Timothy B Powell
Biographic Data
| ID | 112276 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy B Powell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy B |
| FAMILY NAME | Powell |
| SIGNATURE | POWELL T B |
| AFFILIATIONS | American Philosophical Society |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-3776-4393 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“The Songs Are Alive”
“The Songs are Alive” recounts the digital repatriation of Frances Densmore’s audio recordings of Ojibwe/Anishinaabe songs that were originally made on wax cylinders in the first decade of the twentieth century and are held by the Library of Congress. Powell, a digital humanities scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses the process of creating a database that converted a huge digital file of undifferentiated songs into individual reco…
Digital Knowledge Sharing
The article reviews a digital repatriation project carried out by the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research at the American Philosophical Society over the course of eight years (2008-present). The project focused on building digital archives in four indigenous communities: Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Penobscot Nation, Tuscarora Nation, and Ojibwe communities in both the United States and Canada. The article features insights fr…
A Drum Speaks
I want to take back, as an ambassador to my people [the Ojibwe], that new lesson I learned [at the Penn Museum (UPM)], we no longer have to be afraid of having pictures taken because they don't steal the spirit of what's being taken. They can invigorate and enliven and inspire knowledge and wisdom and learning ... Digital imaging is a new thing ... that can [bring to life these Ojibwe artifacts] for our kids and our generation ... We're going to …
Native/American Digital Storytelling
This article utilizes digital video of the Cherokee storyteller Freeman Owle and Flash presentation of historic maps to explore how digital technology can be employed to situate Native American oral storytelling in relation to American literary history more accurately and effectively. The goal of this analysis is to expand the definition of “literature” beyond the narrow margins of the white page and to free “American literary history” from the c…
Digitizing Cherokee Culture
Anyone who has used the internet in the classroom surely knows that the technological revolution has produced as many pitfalls as it has miracles. From the perspective of multiethnic studies, the World Wide Web's dream of cybertopia must be carefully considered in relation to the corresponding nightmare of erasing racial identity. As Joe Lockard observes in the essay collection Race in Cyberspace, 'Virtual community' is an appeal for a transcende…
Ruthless Democracy
In Ruthless Democracy, Timothy Powell reimagines the canonical origins of identity by juxtaposing authors such as Hawthorne, Melville, and Thoreau with Native American, African American, and women authors. Taking his title from Melville, Powell identifies an unresolvable conflict between America's multicultural history and its violent will to monoculturalism. Powell challenges existing perceptions of the American Renaissance--the period at the he…
Preacher Woman Sings the Blues
Book Review| September 01 2002 Preacher Woman Sings the Blues: The Autobiographies of Nineteenth-Century African American Evangelists; Sentimental Confessions: Spiritual Narratives of Nineteenth-Century African American Women By Richard J. Douglass-Chin. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press. 2001. 240 pp. $34.95.By Joycelyn Moody. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2001. xiv, 208 pp.$40.00. Timothy Powell Timothy Powell Search for other works by this a…
Ruthless Democracy
This book follows the standard formula. The thesis: that American history is multicultural, not monocultural. The topic: generally, white violence (actual and discursive) upon non whites; specifically, the erasure of nonwhites and women by nineteenthcentury writers. The argument: readings of selected canonical and noncanonical texts, with some historical context thrown in. The result: a mixture of tendentious description, derivative thinking, and…
Ruthless Democracy
In Ruthless Democracy , Timothy Powell reimagines the canonical origins of "American" identity by juxtaposing authors such as Hawthorne, Melville, and Thoreau with Native American, African American, and women authors. Taking his title from Melville, Powell identifies an unresolvable conflict between America's multicultural history and its violent will to monoculturalism. Powell challenges existing perceptions of the American Renaissance--the peri…
Multilingual America
Book Review| March 01 2000 Multilingual America: Transnationalism, Ethnicity, and the Languages of American Literature By Werner Sollors. 1998. x, 409 pp. $65.00. Timothy Powell Timothy Powell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 218–219. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-1-218 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Timothy Powell;…
Toni Morrison
This problem of how to represent the black self on the white page, how to overcome the inherent ethnocentrism of the Western literary tradition, is one with which both the critic and the novelist of Afro-American literature must struggle to come to terms. As Gates points out, it is a tradition which dates all the way back to Plato's metaphor of the soul -of a white horse which is described as a "follower of true glory" and another, "of a dark col…
Digital Knowledge Sharing
The article reviews a digital repatriation project carried out by the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research at the American Philosophical Society over the course of eight years (2008-present). The project focused on building digital archives in four indigenous communities: Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Penobscot Nation, Tuscarora Nation, and Ojibwe communities in both the United States and Canada. The article features insights fr…
Native/American Digital Storytelling
This article utilizes digital video of the Cherokee storyteller Freeman Owle and Flash presentation of historic maps to explore how digital technology can be employed to situate Native American oral storytelling in relation to American literary history more accurately and effectively. The goal of this analysis is to expand the definition of “literature” beyond the narrow margins of the white page and to free “American literary history” from the c…
A Drum Speaks
I want to take back, as an ambassador to my people [the Ojibwe], that new lesson I learned [at the Penn Museum (UPM)], we no longer have to be afraid of having pictures taken because they don't steal the spirit of what's being taken. They can invigorate and enliven and inspire knowledge and wisdom and learning ... Digital imaging is a new thing ... that can [bring to life these Ojibwe artifacts] for our kids and our generation ... We're going to …
Digitizing Cherokee Culture
Anyone who has used the internet in the classroom surely knows that the technological revolution has produced as many pitfalls as it has miracles. From the perspective of multiethnic studies, the World Wide Web's dream of cybertopia must be carefully considered in relation to the corresponding nightmare of erasing racial identity. As Joe Lockard observes in the essay collection Race in Cyberspace, 'Virtual community' is an appeal for a transcende…
Toni Morrison
This problem of how to represent the black self on the white page, how to overcome the inherent ethnocentrism of the Western literary tradition, is one with which both the critic and the novelist of Afro-American literature must struggle to come to terms. As Gates points out, it is a tradition which dates all the way back to Plato's metaphor of the soul -of a white horse which is described as a "follower of true glory" and another, "of a dark col…
Ruthless Democracy
In Ruthless Democracy , Timothy Powell reimagines the canonical origins of "American" identity by juxtaposing authors such as Hawthorne, Melville, and Thoreau with Native American, African American, and women authors. Taking his title from Melville, Powell identifies an unresolvable conflict between America's multicultural history and its violent will to monoculturalism. Powell challenges existing perceptions of the American Renaissance--the peri…
Multilingual America
Book Review| March 01 2000 Multilingual America: Transnationalism, Ethnicity, and the Languages of American Literature By Werner Sollors. 1998. x, 409 pp. $65.00. Timothy Powell Timothy Powell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 218–219. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-1-218 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Timothy Powell;…
Ruthless Democracy
This book follows the standard formula. The thesis: that American history is multicultural, not monocultural. The topic: generally, white violence (actual and discursive) upon non whites; specifically, the erasure of nonwhites and women by nineteenthcentury writers. The argument: readings of selected canonical and noncanonical texts, with some historical context thrown in. The result: a mixture of tendentious description, derivative thinking, and…
Ruthless Democracy
In Ruthless Democracy, Timothy Powell reimagines the canonical origins of identity by juxtaposing authors such as Hawthorne, Melville, and Thoreau with Native American, African American, and women authors. Taking his title from Melville, Powell identifies an unresolvable conflict between America's multicultural history and its violent will to monoculturalism. Powell challenges existing perceptions of the American Renaissance--the period at the he…
Preacher Woman Sings the Blues
Book Review| September 01 2002 Preacher Woman Sings the Blues: The Autobiographies of Nineteenth-Century African American Evangelists; Sentimental Confessions: Spiritual Narratives of Nineteenth-Century African American Women By Richard J. Douglass-Chin. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press. 2001. 240 pp. $34.95.By Joycelyn Moody. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2001. xiv, 208 pp.$40.00. Timothy Powell Timothy Powell Search for other works by this a…
Digitizing Cherokee Culture
Anyone who has used the internet in the classroom surely knows that the technological revolution has produced as many pitfalls as it has miracles. From the perspective of multiethnic studies, the World Wide Web's dream of cybertopia must be carefully considered in relation to the corresponding nightmare of erasing racial identity. As Joe Lockard observes in the essay collection Race in Cyberspace, 'Virtual community' is an appeal for a transcende…
Native/American Digital Storytelling
This article utilizes digital video of the Cherokee storyteller Freeman Owle and Flash presentation of historic maps to explore how digital technology can be employed to situate Native American oral storytelling in relation to American literary history more accurately and effectively. The goal of this analysis is to expand the definition of “literature” beyond the narrow margins of the white page and to free “American literary history” from the c…
A Drum Speaks
I want to take back, as an ambassador to my people [the Ojibwe], that new lesson I learned [at the Penn Museum (UPM)], we no longer have to be afraid of having pictures taken because they don't steal the spirit of what's being taken. They can invigorate and enliven and inspire knowledge and wisdom and learning ... Digital imaging is a new thing ... that can [bring to life these Ojibwe artifacts] for our kids and our generation ... We're going to …
Digital Knowledge Sharing
The article reviews a digital repatriation project carried out by the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research at the American Philosophical Society over the course of eight years (2008-present). The project focused on building digital archives in four indigenous communities: Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Penobscot Nation, Tuscarora Nation, and Ojibwe communities in both the United States and Canada. The article features insights fr…
“The Songs Are Alive”
“The Songs are Alive” recounts the digital repatriation of Frances Densmore’s audio recordings of Ojibwe/Anishinaabe songs that were originally made on wax cylinders in the first decade of the twentieth century and are held by the Library of Congress. Powell, a digital humanities scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses the process of creating a database that converted a huge digital file of undifferentiated songs into individual reco…
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