Peter Kerry Powers
Biographic Data
| ID | 1068510 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Kerry Powers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter Kerry |
| FAMILY NAME | Powers |
| SIGNATURE | POWERS P K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Messiah College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Activism and the American Novel
Reviewed by: Activism and the American Novel: Religion and Resistance in Fiction by Women of Color by Channette Romero Peter Kerry Powers Channette Romero. Activism and the American Novel: Religion and Resistance in Fiction by Women of Color. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2012. 232 pp. $55.00. Among the many “posts-“ that characterize our present age, “postsecular” is one of the most interesting and contentious. If the motivating idea of secu…
Cultural Property and Student identity in the Multicultural Classroom
Cultural Property and Student identity in the Multicultural Classroom Get access Peter K. Powers Peter K. Powers Messiah College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 30, Issue 2, June 2005, Pages 49–64, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/30.2.49 Published: 01 June 2005
The Treacherous Body
Research Article| December 01 2005 The Treacherous Body: Isolation, Confession, and Community in James Baldwin Peter Kerry Powers Peter Kerry Powers Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 787–813. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-4-787 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Peter Kerry Powers; The Treacherous Body: Isolation, Confe…
Gods of Physical Violence, Stopping at Nothing
There is nothing so exhilarating as watching well-matched opponents go into action. The entire world likes action.... Hence prize-fighters become millionaires.The first decades of the twentieth century were years of tremendous upheaval in the American experience of both religion and gender. Industrialization and urbanization transformed nineteenth-century understandings of masculinity and femininity, while massive immigration, debates between mod…
Daughters of Valor
Journal Article Daughters of Valor: Contemporary Jewish American Women Writers. Edited by Jay L. Halio and Ben Siegel. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1997. 288 pages. $43.50 cloth. Get access Daughters of Valor: Contemporary Jewish American Women Writers. Jay L. Halio. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1997. 288 pages. $43.50 cloth. Peter Kerry Powers Peter Kerry Powers Messiah College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford A…
The Singing Man Who Must be Reckoned With
The Harlem and Irish Renaissances
Charles Johnson's Spiritual Imagination
In this first book-length study of Charles Johnson's work, Jonathan Little offers an engaging account of the artistic growth of one of the most important contemporary African American writers. From his beginnings as a political cartoonist through his receipt of the National Book Award for Middle Passage, Johnson's imagination has become increasingly spiritual. Little draws upon a wide array of sources, including short stories, interviews, reviews…
The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White
Part 1 modernism, and national culture: pragmatism and Americanism the Americanization of race and culture cultural pluralism and national identity cultural nationalism and the lyrical Left. Part 2 transformation of literary institutions: The Crisis and the nation's conscience toward a new negro aesthetic reading these United States - The Nation and The New Republic the native arts of radicalism and/or V.F. Calverton, The Modern Quarterly and an …
Forged under the Sun/ Forjada bajo el sol
Forged Under the Sun/Forjada bajo el sol: The Life of Maria Elena Lucas. Maria Elena Lucas. Edited and with an Introduction by Fran Leeper Buss. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993. x + 314. $39.50 cloth, $14.95 paper. Compiled from journals, poetry, and interviews, Forged Under the Sun tells the story of Maria Elena Lucas, a Mexican-American farm-worker, poet, activist, and lover of This book inspires and enrages with its narrative of …
Supernatural Forces
Journal Article Supernatural Forces: Belief, Difference and Power in Contemporary Works by Ethnic Women. Bonnie Winsbro. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993. xii + 220 pages. $40.00 cloth, $14.95 paper. Get access Supernatural Forces: Belief, Difference and Power in Contemporary Works by Ethnic Women. Bonnie Winsbro. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993. xii + 220 pages. $40.00 cloth, $14.95 paper. Peter Kerry Powers Pete…
The "Other" New York Jewish Intellectuals
Irving Howe. Saul Bellow. Lionel Trilling. These are names that immediately come to mind when one thinks of the New York Jewish intellectuals of the late thirties and forties. And yet the New York Jewish intellectual community was far larger and more diverse than is commonly thought. In The Other New York Jewish Intellectuals we find a group of thinkers who may not have had widespread celebrity status but who fostered a real sense of community wi…
"Pa Is Not Our Pa"
Disruptive Memories
Journal Article Disruptive Memories: Cynthia Ozick, Assimilation, and the Invented Past Get access Peter Kerry Powers Peter Kerry Powers George Mason University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 20, Issue 3, September 1995, Pages 79–97, https://doi.org/10.2307/467744 Published: 01 September 1995
Extreme-Occident
What does mean to French intellectuals? Is it a postmodern ideal situated beyond history and metaphysics? A source of spiritual decadence that threatens the European tradition? Or is it Extreme-Occident, the Far Western site that gives historical reality to the utopias of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment? Jean-Philippe Mathy offers a systematic examination of French texts that address matters relating to America. He shows how prominent Frenc…
Extreme-Occident
What does mean to French intellectuals? Is it a postmodern ideal situated beyond history and metaphysics? A source of spiritual decadence that threatens the European tradition? Or is it Extreme-Occident, the Far Western site that gives historical reality to the utopias of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment? Jean-Philippe Mathy offers a systematic examination of French texts that address matters relating to America. He shows how prominent Frenc…
"Pa Is Not Our Pa"
Disruptive Memories
Journal Article Disruptive Memories: Cynthia Ozick, Assimilation, and the Invented Past Get access Peter Kerry Powers Peter Kerry Powers George Mason University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 20, Issue 3, September 1995, Pages 79–97, https://doi.org/10.2307/467744 Published: 01 September 1995
Supernatural Forces
Journal Article Supernatural Forces: Belief, Difference and Power in Contemporary Works by Ethnic Women. Bonnie Winsbro. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993. xii + 220 pages. $40.00 cloth, $14.95 paper. Get access Supernatural Forces: Belief, Difference and Power in Contemporary Works by Ethnic Women. Bonnie Winsbro. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993. xii + 220 pages. $40.00 cloth, $14.95 paper. Peter Kerry Powers Pete…
The "Other" New York Jewish Intellectuals
Irving Howe. Saul Bellow. Lionel Trilling. These are names that immediately come to mind when one thinks of the New York Jewish intellectuals of the late thirties and forties. And yet the New York Jewish intellectual community was far larger and more diverse than is commonly thought. In The Other New York Jewish Intellectuals we find a group of thinkers who may not have had widespread celebrity status but who fostered a real sense of community wi…
The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White
Part 1 modernism, and national culture: pragmatism and Americanism the Americanization of race and culture cultural pluralism and national identity cultural nationalism and the lyrical Left. Part 2 transformation of literary institutions: The Crisis and the nation's conscience toward a new negro aesthetic reading these United States - The Nation and The New Republic the native arts of radicalism and/or V.F. Calverton, The Modern Quarterly and an …
Forged under the Sun/ Forjada bajo el sol
Forged Under the Sun/Forjada bajo el sol: The Life of Maria Elena Lucas. Maria Elena Lucas. Edited and with an Introduction by Fran Leeper Buss. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993. x + 314. $39.50 cloth, $14.95 paper. Compiled from journals, poetry, and interviews, Forged Under the Sun tells the story of Maria Elena Lucas, a Mexican-American farm-worker, poet, activist, and lover of This book inspires and enrages with its narrative of …
Charles Johnson's Spiritual Imagination
In this first book-length study of Charles Johnson's work, Jonathan Little offers an engaging account of the artistic growth of one of the most important contemporary African American writers. From his beginnings as a political cartoonist through his receipt of the National Book Award for Middle Passage, Johnson's imagination has become increasingly spiritual. Little draws upon a wide array of sources, including short stories, interviews, reviews…
The Harlem and Irish Renaissances
Daughters of Valor
Journal Article Daughters of Valor: Contemporary Jewish American Women Writers. Edited by Jay L. Halio and Ben Siegel. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1997. 288 pages. $43.50 cloth. Get access Daughters of Valor: Contemporary Jewish American Women Writers. Jay L. Halio. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1997. 288 pages. $43.50 cloth. Peter Kerry Powers Peter Kerry Powers Messiah College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford A…
The Singing Man Who Must be Reckoned With
Gods of Physical Violence, Stopping at Nothing
There is nothing so exhilarating as watching well-matched opponents go into action. The entire world likes action.... Hence prize-fighters become millionaires.The first decades of the twentieth century were years of tremendous upheaval in the American experience of both religion and gender. Industrialization and urbanization transformed nineteenth-century understandings of masculinity and femininity, while massive immigration, debates between mod…
Cultural Property and Student identity in the Multicultural Classroom
Cultural Property and Student identity in the Multicultural Classroom Get access Peter K. Powers Peter K. Powers Messiah College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 30, Issue 2, June 2005, Pages 49–64, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/30.2.49 Published: 01 June 2005
The Treacherous Body
Research Article| December 01 2005 The Treacherous Body: Isolation, Confession, and Community in James Baldwin Peter Kerry Powers Peter Kerry Powers Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 787–813. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-4-787 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Peter Kerry Powers; The Treacherous Body: Isolation, Confe…
Activism and the American Novel
Reviewed by: Activism and the American Novel: Religion and Resistance in Fiction by Women of Color by Channette Romero Peter Kerry Powers Channette Romero. Activism and the American Novel: Religion and Resistance in Fiction by Women of Color. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2012. 232 pp. $55.00. Among the many “posts-“ that characterize our present age, “postsecular” is one of the most interesting and contentious. If the motivating idea of secu…
Art (11 works) · Art history (7 works) · History (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Race, History, and American Society (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Religious studies (3 works)