Eric Keenaghan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1089367 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Keenaghan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Keenaghan |
| SIGNATURE | KEENAGHAN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Albany State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Revelation, Not Revolution
Robert Duncan, a homosexual American poet, had conflicted and often self-contradictory relationships with gay liberation and sexual identity politics. Nonetheless, his ideas about eroticism’s centrality to poetic composition could help us reimagine poetry’s potential and its limits for addressing crises now affecting and dehumanizing queer persons
The Political Experiment of “Pot-Boylers”
The Political Experiment of “Pot-Boylers”: Thinking, Feeling, and Romance in Kay Boyle’s Resistance Thriller Avalanche Eric Keenaghan (bio) Introduction: On Selling Out “Kay Boyle has sold the Left Bank down the river” (“Pot-Boyler” 97). So opens a brief, unattributed review in Time Magazine of Avalanche: A Novel of Love and Espionage, a thriller by the American-born modernist Kay Boyle. Serialized, initially, in The Saturday Evening Post, the no…
The life of politics
Between 1940 and 1949, the period when Muriel Rukeyser composed The Life of Poetry, the United States moved from pre-war into wartime and then post-war periods. Rukeyser’s politicised poetics shifted in response to these changing conditions. A bibliographic approach that reads the book through Rukeyser’s original lectures’ extant unpublished scripts, drafts and reading notes, and other archival sources illuminates how her increasing emphasis on e…
Queer Poetry in the Long Twentieth Century
This chapter examines five contexts together with their associated gender terminologies, in order to pursue how same-sex-desiring subjects forge themselves in the crucible of words, space, and time in Chinese-speaking contexts. The five contexts, namely, the theatre, the bar, the school, the movement, and the family. In the Chinese literary imagination, the world of banquets, vocal performance, and operatic theatre is most reliably associated wit…
Biocracy
“Biocracy: Reading Poetic Politics through the Traces of Muriel Rukeyser’s Life-Writing”1 Eric Keenaghan (bio) It is a common narrative: after the Second World War, the United States prized social conformity and cultural assimilation at the expense of individualism and any perceived deviation from mainstream norms. Rather than appreciate the diversity of its constituent parts, the US became a “culture of the whole,” as William Graebner dubs it, a…
Not Quite Enough Trouble With Normal
Book Review| April 01 2010 NOT QUITE ENOUGH TROUBLE WITH NORMAL The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in America, 1880 - 1940 Julian B. Carter Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. ix + 219 pp. Eric Keenaghan Eric Keenaghan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2010) 16 (1-2): 312–314. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2009-026 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search S…
Performance and Politics in Contemporary Poetics
Biocracy
“Biocracy: Reading Poetic Politics through the Traces of Muriel Rukeyser’s Life-Writing”1 Eric Keenaghan (bio) It is a common narrative: after the Second World War, the United States prized social conformity and cultural assimilation at the expense of individualism and any perceived deviation from mainstream norms. Rather than appreciate the diversity of its constituent parts, the US became a “culture of the whole,” as William Graebner dubs it, a…
Performance and Politics in Contemporary Poetics
Not Quite Enough Trouble With Normal
Book Review| April 01 2010 NOT QUITE ENOUGH TROUBLE WITH NORMAL The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in America, 1880 - 1940 Julian B. Carter Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. ix + 219 pp. Eric Keenaghan Eric Keenaghan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2010) 16 (1-2): 312–314. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2009-026 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search S…
Biocracy
“Biocracy: Reading Poetic Politics through the Traces of Muriel Rukeyser’s Life-Writing”1 Eric Keenaghan (bio) It is a common narrative: after the Second World War, the United States prized social conformity and cultural assimilation at the expense of individualism and any perceived deviation from mainstream norms. Rather than appreciate the diversity of its constituent parts, the US became a “culture of the whole,” as William Graebner dubs it, a…
Queer Poetry in the Long Twentieth Century
This chapter examines five contexts together with their associated gender terminologies, in order to pursue how same-sex-desiring subjects forge themselves in the crucible of words, space, and time in Chinese-speaking contexts. The five contexts, namely, the theatre, the bar, the school, the movement, and the family. In the Chinese literary imagination, the world of banquets, vocal performance, and operatic theatre is most reliably associated wit…
The Political Experiment of “Pot-Boylers”
The Political Experiment of “Pot-Boylers”: Thinking, Feeling, and Romance in Kay Boyle’s Resistance Thriller Avalanche Eric Keenaghan (bio) Introduction: On Selling Out “Kay Boyle has sold the Left Bank down the river” (“Pot-Boyler” 97). So opens a brief, unattributed review in Time Magazine of Avalanche: A Novel of Love and Espionage, a thriller by the American-born modernist Kay Boyle. Serialized, initially, in The Saturday Evening Post, the no…
The life of politics
Between 1940 and 1949, the period when Muriel Rukeyser composed The Life of Poetry, the United States moved from pre-war into wartime and then post-war periods. Rukeyser’s politicised poetics shifted in response to these changing conditions. A bibliographic approach that reads the book through Rukeyser’s original lectures’ extant unpublished scripts, drafts and reading notes, and other archival sources illuminates how her increasing emphasis on e…
Revelation, Not Revolution
Robert Duncan, a homosexual American poet, had conflicted and often self-contradictory relationships with gay liberation and sexual identity politics. Nonetheless, his ideas about eroticism’s centrality to poetic composition could help us reimagine poetry’s potential and its limits for addressing crises now affecting and dehumanizing queer persons
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