Jane Kuenz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1027450 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Kuenz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Kuenz |
| SIGNATURE | KUENZ J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Modernism, Mass Culture, and the Harlem Renaissance
Modernism, Mass Culture, and the Harlem Renaissance:The Case of Countee Cullen Jane Kuenz (bio) The biggest mistake we make in discussions of "authenticity" and African American modernism is also generally the first mistake we make: the assumption that the term means something for black writers and artists qualitatively different from what it means for everyone else at the time, rather than simply meaning more, and, even then, simply more of the …
The Face of America
The Face of America: Performing Race and Nation in Jessie Fauset’s There is Confusion Jane Kuenz (bio) It would be difficult to name a New Negro writer more critically discredited than Jessie Fauset. Routinely slighted, even among her admirers, Fauset emerges in portraits and histories of the Harlem Renaissance as the hard-working and prolific, but essentially untalented and politically misdirected literary editor for The Crisis and author of fou…
American Racial Discourse, 1900-1930
When George Schuyler's Black No More appeared early in 1931, it entered a culture primed for its reception by more than three decades of apprehensive and contradictory public fulmination, posing as and often passing for reasoned debate, on the subject of racial essences and their relation to national character. In his spoof of Harlem's Talented Tenth; of the stock themes, incidents, and characters peopling their work;1 of W.E.B. Du Bois (Dr. Shak…
The Bluest Eye
In Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, the Breedloves' storefront apartment is graced overhead by the home of three magnificent whores, each a tribute to Morrison's confidence the efficacy of the obvious. The novel's unhappy convergence of history, naming and bodies--delineated so subtly and variously elsewhere--is, these three, signified most simply and most crudely by their bodies and their names: Poland, China, the Maginot Line. With these charact…
It's a Small World after All
Research Article| January 01 1993 It’s a Small World after All: Disney and the Pleasures of Identification Jane Kuenz Jane Kuenz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1993) 92 (1): 63–88. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-92-1-63 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jane Kuenz; It’s a Small World after All: Disney and the Pleasures of Identi…
Part of the Climate
It's a Small World after All
Research Article| January 01 1993 It’s a Small World after All: Disney and the Pleasures of Identification Jane Kuenz Jane Kuenz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1993) 92 (1): 63–88. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-92-1-63 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jane Kuenz; It’s a Small World after All: Disney and the Pleasures of Identi…
Part of the Climate
The Bluest Eye
In Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, the Breedloves' storefront apartment is graced overhead by the home of three magnificent whores, each a tribute to Morrison's confidence the efficacy of the obvious. The novel's unhappy convergence of history, naming and bodies--delineated so subtly and variously elsewhere--is, these three, signified most simply and most crudely by their bodies and their names: Poland, China, the Maginot Line. With these charact…
It's a Small World after All
Research Article| January 01 1993 It’s a Small World after All: Disney and the Pleasures of Identification Jane Kuenz Jane Kuenz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1993) 92 (1): 63–88. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-92-1-63 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jane Kuenz; It’s a Small World after All: Disney and the Pleasures of Identi…
American Racial Discourse, 1900-1930
When George Schuyler's Black No More appeared early in 1931, it entered a culture primed for its reception by more than three decades of apprehensive and contradictory public fulmination, posing as and often passing for reasoned debate, on the subject of racial essences and their relation to national character. In his spoof of Harlem's Talented Tenth; of the stock themes, incidents, and characters peopling their work;1 of W.E.B. Du Bois (Dr. Shak…
The Face of America
The Face of America: Performing Race and Nation in Jessie Fauset’s There is Confusion Jane Kuenz (bio) It would be difficult to name a New Negro writer more critically discredited than Jessie Fauset. Routinely slighted, even among her admirers, Fauset emerges in portraits and histories of the Harlem Renaissance as the hard-working and prolific, but essentially untalented and politically misdirected literary editor for The Crisis and author of fou…
Modernism, Mass Culture, and the Harlem Renaissance
Modernism, Mass Culture, and the Harlem Renaissance:The Case of Countee Cullen Jane Kuenz (bio) The biggest mistake we make in discussions of "authenticity" and African American modernism is also generally the first mistake we make: the assumption that the term means something for black writers and artists qualitatively different from what it means for everyone else at the time, rather than simply meaning more, and, even then, simply more of the …
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