight her blessing. small room of her excavated, bottomless heart. Rachel E. Harding Rachel E. Harding, a native of Atlanta, is a Latin American historian, writer and arts consultant livin…
Rune Mere
Rune Mere Rachel E. Harding (bio) all that she knew of love and past love the cord of strength, string of honey on her tongue, the heart silted, the stone turning under water, the conch shell pink and smooth in the fiber of one page secreted, wind-congealed; burnt rice ink, holy water, washed words of the Merciful his tongue in her ear copper coin to stave off envy, indigo mash to her elbows, a gauze cloth, feather’s skin: patience buried spell i…
Biography, Democracy and Spirit
Callaloo - Volume 20, Number 3, Summer 1997
Charcoal
Charcoal Rachel Elizabeth Harding (bio) charcoal and paper did not diminish, made imagined features not on the page be real. in all the natural light in the room i stood and caught my breath at the fields in his face . . . the sugar syrup of guitar string on his back. i heard everything he sang to me come up off the wall in fifths, that chord . . . well, he had a hat that reminded me of georgia left arm bent like: whatever workwasi did itnowsweet…
Mercy
Mercy Rachel Elizabeth Harding (bio) weight shifted toward an inner east the warped feet dance further into where there are no witnesses long arm pointing at the ground what dust makes a short shuffle a dry pounded square tongues of the lyric open-mouthed where leaves come to shredding a cool torn juice . . . some kind of forgiveness, spewed (you can touch it if your hands are slow enough) Erzulie’s hips move out of the whirlpool by some stone be…
Why I like Nina
Biography, Democracy and Spirit
Callaloo - Volume 20, Number 3, Summer 1997
Why I like Nina
Charcoal
Charcoal Rachel Elizabeth Harding (bio) charcoal and paper did not diminish, made imagined features not on the page be real. in all the natural light in the room i stood and caught my breath at the fields in his face . . . the sugar syrup of guitar string on his back. i heard everything he sang to me come up off the wall in fifths, that chord . . . well, he had a hat that reminded me of georgia left arm bent like: whatever workwasi did itnowsweet…
Mercy
Mercy Rachel Elizabeth Harding (bio) weight shifted toward an inner east the warped feet dance further into where there are no witnesses long arm pointing at the ground what dust makes a short shuffle a dry pounded square tongues of the lyric open-mouthed where leaves come to shredding a cool torn juice . . . some kind of forgiveness, spewed (you can touch it if your hands are slow enough) Erzulie’s hips move out of the whirlpool by some stone be…
The Infelicitous Traffic
Callaloo - Volume 20, Number 1, Winter 1997
Nocturne
Callaloo - Volume 20, Number 1, Winter 1997
Directionology
Directionology Rachel E. Harding (bio) arms crossed. Papa Legba is between the rows of rice. off the coast at Daufuskie. twelfth hour in the road day or night is asking for trouble. all height of him leaned at the corner. straw hat put no shadow in the street. eye black. eye blue. ear cocked to the utterance of affliction; “tell Papa what the problem is tell me what’s wrong; i’ll fix it.” bony hands at the barn house shake the thresh basket shake…
Oxum of Chimayo
Oxum of Chimayo Rachel E. Harding (bio) Oxum of Chimayo is a poet. her sandy-mouth healing song a flight of birds over a chapel’s wooden cross. her bracelet-thin arroyos trace the penitents’ pilgrim steps. her yellow autumn. her winter’s dry chill. bright candlelight her blessing. small room of her excavated, bottomless heart. Rachel E. Harding Rachel E. Harding, a native of Atlanta, is a Latin American historian, writer and arts consultant livin…
Rune Mere
Rune Mere Rachel E. Harding (bio) all that she knew of love and past love the cord of strength, string of honey on her tongue, the heart silted, the stone turning under water, the conch shell pink and smooth in the fiber of one page secreted, wind-congealed; burnt rice ink, holy water, washed words of the Merciful his tongue in her ear copper coin to stave off envy, indigo mash to her elbows, a gauze cloth, feather’s skin: patience buried spell i…
Biography, Democracy and Spirit
Callaloo - Volume 20, Number 3, Summer 1997
The Lithic Imagination and the Tertia
Scholar Charles Long offers a paradigm for exploring the meaning of African American religion. This article explores the applicability of Long's methodology to other Afro-Atlantic religious traditions, such as Brazilian Candomblé and Haitian Vodou, by means of an examination of two artistic/interpretive concepts-the lithic imagination and the tertia. Succinctly, the lithic imagination is that aspect of human consciousness that bears similarities …
Authority, History, and Everyday Mysticism in the Poetry of Lucille Clifton
Lucille Clifton, a northern-born woman with Southern roots, was a writer of profound illumination and plain speaking. This combination in her work-spare elegance of tone and deep practical wisdom-is often remarked upon by literary critics and admirers. Those who know Clifton's work well also note key elements of her poetic voice in which she honors the everyday mysticism of African American experience, a firm claim to agency and creativity in the…
Personagens E Personalidades Atlânticas
Rachel Harding narrates her academic trajectory and her research experiences in Brazil in the late 90s and early 20th century. It highlights his view on the experiences of the black religion during slavery and the possibilities of thinking diaspora. She analyzes the impressions of a new generation of black scholars in Brazil
Quantum Exchange
Daniel Minter is a painter, sculptor, printmaker, illustrator, and assemblage artist whose work explores common echoes in the visual languages of the Afro-Atlantic diaspora. Through his personal history and through his study of the cultural and religious creations of people of African descent, Minter has developed an iconography of Black futurity grounded in the narratives, traditions, and ethics of the US South but connected as well to Brazil, t…
Hospitality, Haints, and Healing
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