Shelly Eversley
Biographic Data
| ID | 1151327 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shelly Eversley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shelly |
| FAMILY NAME | Eversley |
| SIGNATURE | EVERSLEY S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
African American Literature in Transition, 1960–1970: Black Art, Politics, and Aesthetics
This volume considers innovations, transitions, and traditions in both familiar and unfamiliar texts and moments in 1960s African American literature and culture. It interrogates declarations of race, authenticity, personal and collective empowerment, political action, and aesthetics within this key decade. It is divided into three sections. The first section engages poetry and music as pivotal cultural form in 1960s literary transitions. The sec…
The Evidence of Things Unseen: Experimental Form as Black Feminist Praxis
This essay reads Carlene Hatcher Polite's little-known experimental novel Sister X and the Victims of Foul Play and situates it within Black Aesthetics and black feminist theory to argue that experimental forms is crucial to black feminist praxis. The form also exposes critical violences that not only diminish and obscure black feminist writing, but also black women writers
Equality Archive
The big ambition of Equality Archive is to digitally present multidimensional issues, people, and history relevant to feminist thought and action in the United States.1 As an Open Education Resource (OER), it blurs genre—analog and digital, scholarly and popular, theory and practice—to offer a free and reliable source of knowledge and activist opportunities for a generation trained to seek information via Google and YouTube. Equality Archive's on…
Introduction: The 1970s
Introduction to special issue, "The 1970s," of WSQ (Women's Studies Quarterly), edited by Shelly Eversley and Michelle Habell-Pallán
The Real Negro: The Question of Authenticity in Twentieth-Century African American Literature
In this book, Shelly Eversley historicizes the demand for racial authenticity - what Zora Neale Hurston called 'the real Negro' - in twentieth-century American literature. Eversley argues that the modern emergence of the interest in 'the real Negro' transforms the question of what race an author belongs into a question of what it takes to belong to
Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America; Latent Destinies: Cultural Paranoia and Contemporary U.S. Narrative
Book Review| September 01 2003 Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America; Latent Destinies: Cultural Paranoia and Contemporary U.S. Narrative By Deborah Nelson. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2002. xxii, 209 pp. Cloth, $47.50; paper, $17.50.By Patrick O'Donnell. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2000. xi, 193 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $17.95. Shelly Eversley Shelly Eversley Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature …
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Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America; Latent Destinies: Cultural Paranoia and Contemporary U.S. Narrative
Book Review| September 01 2003 Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America; Latent Destinies: Cultural Paranoia and Contemporary U.S. Narrative By Deborah Nelson. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2002. xxii, 209 pp. Cloth, $47.50; paper, $17.50.By Patrick O'Donnell. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2000. xi, 193 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $17.95. Shelly Eversley Shelly Eversley Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature …
The Real Negro: The Question of Authenticity in Twentieth-Century African American Literature
In this book, Shelly Eversley historicizes the demand for racial authenticity - what Zora Neale Hurston called 'the real Negro' - in twentieth-century American literature. Eversley argues that the modern emergence of the interest in 'the real Negro' transforms the question of what race an author belongs into a question of what it takes to belong to
Introduction: The 1970s
Introduction to special issue, "The 1970s," of WSQ (Women's Studies Quarterly), edited by Shelly Eversley and Michelle Habell-Pallán
Equality Archive
The big ambition of Equality Archive is to digitally present multidimensional issues, people, and history relevant to feminist thought and action in the United States.1 As an Open Education Resource (OER), it blurs genre—analog and digital, scholarly and popular, theory and practice—to offer a free and reliable source of knowledge and activist opportunities for a generation trained to seek information via Google and YouTube. Equality Archive's on…
The Evidence of Things Unseen: Experimental Form as Black Feminist Praxis
This essay reads Carlene Hatcher Polite's little-known experimental novel Sister X and the Victims of Foul Play and situates it within Black Aesthetics and black feminist theory to argue that experimental forms is crucial to black feminist praxis. The form also exposes critical violences that not only diminish and obscure black feminist writing, but also black women writers
African American Literature in Transition, 1960–1970: Black Art, Politics, and Aesthetics
This volume considers innovations, transitions, and traditions in both familiar and unfamiliar texts and moments in 1960s African American literature and culture. It interrogates declarations of race, authenticity, personal and collective empowerment, political action, and aesthetics within this key decade. It is divided into three sections. The first section engages poetry and music as pivotal cultural form in 1960s literary transitions. The sec…
Sociology (6 works) · Race, History, and American Society (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · History (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Political science (3 works)