Shanna Greene Benjamin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1023155 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shanna Greene Benjamin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shanna Greene |
| FAMILY NAME | Benjamin |
| SIGNATURE | BENJAMIN S G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Grinnell College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Black Women and the Biographical Method
If Black women are compelled to conceal their life stories, as Darlene Clark Hine suggests, how can biographers of Black women's lives, who work closely with student researchers, do justice to their subjects and equip students to undertake this delicate research? This essay offers a case study to teach faculty how to guide student research on the lives of subjects prone to secrecy
Intimacy and Ephemera
Journal Article Intimacy and Ephemera: In Search of Our Mother’s Letters Get access Shanna Greene Benjamin Shanna Greene Benjamin Grinnell College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 40, Issue 3, Fall 2015, Pages 16–27, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlv018 Published: 18 June 2015
There's Something about Mary
Little more than a decade after publishing Invisible Man (1952), Ralph Ellison published "Out of the Hospital and under the Bar" (1963): an excised chapter of the novel that portrayed Mary Rambo-a black woman represented stereotypically in the published manuscript-as a necessary agent in the protagonist's emergence from the paint-factory hospital. As scholars have contested the significance of this chapter and Mary's representation in it, the Inv…
Race, Faces, and False Fronts
Race, Faces, and False Fronts: Shakespearean Signifying in the Colored American Magazine Shanna Greene Benjamin (bio) We wear the mask that grins and lies,It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—This debt we pay to human guile;With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,And mouth with myriad subtleties. —Paul Laurence Dunbar, "We Wear the Mask" (1896) False face must hide what the false heart doth know. —William Shakespeare, Macbeth (c.1603-1607) In …
Those Bones Are Not My Child
Negotiating Difference
In this text, the author raids the borders of contemporary criticism to show how debilitating protectionist stances can be and how much might be gained by crossing cultural boundaries. From Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have to Michael Jackson's physical transmutations, from male scholars' investments in feminism to white scholars' in black texts - Awkward explores cultural moments that challenge the exclusive critical authority of race and gender. In …
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Negotiating Difference
In this text, the author raids the borders of contemporary criticism to show how debilitating protectionist stances can be and how much might be gained by crossing cultural boundaries. From Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have to Michael Jackson's physical transmutations, from male scholars' investments in feminism to white scholars' in black texts - Awkward explores cultural moments that challenge the exclusive critical authority of race and gender. In …
Those Bones Are Not My Child
Race, Faces, and False Fronts
Race, Faces, and False Fronts: Shakespearean Signifying in the Colored American Magazine Shanna Greene Benjamin (bio) We wear the mask that grins and lies,It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—This debt we pay to human guile;With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,And mouth with myriad subtleties. —Paul Laurence Dunbar, "We Wear the Mask" (1896) False face must hide what the false heart doth know. —William Shakespeare, Macbeth (c.1603-1607) In …
There's Something about Mary
Little more than a decade after publishing Invisible Man (1952), Ralph Ellison published "Out of the Hospital and under the Bar" (1963): an excised chapter of the novel that portrayed Mary Rambo-a black woman represented stereotypically in the published manuscript-as a necessary agent in the protagonist's emergence from the paint-factory hospital. As scholars have contested the significance of this chapter and Mary's representation in it, the Inv…
Intimacy and Ephemera
Journal Article Intimacy and Ephemera: In Search of Our Mother’s Letters Get access Shanna Greene Benjamin Shanna Greene Benjamin Grinnell College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 40, Issue 3, Fall 2015, Pages 16–27, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlv018 Published: 18 June 2015
Black Women and the Biographical Method
If Black women are compelled to conceal their life stories, as Darlene Clark Hine suggests, how can biographers of Black women's lives, who work closely with student researchers, do justice to their subjects and equip students to undertake this delicate research? This essay offers a case study to teach faculty how to guide student research on the lives of subjects prone to secrecy
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