Gershun Avilez
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 410021 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Gershun Avilez |
| NOMBRES | Gershun |
| APELLIDO | Avilez |
| FIRMA | AVILEZ G |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Maryland, College Park |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature
Moby-Dick's Ishmael and Queequeg share a bed, Janie in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God imagines her tongue in another woman's mouth. And yet for too long there has not been a volume that provides an account of the breadth and depth of queer American literature. This landmark volume provides the first expansive history of this literature from its inception to the present day, offering a narrative of how American literary studies …
The Other Side of Terror
The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature
African American literature has changed in startling ways since the end of the Black Arts Era. The last five decades have generated new paradigms of racial formation and novel patterns of cultural production, circulation, and reception. This volume takes up the challenge of mapping the varied and changing field of contemporary African American writing. Balancing the demands of historical and political context with attention to aesthetic innovatio…
Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being
We are regularly faced with news accounts detailing violence against Black people. It is almost as if to talk about Black lived experience necessitates talking about the threat of death. The serial nature of such violence has led to a reckoning with the social significance and seeming inevitability of Black death within critical culture. Kevin Quashie's innovative and insightful book Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being responds to and moves aw…
Black Queer Freedom
Black Queer Freedom
"Whether engaged in same-sex desire or gender nonconformity, black queer individuals live with being perceived as a threat while simultaneously being subjected to the threat of physical, psychological, and socioeconomic injury. Attending to and challenging threats has become a defining element in queer black artists' work throughout the black diaspora. GerShun Avilez analyzes the work of diasporic artists who, denied government protections, have …
The Psychic Hold of Slavery
What would it mean to “get over slavery”? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Should we perceive the psychic hold of slavery as a set of mental manacles that hold us back from imagining a postracist America? Or could the psychic hold of slavery be understood as a tool, helping us get a grip on the systemic racial inequalities and restricted liberties that persist in the present day? Featuring original essays from an array of establish…
Introduction
In March 2018, a group of scholars and artists gathered together at the University of Pennsylvania to celebrate the scholarly work of Thadious M. Davis. This special issue offers to the world some
Black Regions, Queer Territories”
Uncertain Freedom
Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism
This book explores the long-overlooked links between Black Nationalist activism and the renaissance of artistic experimentation emerging from recent African American literature, visual art, and film. The book charts a new genealogy of contemporary African American artistic production that illuminates how questions of gender and sexuality guided artistic experimentation in the Black Arts Movement from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s. As the book sh…
The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature
The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature brings together leading scholars to examine the significant traditions, genres, and themes of civil rights literature. While civil rights scholarship has typically focused on documentary rather than creative writing, and political rather than cultural history, this Companion addresses the gap and provides university students with a vast introduction to an impressive range of authors, inc…
The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature
The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature presents a global history of the field and is an unprecedented summation of critical knowledge on gay and lesbian literature that also addresses the impact of gay and lesbian literature on cognate fields such as comparative literature and postcolonial studies. Covering subjects from Sappho and the Greeks to queer modernism, diasporic literatures, and responses to the AIDS crisis, this volume is …
Love Visual
Love VisualA Conversation with Haile Gerima Sarah E. Lewis (bio), Dagmawi Woubshet (bio), and GerShun Avilez Click for larger view View full resolution Haile Gerima, Sarah E. Lewis, and Dagmawi Woubshet Callaloo © 2012 Click for larger view View full resolution GerShun Avilez Callaloo © 2012 [End Page 634] Click for larger view View full resolution Tracy K. Smith Callaloo © 2012 Click for larger view View full resolution Thomas Sayers Ellis Calla…
Cartographies of Desire
Cartographies of Desire:Mapping Queer Space in the Fiction of Samuel Delany and Darieck Scott GerShun Avilez (bio) Applying his knowledge of urban planning to the field of cultural theory, Haitian-American architect-artist Jean-Ulrick Désert invokes the concept of "queer space" in order to describe the complicated (yet valuable) nature of actual gay and lesbian communities and neighborhoods; these locations, he contends, simultaneously engage and…
Cartographies of Desire
Cartographies of Desire:Mapping Queer Space in the Fiction of Samuel Delany and Darieck Scott GerShun Avilez (bio) Applying his knowledge of urban planning to the field of cultural theory, Haitian-American architect-artist Jean-Ulrick Désert invokes the concept of "queer space" in order to describe the complicated (yet valuable) nature of actual gay and lesbian communities and neighborhoods; these locations, he contends, simultaneously engage and…
Uncertain Freedom
Cartographies of Desire
Cartographies of Desire:Mapping Queer Space in the Fiction of Samuel Delany and Darieck Scott GerShun Avilez (bio) Applying his knowledge of urban planning to the field of cultural theory, Haitian-American architect-artist Jean-Ulrick Désert invokes the concept of "queer space" in order to describe the complicated (yet valuable) nature of actual gay and lesbian communities and neighborhoods; these locations, he contends, simultaneously engage and…
Love Visual
Love VisualA Conversation with Haile Gerima Sarah E. Lewis (bio), Dagmawi Woubshet (bio), and GerShun Avilez Click for larger view View full resolution Haile Gerima, Sarah E. Lewis, and Dagmawi Woubshet Callaloo © 2012 Click for larger view View full resolution GerShun Avilez Callaloo © 2012 [End Page 634] Click for larger view View full resolution Tracy K. Smith Callaloo © 2012 Click for larger view View full resolution Thomas Sayers Ellis Calla…
The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature
The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature presents a global history of the field and is an unprecedented summation of critical knowledge on gay and lesbian literature that also addresses the impact of gay and lesbian literature on cognate fields such as comparative literature and postcolonial studies. Covering subjects from Sappho and the Greeks to queer modernism, diasporic literatures, and responses to the AIDS crisis, this volume is …
The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature
The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature brings together leading scholars to examine the significant traditions, genres, and themes of civil rights literature. While civil rights scholarship has typically focused on documentary rather than creative writing, and political rather than cultural history, this Companion addresses the gap and provides university students with a vast introduction to an impressive range of authors, inc…
Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism
This book explores the long-overlooked links between Black Nationalist activism and the renaissance of artistic experimentation emerging from recent African American literature, visual art, and film. The book charts a new genealogy of contemporary African American artistic production that illuminates how questions of gender and sexuality guided artistic experimentation in the Black Arts Movement from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s. As the book sh…
The Psychic Hold of Slavery
What would it mean to “get over slavery”? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Should we perceive the psychic hold of slavery as a set of mental manacles that hold us back from imagining a postracist America? Or could the psychic hold of slavery be understood as a tool, helping us get a grip on the systemic racial inequalities and restricted liberties that persist in the present day? Featuring original essays from an array of establish…
Introduction
In March 2018, a group of scholars and artists gathered together at the University of Pennsylvania to celebrate the scholarly work of Thadious M. Davis. This special issue offers to the world some
Black Regions, Queer Territories”
Uncertain Freedom
Black Queer Freedom
Black Queer Freedom
"Whether engaged in same-sex desire or gender nonconformity, black queer individuals live with being perceived as a threat while simultaneously being subjected to the threat of physical, psychological, and socioeconomic injury. Attending to and challenging threats has become a defining element in queer black artists' work throughout the black diaspora. GerShun Avilez analyzes the work of diasporic artists who, denied government protections, have …
Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being
We are regularly faced with news accounts detailing violence against Black people. It is almost as if to talk about Black lived experience necessitates talking about the threat of death. The serial nature of such violence has led to a reckoning with the social significance and seeming inevitability of Black death within critical culture. Kevin Quashie's innovative and insightful book Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being responds to and moves aw…
The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature
African American literature has changed in startling ways since the end of the Black Arts Era. The last five decades have generated new paradigms of racial formation and novel patterns of cultural production, circulation, and reception. This volume takes up the challenge of mapping the varied and changing field of contemporary African American writing. Balancing the demands of historical and political context with attention to aesthetic innovatio…
The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature
Moby-Dick's Ishmael and Queequeg share a bed, Janie in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God imagines her tongue in another woman's mouth. And yet for too long there has not been a volume that provides an account of the breadth and depth of queer American literature. This landmark volume provides the first expansive history of this literature from its inception to the present day, offering a narrative of how American literary studies …
The Other Side of Terror
Sociology (11 obras) · Race, History, and American Society (9 obras) · Art (8 obras) · Gender Studies (8 obras) · Political science (6 obras) · Queer (6 obras) · Aesthetics (5 obras) · History (5 obras) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (4 obras) · Art history (4 obras)