Herman Beavers
Biographic Data
| ID | 1028866 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Herman Beavers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Herman |
| FAMILY NAME | Beavers |
| SIGNATURE | BEAVERS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
After Morrison” Introduction
Forum
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 See for example, Howard Rambsy II, “A select checklist of works by Trudier Harris.”2 Here I used David Dabydeen’s definition of Black British literature as “that created and published in Britain, largely for a British audience, by Black writers either born in Britain or who have spent a major portion of their lives in Britain,” even as he also troubles the …
Geography and the Political Imaginary in the Novels of Toni Morrison
Taking Up Bass
Taking Up Bass Get access Herman Beavers Herman Beavers Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 35, Issue 2, June 2010, Page 95, https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.0.0085 Published: 01 June 2010
Rictus on Video
Rictus on Video Herman Beavers (bio) In the new video Flyy girls forget how to cry silk lining the heart veers toward the pigment of violence slashes passing for eyes words ending like shadows along uneven ground assassins capering in arrogant shade done by themselves hair minimalist & modern force a matter of appetite balance devoid of words times when there is nothing doing a mind will pare away the superfluous leave the difficult the very core…
Catcher
Catcher:Two Herman Beavers (bio) When I see him, Daddy is 25 and sitting on the front steps of the old house on Tecumseh, years before the tornado, years before you could die at the hands of a 12-year old with a 60-year old heart. He is oiling his catcher's mitt with blood, the leather darkening to a skeptical shade of midnight, dark as cheap Dago Red in Palermo, Padua and Turin; thinking back to those days, he stops oiling, pauses long enough so…
The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel
The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel presents new essays covering the one hundred and fifty year history of the African American novel. Experts in the field from the US and Europe address some of the major issues in the genre: passing, the Protest novel, the Blues novel, and womanism among others. The essays are full of fresh insights for students into the symbolic, aesthetic, and political function of canonical and non-canonical…
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, The
Romancing the Body Politic
Although best known for his work as a sociologist, historian, and editor, W.E.B. Du Bois also authored numerous works of fiction and poetry. Despite their dismissal by critics as not much more than failed experiments that test the boundary separating poetry and prose, this article suggests that Du Bois's acts of creative composition are driven by his desire to exert critical force as part of his contribution to the effort of studying "Negro probl…
Dream Lubricant
Dream Lubricant Herman Beavers (bio) Cave Canem: A Special Section I won’t dance, don’t ask me Chantmask; obelisk . . . oil drums playing, tycoons sore afraid two arms cannot tilt the clouds flat maddened gulls find the sea by night air whistles poles of light beauty yesterdayed crushed angels wearing green memory of women’s salty voices a stare hard & wet put away amidst angry bed sounds red hat from heaven blinks bright the room fingering dry s…
Wrestling Angels into Song
Journal Article Wrestling Angels Into Song: The Fictions of Ernest J. Gaines and James Alan McPherson. Herman Beavers. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995. xii + 275 pages. Get access Wrestling Angels Into Song: The Fictions of Ernest J. Gaines and James Alan McPherson. Herman Beavers. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.xii + 275 pages. Ashraf H. A. Rushdy Ashraf H. A. Rushdy Wesleyan University Search for other…
Introduction
Like I'd Been Playing the Dozens
I Yam What You Is and You Is What I Yam
Romancing the Body Politic
Although best known for his work as a sociologist, historian, and editor, W.E.B. Du Bois also authored numerous works of fiction and poetry. Despite their dismissal by critics as not much more than failed experiments that test the boundary separating poetry and prose, this article suggests that Du Bois's acts of creative composition are driven by his desire to exert critical force as part of his contribution to the effort of studying "Negro probl…
I Yam What You Is and You Is What I Yam
Like I'd Been Playing the Dozens
Introduction
Wrestling Angels into Song
Journal Article Wrestling Angels Into Song: The Fictions of Ernest J. Gaines and James Alan McPherson. Herman Beavers. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995. xii + 275 pages. Get access Wrestling Angels Into Song: The Fictions of Ernest J. Gaines and James Alan McPherson. Herman Beavers. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.xii + 275 pages. Ashraf H. A. Rushdy Ashraf H. A. Rushdy Wesleyan University Search for other…
Dream Lubricant
Dream Lubricant Herman Beavers (bio) Cave Canem: A Special Section I won’t dance, don’t ask me Chantmask; obelisk . . . oil drums playing, tycoons sore afraid two arms cannot tilt the clouds flat maddened gulls find the sea by night air whistles poles of light beauty yesterdayed crushed angels wearing green memory of women’s salty voices a stare hard & wet put away amidst angry bed sounds red hat from heaven blinks bright the room fingering dry s…
Romancing the Body Politic
Although best known for his work as a sociologist, historian, and editor, W.E.B. Du Bois also authored numerous works of fiction and poetry. Despite their dismissal by critics as not much more than failed experiments that test the boundary separating poetry and prose, this article suggests that Du Bois's acts of creative composition are driven by his desire to exert critical force as part of his contribution to the effort of studying "Negro probl…
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, The
The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel
The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel presents new essays covering the one hundred and fifty year history of the African American novel. Experts in the field from the US and Europe address some of the major issues in the genre: passing, the Protest novel, the Blues novel, and womanism among others. The essays are full of fresh insights for students into the symbolic, aesthetic, and political function of canonical and non-canonical…
Rictus on Video
Rictus on Video Herman Beavers (bio) In the new video Flyy girls forget how to cry silk lining the heart veers toward the pigment of violence slashes passing for eyes words ending like shadows along uneven ground assassins capering in arrogant shade done by themselves hair minimalist & modern force a matter of appetite balance devoid of words times when there is nothing doing a mind will pare away the superfluous leave the difficult the very core…
Catcher
Catcher:Two Herman Beavers (bio) When I see him, Daddy is 25 and sitting on the front steps of the old house on Tecumseh, years before the tornado, years before you could die at the hands of a 12-year old with a 60-year old heart. He is oiling his catcher's mitt with blood, the leather darkening to a skeptical shade of midnight, dark as cheap Dago Red in Palermo, Padua and Turin; thinking back to those days, he stops oiling, pauses long enough so…
Taking Up Bass
Taking Up Bass Get access Herman Beavers Herman Beavers Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 35, Issue 2, June 2010, Page 95, https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.0.0085 Published: 01 June 2010
Geography and the Political Imaginary in the Novels of Toni Morrison
After Morrison” Introduction
Forum
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 See for example, Howard Rambsy II, “A select checklist of works by Trudier Harris.”2 Here I used David Dabydeen’s definition of Black British literature as “that created and published in Britain, largely for a British audience, by Black writers either born in Britain or who have spent a major portion of their lives in Britain,” even as he also troubles the …
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