Ira Wells
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5407698 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ira Wells |
| NOMBRES | Ira |
| APELLIDO | Wells |
| FIRMA | WELLS I |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 4 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 0 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
Don’t Pray for Me, Pray for Them!”
Since winning the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1968, Norman Jewison’s In the Heat of the Night has been considered a landmark of Hollywood civil rights cinema. In Virgil Tibbs, generally considered the silver screen’s first Black detective, Sidney Poitier captured widespread anger over the glacial pace of social change in the early 1960s. Yet In the Heat of the Night also works to reproduce post-war Hollywood’s narrative regionalization of r…
No Hostages through These Doors”
PEN International, one of the world’s first human rights organizations, has long defended the free speech of persecuted writers. The PEN Prison Writing Program, however, has a slightly different agenda, which is to help convicted criminals become writers. The PEN Prison Writing Program “believes in the restorative and rehabilitative power of writing” and encourages “the use of the written word as a legitimate form of power.” But what is the natur…
What I Killed for, I Am”
The legal invention and institutionalization of “terrorism” coincided with Richard Wright’s invention of Bigger Thomas, perhaps the most terrifying figure in twentieth-century American literature. This convergence was not merely an accident of history. By framing Native Son within two discourses of “native” terror—the extralegal, community-endorsed racial violence against African Americans in the post-Reconstruction South, and the radical violenc…
Dylan's Floods
This essay examines the significance of the flood as a place in the works of Bob Dylan Dylan, Bob. 2004. Chronicles, Volume One, New York: Simon & Schuster. [Google Scholar]. Through a consideration of the songs “Down in the Flood,” “High Water,” and “The Levee's Gonna Break” as reflections of the biblical flood, the 1927 Mississippi flood, and Hurricane Katrina, this essay interrogates the question of origins in Dylan's songwriting, using a Derr…
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Dylan's Floods
This essay examines the significance of the flood as a place in the works of Bob Dylan Dylan, Bob. 2004. Chronicles, Volume One, New York: Simon & Schuster. [Google Scholar]. Through a consideration of the songs “Down in the Flood,” “High Water,” and “The Levee's Gonna Break” as reflections of the biblical flood, the 1927 Mississippi flood, and Hurricane Katrina, this essay interrogates the question of origins in Dylan's songwriting, using a Derr…
What I Killed for, I Am”
The legal invention and institutionalization of “terrorism” coincided with Richard Wright’s invention of Bigger Thomas, perhaps the most terrifying figure in twentieth-century American literature. This convergence was not merely an accident of history. By framing Native Son within two discourses of “native” terror—the extralegal, community-endorsed racial violence against African Americans in the post-Reconstruction South, and the radical violenc…
No Hostages through These Doors”
PEN International, one of the world’s first human rights organizations, has long defended the free speech of persecuted writers. The PEN Prison Writing Program, however, has a slightly different agenda, which is to help convicted criminals become writers. The PEN Prison Writing Program “believes in the restorative and rehabilitative power of writing” and encourages “the use of the written word as a legitimate form of power.” But what is the natur…
Don’t Pray for Me, Pray for Them!”
Since winning the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1968, Norman Jewison’s In the Heat of the Night has been considered a landmark of Hollywood civil rights cinema. In Virgil Tibbs, generally considered the silver screen’s first Black detective, Sidney Poitier captured widespread anger over the glacial pace of social change in the early 1960s. Yet In the Heat of the Night also works to reproduce post-war Hollywood’s narrative regionalization of r…
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