Michael Awkward
Biographic Data
| ID | 1056092 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Awkward |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Awkward |
| SIGNATURE | AWKWARD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | California University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Excerpted from Michael Awkward, “Pipe Man”
This is from a longer, as-yet unpublished work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. To compose this piece, the author immersed himself in Sterling Brown’s writings and interviews, especially “A Son’s Return: Oh Didn’t He Ramble,” from A Son’s Return: Selected Essays of Sterling A. Brown, ed. Mark Sanders, Northeastern University Press, 1996, and Genevieve Eka…
A Black Man’s Place in Black Feminist Criticism
“You’reTurning Me On”
Philadelphia Freedoms
Scenes of Instruction
Black feminism and the challenge of black heterosexual male desire
(2000). Black feminism and the challenge of black heterosexual male desire. Souls: Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 32-37
Scenes of Instruction
Awkward, a professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, recalls his childhood in the Philadelphia projects and mixes in literary and cultural criticism
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 …
Appropriative Gestures
Re-Viewing
New Essays on Their Eyes Were Watching God
After decades of relegation to the margins of American literary history, Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God has recently been rediscovered by American literary and cultural scholars who have begun to explore the novel's thematic, ideological, and aesthetic complexity. In the introduction to this volume Michael Awkward provides an overview of the critical reception of Hurston's novel, from the largely dismissive reviews accompanying…
Negotiations of Power
Journal Article Negotiations of Power: White Critics, Black Texts, and the Self-Referential Impulse Get access Michael Awkward Michael Awkward Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Literary History, Volume 2, Issue 4, Winter 1990, Pages 581–606, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/2.4.581 Published: 01 December 1990
Inspiriting Influences
Ethnicity and Women's Literature
Unruly and Let Loose
Race, Gender, and the Politics of Reading
Chronicling Everyday Travails and Triumphs
Scenes of Instruction
Awkward, a professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, recalls his childhood in the Philadelphia projects and mixes in literary and cultural criticism
Ethnicity and Women's Literature
Race, Gender, and the Politics of Reading
Chronicling Everyday Travails and Triumphs
Negotiations of Power
Journal Article Negotiations of Power: White Critics, Black Texts, and the Self-Referential Impulse Get access Michael Awkward Michael Awkward Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Literary History, Volume 2, Issue 4, Winter 1990, Pages 581–606, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/2.4.581 Published: 01 December 1990
Inspiriting Influences
Ethnicity and Women's Literature
Unruly and Let Loose
New Essays on Their Eyes Were Watching God
After decades of relegation to the margins of American literary history, Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God has recently been rediscovered by American literary and cultural scholars who have begun to explore the novel's thematic, ideological, and aesthetic complexity. In the introduction to this volume Michael Awkward provides an overview of the critical reception of Hurston's novel, from the largely dismissive reviews accompanying…
Appropriative Gestures
Re-Viewing
Scenes of Instruction
Awkward, a professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, recalls his childhood in the Philadelphia projects and mixes in literary and cultural criticism
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 …
Black feminism and the challenge of black heterosexual male desire
(2000). Black feminism and the challenge of black heterosexual male desire. Souls: Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 32-37
Scenes of Instruction
Philadelphia Freedoms
A Black Man’s Place in Black Feminist Criticism
“You’reTurning Me On”
Excerpted from Michael Awkward, “Pipe Man”
This is from a longer, as-yet unpublished work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. To compose this piece, the author immersed himself in Sterling Brown’s writings and interviews, especially “A Son’s Return: Oh Didn’t He Ramble,” from A Son’s Return: Selected Essays of Sterling A. Brown, ed. Mark Sanders, Northeastern University Press, 1996, and Genevieve Eka…
Sociology (10 works) · History (8 works) · Race, History, and American Society (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Literature (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)