Wendy W Walters
Biographic Data
| ID | 1144551 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wendy W Walters |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wendy W |
| FAMILY NAME | Walters |
| SIGNATURE | WALTERS W W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Archives of the Black Atlantic
Elizabeth Alexander's Amistad
Elizabeth Alexander's AmistadReading the Black History Poem through the Archive Wendy W. Walters (bio) The historian laments caesuras in the historical record; the artist can offer deeply informed imagining that, while not empirically verifiable, offers one of the only routes we may have to imagine a past whose records have not been kept precious. —Elizabeth Alexander, The Black Interior Elizabeth Alexander cites the New Haven Historical Society …
Object into Subject”
This essay juxtaposes two readings of J. M. W. Turner's 1840 painting, Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On: one by British art historian John Ruskin and the other by contemporary Jamaican novelist Michelle Cliff. To examine the racial and national politics of visual spectatorship, the essay analyzes Cliff's novel Free Enterprise (1993); the central scene is an unveiling of this painting. Destabilizing Ruskin's reading…
Postcolonial archives V.Y. Mudimbe's The Rift
This essay presents an analysis of V. Y. Mudimbe's novel, The Rift (1979/1993). I read this novel as an engagement with both the colonial archives of discourse about Africa, and also as an engagement with psychoanalytic attempts to create an archive of a discourse about identity and sexuality. I argue that desire and sexuality are often silenced topics in the critical responses to this novel, and that they should be made central to a reading of t…
One of Dese Mornings, Bright and Fair,/Take My Wings and Cleave De Air
Journal Article "One of Dese Mornings, Bright and Fair,/ Take My Wings and Cleave De Air": The Legend of the Flying Africans and Diasporic Consciousness Get access Wendy W. Walters Wendy W. Walters University of California, San Diego Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 22, Issue 3, September 1997, Pages 3–29, https://doi.org/10.2307/467652 Published: 01 September 1997
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Elizabeth Alexander's Amistad
Elizabeth Alexander's AmistadReading the Black History Poem through the Archive Wendy W. Walters (bio) The historian laments caesuras in the historical record; the artist can offer deeply informed imagining that, while not empirically verifiable, offers one of the only routes we may have to imagine a past whose records have not been kept precious. —Elizabeth Alexander, The Black Interior Elizabeth Alexander cites the New Haven Historical Society …
One of Dese Mornings, Bright and Fair,/Take My Wings and Cleave De Air
Journal Article "One of Dese Mornings, Bright and Fair,/ Take My Wings and Cleave De Air": The Legend of the Flying Africans and Diasporic Consciousness Get access Wendy W. Walters Wendy W. Walters University of California, San Diego Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 22, Issue 3, September 1997, Pages 3–29, https://doi.org/10.2307/467652 Published: 01 September 1997
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One of Dese Mornings, Bright and Fair,/Take My Wings and Cleave De Air
Journal Article "One of Dese Mornings, Bright and Fair,/ Take My Wings and Cleave De Air": The Legend of the Flying Africans and Diasporic Consciousness Get access Wendy W. Walters Wendy W. Walters University of California, San Diego Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 22, Issue 3, September 1997, Pages 3–29, https://doi.org/10.2307/467652 Published: 01 September 1997
Postcolonial archives V.Y. Mudimbe's The Rift
This essay presents an analysis of V. Y. Mudimbe's novel, The Rift (1979/1993). I read this novel as an engagement with both the colonial archives of discourse about Africa, and also as an engagement with psychoanalytic attempts to create an archive of a discourse about identity and sexuality. I argue that desire and sexuality are often silenced topics in the critical responses to this novel, and that they should be made central to a reading of t…
Object into Subject”
This essay juxtaposes two readings of J. M. W. Turner's 1840 painting, Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On: one by British art historian John Ruskin and the other by contemporary Jamaican novelist Michelle Cliff. To examine the racial and national politics of visual spectatorship, the essay analyzes Cliff's novel Free Enterprise (1993); the central scene is an unveiling of this painting. Destabilizing Ruskin's reading…
Elizabeth Alexander's Amistad
Elizabeth Alexander's AmistadReading the Black History Poem through the Archive Wendy W. Walters (bio) The historian laments caesuras in the historical record; the artist can offer deeply informed imagining that, while not empirically verifiable, offers one of the only routes we may have to imagine a past whose records have not been kept precious. —Elizabeth Alexander, The Black Interior Elizabeth Alexander cites the New Haven Historical Society …
Archives of the Black Atlantic
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